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by swores 2y ago
For many people it would be better to choose specific personal secrets due to the amount of info online. I'm not a very active social media user, and what little I post tends not to be about me, but from reading 15 year old Facebook po
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by swores 2y ago
I suspect there's a correlation between having the money and desire to own a TV and having the money and desire to pay for content, as opposed to consuming content on devices like phones which are more likely to be owned even by people
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by swores 2y ago
Isn't it an expected issue with popular services, particularly ones with proper e2e encryption? Things like WhatsApp and iMessage get scam messages too, and the less visibility the operators have for contents of messages the harder it
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by swores 2y ago
You've mixed up sex with sexuality. Males becoming functionally female is not the same as males becoming gay.
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by swores 2y ago
The waiters' worry just needs to be addressed by, at the same time as banning tipping, a) removing the current loophole that allows hospitality staff to be paid less than minimum wage because tips will make up the difference and b) rai
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Why tonight's solar storm could disrupt communications and GPS systems(cnn.com)
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by swores 2y ago
Couldn't the higher-end / more expensive places just put their prices up by x% the same as a low-end place? Is the fear that if both cheap and expensive places moved tipping to higher prices (as an example let's say every sin
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by swores 2y ago
Is there anyone who thinks it's actually a better system than European-style tipping (i.e. an entirely optional way to thank people for particularly good service) rather than just a necessity considering the system is what it is? As a
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by swores 2y ago
Nothing to do with the industry - it's marketing, it's designed to make people like the company/product more, and the very nature of marketing and people means that if you do a bad job it can have the opposite effect. This is
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by swores 2y ago
It's great if someone wants to use the "hacking spirit" to help themself climb, it doesn't obligate everyone else to want to use the same technique; and frankly it's (slightly) more interesting hearing people say wh
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by swores 2y ago
(I'm not the person who commented before, but) I don't personally know much about the sulfur situation, and your comment plus another user's have made me decide to read up on it later today to learn more. Since your first com
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by swores 2y ago
Thanks
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by swores 2y ago
I know sarcasm can be an effective way of making a point, but on a global forum where plenty of people are likely to not have a clue what unions do or don't exist in Europe (not to mention most Europeans won't know much if anythin
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by swores 2y ago
And the trend of increasing car sizes means increasing mass means increasing damage to roads :/
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by swores 2y ago
I wonder (and maybe someone here will know) whether that means they were foolishly cutting corners and should have sampled further than 100ft down, or if what they did was considered best practise and they were just unlucky to find themselv
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by swores 2y ago
FTA: > "Our intention is that Raspberry Pi Connect will remain free (as in beer) for individual users with non-relayed connections, with no limit on the number of devices. We don’t yet know how many people will need to relay their
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by swores 2y ago
> There's no value-add that the provider can add for free and lock you in. Couldn't you have said that about cloud services like AWS before they existed, that they can rent servers to people but there won't be any lock i
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by swores 2y ago
Nobody would have been confused in that direction, the problem is that only the outcome was visible until now and you can't easily go outcome -> incentive because "does believe this" and "paid, therefore pretending t
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by swores 2y ago
Bleh, I might've realised you were kidding had I gone to Starbucks's this morning
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by swores 2y ago
Pasting my reply to someone else rather than rewrite the same thinking: I agree it's not consistent, but who ever accused English of being that?! My point isn't that all business names are treated that way, just that the ones that
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by swores 2y ago
I agree it's not consistent, but who ever accused English of being that?! My point isn't that all business names are treated that way, just that the ones that are the reason is grammatical tradition not (for the most part) people
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by swores 2y ago
Being confident doesn't change the fact that you're misinformed about English grammar.
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by swores 2y ago
That's because you're not going to Tesco the registered company, you're going to (one of) Tesco's (shops). It's just traditional and logical grammar, not misnaming.
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by swores 2y ago
Might there be a size at which it would make sense for multiple houses to group together and pay for a turbine that's big enough to supply all their electricity, rather than one per house like solar panels? (If enough of the local resi
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by swores 2y ago
When I think about numbers like that it just seems (to me, and wrongly) like general progress that's not so crazy - the thought that really makes the speed of progress stand out to me is remembering when loading a single image - photo
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by swores 2y ago
Sure, we learn by copying things. But there isn't, that I'm aware of, any evidence that an orangutan has done the learning part rather than just the copying part. It wouldn't shock me if we did learn they can learn that way
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by swores 2y ago
What's new is it's the first time an animal has been observed treating a wound with plants we know to be medically beneficial. It's not the first time we've seen animals use medically beneficial plants (orally before) an
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by swores 2y ago
Obviously it would be interesting if that's what happened, but no, what they were saying is that it could well be that it had only been exposed to visitors doing nice gestures and was repeating them back with no understanding of nice v
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by swores 3y ago
I'm not a subscriber so I'm not arguing it is or isn't worth paying for, but calling a site-wide subscription bad value based on the length of a single article is clearly missing the point, they're not expecting anyone t
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by swores 3y ago
Not having heard of them is understandable, I hadn't either, but the reason people have been downvoting you is that it took you longer to write out that comment than it would have taken to do a quick google and see there's a wikip

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