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Markoff
2,755karma·3,271submissions·December 31, 2016
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I'm not Russian, don't even speak Russian, just liked John Markoff in 90s.
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No paywall link:
https://archive.ph/EqJJZ "Mr. Back and Satoshi shared many of the same writing tics.
We collected the archives of three internet mailing lists where Cypherpunks …
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this was not really an issue before food delivery apps came into fashion btw. kids up until certain age can pretty much in all countries ride bike legally on sidewalk, are there any countries where 8y…
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it is quote common family name in Czechia, my daughter's classmate has this family name as well same with most of the Japanese car brands or even Citroen, Peugeot...
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I'd like this for subway escalator sounds, I loved one somewhere in Prague city center which made exactly Sicario soundtrack rhytm.
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Rules for everyone except Epstein coalition I guess.
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exactly, it's very naive some folks fall for this China invading Taiwan narrative, just look what happened with Hong Kong, it had size of like 30% of Chinese economy (when they took over), which …
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> It just rubs me the wrong way to have to play approval roulette with some bored jerk working for Apple or Google. I've had both reject things that were previously alright, then weren't,…
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> A lot of older people rely on yougins for tech support not because they have to, but because it's easy learned helplessness. Already as young guy in 20's I've found this also works…
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TBH it's pretty much synonyms nowadays web app/website=desktop, app=smartphone
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> [Conflict] Avoidance is really prevalent in people nowadays Nowadays? Fight Club was joking about it quarter century ago. Relevant clip: https://youtu.be/WWNrPCakd2I?si=tOaYgRd3g…
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what's wrong with Cromite or Ultimatum on Android or Vivaldi on desktop? FF is both on desktop and mobile inferior product with devs hating their own users
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Firefox + uBlock Origin on smartphone and desktop = no ads (though I personally prefer Vivaldi on desktop, but for simplicity just recommend Firefox) SmartTube on Android TV has no ads and skip sponso…
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as I said it's excluding external central heating which covers also hot water for shower, so it always comes down what you use for heating to compare, someone use gas, someone electricity and som…
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dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598378
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what if you don't want to connect it to grid and use it in islanding mode? seems like it shouldn't be anyone's business
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are you running bitcoin farm or cook and heat with electricity with 100 eur monthly bill? my yearly consumption for whole household of 4 people is around 1.2MWh (gas cooking, and external grid central…
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Odd, I have two kids and never owned a car, so I dont think this study results work for me.
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that's crazy, state kindergarten cost like 50-60EUR here in Czechia, private ones start around 400EUR
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*in the US Not in Europe.
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looking forward to this movie, hasn't seen him in really good movie where he would play lead since TPBTP though not sure I liked TPBTP more than Drive, Half Nelson, The United States of Leland or…
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Is it even a theft if I watch publically available unlocked IPTV streams? I mean if they don't want people without paid access to watch them they should protect them with unique logins/passw…
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> but I'm extremely skeptical of the notion that people don't realize they're buying something illegal when they're paying a small percentage of what the services themselves wou…
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honestly if you pay to pirate, you kinda deserve it (same with the Plex share and Kodi guys), I have so many IPTV streams available for free, there is no time for me to watch them all, I can watch F1 …
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parent said clearly he is not visiting there because if these reasons, he is clearly not a local
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Nobody cares about your phone in China, if you are tourist, you are less likely have your phone searched than when visiting US. Nobody is going to ask you for your social media profiles when visiting …