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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Either you're being hyperbolic about the length of time or this is simply untrue. I am not hyperbolic, X11 has this Xv API, video players generally use it since early 2000s (as that was only reasonable way to even scale video to f
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> full screen playback without screen tearing are pretty huge upgrades. Tearing in full screen (video) playback was not an issue for decades, since X video extension and later OpenGL-based playback. Fullscreen video and 3D is easy, becau
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by zajio1am 5y ago
For BIRD Internet Routing Deamon, we solved financing issue by offering support contracts ( https://bird.network.cz/?support ). If you develop free software that is mission-critical for some companies, then it makes sense f
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I guess that in modern world, such buildings would not even get paperwork/permits in 7-9 years.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I would say that the purpose of the calendar is tracking time/days in general. Astronomical events are just used as a tool to do that. Earlier calendars were lunar-based instead of solar-based, as keeping synchronized with moon is easi
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> This is due to stigma. Indeed, if anything, CFS is good evidence of the strong impact that even a (probably) psychologically derived illness can have on one's physical well-being. AFAIK there is no strong consensus that (even covi
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by zajio1am 5y ago
IMHO discussion about Georgism (as extreme position) is detrimental to reasonable discussion about property tax vs land value tax with more realistic parameters (say 3 % of value).
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Instead of taxing land at a few percent, Georgism says we should be taxing it at 100%. Property tax percentages are from property value, while georgism is taxing 100% of imputed rent, not value. Relation between rent and price, as ment
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> The US has the most difficult-to-change constitution of any democracy Well, still easier than changing 'constitution' (treaties) of EU - you would need parliaments of all member countries to ratify it and some countries would
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by zajio1am 5y ago
First, if i get paywall page instead of the article then it is not relevant, because it is about paying and not about the original query. Second, it does not make sense - if i use a public search engine, i expect publicly available informat
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> I use a conjoint survey experiment to provide evidence that preferences for single-family development are ubiquitous. Across every demographic subgroup analyzed, respondents preferred single-family home developments by a wide margin. O
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I also use PC Engines Alix with Debian as home router and it is in many ways superior to commercial options, but quality of wifi drivers in Linux is long-term issue. Also note that in unpatched hostapd channel bonding (40MHz and more channe
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Many ISPs acquired IP addresses in the past for free. While they could sell them now on open market for $50/IP, it makes sense to hold them (as their price is expected to rise) and just use them for their customers (for fixed or monthl
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Chilli peppers are also consumed as independent entities, but chilli powder is definitely a spice. Similarly ginger.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Does not work against spambot networks on hacked computers.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> as opposed to say hard work Perhaps ability to consistently do hard work is also a natural gift.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> Fair, but hardly relevant in a western context— the push is to close coal-fired power plants in favour of gas and nuclear/solar/wind. No one's talking about a wood-fired power plant, much less pitching it as renewable. B
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Yes, but that would be 7px-wide font. Even in 80s the default VGA font was 9px-wide and that was considered important improvement over EGA 8px-wide. And that was on monitors with lower DPI that is common on 1920x1080, so i would assume that
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> I am considering an ultra-wide monitor(the only thing really missing from my home setup at this point) but even at a 1920x1080 on all my monitors, 80 characters occupy at most 25-30% of my entire screen It is common for people to use s
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> At a narrower scale, who decides how many hours you work? I during work contract negotiation? > Sure, you could quit & move to another company, but I could say the same of a citizen living in a tyrannical country. That is not re
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by zajio1am 5y ago
And also forcing biometric data in ID cards: https://blog.hidglobal.com/2021/09/european-union-already-ro...
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Not really. In EU, 70 % of population owns, while 30 % rents: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/cache/digpub/housing/bloc-1a.h...
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by zajio1am 5y ago
If land price rises there, then it is inefficient to use the land just for a family house, instead it make sense to build there an aparment building. So land value tax works by pricing out as supposed.
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Ability of third parties (politicians, bureocracy, NIMBY groups) to block or retard production of new assets. From what i heard from developers, getting permissions for a new appartment complex takes many years, several times longer than ac
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> But upon closer inspection, antialiased text is always blurrier than subpixel rendered text. This is not a matter of opinion, it’s just how the rendering works. That is not generally true. It depends on font hinting and grid-fitting. W
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Does computation in computers arise from matter?
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> I don't want them to have any sort of public social power, given their capability to totally ruin an innocent person's life Who are ones that ruin an innncent person's live? It is one who falsely accused, or those who im
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by zajio1am 5y ago
> If you see government overreach as a fundamental societal problem … you’ll find an answer in decentralization. I do not really get this. Decentralization in government just moves the power from one level of government to another (so ov
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by zajio1am 5y ago
I guess that for short-length fasting like IF it is more your glykogen reserves than your bodyfat,
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by zajio1am 5y ago
Seems like interesting application for clothing e-shops. Shoppers could apply these filters to videos of themselves to see how they would look in these clothes.

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