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by bstrand 5y ago
+1 for LLWN! Fantastic Chrome extension, especially for language learning. They also have one for YouTube. However, the language options offered beyond those already provided by Netflix are machine translated. This is good enough to follow
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by bstrand 5y ago
Globalization for Me and Not for Thee, S36E571 This happens fairly often on German Netflix. When the program's language is neither German nor English, often there are no English subtitles available. International licensing is obviously
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by bstrand 6y ago
I don't agree that "freedom of speech" in the US is only and always equated with the First Amendment. Even if it were, the article is unambiguously concerned with the broader principle, so we should consider the article in th
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by bstrand 6y ago
The definition of free speech is not at all limited to the absence of legal constrictions. Russell addresses this quite directly in "Free Thought…": »When we speak of anything as “free,” our meaning is not definite unless we can s
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by bstrand 8y ago
This post is predicated on the deeply flawed notion that the university's purpose and value is vocational training.
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by bstrand 9y ago
It is worthwhile to consider Barlow's legacy--particularly this utopian rhetoric about cyberspace--as examined by Adam Curtis in his 2016 film Hypernormalisation (starting at 40m 35s):- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-
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by bstrand 9y ago
Here's CK's blog post: https://subfictional.com/my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be...
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by bstrand 10y ago
It's just a jape, not to be taken seriously, made in the great comic tradition of FizzBuzz Enterprise Edition: https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...
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by bstrand 10y ago
Have to take issue with this reduction by the article's author: > Don’t get IT people who specialize in running Internet services to run your Internet services. Have software coders run them instead. The point is that one should con
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by bstrand 11y ago
This seems more limited in scope than the article implies, as it will only use existing fiber. From the announcement: "San Francisco—where we’ll bring service to some apartments, condos, and affordable housing properties, using exist
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by bstrand 11y ago
Sounds like you played with starvation and lost. Ketosis does not require or imply a severe caloric deficit. It requires a very low carbohydrate intake, but you can eat a maintenance level of calories and be in ketosis. None of the standa
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by bstrand 11y ago
Relentless self-promotion? Oh, community college.
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by bstrand 11y ago
It most certainly is a generalized circumstance that Dutch cyclists don't wear helmets. A 1998 study (1) found that 0.1% of them wore a helmet. Furthermore, search for "Amsterdam cyclist" images (2) and you'll find virtu
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by bstrand 12y ago
Have you any references you can share for further info / to back this up?
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by bstrand 12y ago
Good question. It probably is not relevant. I presume it's predicated on the notion that olds are generally less tech savvy (and therefore less capable of fairly & reasonably adjudicating technology cases.) Sarah Jeong has written
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by bstrand 12y ago
The first half is demonstrably false; the second half--Japan excels at perfecting imported ideas--seems more accurate to me. What's your take?
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by bstrand 12y ago
Respectfully, you seem a bit unhinged over this. How, exactly, are you harmed by having to share the road safely with non-motor vehicles? Your stated concern over protection applies equally to motorcyclists, yet you seem to have no problem
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by bstrand 12y ago
Never underestimate the left's propensity to defeat themselves from the inside out, to choose a personal sense of moral and/or ideological superiority over coalition building and meaningful progress. Especially in the SF Bay area.
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by bstrand 12y ago
Marriage equality is law in California. So yes, we should be tolerant of those that opposed it and lost. That battle is over here. And there's absolutely no indication that Eich evidenced anti-gay bias at Mozilla, in policy or attitude
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by bstrand 12y ago
"We have been laying the groundwork to remedy this for quite some time...but it is impossible to predict when any particular mile post will be reached." Impossible to give a date with both high precision & accuracy, maybe, but
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by bstrand 13y ago
If there were ever a title worthy of being enjoyed without compensating its creators for their labors, it's "12 Years a Slave", right? The cognitive dissonance, it burns.
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by bstrand 13y ago
I'd take it a step further and say that all on-duty officers should have to wear cameras that stream continuously into a third party repository. The BART police are mandated to wear cameras in the wake of the killing of Oscar Grant. Un
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by bstrand 13y ago
There is often a countdown timer as well, and the article implies that was so in this case. Since the timer has to be set to accommodate the slowest pedestrians, the majority of walkers will in fact be able to safely cross even when commenc
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by bstrand 13y ago
The ban list changes are pretty clearly ideologically driven, not arbitrary.
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by bstrand 13y ago
From TFA: "he suspects badBIOS is only the initial module of a multi-staged payload"
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by bstrand 13y ago
"Our investigation currently indicates that the attackers accessed Adobe customer IDs and encrypted passwords on our systems."
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by bstrand 13y ago
I take your point, but "The 1%" she is not. At least, not unless she happens to have a net worth of ~$9M, which is the floor for 1%erdom in the U.S. Nor are most "techies", even if they are fortunate enough to be an ex
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by bstrand 13y ago
There is substantial evidence that lead poisoning, particularly that from leaded gasoline, is the causative element behind the violent crime spike and subsequent decline: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013&#x2F
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by bstrand 13y ago
Pinker's thesis is not without serious detractors. Edward Herman and David Peterson's critique[1] in ZNet is worth considering before taking it as fact. [1] http://www.zcommunications.org/steven-pinker-on-the-alleg
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by bstrand 13y ago
The glide slope transmitter for the ILS approach on runway 28L at SFO was out of service since June 1. That said, I believe there is an alternate, GPS-based system that could have been available as an alternative for automated approach. I&#

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