danicriss

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by danicriss 2mo ago
It seems to be a little known fact that she was... The Best: https://youtube.com/watch?v=LKV5YAxwv3Q While she didn't compose the song, she was the one to originally release it. Tina Turner's version came one year
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by danicriss 3mo ago
Afaik the grains corridors for the Ukrainian ships are alongside the Romanian coast, hence the Russian interest > Do Romanians give a fuck? A Ukrainian USV (water surface drone) just exploded the other day in Romania's main industri
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by danicriss 2y ago
2009 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=416530
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by danicriss 2y ago
There are a few seemingly minor details missing from the conversation above: - his support seems to have come exclusively from externally coordinated online campaigns - his support increased dramatically within the last 2 weeks before th
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by danicriss 2y ago
- https://pressone.ro/exclusiv-legaturile-secrete-ale-lui-cali... - https://www.g4media.ro/exclusiv-cine-e-eugen-sechila-aghiota... - https://www.g4media.ro/video-calin-georgescu-miscarea-le
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by danicriss 2y ago
It happened incredibly fast Polling did see it coming. But the growth was so unprecedented, the pollsters questioned their sanity (read: methodology, or at least sampling bias) The campaign propelling him happened during the two weeks prece
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by danicriss 2y ago
Salient point What you're missing is that in this particular case the outside interference seems to have been the only support he had He's claimed zero expenses and his whole stated strategy was "my rise is God's will&
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by danicriss 2y ago
I'm surprised all the discussions here missed an obvious point, even if it's implicit and not explicitly stated: the shady support this candidate had was the only support he had He's declared 0 campaign spending. For all we
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by danicriss 2y ago
> I'd be curious to know what preferential treatment means, how preferential, and how it balances out if we include treatment of all candidates across all media Iirc all candidates were supposed to mark their promotional material as
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by danicriss 3y ago
Here's the 2023 version (original reference uses 2019 data): http://www.demographia.com/dhi.pdf , pages 7-9 New Zealand is an honourable 2nd place and Auckland clocks at 7th with ~11 (median household annual income for
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by danicriss 3y ago
Copyright is a system meant to ensure creators get compensated proportionally to the value they add to society It is a bad system though. It restrains the society from benefitting from said work unless they meet certain terms (usually, paym
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by danicriss 3y ago
AI is not trained to identify disorders, nor is it trained to alleviate them / help the affected person cope with them. Ditto re. trauma.
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by danicriss 4y ago
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/2270/
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by danicriss 4y ago
My partner has a Lenovo Yoga from like 2 generations ago and she's really happy with their sound. Its soundbar was one of the selling points. And it does indeed deliver
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by danicriss 4y ago
I second Clevo - running Manjaro for a year professionally and it kicks ass. Great CPU (got an 8-core 11800H) and the NVMe and RAM of your choice for about $2000
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by danicriss 4y ago
The sheer amount of land being freed when automated driving becomes mainstream
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by danicriss 4y ago
https://www.timer-tab.com/ open source and you can customise it to any YouTube video you want, like a nightingale song for example: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XdlIbNrki5o
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by danicriss 4y ago
I'm surprised that 2 days in no-one mentioned Physics Explained, by far more in depth and hands-on maths than PBS Space Time (which, itself, is nothing but great): https://m.youtube.com/c/PhysicsExplainedVideos&#x2
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by danicriss 4y ago
I've watched random videos from it until I decided to watch them all chronologically. I must say, they do build on previous episodes, even more heavily as time goes on
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by danicriss 5y ago
I see a lot of mentions of mainstream brands in this thread. If Linux compatibility is a criterion, why not a laptop built with that in mind? Just a reminder that now exist, in no particular order: - Juno Computers - Tuxedo Computers - Syst
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by danicriss 5y ago
A good ad for this company is one of Veritasium's latest videos: https://youtu.be/kz165f1g8-E
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by danicriss 5y ago
As someone living in NZ, I had thought the same in the beginning, until they mentioned corruption being a problem. I'm not saying it doesn't exist here at all, but it's so low it's on the bottom of the list of problems t
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by danicriss 6y ago
Mozart's and Beethoven's careers