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811.
by stef25 7y ago
> Shpongle Mr Posford no longer wishes to be associated with psytrance ... he's distanced himself from it a long time ago saying it went totally stale.
812.
by stef25 7y ago
Not sure how Audible works, all I know is I seem to have a never ending supply of free credits. Been using it for years, every time I finish a book they give me more free credits to buy the next book.
813.
by stef25 7y ago
> There's an asymmetry because Amazon can "afford" to double check everything? How? When you sell on Amazon and for some reason don't want to sell something out of your inventory by changing the price from $10 to $999
814.
by stef25 7y ago
> You will get your package at home and then you will be informed that the price "was a mistake" and was 10% more expensive Don't seem very likely. When word gets out (and it will) they'll lose customers that are much
815.
by stef25 7y ago
Microsoft has the option to run all links in incoming mail through their system. Whether or not that would have caught a FF zero day on the target site is another question. Where I work this was implemented after people started getting (spe
816.
by stef25 7y ago
So the logic is that people in Africa have smartphones but no bank accounts. Wherever they buy their phone credits (cash for a voucher in a corner shop), they could also buy Libra top-up vouchers? It must involve a cash transaction after al
817.
by stef25 7y ago
> lunch Bitcoin fees are basically just the price you pay for having drugs delivered to your house.
818.
by stef25 7y ago
Quite sure that "cash only" means "fake books"
819.
by stef25 7y ago
> Many countries quickly moving on to phone based payments Even as a tech guy, no thanks. Phones are mostly ok but still fuck up too frequently to trust them with anything serious.
820.
by stef25 7y ago
New forms of transport surely need some getting used to. I remember reading a story about the very first demonstration of a train in the UK. People got run over cause they weren't used to things moving so fast. When you first ride a mo
821.
by stef25 7y ago
Chin up man! I met the woman of my life at 35 and we're now in our 40s with two wonderful kids.
822.
by stef25 7y ago
> In the meanwhile there is a considerable increase in public awareness of (e.g.) how creepy facebook is Every non tech person I know has some notion of FB being creepy but not a single one has changed their online behavior in any way.
823.
by stef25 7y ago
Did anything ever come of this? https://www.reuters.com/article/us-facebook-belgium/facebook...
824.
by stef25 7y ago
> privacy is very much a fundamental right Looks good on paper but in reality what's being done about it? Apart from a few token court cases. People are still dumping their data wholesale in to social networks and EU is mostly power
825.
by stef25 7y ago
You'd need high volume to make it worthwhile and the amount of chargebacks leading to one merchant would make them look pretty suspicious.
826.
by stef25 7y ago
This morning cops called me to tell me I had 5 min to move my car or it would get towed. When my wife was pregnant the hospital called me to say she'd been admitted after falling in the street. Surely hanging up on anyone not in your c
827.
by stef25 7y ago
Couldn't they take down the content but keep it available for neutral third parties to evaluate and collect? There has to be a better way to collect evidence of war crimes than leaving decapitation videos visible on social media for al
828.
by stef25 7y ago
Fairly sure there were very regular problems with tourists losing their minds on mushrooms. I remember one story of a guy on mushrooms who eviscerated his dog cause he thought it was the devil. Holland suffers a lot from what tourists do wh
829.
by stef25 8y ago
> Amazon "deleted" all seller accounts in Europe, because they allegedly didn't sell anything. Very weird. I know a guy who wants to close his seller account and the number of hoops he has to jump through is ridiculous, de
830.
by stef25 8y ago
I switched from Chrome to FF and it's been painless. Better privacy, no downsides.
831.
by stef25 8y ago
Maybe it's because I always go for the cheaper end of the spectrum? It's not that I'm squeamish or a clean freak. For years I'd travel to SE Asia and stay in 5$ beach huts with no hot water. Some Airbnbs I've stayed
832.
by stef25 8y ago
What's amazing at Airbnb is their ability to make places look so much nicer in the pictures than what they look like in reality. After staying in a crack house in Barcelona, a dirty dark hole in Manhattan, a "private" villa i
833.
by stef25 8y ago
Corporations shouldn't be the judge and jury. Yesterday they banned nazis, tomorrow anti-vaxers and the next thing you know you can't find a bed cause you used the wrong gender pronoun. Slippery slope, very concerning. Check Joe R
834.
by stef25 8y ago
If one uses this product do users have to be notified of this, in light of privacy / GDPR and all? I built a very basic recommendation engine myself but would love to try out something with actual brains behind it, just being curious a
835.
by stef25 8y ago
Haven't supermarkets been doing this for ages? For example noticing that more people are buying gluten free pasta that costs 3x the price of normal pasta and then deciding putting out their own brand GF pasta that's just 2x the pr
836.
by stef25 8y ago
Children and death, be it yours or theirs, is the worst combination of thoughts possible to occupy your mind.
837.
by stef25 8y ago
If you don't mind me asking, was there no medicine that could make it something more tolerable than excruciating?
838.
by stef25 8y ago
I did my thesis on one possible cause of this illness 20+ years ago and then never looked at it again. After just reading up on the possible causes of schizophrenia it seems many more discoveries have been made which has only resulted in mo
839.
by stef25 8y ago
Got news for you! It's already possible to produce fairly accurate fake video of people saying things, in their own voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQ54GDm1eL0
840.
by stef25 8y ago
> i have realized that from now on i cannot assume human origin for 90% of the comments i read on reddit. this is insane. Ever since Photoshop got good (20+ years now?) we haven't been able to assume that images are "real"

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