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by zahma 4y ago
Is there such a thing as a truly private “masked card service?” I’m genuinely curious because I use virtual cards supplied by my online bank, but I’m sure they retain records for each virtual card I use. Are there services that do not recor
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by zahma 4y ago
You can download some Linux distros and other open source software this way, but yeah…it is largely used for piracy.
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by zahma 4y ago
The fastest reactions in our body (hydride shifts, very small rearrangement of atoms to maximize charge stability) take a mere picosecond. This nanosecond is 1000 times longer than a picosecond. Try to imagine that the molecules in your bod
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by zahma 4y ago
Not totally a benefit. In the Midwest, if you start class at 9:30, as some middle schools do due to bussing availability, you’d get out at 4:30. In the winter, the sun has set. How horrible that is to feel like the day was spent inside a d
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by zahma 4y ago
Doesn’t NFC work just fine for most third parties? I have various cards that all work for payment, including a third party credit card (ie. not Apple Pay), mass transit pass, a student card which has payment functionality in addition to key
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by zahma 4y ago
Robusta has a higher resistance to insects due to the higher caffeine content. The caffeine that poisons them is what gives us a nice intoxicating buzz. It grows at lower altitudes thanks to this trait. With climate change, it’s unsurprisin
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by zahma 4y ago
Among all the other extensions that help guard my privacy and improve QoL, Containers is another great feature that integrates well with FF. I like maintaining profiles for privacy and security, and it helps me navigate certain sites where
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by zahma 4y ago
2. Don’t expect to get rich quick.
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by zahma 4y ago
There are always archive links. It’s a good idea to read the whole article before condemning it. https://archive.ph/4x3je > “… The trouble is that a draconian crackdown would put at risk the benefits that crypto eventual
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by zahma 4y ago
Part of what you described is due to streaming, but it’s also the production side making music available for this type of consumption. That’s been a long time in the making as labels consolidate and big artists become sex symbols, actors, a
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by zahma 4y ago
Clever way to motivate himself to study, though I wonder if it worked more by physically separating himself from his phone more than it psychologically encouraged him to do what he said the stream was for. For others, I’m kind of mystified.
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by zahma 4y ago
Doesn't it signal to prospective students to submit their best application and be judged holistically? Supposedly that's what all universities claim to do. It's easy to start quantifying application success based on several i
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by zahma 4y ago
No %#*^ing way is he saturating a 25gbit connection to download a PS5 game — not on Sony’s EMEA servers anyway. He’d download the largest PS5 game out there (Borderlands at 50GB) in a minute anyway — probably before he could reach the full
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by zahma 5y ago
Well said, and this feedback loop you refer to fits into the “culture wars” narrative that prepossesses many news establishments as they vie for eyeballs to reinforce their ad revenue and bolster their Twitter feeds. Some of this stuff is c
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by zahma 5y ago
300mbit symmetrical fiber connection here. Even with a VPN (WireGuard), I can nearly saturate the downlink and uplink with a Speedtest and ~5ms latency. I get similar performance via sftp download from a server located several countries awa
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by zahma 5y ago
I welcome the addition of different stories, but considering Le Monde already tries to copy the New York Times in style and content, I'm not sure of the value proposition or the real addition of diverse stories. A French take translate
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by zahma 5y ago
I’m well aware of the dangers. All of my bike accidents involved cars. There’s inherent peril in sharing the road with varying speeds and sizes. Not to mention humans turn into sociopaths on their vehicles of choice, especially after these
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by zahma 5y ago
Do you also not drive a car because of the risk? Humans have to get places quickly, and a bike is a great bit of technology. (I also just simply enjoy riding my bike.) Given the choice between choosing one mode of transportation for all, wo
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by zahma 5y ago
Cultural boycotts don’t work in democracies (look at how it’s been attempted with Israel) and they definitely don’t work in autocracies. The average researcher, tennis player, artist, musician, etc. has no influence among the oligarchy. I’d
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by zahma 5y ago
Agreed. I wish there was a tax credit for farmers who don’t use fertilizer, even if that’s only imported, so as to encourage composting. Right now it’s pretty easy to externalize agricultural waste on the public’s dime or health. I’m thinki
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by zahma 5y ago
Same botched logic that says we shouldn’t invest in light rail / subways. The incumbent advantage never favors progress.
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by zahma 5y ago
Installed an induction cooktop from Smeg a couple years ago. It’s not top of the line but it offers granular enough control. I was a doubter at first but it was the right thing to do to avoid using gas and to electrify more appliances in ou
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by zahma 5y ago
A resource issue is what you worry about in 100-150 years? That’s laughable considering our planet might not be actually livable as we know it if we conduct business as usual. And that isn’t propaganda. It is a fact, and nuclear is utterly
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by zahma 5y ago
Yes, you’re describing political science/ international relations theory of realism. In nature, there is chaos and organization of that chaos happens through real force. A country can’t trust others and must protect its interests. A he
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by zahma 5y ago
Apple knows where the future of technology is going, and Meta is getting in the way. Meta, appropriately renamed to reflect the trend toward augmented and virtual reality, would eventually become a threat to Apple’s walled garden business m
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by zahma 5y ago
Has anyone with Apple silicon given this a shot? I notice with this release they’re offering native support. I’m planning to give it a spin but I’m curious what others have noticed in converting from MS.
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by zahma 5y ago
I’m excited by this news for two reasons. I hope it bodes well for macro-economic political policies to bring well-paid jobs back to the US. I’m also optimistic that this will inspire other companies (ie Apple) to double down on their CSR c
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by zahma 5y ago
Yes, you’ve identified quite the double-standard there with the video-game heroine mass-murdering all those men! As if men didn’t also enjoy playing a female character. Are we somehow to believe that women are as likely to commit murder bas
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by zahma 5y ago
Yes, dissociative identity disorder. I only used it because it was referenced in the article. My apologies.
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by zahma 5y ago
I volunteer on Crisis Text Line and have spoken to a number of people who are self-diagnosed — some older, some young. I don’t know where people have gotten their info when they explain that their emotions are complicated by DID or because

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