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by teaspoons 8y ago
I guess those assholes will find another way to be antisocial
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by teaspoons 8y ago
for now, try the 'dark background and light text' addon for firefox
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by teaspoons 8y ago
this is a great comment, but what about Venus ? It has an energy gradient, so why no life ?
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by teaspoons 8y ago
the USA was founded by migrants
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by teaspoons 8y ago
"The world wouldn’t be $78T richer, it would be $78T poorer because it would lead to widespread civil war" Nope, 90% of people would stay where they are. Most people don't like migrating: to uproot yourself and your family fr
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by teaspoons 8y ago
"I can effortlessly wave it around with one hand and not get tired"
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by teaspoons 8y ago
because it always buffers 2 seconds into a video
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by teaspoons 8y ago
if it can identify the song why can't it process it out of the soundtrack ?
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by teaspoons 8y ago
integrated flamethrower
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by teaspoons 8y ago
it's true. What can be done about this ? Lottery grants ? Universal Basic science funding ?
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by teaspoons 8y ago
If NASA went on Patreon I'd gladly help fund them if it meant they could just do great science without needing to worry about 'impact'
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by teaspoons 8y ago
yes including Preview
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by teaspoons 8y ago
You _are_ saying they're that person Yes older coders have weathered more fashions and succumbed to many themselves so in some respects they do know better
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by teaspoons 8y ago
and fluoridation doesn't affect dental health because you're drinking the water which means the fluoride doesn't get to the teeth but is absorbed elsewhere in the body. If you want fluoride you can get it through toothpaste.
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by teaspoons 8y ago
Nothing
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by teaspoons 8y ago
I wouldn't get any real work done if I worked in the office all the time. But I need to go into the office regularly for the social aspect.
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by teaspoons 8y ago
your tax dollars paid for the research which was then privately hoarded
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by teaspoons 8y ago
in "The Difference Engine", Lovelace & Babbage's work is accelerated and cinemas show movies with giant screens made of programmable-cloth with coloured rotating beads as pixels
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by teaspoons 8y ago
"you must suffer now so that generations to come can worship me"
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by teaspoons 8y ago
a trillion humans, 8 of which own 90% of the wealth
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by teaspoons 8y ago
For the likes of Bezos work is completely optional and for themselves, they get to choose what work they feel like doing and when. That kind of autonomy has the effect of motivating one to work hard and enjoy it. Which is why Bezos can affo
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by teaspoons 8y ago
Couldn't agree more but I think some people need a prescribed system, because they find it hard to listen to their own intuition. Following your intuition is optimal however, because we're all different. I want to add one point, w
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by teaspoons 8y ago
viruses transmitted within species could be viewed as part of their host's genotype, regardless of whether their genomes are incorporated into the germ-line. When you catch a cold for instance, you have particles of another human'
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by teaspoons 8y ago
The idea that viruses are self-contained entities separate from the organisms they infect is an artifact of the human mind's power-saving system of modelling the world in terms of functional-decomposition. Viruses are non-living extrao
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by teaspoons 8y ago
What I want from a PDF viewer is dark mode (white on black). I know on MacOS you can do invert colours, but that inverts the images too. Also I want to be able to view portrait PDFs in landscape mode with the text in 2 columns.