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by z3c0 4y ago
It'd be interesting to see how this tracks against Scoville rankings, which I've found to be mostly useless. I've always found the gaps between rankings too large to be able to really intuit the difference between two peppers
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by z3c0 4y ago
No, because - as a programmer - I have the humility to admit that this job requires neither the stress management, the moral complexity, the social responsibility, nor the interpersonal skills that the jobs you've listed require. I thi
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by z3c0 4y ago
It may be a radical notion to some, but it's actually possible for an online publication to have multiple writers of differing qualities and opinions.
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Why would they count the terms sequentially when prison sentences are typically served concurrently? Is that not the case here?
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In short, "you can't set the settor." It's a bit like saying "everything is subjective". By asserting such, you're proclaiming subjectivity as objective, breaking the whole statement. For anyone who'd
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Dating apps do suck, and they likely always will, because they have little incentive to help their users find a long-term partner. Dating apps are "rape-whistle" companies, meaning that if they actually solve the problems that the
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And Interstellar
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I've noticed an affinity towards "The Greats" of modern painting. I've gotten incredible results from using Dali, Picasso, Bacon, Lichtenstein, etc. My luck with slightly-less-known artists of similar styles doesn't
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by z3c0 4y ago
While I'm overall of the mind that nobody can really know what to expect, I think this may be a little more accurate of a reality than the aspiring Cassandras are trumpeting about. I'm willing to bet that most of the people who ar
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by z3c0 4y ago
I have heard that ABC was worked on by Van Rossum, and that it influenced a lot of his design choices in python.
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That's not how ad targeting works. Your data is used in aggregate to target ads to your purported demographic, and that designation is usually obtained on-the-fly via your recent page visits. Storing your individual interests isn'
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I found the actual Forbes article to be far more stimulating than the summary in the linked slashdot post (or re-post, really) https://www.forbes.com/sites/javierpaz/2022/08/26/more-than-...
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Your data is useless, no matter where it is. Data on the collective of American citizens, however, is not.
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I think this premise is sufficient in any scenario where there are disparities in the distribution of a plentiful resource, as is the case in countries with privatized water. However, when the resource is no longer plentiful, it is unwise t
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My complaint isn't that it punishes the poor, it's that it doesn't deter the rich, who are - in the context of the article - the primary issue. I just invoked an old saying to draw attention to the disparity. A tiered pricing
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by z3c0 4y ago
So... let them use up the water so that it's affordable to stop them from using up the water?
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Given the context of the article, I thought it was fairly obvious that I was referring to domestic use, but if it was not, I was.
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by z3c0 4y ago
As the saying goes, "when the punishment is money, it's only a punishment for the poor." There are plenty of mega-wealthy people in California who would pay the premium to maintain their image of wealth, no matter how large.
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by z3c0 4y ago
Unfortunately, it's not so clear-cut by looking at which domains are getting hits, but it would make a good weekend project. I'd have to map all subsidiaries back to their parents eg YouTube or IG, and then there's the tric
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by z3c0 4y ago
Having set up a Pi-Hole recently, I've had a similar realization, but for all of FAANG. I've noticed that the moment phones start getting used on my network, more than half of the requests made end up getting blocked.
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Agreed on all points. Notebooks really aren't that hard to maintain. They just require some slightly different rules from standard scripts. Personally, I like to label block-global variables in capital case (like PEP8 constants), so as
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by z3c0 4y ago
If anyone is interested in a historical example: https://web.archive.org/web/20220121014127/https://www.nytim...
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What's more, I have noticed an element of contagion forming where, for every paywalled article, there's several lower-quality unpaywalled articles referring to the former, but with their own biased spins. Fact-checking those artic
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by z3c0 4y ago
Maybe they just like to buy drugs on the internet.
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I'm not sure I'd want it to. On multiple occasions, I've received "returned" calls from people who have received scam calls from my number. I'm sure a lot of money would be wasted on red herrings if those repor
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by z3c0 4y ago
Thank you for clarifying.
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What are you doing with the information gathered from this service? Will phone numbers that are verified active by the text verification on this service be sent back to the data broker you're using?
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Or shielding content from intrusive ISPs. Comcast and AT&T will both shake down people over torrenting media, especially if that media is copyrighted by one particular mouse-related company. It's also a good way to obstruct mass da
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May not be as portable, but "exit(1)" would probably make it seem more like an accident.
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That's only if they make it past major ISPs, who have all decided that acting as a mesh bridge is against their terms of service.

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