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by solstice 6y ago
Very unlikely indeed. The government/party bigwigs he recently antagonize are not going to let an entrepreneur shame them publicly and let him get away with that. He's keeping or being kept out of public view until things are sett
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by solstice 6y ago
> It’s a strange quirk of our culture that the word radio carries connotations of technology and thus connotes intelligence. Counterpoint: "radio wave fart from exoplanet detected". No connotation of intelligence IMO
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by solstice 6y ago
Too late now but consider using a throwaway account next time.
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by solstice 6y ago
There are a bunch of different instances running the nitter software too, so please consider choosing another one to avoid hugging nitter.net too much. Here's the list: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki&#x
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by solstice 6y ago
> China appears to have used mobile phone networks in the Caribbean to surveil US mobile phone subscribers as part of its espionage campaign against Americans, according to a mobile network security expert who has analysed sensitive sign
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by solstice 6y ago
The UI could be improved but it is fine IMO. I'm happy that I have a messenger over which I can talk private stuff and be reasonably sure that no one else can listen in. Everything else is secondary for me. Contact discovery can have a
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by solstice 6y ago
I'm sceptical. > Using the mathematical tools available to him at the time, Einstein was able to better explain certain physical phenomena and also resolve a longstanding paradox relating to inertia and gravity. But instead of impro
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by solstice 6y ago
I just wanted to say that I appreciate the amount of thought you have put in your argument, even though I ultimately remain unconvinced by it.
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by solstice 6y ago
"our carbon budget to limit warming to 1.5C will be used up in seven years, much earlier than all our 2030 or 2050 targets" Absolutely frightening...
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by solstice 6y ago
Couldn't they also tweak the algorithm at a crucial moment to steer public opinion to certain content?
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by solstice 6y ago
It doesn't matter whether people of the time said AD 1 or not, because the BC/AD b system was adopted much later. It's confusing and ultimately pointless, but if you plant apple trees, the year in which you do that is the fir
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by solstice 6y ago
> and much of that oil can probably come from sources other than pumping it out of the ground. More importantly, it will hopefully come from onshore wells which are easier to access and manage than the crazy underwater shenanigans necess
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by solstice 6y ago
Not everything is a technical solution foremost: new laws prohibiting the import and sale of certain polluting equipment and/or incentivising people to buy lower-carbon equivalent are primarily political/economic/social solut
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by solstice 6y ago
The search in Tracker Software's PDF X-Change Viewer/Editor is really great. Effective and easy to use
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by solstice 6y ago
> ...but that particular benefit is lost if it biodegrades. Easy, shoot it into space! /s
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by solstice 6y ago
I fully agree with your last sentence. But I think that nobody is seriously arguing that the US or European countries should become autarchies and produce _everything_ themselves again. (That whole "decoupling from China" is consi
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by solstice 6y ago
Yeah well, but what happens if that person isn't born yet, such as future historians. In the case of Sony's game catalogue I agree that this is a tiny bit contrived example but the general case still stands IMO. The current genera
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by solstice 6y ago
That should be the last resort. Companies deliberately chucking their own history down the drain is a problem. Another example is wizards of the coast infuriating treatment of their web properties for Magic the Gathering. (Link rot, content
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by solstice 6y ago
It's Zeno afaik
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by solstice 6y ago
I use F12 several dozen times per day because it is the "Save as..." shortcut in MS Office. Much better and quicker than navigating the menus
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by solstice 6y ago
Background removal on portraits or merchandise pictures seems common enough. Seamlessly getting it from smartphone to computer and thereby significantly reducing friction seems really useful
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by solstice 6y ago
Make a water-cooled undershirt like those for astronauts and get one of those fan attachments for baseball caps. (Slightly wacky suggestion but this is hacker news after all.)
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by solstice 6y ago
Great video that triggered some memories. Thank you for linking
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by solstice 6y ago
Dutch census recording religion enabled the Nazis to quickly round up the Jews living there a few years later during the occupation
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by solstice 6y ago
That sounds right but how do you do this? In France there used to be the old Franc that was replaced by the new Franc at a rate of 1000:1 I think
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by solstice 6y ago
Absolutely indispensable app! For laughs I recommend playing with the speed/pitch settings when listening to famous speeches
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by solstice 6y ago
That was the one thing that seemed too over the top for me (as a non-native speaker)
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by solstice 6y ago
I take it you're not programming in Rust? /s
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by solstice 6y ago
Such as?
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by solstice 6y ago
I've not has this kind of problem, I think. What are you trying to paste?

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