MistahKoala

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by MistahKoala 1y ago
NextDNS isn't a content platform required to have age checks, so no, that prohibition doesn't apply here and promoting the bypass feature isn't 'probably illegal'.
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by MistahKoala 2y ago
I think he might be referring to the words themselves - 'rabbit' and 'pork' - in that, despite not rhyming, together they are nonetheless described as rhyming slang.
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by MistahKoala 4y ago
Putting aside other factors for a moment, a rigorous test surely depends on the dose. Stimulants like lisdexamfetamine can be titrated over a period of several weeks to determine effectiveness and tolerance of the dose, which are unknown un
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by MistahKoala 4y ago
This is an interesting issue. First, I hope your mum and family are getting acceptable care and support, and that she gets the outcome she wants from it. I know what it's like to see or experience something at the patient end of things
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by MistahKoala 6y ago
'Hygiene theatre' is the term some have settled on for the proliferation and implementation of this kind of thing: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/scourge-hy... (subsequently
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by MistahKoala 6y ago
As it's discussing future developments, another way of looking at the trajectory of a European model is to have folded it in to the Chinese model or mentioned as an adjunct to it; there's clearly admiration for the GFC within EU p
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by MistahKoala 6y ago
Perhaps a naive question, but what will this mean for Bootcamp users?
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by MistahKoala 6y ago
Thanks for the recommendation - I'll have a look for it.
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by MistahKoala 6y ago
> "Sophist" (which is a difficult, very technical dialogue regarding problems with platos theory of ideas) For the general lay reader, is there a more accessible equivalent you can recommend?
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by MistahKoala 6y ago
Somebody else has already mentioned The Open University ( https://open.ac.uk ) and I happily recommend them, as one of their alumni. Another established and well-regarded institution is the University of London International Progr
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by MistahKoala 6y ago
It's almost however long you want to put into it. I completed my undergraduate degree in around three and a half years, approaching it as a mix of part-time and full-time study, juggled with periods of employment. At the time, I though
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by MistahKoala 7y ago
Presumably in anticipation of upper respiratory tract infection. COVID-19 is a lower respiratory tract infection. I haven't heard of nasal irrigation using soap; hypertonic saline solution is usually recommended. http://www.
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by MistahKoala 7y ago
"But one local demographic variable did stand out as being protective" What does 'protective' mean in this context? I wondered if it was somehow a typo of 'predictive', but that's a bit of a leap for a typ
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by MistahKoala 7y ago
I wonder if that explains Amazon Prime's dubbed shows? I thought it was unusual (along with Netflix's 3%); in the UK I'm used to foreign programmes only being subtitled.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
The self-portrayal of the EC as a wholesome and pure knight with a blue-and-yellow shield was particularly cringe-inducing, preceded by its dog-whistle anti-American policy message.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
In fairness, it just mentions the most frequently disclosed location for other respondents who answers similar to our own. It doesn't appear to do anything predictive.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
The article discusses reviving gopher, but doesn't mention how to access it (sure, I could invest a bit of time and effort googling how to do that, but that seems beside point for an article evangelising its revival).
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
> The Aldi store next door just got a redesign and now looks confusingly welcoming In the UK they seem to have taken store design up a notch, to the point that there's a discernible difference with the Lidl experience (along with no
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Based on the current guidelines, how many years worth of sugar would the average 10-year old from 30 years ago have consumed?
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Well... https://twitter.com/TomPugh212/status/1076874388761440260
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Has Quora not peaked already? I was a fan of it in the early '10s, but around 2013/14 it seemed to experience an influx of users who turned it into an alternative to Yahoo! Answers. With no way of filtering them out, it seemed poi
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
This is the kind of HN response I was expecting (along with the downvotes); everyone who isn't a dev or engineer is wrong/irrational in their choices and experiences. I had some useful extensions that worked with old Firefox. Then
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
"If you care about about what’s happening with online life today, take another look at Firefox. It’s radically better than it was 18 months ago" Except it's not 'radically better' if you rely on extensions killed by
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Hardly ground-breaking stuff; individuals do this in everyday life as a matter of routine. They even use this tacit knowledge when they attempt to manipulate others: just compare 'old' Chris Wylie with 'new' Chris Wylie.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Initially I thought this was an appropriate and proportionate response. However, I eventually realised that doing so would be a tacit admission of acceptance of the extra-territorial ambition of the Directive and its application - which wou
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Paying ransoms (especially for organisations outside of the respective jurisdiction) isn't?
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
Sellafield's owner is the NDA. Liquidating Sellafield would likely only end up with it being handed to... the NDA.
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
One discontinued product that comes to mind - and is missed almost daily - is Evernote's Clearly. Nothing else comes close for simplified reading in the browser. Pocket does the reading experience well, but items have to be added to it
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
If we can consider discontinued features as part of 'discontinued products', examples that come to mind are things like boolean operators on eBay (also coinciding with a time when eBay search results weren't filled with irrel
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by MistahKoala 8y ago
> I mean this seems very reasonable from Apple's perspective. They're trying to avoid their brand being tarnished by bad repair shops with questionable repair skills cutting corners with cheap and unsupported parts Okay, but in

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