liminvorous

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by liminvorous 3mo ago
The reason is roughly that there were devastating food shortages in the world wars, and avoiding that happening again has been an important force in Dutch politics since.
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by liminvorous 8mo ago
I don't believe UK social housing has any work requirements, it is just massively oversubscribed, such that you need to be very vulnerable to realistically be offered council housing. You do have to pay (below market rate) rent, so you
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by liminvorous 10mo ago
I believe 4chan is taking ofcom to court for trying to restrict their first amendment rights rather than blocking the UK, at least I'm still able to access it without a vpn.
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by liminvorous 1y ago
70% is by most measures, pretty close to 66% (2/3)...
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by liminvorous 2y ago
The point is not about whether video games should be exempt, it's about being able to tell whether they are covered by this law or not
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by liminvorous 2y ago
An atmosphere reduces the amount of fuel needed to land, because you can use aerobraking to slow down rather than carry fuel to do it. See the Apollo return capsule, which landed without any rockets, only parachutes and a heat shield.
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by liminvorous 2y ago
Do pre-paid plans not exist in the US?
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by liminvorous 2y ago
No one had built a nuclear bomb before the Manhattan project either.
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by liminvorous 2y ago
I've heard from a clinical psychologist and also from a bunch of people on the internet that the symptoms of BDP are often presented by (especially female) traumatized autists, and they run a high risk of being misdiagnosed with BDP. a
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by liminvorous 3y ago
I got a certificate error you might want to look into: > Web sites prove their identity via certificates. Firefox does not trust this site because it uses a certificate that is not valid for www.iso100mm.com. The certificate is only vali
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by liminvorous 3y ago
You can't halve the temperature of something by halving its measument in Celcius, because the celcius starts at some arbitary point above absolute zero. 50 degrees celcius is 86% as hot as the boiling point of water, not 50%.
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by liminvorous 3y ago
There have been some studies recently screening older people who grew up with more restrictive diagnostic criteria for autism that suggest that increasing rates of autism diagnosis are likely purely the result of changing diagnostic criteri
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by liminvorous 3y ago
You can't copyright a recipe, the thing reason it doesn't make sense for Pepsi to make an exact duplicate of coke is that Coke is better at selling Coke that Pepsi is, and it's better for them to be a niche alternative some p
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by liminvorous 3y ago
40 crashes per million flights has still got to be better than current road safety, at a very rough calculation the US for example had 128 road deaths per million people , which I'm admittedly not sure how to convert to make a fair
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by liminvorous 3y ago
I think rule 12 covers the vowel, and then rule 20 explains why it's sï+ not skï+ but I could be wrong about whether the vowel is a front vowel or not.
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by liminvorous 4y ago
The breakeven point seems to be around 50-100 uses depending on the exact kind of reusable bag, so you’re probably winning: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/grocery-bag-environmental...
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by liminvorous 4y ago
I don't think the internet can funciton as a public platform, which it both is and should continue to be, without allowing infrastucture providers to provide services without being selective in who they provide them to. Also the detail
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by liminvorous 4y ago
If you own the copyright to the application then you do not need a license to use it. The case where you would be violating a license would be if someone else owns the copyright to parts of the application, for example because you accepted
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by liminvorous 4y ago
On the other hand I am almost always annoyed at apps opening websites in SFSafariViewController, and would prefer to be able to completely disable it and have it always open in the real browser.
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by liminvorous 4y ago
They want to be able to process both the material they prototyped with and the material they started with (straw) and the material they tried to scale up with (corn cobs), and probably any kind of plant matter that has less structural integ
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by liminvorous 4y ago
They already do this in their Apps, e.g. gmail at least at one piont prompted you to install chrome whenever you tried to open a link in a browser.
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by liminvorous 4y ago
Gerrymandering is where you make sure all your districts are 51/49 in favor of you, and all your opositions are 90/10, so you get more representatives
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by liminvorous 4y ago
The ability to rely on another person's body to keep you alive is clearly a positive right if it exists, which I think no one believes in general, some but people believe in the specific case of pregnancy, because it's "natur
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by liminvorous 4y ago
I mean I basically want Apple to do this to any proprietary software and untrustworthy free software, I just want to be able to make an exception for trustworthy free software. Given what I use my phone for I’m happy enough with the current
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by liminvorous 4y ago
Whether computers count as ruthless depends on fine details of your definition of ruthless. If you mean the mental/emotional state necessary for a human to act without regard for consequences of their actions to other people, then comp
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by liminvorous 4y ago
I assume that's mostly complaints about the cable insulation rather than the connector. Lightning connectors do have the advantage you can safely stick a toothpick in them to remove lint, I don't know if lint building up inside th
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by liminvorous 4y ago
I believe some analytics frameworks used to send a silent push notification every day that made the app hit some endpoint, and becaues silent notifications can't be disabled that allowed them to measure uninstals. Apple may have fixed
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by liminvorous 4y ago
https://www.givedirectly.org/ is I think a fairly effective charity, admittedly I assume they mostly send money to people in non-war torn countries, but I think the point still holds, and just doing the moral equivalent of
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by liminvorous 4y ago
Solarpunk only really got started in the last years of Iain Banks' life, and is generally set closer to the near future. I can't really think of much in the way of ecological themes in the Culture novels, and all the special effec
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by liminvorous 4y ago
I think you’re just saying “I am not in the intended audience for this article”.

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