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by fifnir 1y ago
I've been noticing the same, this completely breaks searching for reddit results for me
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by fifnir 1y ago
> I suspect the idea that a person speaks more than one language is absent in US silicon valley. Exactly, it's like they've never left their own state levels of ignorance
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by fifnir 1y ago
Oh god please, this is so important!
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by fifnir 2y ago
Got hit with a popup to signup to something before I could even read their "splash" message, jesus christ
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by fifnir 2y ago
I quoted Cavafy's Ithaka: "And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you’ll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean." https://www.poetryfou
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by fifnir 2y ago
Hey at least those editors actually do something during the publishing process!
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by fifnir 2y ago
> Ask a small hotel owner in one of the islands about their plan of turning their property into a "hacker house" in the off-season. Maybe instead they should look into making their hotels into "doctor house", or &quot
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by fifnir 2y ago
WINTNOG is "RAG"
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by fifnir 2y ago
My PhD supervisor would wash his teeth over the sink where we'd rinse all the gel preparation tools. He got throat cancer in his 50s and died soon after my PhD defense.
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by fifnir 3y ago
How amazing is it to read all this on nature itself, the journal whose peer-review method failed again and again.
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by fifnir 3y ago
His wiki page probably has sources, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rainer But in anycase this has little to do with genetics, the poor guy's pituitary was a mess
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by fifnir 3y ago
That would be a good way to strengthen my pinkie, I would also do it the other way around, d to backspace (move the cursor left), f to delete(move the cursor right)
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by fifnir 3y ago
Y'all don't map the Caps Lock to a secondary backspace? Do you never make mistakes? Do you have long fingers that can reach the original backspace without taking your hands off the home row? What do you do ? Foe me, having a
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by fifnir 3y ago
> time sink without any value Indeed, time is little and precious and should be spent wisely. Very virtuous of you. > hobby specific subreddits have wealth of information Ah the virtue of doing hobbies > New posts are 99% attention
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by fifnir 5y ago
I use uBlacklist, it puts a little "block this domain from results" button next to google results
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by fifnir 6y ago
Or this one :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0cA8aoOno
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by fifnir 6y ago
Indeed we're running CentOS on the cluster at work. I always wondered, why not Debian ?
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by fifnir 6y ago
> The meaning of the term scientific theory (often contracted to theory for brevity) as used in the disciplines of science is significantly different from the common vernacular usage of theory.[4][note 1] In everyday speech, theory can i
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by fifnir 6y ago
>Conscious experience is a seamless unified whole. That's not necessarily true. We experience vision as a unified whole as well, but we have a blind spot as well. How would you argue that consciousness is a seamless whole and not ju
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by fifnir 6y ago
You might also want to have some more proofreading done. I cought this "[..]Nat get's a good[..]" 5 seconds into your page
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by fifnir 6y ago
That will just incentivize companies to pay better salaries. Let the market decide what job positions are worth existing
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by fifnir 6y ago
The one beauty I can attribute to polykatoikies is the balconies. They are often filled with plants (at least my parents kept it that way) which makes for your little private oasis in the mess that is Athens. Neoclassicals don't have t
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by fifnir 6y ago
The reds are coming, run!
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by fifnir 7y ago
The guardian has all their content free and aggressively asks you to subscribe. Maybe there's more to their finances that I don't know about but they seem to be doing well.
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by fifnir 7y ago
I think the guardian and wikipedia have a good working model
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by fifnir 7y ago
They're fools to not make all their content free anyway. I'd only pay for a service I use a lot. How am I gonna develop the habit of using your page a lot if every time I open an article of yours I'm blocked? I'll just g
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by fifnir 7y ago
"Well it's their choice to be uninsured, if they wanted medical insurance there's a lot of options in the market" guyputtingonclownmakeup.jpg
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by fifnir 7y ago
NY private banks lend money to Mississippi banks. At some later point, the global market crashes and NY ""suddenly discovers"" that Mississippi officials lied about the state's finances. NY now wants their money bac
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by fifnir 7y ago
> What happened in Greece instead was that only the borrowers suffered, the lenders got all their money back. Even worse, it'll be the borrower's children who will suffer the consequences.
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by fifnir 7y ago
I want you to explain to me in what situation such a lender could ever have a loss. I want you to explain to me why it's reasonable that the lender makes profits when things go right, but the public has to take the loss when things go

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