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by nsns 8y ago
There's a certain common expectation one has from any UI. This doesn't exist for me with anything Google - be it search, Youtube, Android, etc. - my first thought is always 'I'll need to fight it to get the results I&#x2
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Historiography of the Fall of the Western Roman Empire(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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Das ist das Leak(sueddeutsche.de)
2 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 10y ago
Firstly, on a personal note, I must say getting heavily downvoted on a factual statement and not an opinion is a new and confusing experience for me. My comparisons were made several years ago using LAME 320 CBR, LAME VBR, OGG, lossless (WA
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by nsns 10y ago
It all depends on how sensitive you are to these things, I've done such blind tests, and to my ears the fall in quality was significant, even painful.
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by nsns 10y ago
Doesn't work anymore. At least not outside the US.
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by nsns 10y ago
Perhaps we could, by adopting the way Firefox, Wikipedia, Internet Archive et al . operate.
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Wingsuit flying's most deadly summer leads to soul searching(theguardian.com)
1 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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Hanjin Shipping bankruptcy causes turmoil in global sea freight(theguardian.com)
2 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 10y ago
Unless, of course, they are aware of it and try to subvert it by consciously modifying "their body shape characteristics and motion patterns".
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by nsns 10y ago
I have a taste for the secret, it clearly has to do with not-belonging; I have an impulse or fear or terror in the face of a political space, for example, a public space that makes no room for the secret. For
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Alphabet unveils robot dog capable of cleaning the house(theguardian.com)
8 points by nsns 10y ago|3 comments
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by nsns 10y ago
Well, I think there's something deeper going on here; the strength of the nation as a juridical entity has been seriously weakened; rich multinationals - corporations and individuals alike - are no longer bound by it, refugees are an o
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by nsns 10y ago
Farm animals
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by nsns 10y ago
Slightly OT: out of curiosity, anyone knows what's being used for legal Euthanasia, e.g. in the Netherlands?
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by nsns 10y ago
You could call it the "Sunday effect".
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Poor Lonely Computer: Prince's Misunderstood Relationship with the Internet(npr.org)
2 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 10y ago
From the Reddit comment linked by rybosome below: > Some have questioned why no companies such as Boeing, Lockheed Martin, or SpaceX have attempted to investigate the device, but regardless of how likely these companies find the results
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We are the investigative journalists who worked on the Panama Papers AMA(reddit.com)
1 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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A tiny forest tribe built a DIY drone from YouTube to fight off illegal loggers(qz.com)
4 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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Whisky: The Past and the Possible(whiskysponge.com)
2 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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How newsroom pressure is letting fake stories on to the web(theguardian.com)
2 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 10y ago
Aren't votes supposed to be anonymous?
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by nsns 10y ago
I've learned there's always a(n associative) trail of comments (sometimes from more than on thread) leading to such apparently random posts.
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Leader: Tax and the social contract(newstatesman.com)
2 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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Data journalism is changing the balance of power #PanamaPapers(medium.com)
2 points by nsns 10y ago|0 comments
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by nsns 10y ago
But what if the common folk in each nation finally realizes its national leaders have become, in essence, multinationals, just like Google and Amazon, with all that this entails regarding their actual agendas and worldview?
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by nsns 10y ago
I think all this talk about the legality of using such services misses the point. It's about legitimacy, especially that of state leaders. While the western media might try to use it to delegitimize some non-western leaders, the leak a
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by nsns 10y ago
Strange, nothing about it on NYT.
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by nsns 10y ago
In the end, it still takes a single election to take him and his party down, I have faith in Turkish people, they did it before to others, they will do it to him as well. But didn't this just happen? https:/&#

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