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11,869karma·4,855submissions·March 1, 2014
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The terms of what that $100 went to were updated last month... https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/news/trump-mobile-t1-sma... The terms, updated April 6, state that the de…
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https://youtu.be/M0S3a32RzEo with David Tennant as Crowley. It's a well done scene that is properly faithful to the original.…
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A shout out for BBEdit which is a 34 year old Mac native text editor that maintains a freemium license (and the free version is still quite featureful). It doesn’t suck.® I've maintained my copy …
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Specifically in the area of copyright, there's a significant distinction between UK and US law. The UK works under the "sweat of the brow" doctrine for copyright. https://en…
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I've got an anecdote that says that they don't . If I'm looking at a certain color of green illumination and then cover one eye then the other, my perception of that color shifts sligh…
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A degree is passing the test. Not all degree programs get into more advanced topics nor do they necessarily require that someone is able to work through how to solve a problem that they haven't …
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Back many years ago, yes... and I recently stumbled across it again in a Henry Segerman video about expanding racks in three dimensions https://youtu.be/NEJZlGuWGV8 …
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I'd love to play with fischertechnik again... https://www.fischertechnik.de/en/industry-and-universities -- Factorio on a shelf would be neat (but "request quote" …
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Check out a chemistry book from the library? Buy a copy of the 30th printing of the Anarchist Cookbook from Amazon (and should Amazon apologize for selling it)? At what point is one building a survei…
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On the visual design traits... I'm primarily a backend developer. Most of my work has been in serving json or occasionally xml. Spring Shell in Java is something that I'm closer to working…
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The tik-tok psychic defamation case would likely be better comparison (which is on par with Depp v. Heard). She defamed an innocent college professor about committing murder based on tarot card readi…
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Satire doesn't always have to be "ha ha" funny. They've got plenty of that material. As mass shootings became more and more common as a news satire site they felt that they couldn&…
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> Unlike Jones, who at literally every step of the legal process thumbed his nose at the court, including, at one point, attempting to boycott the process outright. Legal Eagle and the commentary o…
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> Idk what the Sandy Hook shooting has to do with this, the Onion has been around for much longer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_... > 'N…
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The context for those print subscribers is that this isn't a "had the subscription since the 2010s" They discontinued their print edition in 2013. Those 65,000 subscriptions are all peo…
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Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27No_Way_to_Prevent_This,%27_... https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-onion-became-one-of-th... ( https://archiv…
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I believe its because its a different structure. Previously, they were trying to buy the assets outright. That got into the "one group of families is owned $1.4 billion and another is owned $5…
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Unlocked link for the NYT article: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/business/infowars-alex-jo... …
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> So I can't help but wonder whether schools are going about this all wrong. Rather than banning the use of AI and trying to catch students who are cheating, why aren't they creating scho…
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Sun On Privacy : Get Over It (1999) https://web.archive.org/web/20171008211256/https://www.wired... …
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Clearly you want to buy a replica Chewbacca cosplay outfit.
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Would going for the bitcoin puzzle wallets be a better demonstration of "it's broken" without needing to do anything fancy? https://btcpuzzle.info/ If all of them went …
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As a profession (and under time constraints) ... Tom Scott : How the US Postal Service reads terrible handwriting - https://youtu.be/XxCha4Kez9c Part of the story is that the OCR that…
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It's reference in The Codeless Code - https://thecodelesscode.com/case/234
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> And to be fair, we did lost the "technology" of memorization. We are not capable to create easy to remember texts, because we are not trying to. One of the more impressive Taskmaster (B…
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The decline of writing is something that's been going on for a long time. Well written and grammatically correct emails are something that's been on the down turn. Consider how often peo…
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A college instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work and teach life lessons - https://apnews.com/article/typewriter-ai-cheating-chatgpt-co... The scene is righ…
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If your credit card is current. One of the "oh, this gets into trouble" is when you do a 10 year registration paid in advance and the credit card on file expires before the auto-renewal tim…
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The bit that I wasn't entirely sold on with his analysis was that he was working on 1 satellite per rack https://youtu.be/FlQYU3m1e80?si=nUMhO-lDny_VpG0D&t=1065 (YouTube auto…