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by zsz 3y ago
I'm not saying this with any certainly, just suggesting that it's a possibility: in the early days of cell phone service, people had to pay a fixed amount for each SMS sent (and, I believe, received as well)--perhaps $.1, or so, p
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by zsz 3y ago
This is quite a surprise. Germany is currently reeling from poor economic conditions including high inflation rates, skyrocketing energy costs, a measure of pessimistic disillusionment vis-a-vis their elected leadership, etc. This is also r
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by zsz 3y ago
I've run into problems repeatedly when it came to DP cables. The issue is always the same: lack of enforcement and no barrier to entry allows for too many entrants, whose motives are up to consumers to discern, wasting time and money i
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by zsz 3y ago
Although I confess I haven't completely kept up with this development (meaning, what I am about to say may be entirely due to my own lack of relevant knowledge in this case), I have noticed that there are occasional references made to
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by zsz 3y ago
Interestingly, race relations were at their peak in 2008. The trends of seeing racism everywhere and reading it into everything, people's personal views (notably, those of minority respondents, many of whom viewed race relations in far
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by zsz 3y ago
A very similar event happened to me in the beginning of this year, involving the USPS (rather than the UPS). Actually, it was on the 5th of January, come to think of it. Instead of clicking on the link in the SMS, I visited the page on my c
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by zsz 3y ago
All Affinity software (AFAIK) these days makes extensive use of 3D graphics hardware. The problems you're experiencing may be due to insufficient systems memory, or perhaps insufficient video memory. The reason I'm suggesting this
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by zsz 3y ago
Affinity was accepting and incorporating so much feedback from users like myself after releasing version 1 of their software suite--which were subsequently added to incremental versions that were free of charge, up to v1.8X IIRC--that I for
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by zsz 3y ago
There is not a single person in existence, who would reasonably (or otherwise) insist that China should not have their own domestic, organically developed semiconductor industry. When you see initiatives such as described in this article (s
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by zsz 3y ago
I wanted to say that what you say seems to confirm your claim regarding your past. But the last thing you stated makes me wonder. It's not that I'm calling you a liar; it's just that you seem to gloss over one of the most imp
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by zsz 3y ago
It's not a matter of "deserve" and "right to." What use is having a site, that places an artificial hurdle for no acceptable reason? What use is having visitors rage-close the tab they opened for one's website,
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by zsz 3y ago
It's a bit ironic, that most of the text on that site is too small to read on a smartphone, for my aging eyes.
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by zsz 3y ago
..."irregardless," anyone? :-)
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by zsz 3y ago
Given how well the porn industry does regardless of the rest of the economy, it would be interesting to see how they would do if a sizeable portion of "users" actually paid for their services. Enterprising individuals might consid
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by zsz 3y ago
If you're from the US, then they're the same thing. For the average person (again, from the US), it means an inflation rate more directly coupled to money supply (i.e. the opposite of how it was in the past; some of this is of cou
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by zsz 3y ago
It was the Greens who campaigned throughout the 80s and beyond to instill irrational fear in German kids in the 80s, so they would opt for an impulsive solution, instead of a rational one in subsequent decades. It was always the Greens whos
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by zsz 3y ago
They've no more "reproduced" his copyrighted content, than a student studying photography or other art did, when they saw the picture online and made a mental note to imitate aspects of what they thought made the content inte
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by zsz 3y ago
Population replacement rate is 2.1 children per woman--meaning, in order for a population's size to remain the same, on average child births have to come out to 2.1 for every woman. All Western countries have been well below replacemen
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by zsz 3y ago
Moreover, omitting said qualifiers from the title manifestly falsifies the claim it makes.
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by zsz 3y ago
Disclaimer: I am unaffiliated with the developer/company/product mentioned below. When I was still on Windows 10, I used Start10. After...overwriting my Windows 10 image with Windows 11 (I needed WSL2 to operate my Seagate NAS&#x2
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by zsz 3y ago
I remember the day when the car I'd been driving in college finally broke down sufficiently that the various repairs exceeded the value of the car. By that time, I'd been working for well over a year, and my 18 mile / 25 minu
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by zsz 3y ago
Here is a bulleted GPT summary of the "Practical Validity" section of the "g factor" Wikipedia article ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics) ): -General intelligence (g) is the
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by zsz 3y ago
The Pacific, for one, meaning control of shipping lanes—and with these, economic/political leverage over Japan (which, as internal PLA documents for senior staff have already revealed, they intend to put to full use). Right now, China
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by zsz 3y ago
Apropos Lars von Trier's auteurist style, https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZfM1lkLuMI
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by zsz 3y ago
> I’m totally convinced that a new idea or a new plan or a new technique is never really understood when you just explain it. > People will often think they understand, and they’ll say they understand, but then their actions show that
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by zsz 4y ago
It's not as if it's a hard limit, and you become incapable of absorbing additional facts beyond a certain point. If anything, the human mind seems best adapted to ongoing learning, as it seems to store (and discard) information in
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by zsz 4y ago
Fortunately this will also make it more difficult for North Korea to employ compulsory labor of NK civilians in the EU, which is one of the principal contributing factors to the regime's continued ability to act as a source of instabil
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by zsz 4y ago
This demonstrates that a) in general, you love programming: when someone is seven years old and spends their time learning how to program, it's rarely because of an oppressive parent figure breathing down their neck; b) you don't
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by zsz 4y ago
That doesn't make any sense. How can spending hours and days doing something you love result in reducing the fun in it? It's like a child having a favorite video game, but then limiting the hours they spend on it, on the basis tha
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by zsz 4y ago
This person does not "love" programming, and statements like "Our uni doesn’t have any for actual coding courses" (in response to needing to solve more actual problems) or "I have purchased the clean code book that

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