Caprinicus

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by Caprinicus 5y ago
Displays are frequently binned based on quality. They are probably just buying the cheapest they can, and end up with a lot of prematurely dead pixels.
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by Caprinicus 5y ago
This is exactly why I anticipate every grade school teaching kids Esperanto any day now As someone who uses both but mostly metric, neither one is difficult to use. Metric relationships between volume and energy and heat are cool - but they
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by Caprinicus 5y ago
If something is “arguably” illegal, then that is what the law is for. We in fact have a very complex and refined branch of government designed specifically to decide whether something is illegal or not, and it works far better than a bunch
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by Caprinicus 5y ago
This is such an overly simplistic take. Depending on where you are in the country, you could easily suspend some combination of power, water, heat, road access, banking, or internet connectivity to individuals purely by restricting access t
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by Caprinicus 5y ago
Yes, a free and legal exchange that meets the definition of censorship. Many famous censorship schemes operate entirely in the private sphere. The Hays code, for instance, censored movies for decades and existed purely in contracts between
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by Caprinicus 5y ago
Hate speech does not have a definition in the US, and barely has a definition in countries where it is banned. I am sure almost everyone who has ever been banned for political reasons has had hate speech given as the official cause.
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by Caprinicus 5y ago
No, it isn’t actually the clutch doing most of the braking, it’s the inherent friction of the engine moving without combustion
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by Caprinicus 5y ago
Car prices in America are among the lowest in the developed world though. It’s difficult to compare education as you’re getting a wildly different product depending on what specific university you go to.
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by Caprinicus 5y ago
You must go to the Scrolling Autonomy Rebellion site for that. Unfortunately it is very low contrast.
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by Caprinicus 6y ago
Behold! A balloon!
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by Caprinicus 6y ago
People will step on the path when they are walking on it. Rubber wears down paths, as does any sort of abrasive sand or rocks between the shoe and the road. There is a significant amount of wear even on stone paths from foot traffic. There
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by Caprinicus 6y ago
We have devoted large amounts of time and resources to studying the differences between seemingly similar ant colonies, and we have lived alongside ants for our entire existence as a species. Imagine now that we had never seen an ant, had a
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by Caprinicus 6y ago
That’s different because the iPhone is not a generic object like a fruit. You could totally call a business Macintosh Records and get away with it though
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by Caprinicus 6y ago
Most projectors don’t and it’s wonderful. So many smart TVs get loaded up with ads because you are essentially a captive audience tied to a very expensive purchase. Throw a Roku or Apple TV on there and you’ll get the same thing with far le
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by Caprinicus 6y ago
Just because someone exists doesn’t mean you get to quote them anonymously in the article. You don’t write an article about a Mars rover and include “some geocentric societies claim that Mars is not real and space is not real”. You need to
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by Caprinicus 7y ago
That is four times the entire US foreign aid budget, perhaps it is a typo?
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by Caprinicus 7y ago
They are long term on many things, but not things that concern national pride. It is unclear what threat a semiautonomous HK actually presents to them, beyond just being a bunch of people near Shenzhen who can say mean things about you. It’
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by Caprinicus 8y ago
German cars, Mercs especially, seem to have a desirability curve that bottoms out and then skyrockets later. Few people are going to hold a car that looks dated long enough for it to start looking awesome
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by Caprinicus 8y ago
If they could demand a fee, anyone could claim to be negotiating on behalf of you, and demand a fee as obviously you need them
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by Caprinicus 8y ago
It’s not necessarily about danger, but it could help legally depending on what’s going on.
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by Caprinicus 8y ago
If I hit someone repeatedly with their toaster, and they uninstall the toaster, so I beat them with their frying pan, the fact that they owned a toaster isn’t very relevant in the situation, the hitting is
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by Caprinicus 8y ago
I linked an email with my Reddit account long before it became recommended. Years later, I deleted that gmail account. Even more years after that, Reddit decided (automated) to lock my account until I reset my password for no discernible re
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by Caprinicus 8y ago
Fortunately he has fit bits on all 10 fingers so it wasn’t a waste
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by Caprinicus 8y ago
And that they grew to this point before imposing this "curation". It seems to be a recurring theme with these companies to grow to a monopoly with a place for relatively free discourse and then to do this as soon as they feel safe
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by Caprinicus 8y ago
And with Uber, you can pick up and go to lyft if/when they treat you poorly, without completely losing an audience you spent years building You might argue that the audience is YouTube’s and not yours, but in practice it doesn’t really
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by Caprinicus 8y ago
I thought they were moving to Puerto Rico, and wondered why they would pick now to do that
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by Caprinicus 9y ago
I design a lot of consumer electronics. You obviously notice the way they strip obviously, but you can run them against a file to see how hard they are if you’re trying to choose parts/suppliers. There are other things to look for, lik
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by Caprinicus 9y ago
This is the case with a lot of implementations, and it’s really lot a good idea if you want people to actually use it that way. Ignoring the effect that kind of system has had on pilots, in the automotive industry it’s just going to put poo
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by Caprinicus 9y ago
Either we put the lasers on the fish or I’m out
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by Caprinicus 9y ago
It's not about whether you trust them not to read your emails, its about whether they would be able to turn them over to anyone with a valid request. The decryption is local, they could send modified code specifically to you that retur

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