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Hilary Duff just released a new album too.

I think he's given you examples of where music can be priced "below the impulse buy threshold".

Supporting the claim are several studies that pirates or piracy advocates are often familiar with.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/pirates-more...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/evkmz7/study-again-shows-pir...

https://corsearch.com/content-library/blog/does-piracy-impac...

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/663157

I used to mine bitcoin on my VPCEC right after GPU support was available. I had bought it specifically to have a portable 1080p screen while in college for CS. Until just a few months ago, it was my Plex server. (It still works)

It does work if you spray it directly in the nose. It does not work orally. I wonder if they think that CVS will be removing the spray.

I've been playing it for 20 minutes. It's fun so far.

I was wondering about that, actually. I am interested in magic, very much, and I have seen tons and tons. I also felt like it was beyond anything I have ever seen, and wondered if it would be noticeably different to people who haven't seen as much as I have.

DHL, which has normally been spectacular, got me the other week. I was getting a package delivered on Monday that I needed by Thursday at noon. It required a signature, so I filled out the release for them to leave it without one. It also had a spot for delivery instructions. I have a simple gate with a latch and no lock, so I said the gate is unlocked, they could open the gate to deliver, leave it inside or outside the gate, or even toss it over the gate.

The Friday before the Monday which they were scheduled to deliver, I got a delivery exception saying that it was unable to be delivered according to my instructions and that nobody was home. I WAS home, though I was not notified they were coming, and I can't think of a scenario which "inside or outside the gate" does not cover.

On Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday they updated to say it was 'out for delivery', each time updating in the evening to say the following day after they failed to return to my house. It was finally delivered 1 hour after I left for the airport.

Whoa, you didn't hear about Roy Moore?

I wonder if people are actually having their lives "ruined" by vaping. Maybe. What would be worse is if vaping wasn't available and they went from nothing to cigarettes. I guess you'd say those lives would be "devastated", or something?

https://www.plus9time.com/blog/2020/12/12/worlds-thinnest-mo...

The thinnest quartz watches have all been made well in the past, as far as I'm aware. They were still made to be practical, however, and have thicker cases. They are about twice as thick as this watch.

Could they do better today? Possibly?

Asteroid Day "is the United Nations sanctioned day of public awareness of the risks of asteroid impacts" [0] though in practice, it's a pretty fun day of learning about asteroids through local events and even 24 hours of streamed programming on Twitch and YouTube. [1]

The current incarnation of Asteroid Day seems to be a push by a group of scientists and filmmakers, among them astrophysicist Dr. Brian May, and more aimed at celebrating asteroids and their role in the solar system.

[0] https://asteroidday.org/about

[1] https://www.youtube.com/asteroidday

People don't need to remember and apply formulas. They just need an intuition that they could be applied and how that might change the appearance of the statistics, as a kind of gauge of reliability. A tool for rationalization.

$399 if you'd like keys on your keyboard.

Probably because they prefer, or think they prefer, Google results to DDG results and don't realize that a decent company (ixquick developer) runs the domain StartPage.com https://www.startpage.com/ (which has a very AOLish, Web 1.0 sound to it). Startpage serves up Google results. DDG serves up everything but Google, I think.

I installed it on one server that I only ssh to JUST to use that ebook-convert so I can read anything (epub, mobi, pdf, etc) on the command line. It's so easy to use, detects to- and from-formats from filenames and works on anything.

Most weight your body actually loses (as in not water) is lost as carbon in the CO2 you exhale.

I did! Thank you!

That was the sentence that made it clear it was satire, for me. I was only at about 60% sure before that, based on the hyperbole.

Sure. I'll agree with your definition then!

*Ah, what the fork! I just realized you're a GIMPer. You think that thing I said about the 1998 drama is what inferiorhuman was referencing?

333!

None of which really compete, but yeah, literally hundreds. Just one big one though, GIMP Painter.

I'm not sure I follow your logic, but if it helps clear anything up, I did emphasize that this was an old story, like twice. I am also aware that Qt is GPL now, and that GIMP has hundreds of forks.

I don't think they even forked it necessarily, and the Qt hack/patch wasn't even published. It was just presented at some Linux thing. This was the only story I could find that resembled a reason for inferiorhuman's prejudice. There are also hundreds of current existing GIMP forks, and no evidence that the GIMP crew is gearing up for street violence.

Over 20 years ago, Matthias Ettrich made a Qt GUI for GIMP. GIMP community apparently didn't like him doing that, don't know why. It may have had something to do with licensing -- at the time the Qt license meant it wasn't free software and there was some drama about KDE becoming popular when it was using Qt and thus a large component was nonfree. I know these facts separately and do not know if they are related, but it seems like all that stuff was happening in a few-months span in 1998. Someone else would have to elaborate more if they remember anything.

https://krita.org/en/about/history/

Or roughly $72,000-73,000 per household, assuming 127 million households and working with the numbers in your comment.

If we stole all the money from every 10%er household, who control 70% of aggregate household wealth, we'd have 70% of $93 trillion (2016 value) or $65.1T. Spreading that across 90% of 127M households nets about $564,500 per.

You just said that someone is claiming that water and bleach are identical.

Let me put it to you this way, instead of saying "everything is a chemical": If you stand with the poster above worrying about "chemicals", perhaps state your question more clearly so we know exactly what we're getting ourselves into. I will even give you some examples. Do you perhaps mean chemicals known to cause cancer or other diseases? What about chemicals known to aggravate diseases or conditions? Or would it be enough to be simply suspected? Maybe your threshold of what is a sufficient amount of research should be mentioned. How many studies do you wait for before you eat a certain ingredient? Do all regulatory bodies need to agree?

That's certainly a lot of work going into asking a question, I suppose, almost as much as answering something like "are there [bad] chemicals in it?" What research is out there, is out there. Only you know what will make a "[bad] chemical" not just a "chemical".

Of course, if you know of a place that lists all the "[bad] chemicals" that you agree with, this [practically extreme] "lib" wouldn't mind seeing it.

I didn't know that, so I'm glad you mentioned it. I have had at least 20 failed cables and 0 failed ports (of maybe five or six devices) in my experience with Lightning.

Actually, I'm not glad you mentioned it since that makes it even more perplexing. I was glad because if a port ever failed I would not have easily diagnosed it because I thought they were pretty good. But it must be my fault the cables are failing....

I'm all in on mega, since there exist command line tools for it and linux support. Also if you're ever subject to high latency or buffer bloat or anything that might slow normal http traffic to a crawl, there's something about the way they deliver data that can always download at full speed.

"I never learned long division, and look at me." -- Stephen Wolfram

http://www.stephenwolfram.com/media/meet-inventor-who-makes-...

Just like the Wii, the 5th best-selling console of all time? The console that outsold all other consoles of its generation, except the Nintendo DS?

Well, it was, it's just that you'd have to read the article.