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What model number? How color accurate is your printer for photos?

> I also did and still suffer from massive pain caused from most in ear headphones, even the recent AirPods with adjustable silicone tips I use sparingly and never more than a hour…

Visa and (to an extent) Mastercard have been known to block transactions from their foreign-issued credit cards to digital Suica and PASMO cards. US issued Amex and Discover cards …

G&L is no more as of last year. Fender acquired the Leo Fender name and potentially a whole host of other IP from the now defunct company, which may or may not include guitar desig…

Which ones? Who were you working with? How did you get published? Did you do any Toonami games?

Yes. Amsterdam has one of the largest IXPs (AMS-IX) in Europe and is also one of the largest European markets for Internet Infrastructure services (i.e. hosting, DNS provision, dom…

This isn't good reasoning. According to your analysis, any website, ISP, or hosting provider that uses a firewall or Cloudflare is by definition a publisher, since they algorithmic…

Since you're now focusing on the AT protocol, will E2EE/OTR become a priority?

That's the issue with most RSS client I've used. The feeds are portable but the data and metadata aren't. I wish there was a permanent solution to this problem.

Jstor is an information database provider that that specializes in the republication of academic journal articles. The web is the company's delivery mechanism, not the defining tra…

Jstor is a tech company?

> Despite its history, it’s still a valid example of an exception to the First Amendment under current law. It's not. The current standard, set by Brandenburg v. Ohio, forbids spee…

If you don't mind answering, what exactly was this particular passion of yours? > There's a certain beyond which you don't build things because it's evident that society can't be t…

> Good thing following memes to their ultimate conclusion is a ridiculous proposition. If the conclusion of a meme is ridiculous, it stands to reason that the claim it makes is sim…

Morality requires agency and conscious agreement. A machine/device doesn't choose to be made or operated nor can it act against its maker/operator any more than rocks can act again…

The "torment nexus" is just as reductionist a claim. It is almost always an ad hominem selectively invoked under arbitrary standards. If one consistently follows the argument raise…

What gave you the idea to write a graphic novel in the first place? What's your workflow?

Define "drive". Correlation is not causation. It's difficult to anticipate the trigger for a particular action or choice when other circumstances or stressors may have more signifi…

> When I was in my early 20s I used to think I was very clever for pointing out apparent hypocrisies. Now I realize how easily that devolves into “you are imperfect therefore you m…

> I've heard others say this (and was a "loyal advocate" of Windows for around 2 decades myself), but the reality is they simply do not care. You are merely a single user out of se…

> This is the exact kind of thinking that leads to this in the first place. The idea that a human relationship is, in the end, just about what YOU can get from it. That it's just s…

A few questions: How much did you pay for the house? How much rennovation did it need? Are you working remotely there? How did you acquire a house in an area that's less accommodat…

"Bad" people can still have good ideas or well-thought arguments. It happens often enough to have become became a clichéd meme. https://clickhole.com/heartbreaking-the-worst-person…

> People who don't have kids, or only limited experience with kids, declaring that parents are neglecting or abusing their children because they don't behave the way the hypothetic…

Lax zoning regulations, relatively cheap labor, low cost of materials, and depreciating home values incentivize building new real estate. That is what separates Tokyo from New York…