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811.
by wnevets 3y ago
> Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents. https://www.britannica.com/place/Europe Continents are more about how humans want to group landmasses rather than a hard scientific definition.
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by wnevets 3y ago
> I find it hard to wrap my head around a liberal European country letting a river stay so contaminated it's dangerous to swim in, at least in this century. You may not want to look up if swimming in the Thames is safe.
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by wnevets 3y ago
Virtually everyone who complains about it. The complains are almost always about how sensitive people are today , how blazing saddles couldn't be made today or whatever non-sense they use to rage farm. Its almost always framed as
814.
by wnevets 3y ago
It's hard not to laugh whenever people talk about "cancel culture" being a new phenomenon. The amount of hate she received for merely bringing up the horrible actions the catholic church committed was absurd.
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by wnevets 3y ago
> debate whether the distribution of power generation is similar to the distribution of height to get any usefulness of out of this. and IMO they are, thus my original comment.
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by wnevets 3y ago
> Adult male height mean is 70 inches. Standard deviation is 3 inches. If I was 20% taller I would be well over 7ft tall. > because of the particular distribution. It doesn't generalize. and IMO it fits solar electricity prod
817.
by wnevets 3y ago
> All of that with the cost of only doubling the amount of solar cells Why should that change if vastly is the correct adjective or not? If I overpaid by a factor of 10 to be 20% taller I would still be vastly taller, regardless of how
818.
by wnevets 3y ago
> Also, the article says "generates VASTLY more electricity" (emphasis mine), but then in the body it says it's 20% more compared to single face panels? A 20% increases in solar electricity production fits the bill for vas
819.
by wnevets 3y ago
Are there still folks on HN who think Musk isn't destroying Twitter?
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by wnevets 3y ago
Roblox games have some of the worst microtransaction bullshit I've seen in very long time. Not just what is being sold but how they're targeting kids to pay for them.
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by wnevets 3y ago
Cruises ships, the daycare of the seas.
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by wnevets 3y ago
Possibly. How is the reliance on daycare facilities outside of the US? There is a super spreader event weekly at those places.
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by wnevets 3y ago
> don't have kids. Kids have the to be the biggest spreaders of sickness in the US.
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by wnevets 3y ago
If you outlaw encryption only outlaws will have encryption
825.
by wnevets 3y ago
FWIW alot of surfactants used on the consumer market today are derived from petroleum and may even be harmful to the environment . Calling it just soap is sort of funny.
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by wnevets 3y ago
> Imagine Magic, but the game loads cards that are from your wallet, that you can pass to someone else wallet, by trading/selling outside the app Doesn't that already exist without NTFs or crypto, e.g. the steam marketplace.
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by wnevets 3y ago
> There are lots of cool uses for NFTs in game settings. Like what?
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by wnevets 3y ago
> My favorite part about Mastodon is the general lack of self-promotion. Twitter/Instagram... It turns out very bad takes, self-promotion, fake guruism and rage baiting mostly exist on social media because of the algorithms
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by wnevets 3y ago
The only thing my original comment only talks about what is protected by 4th amendment. If your test results aren't protected by the 4th, why bring them up?
830.
by wnevets 3y ago
Do you believe your cholesterol test results are protected by the 4th?
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by wnevets 3y ago
But the private company isn't stealing your papers, they're recording their own.
832.
by wnevets 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer but why would your location be considered “secure in their persons”? If you show up on a traffic camera somewhere for example they don't need a warrant or anything to find out your location or whereabouts. Your l
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by wnevets 3y ago
> I think if you try to define what was interpreted by "papers" in a pre-digital context you would conclude it is sufficiently analogous to many things in our modern world. By "papers" they likely meant diaries, perso
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by wnevets 3y ago
A person's location or whereabouts isn't mentioned in the 4th amendment.
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by wnevets 3y ago
> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmati
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by wnevets 3y ago
aren't you describing a plot point of The Dark Knight
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by wnevets 3y ago
same This site can’t provide a secure connection archive.is uses an unsupported protocol. ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH
838.
by wnevets 3y ago
This is the correct approach for VR IMO, especially or a brand like apple. It's going to continue being a niche within a niche for years to come and you don't want to expose how immature & jank the entire industry is to normal
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by wnevets 3y ago
Until they add a real following only feed I don't see it replacing any existing social media platform.
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by wnevets 3y ago
That things that aren't investigative journalism aren't investigative journalism? Very insightful.

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