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by 5040 1y ago
Kindle made it easy to report errors in ebooks, but I always found myself wondering if the errors I was flagging were even being looked at.
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by 5040 1y ago
Thousands of people are being detained and questioned for sending messages that cause “annoyance”, “inconvenience” or “anxiety” to others via the internet, telephone or mail. https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art
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by 5040 2y ago
You can trade your time for goods, but others might trade money for time. Something to think about maybe. Free Shakespeare in the Park is a New York City civic tradition dating back to the 1950s. It is, as the name suggests, free to the pu
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by 5040 2y ago
Lots of people were confused about the purpose or utility of 'micro-blogging.' It only really clicked for people once you had minor celebrities using the platform to crowd-source information, advice, and ideas from fans.
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by 5040 2y ago
Consider the plight of the dentists and doctors: >There were some 90 dentists and around 30 doctors operating in the City, for the most part trained in China but unable to operate in Hong Kong without taking more exams. The City provided
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by 5040 2y ago
>"people living in squalor is their right!" For many, a big part of the appeal was the low costs of living. Surely choosing relative squalor with low prices should be an option?
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by 5040 2y ago
>Most people have terrible eyes for distinguishing content A related phenomenon is not being able to hear the difference between 128kbps and 320kbps. I find the notion astonishing, and yet lots of people cannot tell the difference.
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by 5040 2y ago
As someone who has always been a collector, I found this particular article very interesting: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/redressing-the-balance-...
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by 5040 2y ago
Plenty of reasonable scientists support a political party which explicitly denies the existence of biological differences between groups of humans. In the final analysis, it seems scientists will align with organizations that hold unscienti
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by 5040 2y ago
I was asking ChatGPT about a "squiggled s" yesterday. It thought I meant ß, but the character I was actually interested in was §. Context was obscure keyboard layouts.
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by 5040 2y ago
I miss those days too, but my recollection of Youtube is a little different. Lots of piracy for example.
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by 5040 2y ago
The regurgitated content is often in the form of comments in popular threads.
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by 5040 2y ago
Reminds me of this: >Jeff Bezos(01:34:00) We were going over a weekly business review and a set of documents, and I have a saying, which is when the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. And it doesn't me
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by 5040 2y ago
Not necessarily just a singular weird animal either. Sometimes a breeding pair was given. Take this interesting excerpt about Plato's stepbrother: By 413, Demos had inherited his father's peacocks, descendants of an original bree
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by 5040 2y ago
>lots of people suffered As someone surrounded by immigrants using ChatGPT to navigate new environs they barely understand, I don't connect at all to these claims that AI is a cancer ruining everything. I just don't get it.
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by 5040 2y ago
Sometimes it seems like problem-solving itself is being problematized as if solving problems wasn't an obvious good.
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by 5040 2y ago
>should we really be surprised that unpaid labor is hard to find? Music is mostly unpaid labor and there's no shortage of musicians.
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by 5040 2y ago
>If you don't need that much e.g. because you have the luck of having your parents support, don't work the full job then. Easy. Less hours worked, more time to study. What if you are a lonely oldster who'd love to slowly s
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by 5040 2y ago
An outlaw, in its original and legal meaning, is a person declared as outside the protection of the law. In pre-modern societies, all legal protection was withdrawn from the criminal, so anyone was legally empowered to persecute or kill th
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by 5040 2y ago
In many places, clotheslines are illegal.
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by 5040 2y ago
America is really bad for this sort of thing though? One example that stands out in my mind: The shower is outside on the back patio. The shower is fitted with hot water from the conventional water heater plumbed from the house. The shower
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by 5040 2y ago
My favorite Winamp shortcut is Ctrl+Shift+R to randomize the playlist. I wish every application with a playlist could do this.
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by 5040 2y ago
>There are no economic incentives to colonize Mars. Perhaps, but much has been said about the vast fortunes asteroid mining could unlock.
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by 5040 2y ago
Many did not want to leave, for want of having better options. The dentists were especially attached to the place. >Medical and dental care were no problem at all: many of the residents were doctors and dentists with Chinese qualificatio
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by 5040 2y ago
To make a bold analogy, claiming that squatters should be allowed to seize unoccupied buildings is like claiming that hackers should be allowed to seize inactive servers.
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by 5040 2y ago
I'm reminded of Canada's first weird tale (probably), 'A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder' by James De Mille. The narrative structure of Strange Manuscript is that of a story within a story. The frame story
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by 5040 2y ago
Think of it as an inner disposition.
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by 5040 2y ago
Speaking for myself, I'm actively hostile because of all their littering. Hard to be sympathetic when they toss all their garbage on the ground.
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by 5040 2y ago
The prevalence of these lines of thought make me wonder if we'd see a similar backlash against Star-Trek style food-replicators. "Free food machines are being be used by greedy corporations to put artisanal chefs out of business.
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by 5040 2y ago
>one's style will not be unique for long as AI will quickly copy it and so make the original much less valuable Note that the fashion industry doesn't have copyrights, and runway fashions get copied very quickly. Fashion design

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