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by vehemenz 5y ago
That's not what I'm getting at. When a sizeable portion of the rural population are subject to conspiracy theories and misinformation and worships an incompetent slob, these effects can undermine the power of the government. This
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I second Cascadia Code. And, maybe I missed it, but there's no light mode or ability to change weights. Some weights are highly legible in light mode, but then illegible in dark mode—and vice versa.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
> The question is to what extent should grid connections to new rural homes be subsidised by taxpayers, which is of course a political decision 100% agree. Not only that, but rural development is inherently connected to these other subsi
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I'm wondering that too. As usual, the pros/cons of physical footprint and screen size cancel each other out. Unlike previous years, Apple allows you to configure the 14" model with the highest CPU/GPU configuration, so i
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The average HN user is more likely to use Firefox and have 2+ Google accounts than the average person. Very straightforward stuff.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
If you're suggesting Google is the same company from ten years ago, I think your position is in trouble.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
They're not all accusations. One of the tweets is about Chrome forcing logins to Google products (and vice versa), which has officially been a thing for like 5 years, at least. This anti-feature is very well known and is why many of us
908.
by vehemenz 5y ago
I'm not sure stating the conclusion in a premise a particularly convicing argumentative strategy.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
But if the simulation hypothesis is correct, any empiricist worth their salt would say that you cannot infer anything about the "real" laws of nature, much less causality because these aspects of human knowledge are derived from e
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Agreed. Take both seriously or neither seriously. From God, Cartesian skepticism, to brains in vats, to the simulation hypothesis—there are infinitely many unprovable metaphysical theories we could posit about the world. There doesn't
911.
by vehemenz 5y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with you, but I'm not sure what this article has to do with "American culture". ZeroHedge is a fringe website—hardly representative of the average American. Either way, I don't think it&
912.
by vehemenz 5y ago
"Privilege" is an interesting word. If I were Indian or Chinese, I would feel privileged to have been raised in one the world's greatest food cultures instead of eating spaghetti and mac 'n' cheese like an American
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Yikes. 1. If White is understood to be a "race," then racial groups can distinguish ethnicity, nationality, extended ancestry, phenotype, or self-identifying group. It's not clear what "white" is, legally speaking.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Same deal here. Some journals are not available, and the ones I have access to are difficult to search because they're spread among multiple aggregation services. This in a top 50 university in the US with ~50,000 students.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Thanks for the correction. If I were Chrome, I would proxy these requests securely through an innocent-looking API. I hope no one is getting any ideas. It's probably moot anyway. We all know the direction Google/Chrome is going in
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by vehemenz 5y ago
In Chrome and Safari, Google search injects analytics via the ping attribute on <a> tags. This sends some additional ping-to and ping-from headers. So Google is still collecting data from who use its search, provided they are not on F
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Tab grouping is not a good example. Firefox has the Simple Tab Groups extension, which works with containers. Chrome not only doesn't have containers, but its tab grouping is clunky and featureless in comparison.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
CDs didn't overtake cassettes in sales until 1991. As a tween in the early 90s, all of my music was on cassettes. By the time I could actually afford a CD player, P2P file sharing and CD burners made purchasing CDs irrelevant. If I wer
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by vehemenz 5y ago
To be fair, Apple did make a modular computer. Except only Industrial Light and Magic can afford it.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
> It doesn't feel right for there to be one argument that applies below 100% and another at exactly 100%. Exactly. The reason to choose one box holds whether the predictor is 90%, 99%, or 100% accurate. I think lowering the accuracy
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Then you can only get $1M for one box or $1000 for two boxes. The decision becomes even more obvious then. The accuracy of the predictor does not impact the two-boxer's argument from causal independence, which I think is a serious prob
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The original scenario as imagined by Nozick implies the probability is much higher than 90%, something close to 1. And you can't "outsmart" the machine. This actually makes a big difference when trying to "solve" th
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by vehemenz 5y ago
It's a bit weird that you omit the main reason for VPNs—avoiding dumb copyright strikes from your ISP when torrenting. To be fair this is a US-only reason. Maybe you live in Bulgaria or Finland.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Anyone who is still comparing Tailwind to inline styles in 2021 is probably not as experienced as they think they are.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
In which contexts would it matter whether one used article instead of div? If you're on a screen, it makes no difference. If you use a screen reader/braille display, you will only be informed about a small subset of "semantic
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by vehemenz 5y ago
Interesting. The Podcasts app was a disaster when it was released. I honestly can’t imagine how it could have gotten worse. I’ve been using Podcruncher since 2010. Manual downloads, no hiding episodes, custom playlists. All in a straightfor
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by vehemenz 5y ago
I hope the future doesn't rest on the sci-fi futurist pipe dreams of these deeply mediocre billionaires. Mars colonies, stupid tunnels, consumer flights to almost-space, and now a cure for aging. Overpopulation in the short term and ec
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by vehemenz 5y ago
The past few Apple events have been broadcast live on YouTube.
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by vehemenz 5y ago
No; blame is a moral concept, and I did not invoke it. You seem to think Mozilla could have competed with the likes of Google and Microsoft if only they would have made better decisions, or because Firefox once had the largest market share.
930.
by vehemenz 5y ago
What makes you think there is a connection between Firefox market share and the decisions happening at Mozilla? This is not 2005. No matter how good Firefox is—I'd argue it's still the best browser out there—Chrome, Edge, and Safa

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