ossyrial

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by ossyrial 2y ago
I believe Fairphone used to ship models with LineageOS out of the box—their new models optionally ship /e/OS, which I'm not familiair with but seems similar on the surface.
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by ossyrial 2y ago
It wouldn't, but 23andme keeping DNA data means that they would easily be able to deal with the lawsuit in this hypothetical scenario.
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by ossyrial 2y ago
> There's really no such thing. Which, in my opinion, is a fantastic argument against the death penalty. "Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal o
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by ossyrial 2y ago
There is an alternative to such regulation though. In the Netherlands, all registrars are required to support automatic transfer between registrars. You can lookup your "transfer code", which you can enter at a new registrar, and
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by ossyrial 2y ago
Thanks, I see and agree.
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by ossyrial 2y ago
> [...] the Netherlands, [...] for example require a prescription for anything more complicated than reading glasses. I have never needed a prescription to get (non-reading) glasses in the Netherlands. In fact, there are webshops where y
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by ossyrial 2y ago
> Moderation is what happens here on HN: Admins have some policies to keep the conversation on track, users voluntarily submit to them. What do you mean by users voluntarily submitting to these policies? This distinction seems key in you
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by ossyrial 2y ago
> The article is assuming 1 reactor per plant for the Netherlands. Small addition that isn't mentioned in the English version of the article, but only in the original Dutch version: the article talks specifically about the Borssele
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by ossyrial 2y ago
> Google is a big ass company and enjoys outsized market share because people choose to use it. If this were true, Google could make the immediate and easy decision to increase their annual profits by $26 billion , by simply stopping to
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by ossyrial 2y ago
I'm not sure one problem is easier to fix than the other. They both seem to come from people acting irresponsibly to arrive earlier at their destination, probably combined with an infrastructure to nudge towards that behaviour. Changin
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by ossyrial 2y ago
The author links to the somewhat dystopian blog where the email sender is quite proud of their work. Their words (or perhaps that of an LLM): > Could an AI agent craft compelling emails that would capture people's attention and driv
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by ossyrial 2y ago
He is sharing a quote from a religious book, it makes sense to cite it, no? If they quoted the Qur'an, a Buddhist Sutra, a piece by Kahlil Gibran, or a quote by Adam Smith, I would all expect a citation to be honest. A few comments aro
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by ossyrial 2y ago
> If this were a determining factor, it would be part of real estate listings. It is part of real estate listings in the Netherlands, and it very much affects the value of the building. https://www.tilburguniversity.edu/n
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by ossyrial 2y ago
> It just seems really far fetched to me if you were to apply this logic to other industries- eg “movie theaters must let you play any movie, not just the movies they want!” Or “movie theaters must allow you to bring your own popcorn or
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by ossyrial 3y ago
> I particularly liked how all the Congresspeople involved in writing that the government couldn't negotiate drug prices into Medicare Part D immediately retired and went to work for the drug industry. Wow that is wild. Could you sh
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by ossyrial 4y ago
Yep it's something with white skin, see [0]. Generally the whiter the skin the easier you burn, which has health risks (skin cancer, faster aging). [0]: https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/reports/wxfacts/The-UV-I
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by ossyrial 5y ago
Heh, I made something just like it, https://slitdecision.com/ Disclaimer: I have no background in physics at all. I saw this universe splitter and read "Anxiety is the Dizziness of Freedom" (Science-Fiction novell