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by YCode 8y ago
It's all but guaranteed that if Reddit removes old Reddit and forces new Reddit on everyone third party web clients with ads that generate money for someone else will pop up and fill the gap.
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by YCode 8y ago
Well they're pragmatists, so they'll recognize that pragmatically they need some way to fund their life and accept that as a cost they'll have to pay until they find something more efficient.
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by YCode 8y ago
> Urban citizens may be desperate to get advice from an older, wiser person, but they don't want to turn to the guy they've worked with for years or the uncle who remembers the tears shed over a broken toy truck. Someone famili
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by YCode 8y ago
"Oh uh... Hashim, we're using this new font now, I send it to you." "What is wrong with Times New Roman?" "Pah! Are we Romans? Anyway, the prime minister prefers it."
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by YCode 8y ago
I'm not aware of any other solution.
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by YCode 8y ago
I just assumed devs were testing it out; most devs love testing alternatives and even occasionally retesting them to see if the alternative has caught up to the de facto answer.
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by YCode 8y ago
Yes and no. It's true, we ought to find ways to work together that rely on concepts like mutually assured stability instead of MAD. And there's evidence of altruism's superiority even on a biological level. There are some spe
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by YCode 8y ago
As a software solution there's a free program called Workrave that will help time micro breaks, stretches, etc. I find it's helpful to have actual timers and reminders and it sort of helps me keep pace on how fast the day is going
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by YCode 8y ago
"Some have posited that there are an infinite number of molecules outside of the one we call home. They vary in size and shape, according to multimolecule theory. In some of them it is said the hydrogen galaxy is in the outer section,
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by YCode 8y ago
Kinda seems like he really just wanted to use the word.
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by YCode 8y ago
It strikes me that the parents who install these apps are likely to be parents who are raising more challenging children. That's not to imply they are bad parents, just that the kid went through a divorce, intense bullying, a change in
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by YCode 8y ago
"The problem with installing a roof on your house is one day it can be blown off."
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by YCode 9y ago
I take this to mean anything private or sensitive said on Facebook Messenger should be considered breached?
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by YCode 9y ago
Regardless of whether you lose them you pay taxes when you make a taxable transaction, being either exchanging FIAT to crypto or crypto to a different crypto.
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by YCode 9y ago
China is definitely doing this already, more effectively than any other country they view economics and other alternative forms of warfare as the bread and butter of diplomatic policy and they are very good at mixing it with realpolitik whe
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by YCode 9y ago
Yeah, more resources for the newer generation and more adaptability from generations occurring more frequently. The extreme of this might be HIV or the common cold.
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by YCode 9y ago
Precisely so. The essence of the scientific method is taking what you think is true and proving it with a higher degree of accuracy. This is why studies are repeated by other people, to see if the results match up.
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by YCode 9y ago
IIRC their brain chemistry is more similar to ours than most other animals. They do simulations and petri dish testing as well, what would a better method look like?
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by YCode 9y ago
I wonder if I can hire a botnet to flag my competition out of business.
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by YCode 9y ago
> Back in 2014...developers...could use relational databases with SQL interfaces, which are easy to use but they don’t scale well. I'm skeptical.
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by YCode 9y ago
While ironic, if you pay any attention to mission and vision statements in general for government/military organizations it's quite commonplace for such statements to change in opaque and confusing ways, especially so after any ch
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by YCode 9y ago
Well, one persistently active tab with a non-https site open. I suppose you could configure the rogue AP to have one of those registration pages but the registration page tells them the WiFi will only work so long as they keep that tab open
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by YCode 9y ago
I like the term "correction", in that it's not over for bitcoin it's just now it's getting a more realistic value.
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by YCode 9y ago
Using Stranger Than Fiction as an example in this paper rubs me the wrong way, maybe because it also accounts for about a third of the conclusion. I like that movie, but it doesn't really add anything to the paper and even if it does I
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by YCode 9y ago
Very true about Facebook especially and you only have to look at the last U.S. presidential election to see how it can have dramatic effects on people's perspectives and expectations. Echo chambers are a dangerous thing that people sho
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by YCode 9y ago
> "ripping apart the social fabric." ... "literally changes your relationship with society, with each other ... God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains." I'm not saying he's entirel
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by YCode 9y ago
Really makes that seem like a simpler time when the concern of the day was that your OS came with an integrated browser.
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by YCode 9y ago
I wonder if they couldn't institute some scheme where they flag subs as "dirty" or some more politically correct term when those subs contain offensive but legal content. This would allow showing advertisers a checkbox when t
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by YCode 9y ago
Some of it may also depend on where you live. A pay rate people in Western countries would scoff at may be a perfectly comfortable living wage in less fortunate countries. There's probably some dip in the quality of products you get, b
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by YCode 9y ago
I'd be interested to see how this breaks down as a function of cost instead of raw numbers. This would for example control for development environments and pet projects as compared to production projects running on the platform.

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