thfuran

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by thfuran 3d ago
Do they do the same spying on the models/units produced for sale in EU? It’s not actually a necessary part of the operation of the device, so it makes sense they’d be able to sell them without it.
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by thfuran 3d ago
There’s no reason that sort of compliance needs an HOA. Most places already have building codes enforced by mandatory government inspections for major renovations.
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by thfuran 4d ago
It still does.
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by thfuran 4d ago
If casual use of profane and taboo words isn't offensive, are they really profane and taboo?
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by thfuran 4d ago
But it doesn't, strictly speaking, have to stop going. The bottom floor could be removed and placed at the top.
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by thfuran 6d ago
You can still buy physical media online, though an increasing portion of movies and shows are produced by the streaming companies, and you don’t really have an alternative there.
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by thfuran 6d ago
Are you saying that nothing has ever gotten worse or just nothing in the last twenty years?
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by thfuran 6d ago
Driving a big van sucks though, even in the US.
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by thfuran 11d ago
Let’s be clear though: all of those other things are probably wrong too.
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by thfuran 16d ago
Also, marriage doesn’t imply children.
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by thfuran 17d ago
It’s three letters, one of which is common to all the extra options. Are your coworkers really impressed by this?
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by thfuran 23d ago
0.2% is significantly lower than the property tax rate I pay on my house, and taxing vacant property seems like a good idea to try to disincentivize inefficient use of limited urban real estate.
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by thfuran 24d ago
That is not true in any but the most literal sense.
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by thfuran 24d ago
And they make a constant shrieking sound.
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by thfuran 25d ago
>The answer is in shifting trade away from the US and isolating their economy. Don’t tariffs on imports from US help speed that along?
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by thfuran 25d ago
I’m a software engineer, and my job is so easy for the pay it’s ridiculous. I assure you, I do not work 5-10x harder than the guys who just installed my fence.
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by thfuran 26d ago
I'm not exactly that you mean by "new to the system", but it seems to me that that definition makes a calculator intelligent, which I can't agree with.
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by thfuran 27d ago
For the same reason they'd want copyright on anything else.
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by thfuran 27d ago
You’re saying people shouldn’t be taught how to add and subtract?
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by thfuran 27d ago
It’s certainly true that an adult would tend to have more additional knowledge and be better able to understand a lot of writing, but if you avoid exposing kids to anything they don’t have total understanding of the context of, you won’t re
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by thfuran 28d ago
>Delhi’s air pollution equivalent to smoking 50 cigarettes Per day, which for some reason the headline didn’t include. Two packs a day is a pretty terrible baseline. At least it’s not addictive.
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by thfuran 1mo ago
In the US, I think it would require a revolution at this point. In the EU it might be viable.
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by thfuran 1mo ago
Sure, rust has better memory safety than most languages, but it also has a strong enough type system that many other kinds of programming errors won't pass compilation.
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by thfuran 1mo ago
Phones were getting too thin anyways.
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by thfuran 2mo ago
As far as I know, the UK styles that recommend spaced dashes are using en dashes where US English would use em dashes, and the ones that actually use em dashes, like Cambridge or Oxford, are unspaced.
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by thfuran 2mo ago
MLA and APA as well as Chicago.
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by thfuran 2mo ago
I think offsetting the em dash with spaces is contrary to almost every style guide.
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by thfuran 2mo ago
I think parenthesis are ideal for a parenthetical aside.
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by thfuran 2mo ago
>"cool snap shot system you got there, id hate for it to be use to take a bunch of incremental snap shots with specific notes attached to each one. Why don't you let me bundle those all together real purdy like and no one has t
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by thfuran 2mo ago
If AI is better at being (or simulating; I think the distinction is irrelevant in this context) curious, better at examining that curiosity, better at pursuing it to discovery, better at applying the discoveries, better at sharing the disco

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