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by mediumdeviation 9y ago
But those are product logo, not icons https://imgur.com/a/4kAKt . They don't serve the same purpose - logos are brand assets and are suppose to be distinct, otherwise they can't be trademarked.
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Why are crime victims being jailed?(bbc.com)
157 points by mediumdeviation 9y ago|89 comments
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
>> having an agent buy their tickets/hotels so it looked like a local was going instead of the BBC? It is not legal, no. Travel on railway and plane and booking hotels all require you to present your ID, as is signing up for a mo
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They Have, Right Now, Another You(nybooks.com)
2 points by mediumdeviation 10y ago|0 comments
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
Economics is not called the dismal science for nothing
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
> To China and Iran - facebook is a "disruptive community." To use reddit's language. There is a vast difference between the government banning you and reddit banning you (which they are not actually doing here, but for th
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
Custom HTML tags are valid HTML. Note the requirements for custom tags to always include a '-' in their names. This distinguishes custom tags from native ones. https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#valid-custom-element-n
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
You're conflating two things here - the instrument, which is the survey, and the data it is measuring - the MBTI. Even if we assume the MBTI itself is accurate - that is, it is possible to categorize the entire human race into 16 disti
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
Actually what happens in China is that homegrown tech companies will take over the market space left by Western ones, which the government is perfectly happy to let happen because 1. It keeps the tech industry domestic 2. The servers are ph
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
Cross-origin window.opener objects are not full window objects. You can test this out on any browser - the most they can do is what the articles you linked to says - redirect the parent window, which can be used for phishing, but is otherwi
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
"Bing" as it is commonly pronounced in English doesn't exist in the Chinese language. Words with the pinyin 'bing' does, but saying it means 'disease' in mandarin is somewhat disingenuous, because it could
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
The taxi stops are there simply for the convenience of drivers and people looking for taxis. Taxis can still stop and pick up passengers anywhere cars are allowed to stop (double yellow line).
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
So I'm not really sure what happened, but I couldn't read the article because the page ate up more than 1.5GB of RAM on Firefox and caused it to peg an entire core at 100% utilization http://i.imgur.com/j3q686E.png
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
The template being inline is a bug, not a feature in my opinion. You can actually write arbitrary templates into HTML using <script type='text/template'> (or really any type other than 'javascript'), and with
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
The FTSE 250, which is more representative of domestic companies instead of large multinationals[1] is still down more than 7%. https://www.google.com/finance?q=INDEXFTSE:MCX [1]: http://moneyweek.com/ftse-1
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
It's useful for highlighting how useless these poll results actually are for policy making, because people have a propensity to hold opinions on things they have absolutely no knowledge of.
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
> Just expand it as part of the nutrition label. The size of the nutritional label is not infinite. The number of potential labels is. More importantly, by labeling GMO, you're simultaneously implying that there may be something uns
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
Wait, are you Peter Molyneux the game designer of Fable fame, or do you just happen to have the same name?
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
It seems you're correct. Specifically, disabling this rule from the inspector instantly fixes the performance issue. .widewrapper.main { box-shadow: inset 1px 3px 1px -2px #ababab; }
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
Actually, checking if a font is available does not require canvas (you can simply inject a piece of text into the page with a specific font stack set and check its width). Rather, what canvas is used for is to obtain the sub-pixel anti-alia
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
> A 301 redirect from www.longbets.org/601 to a different URL containing that text would also fulfill those [winning] conditions. The bet (and the referenced article) is about the availability of the resources at the end of those UR
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
> Some websites require JavaScript to display images nowadays. What's wrong with <img>? Because trifecta of retina (hi-dpi) displays, responsive design (use the same code for both mobile and desktop) and miserly bandwidth caps
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
What you're suggesting won't work. The problem is that a lot of pages require their resources to be loaded in a specific order. The C in CSS stands for cascading, and means that rules that are loaded later override earlier ones (i
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
I would think you're too quick to dismiss the number of philosophers of religion, humanists and naturalists, many of whom are experts in the 'field' of religion, as you call it.
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
That's funny, because in 2014 the BBC was admonished by independent reviewers for giving too much airtime to climate change deniers under their 'too rigid' impartiality guidelines [1]. From the Telegraph [2] > The BBC’s de
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
Are you sure making things wider actually makes it easier to read? Very long lines have make it hard for your eyes to track the start of the next line when you've reached the end of one. This is backed up by solid research, and is the
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
It's a reference to Steve Job's infamous "You're holding it wrong" response[1] to complaints of iPhone 4's signal failing when held in a certain manner. [1]: http://www.engadget.com/2010/06
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
This is... I can't even. The lack of quantifiers is because I'm on a phone, and your claims are extreme. I'm not going to dignify all of them with a respond - a lot of the claims are hyperbolical and ridiculous. > How much
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
This is possibly one of the funniest things I've read on the Internet today. You're absolutely right. By the sound of it they could be tyrants on power trips. On the other hand I think the world would be a much better place if all
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by mediumdeviation 10y ago
Singapore follows the British Westminister parliamentary system, which places no term limit on the Prime Minister. That is true for most other countries that follows the same system, like Australia and Canada. None of those countries are ru

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