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RobotToaster

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    Comment #49243650

    Here's a (probably incomplete) list of ways they are user hostile https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Apple

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    Comment #49236321

    This just reinforces what I've always thought. I'm not worried about robot overlords, I'm worried about what our meatbag overlords will do with AI.

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    Comment #49230427

    > an item with 50,000 units across 10 locations would mean 500,000 rows I don't get it, Wouldn't that still only be 50,000 rows, just divided across locations?

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    Comment #49220805

    Who could have predicted that Microsoft building their own nuclear reactor would be the lesser evil.

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    Comment #49220790

    The irrigation plan was in response to the famine, and it worked, it was the last famine in the soviet union.

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    Comment #49212615

    haproxy-protection is an alternative.

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    Comment #49212505

    > Some browsers also intentionally detect attempts to do proof of work and attempt to block it entirely. Then they'd be blocking themselves from the website.

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    Comment #49209629

    Less than half of people who voted voted for Trump, and turnout was 64%. Being allowed to chose between two evils every few years isn't democracy.

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    Comment #49209509

    Nobody will care until the white house burns down (again)

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    Comment #49209427

    It's basically become a thought terminating cliche https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A...

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    Comment #49199682

    Out of the frying pan...

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    Comment #49197066

    and a 5g radiotelephony MODEM.

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    Comment #49184871

    Never trust oracle.

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    Comment #49166818

    It was revolutionary and progressive, in the 13th century... Now, not so much.

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    Comment #49142970

    Possibly, possibly not. Bryan Johnson took it for 5 years in an attempt to slow aging. He eventually discontinued because it was causing an increase in skin infections (as you'd ex…

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    Comment #49101129

    Tangential but open source pants are very much a thing https://freesewing.eu/

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    Comment #49093719

    After using a space mouse for CAD it always seems weird how dual mice isn't a more common thing.

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    Comment #49093635

    The fact that they call it an "open source wearable" when only the SDK is open source feels underhanded. You'd expect at least the OS to be open source.

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    Comment #49093548

    Most water rated devices will warn against wearing them in the shower/bath because surfactants (soaps) let water penetrate a lot easier.

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    Comment #49085877

    The government appears to be quite upset. You wouldn't want to upset ingsoc would you?

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    Comment #49083248

    Great powers go to war due to Thucydides Trap. When a hegemon feels their position is threatened by the success of a rising power, they usually try to crush it. https://www.belferc…

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    Comment #49081526

    Tibet was part of China since the Quing dynasty in the 17th century, it briefly declared independence during the chaos of the Chinese civil wars, but it was never recognised. Vietn…

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    Comment #49076262

    A tardigrade stole mine.

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    Comment #49076221

    even in the UK where we don't have "personality rights" it would almost certainly come under the common law offence of "passing off"