peteretep

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by peteretep 5y ago
Exactly that. The tech seems fine, but I live in a country with a government that has strong censorship laws, and I do not trust Apple to not bend to countries like China in extending this to political content.
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by peteretep 5y ago
Whether or not someone will click on the title of an article
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by peteretep 5y ago
It worked pretty well for Thailand, a country with 3k of land borders that people can and do walk across. Delta seems to have changed the calculus though
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by peteretep 5y ago
> it very likely escaped Do you have a source for “very likely”? I’m at “plausibly escaped from” so far and would be interested in evidence that changes that in either direction.
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Also, the article title is clickbaity weird, why should people wonder if a common slur against a nationality from 3 centuries ago was true today? The publication is a (very nicely written) right-wing rag for Little Englanders who want
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by peteretep 5y ago
I had been very, very excited to start semaglutide, but about eight weeks ago I picked up a CBT-based eating book called The Beck Diet Solution and I’ve so far found it very very effective
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by peteretep 5y ago
It’s all bullshit marketing until someone is accepting payments for goods priced in crypto.
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by peteretep 5y ago
Perhaps, but OnlyFans will always be a porn site in consumer imaginations moving forward. Nobody’s going to put their wholesome knitting content on there moving forward
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by peteretep 5y ago
Becoming a magician https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/becoming-a...
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Often Codex will write code that looks right at first glance, but actually has subtle errors.
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by peteretep 5y ago
> what are they doing to secure online payments? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-D_Secure
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by peteretep 5y ago
Finding Argentina on the list of trading partners of this considerably closer place is tricky... https://oec.world/en/profile/country/flk
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Easy trade with Argentina Doubt it, given that they claim it
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Yes but it doesn't explain why we've allowed people to willingly not get flu vaccines Would you believe that that's _exactly_ the kind of things that Public Health professionals and academics _do_ debate and try and expl
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by peteretep 5y ago
Never going to happen, but yes, I’d love to see the NHS sue the people who didn’t get the vaccine and didn’t have an exemption for costs.
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by peteretep 5y ago
> So why can't we vaccinated let them reap the consequences of their irresponsible actions? Would you believe there’s literally an entire field of study about this called “Public Health”? You can do a Masters in it and everything
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by peteretep 5y ago
> It just turned every outing into a chore I’ve been in countries with outdoor mask mandates almost since the start of this thing, and I don’t really understand this. How has it become a chore? Don’t you just pick up a mask from a pack o
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by peteretep 5y ago
I mean he properly leans into it in later comments too, so I don’t think it’s meant to be underhanded, just plainly aggressive
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Tesseract.js wraps an emscripten port of the Tesseract OCR Engine Calling this “pure JavaScript” seems misleading
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by peteretep 5y ago
No, the Crown does. Liz Windsor’s personal wealth is (probably) closer to £300m
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by peteretep 5y ago
I am executing a residency change to Bulgaria at the moment, in no small part for the taxes
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by peteretep 5y ago
Many countries do, and losing your tax residency in a country of which you’re a citizen and have been recently resident is a pain — check out the UK statutory residency tests for example. That said, it _is_ possible to lose your tax residen
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by peteretep 5y ago
"the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 96% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses; the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is 92% effective against hospitalisation after 2 doses" https://www.gov.uk/government/news&#x
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by peteretep 5y ago
Also the description "facial ID authentication systems". An accurate headline would be "we were able to confuse some open-source face recognition systems"
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by peteretep 5y ago
> The older I get the more every authority figure everywhere leaves me alone The less the world in general messes with me, and it's by far the best thing about getting older.
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by peteretep 5y ago
> That Can Bypass Over 40% Of Facial ID Authentication Systems Turns out to actually mean "three CNN-based face descriptors: SphereFace, FaceNet and Dlib", which best I can tell are two academic projects and an open-source libr
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by peteretep 5y ago
I think you’re right, but I think this will change
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by peteretep 5y ago
> Would he actually know or have a way to find out why Macron secrets are being traded to Pegasus clients, or even reign in the spyware industry at all? I don’t think this would pass muster as an excuse if Israeli industry had been selli
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by peteretep 5y ago
Having a common name they’ve heard before helps to some degree here, but also there’s a Thai way of saying it and woe-betide you if you don’t say it the Thai way… My favourite Thai pronunciation is the common Thai nickname “Apple” which is
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by peteretep 5y ago
Chris, we’re good. As others have pointed out, sometimes an edgy joke gets an edgy response.

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