bluerobotcat

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by bluerobotcat 2mo ago
But then some countries have visas on arrival that are less of a hassle than ESTA.
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by bluerobotcat 2y ago
What do I need to do to get unbanned? I have filled in the provided Google Docs form 3-4 times to no avail. I got banned almost immediately after joining. My best guess is that I got banned because I used a VPN. https://news.ycom
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by bluerobotcat 2y ago
You can keep your purchases these days. Though I when last changed countries I did find that I lost some purchases. I would guess it can happen when an item is not available in the new country. There’s a rate limit on how often you change c
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by bluerobotcat 2y ago
Normative approach versus a descriptive/empirical approach.
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by bluerobotcat 2y ago
I was banned too. I filled in the form 2-3 times already, but I never heard back from them. My working theory is that I was banned due to using a VPN (Mullvad) with a location set to Europe, at a time when Europe users were not allowed to u
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Do we need a new theory of evolution?(theguardian.com)
13 points by bluerobotcat 4y ago|3 comments
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
I don't think debating counterfactuals is a productive way to have this discussion. I also want to point out that the reason I mentioned Gui Minhai was to counter the claim that escaping the grip of China was a simple matter of moving
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
I'm not sure why you think I'm American. The group that was being attacked was something like 'Westerners who criticize China' (I can't find the exact quote since the OP is no longer visible to me). I'm part of
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
The US certainly flirts with this kind of politics too. However: - Snowden was an American citizen. Gui Minhai is Swedish. - Snowden didn't get kidnapped abroad. The possibility seemed real but, for whatever reason, that line did not a
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gui_Minhai Can you though? Gui Minhai was a Hong Kong bookseller who had become a Swedish citizen. He was kidnapped while in Thailand and was moved to China. There he was denied consular a
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
I strongly disagree. If you care enough about an issue to repeatedly go outside during a pandemic and protest, then you are not ignoring it. The set of 'Westerners' does not exclude the protesters.
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
I don't understand how you can give 'American cops routinely kill people' as an example of human rights violations that are being ignored. Is change lacking? Yes. Is there outrage? Also yes. Of course, had you were to make th
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
The app doesn't get killed that quickly because it has location services on in the background. It's the same reason that Google Maps doesn't get killed in the background when it's giving you directions. iOS prompts for p
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
"While I haven’t tested the beta myself, it appears it gets to run the whole time you’re on that SSID and it can implement whatever protocol it wants to talk to your proprietary server." I'm currently in quarantine in a Singa
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
The actions of India in Kashmir have certainly been strongly condemned as well. What happens there is terrible. Perhaps the Kashmir situation got less media attention than Hong Kong, but I think that's more of a result of more develope
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
It strikes me that in at least some of these examples, the subject may know the best decision, but they might not know that they know it. For example, you might have prior experience that your gut is more reliable than your conscious thinki
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by bluerobotcat 6y ago
I think it might be mostly that you're not in an English speaking country. Based on accent, a lot of spam calls appear to originate from developing countries.
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by bluerobotcat 7y ago
Have you noticed that in Singapore all the nurses are Filipino though? I don't think they earn much and I reckon that has to help with getting costs down... I also disagree that healthcare is uniformly cheap here. GP visits are not par
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Boeing’s Starliner problems may be worse than thought(arstechnica.com)
11 points by bluerobotcat 7y ago|1 comments
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Halting Is Poly-Time Quantum Provable(rjlipton.wordpress.com)
2 points by bluerobotcat 7y ago|0 comments
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by bluerobotcat 7y ago
I had the same experience in Belgium in the 90s. Had lessons in Pascal when I was 14, VBA at age 15, and moved on to a specialized (not very popular at the time) computer studies program at age 16 with about 15 hours of week of IT (VB, Pasc
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by bluerobotcat 7y ago
Cmd+Ctrl+Space brings up the emoji palette on MacOS. This palette is easy to use from the keyboard and works in the terminal too. Some MacBooks famously also have a TouchBar that makes emoji easy to type. I can't remember the last time
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by bluerobotcat 7y ago
Running a development environment from an iPad would really catch my interest. It's something I've already done in the past using Emacs over Blink (a Mosh terminal for iOS), but the experience was not ideal. I'd need to be ab
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Activists’ phones targeted by one of the world’s most advanced spyware apps(arstechnica.com)
10 points by bluerobotcat 7y ago|0 comments
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by bluerobotcat 7y ago
Of course that's in part because China pays attention to what happens in the US, and they try to frame their message in such a way that is more palatable for Westerners.
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The campaign that tried to compromise Tibetans’ iOS and Android phones(arstechnica.com)
2 points by bluerobotcat 7y ago|0 comments
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by bluerobotcat 7y ago
To add a bit of context, China forces Android users in Xinjiang to install surveillance apps: - https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ne94dg/jingwang-app-no-en... - https://www.vice.com/en_us&#x2
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by bluerobotcat 7y ago
I never even realized that that's why it was named toast. I thought it was named after the act of giving a toast (a speech).
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by bluerobotcat 7y ago
Opaque, except for '\0', '/', and (to some extent) '.'.
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Sawzall Programming Language(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by bluerobotcat 7y ago|0 comments

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