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by vadfa 5y ago
Only that placebos won't work if you know they are placebos. Which means if doctors get a reputation for giving out placebos, they will stop working.
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by vadfa 5y ago
We're talking about mental health. If it's placebo, what's the practical difference?
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by vadfa 5y ago
A microdoser is not an average drug-seeker.
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by vadfa 5y ago
Can you pay the fine and then not vaccinate? Or will they keep fining you?
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by vadfa 5y ago
It doesn't seem to say what exactly they are going to do to force people to vaccinate. Swat their homes? LOck them in those jail chairs they use in China?
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by vadfa 5y ago
This is not twitter.
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by vadfa 5y ago
You severely understimate the amount of idling going on on IRC.
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by vadfa 5y ago
The entire spec is basically "ugh, they added thing-that-doesnt-really-belong-in-irc"
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by vadfa 5y ago
I doubt he's interested in this kind of stuff at all. Myself I wanted to stay, but he kinda "closed" freenode - you need to register using a web form and access using SASL. Since he dropped the old nick database, you can&#x27
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by vadfa 5y ago
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/repair/standar... Is this supposed to be a human? Someone needs to go back to art school.
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Waterford has Ireland's 2nd highest Covid incidence with 99.7% fully vaccinated(irishpost.com)
45 points by vadfa 5y ago|83 comments
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by vadfa 5y ago
I'm going to side with Microsoft here. I don't want apps to be able to change file/protocol associations on their own. If I want to set a different application as a default browser, I will go to the settings panel and change
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by vadfa 5y ago
Years ago I noticed any webpage could just use an <img> tag to include an image hosted in my LAN. For example, adding such a tag to any website to include a link to the usual gateway ip addresses (192.168.0.1 and so on) will trigger a
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by vadfa 5y ago
The trend of flatness ended a few years ago. It's just that Mozilla didn't get the memo. Probably because Firefox is the slowest browser, he he he
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by vadfa 5y ago
Yeah, I'm going to let Twitter burn me again.......... nope
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by vadfa 5y ago
It's still too early to tell. There have been and there will be some (expected) problems, but we will only know in years or decades.
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by vadfa 5y ago
The unwelcoming voices are not merely "the loudest", they are the most populous ones. I assume you are part of an economically privileged group, but to someone who has just lost his job to a pole, the coolness of "european cu
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by vadfa 5y ago
I like your blog a lot, thanks for existing.
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by vadfa 5y ago
Which is why I said "some". I know it's not the same set of problems for all of us ;)
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by vadfa 5y ago
Those vaccines have been tested widely and proven safe for decades.
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by vadfa 5y ago
Comparing German to your language is... something else.
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by vadfa 5y ago
> Windows 11 decreased quite a few user preference/customization options. It's clearly not their objective to do what the user wants, but whatever Microsoft wants (and this is/was one of the few core differentiators for me
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by vadfa 5y ago
This website is full of useful information, but after reading a few articles, I have to say: boy is this guy's writing annoying.
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by vadfa 5y ago
>The ultimate "low code" experience I had was back in the 1990s with Delphi. You drag and drop your form elements, get everything just right. Next you hook up your event handlers and type in a few lines of code to do the actual
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by vadfa 5y ago
"killed himself"
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by vadfa 5y ago
>In many languages it's a requirement. For example, in Romanian, there are 8 words that collide with „fata“ if you remove the diacritics That is what context is for.
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by vadfa 5y ago
When someone gets killed or kills himself we don't usually say he's "died". The verb "died" in some way has a sense of having been an accident or simply passing because one is too old.
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by vadfa 5y ago
It deals with those risks, and it's still a disproportionate overreach.
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by vadfa 5y ago
Stories can never be downvoted. Only comments can be downvoted.
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by vadfa 5y ago
And this is why Europe will never tear down America's hegemony.

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