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Title edited from "Markiplier’s ‘Iron Lung’ Removed From Box Office Charts, Returns Making 7x Its Budget"
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> There's also people who rely on the USPS for prescriptions PostNord has stopped delivering letters in Denmark, not everything.
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>Women's sizing is so dumb. They could just provide inches or cm like they do for the men, but for some reason (well for marketing reasons, as discussed extensively in the article), they use t…
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Context for others: < https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/the-breakfast-question >…
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>Isn't that a similar process to the US? Basically the currently ruling party gets to pick the supreme court judges. The US Senate must approve all federal judges (among many federal posts, in…
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If AGI can be defined as meeting the general intelligence of a Redditor, we hit ASI a while ago. Highly relevant comment < https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments…
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>Case in point: the way the Supreme Court plays politics in the US. Ah yes, since controversy over how judges decide only exists in the US. In any case, you're confusing cause and effect. The …
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>countless IRC servers were maintained by volunteers Most of those IRC servers ran on university networks. (So did most IRC clients, until the late 1990s.)
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>Also as a sidenote this is even within America a kind of revisionist history, the 20th century had plenty of broadcasting and licensing rules. The FCC regulates airwaves (and thus broadcast statio…
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Oh, sure, I learned a long time ago that Reddit is a very reliable anti-indicator. But given that HN isn't nearly as bad (but there are moments), it's still strange that people would just re…
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https://lex.mit.edu/ https://lids.mit.edu/people/research-staff …
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A lot of people believe that Fridman is not affiliated with MIT even though the university says it is. < https://lex.mit.edu/ > It's a recurring thing in the Talk page for th…
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> Same with that "MIT" interviewer who wasn't even at MIT. Lex Fridman is a research scientist at MIT. < https://web.mit.edu/directory/?id=lexfridman&d=mit…
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Title edited by me from "The World’s Least Affordable Cities Revealed—and U.S. Tech Hub Is Named as Hardest Place To Buy a Home"
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>This has been on my to-buy list for a while. While I agree that SuperDuper! is worth buying, it is free to use for whole-disk backup/cloning. The paid version enables smart copying (that is, …
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There is no legality to debate. As of 2003 there is a DMCA exemption for "computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete". <…
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No. As of 2003 there is a DMCA exemption for "computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete". < https://en.wikip…
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>Cracking this dongle; wouldn't this be a federal offence in the US? No. As of 2003 there is a DMCA exemption for "computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfun…