Basically a deer with a human face. Despite probably being some sort of magical nature spirit, his interests are primarily in technology and politics and science fiction.
Spent many years on Reddit before joining the Threadiverse as well.
Oh, they say that? Weird, I distinctly recall the box saying “reusable” when I bought them years ago. I guess it’s like the thing where Q-tips are labelled as “not to be crammed into your ear-holes”, to bring it full circle.
I clean them using a hand bidet, the high-pressure stream of water from it blasts all the wax out from between the vanes. Soaking them in some kind of soapy water or solvent sounds like it’d work well too, if you don’t have a high pressure water stream readily available.
These are reusable. Those ones I bought a few years back are still in use.
I saw a box of these on Amazon for $6. You’re really going to quibble over a few bucks?
Besides, these do a better job than wads of cotton on sticks. So it’s worth a few bucks.
A few years back I bought one of these on a whim and I’ve found it to be an excellent ear wax removal tool. Just take care when inserting - that’s the motion that can shove wax deeper or impact your ear drum.
A quick Googling shows that there are a ton of other tools with a wide variety of shapes and materials, but this is the one that I can personally vouch for. Cleaning the wax off of the finned end after use requires a strong jet of water, that’s the only downside I can think of.
I’m Canadian, I remember watching The Wave in school too. I don’t recall much focus on the “here’s how fascism and authoritarianism rises” thing, but there must have been something to contextualize watching that movie that I’m not remembering.
No, I’m saying that Bitcoin’s designed so that there will always be some miners that are slightly unprofitable. It’s worth mining for most of the miners, but not the ones that are just over that edge. The edge automatically adjusts so that there will always be some that are just over it.
If you want to interpret that as “Bitcoin is always unprofitable to mine”, then sure, you can interpret it that way. Profitability varies from mining operation to mining operation, though. Not everyone will be over that threshold, and even if by some strange sequence of events everyone was over it the difficulty would adjust downward soon enough.
I generally expect a headline to be about something notable. “Sky remains blue”, “Boiling water said to be hot”, and so forth are ridiculous headlines IMO.
This is exactly as designed. Bitcoin mining is intended to becomes less profitable the more people do it, using market forces to control the amount of mining that’s being done. Headlines like this are kind of ridiculous.
This has happened before. The Nazis were not the only fascists back in the 1930s, it was a global movement. The movement passed. This one will too. It’s just a matter of trying to keep the high tide mark down until then.
And honestly, the way DEI has been handled in some cases really was not very good. I support the basic principles behind the movement but IMO the proper way to ensure that underrepresented groups get their chance is to address the problem at its roots - improved education, improved political representation, improved access to utilities and financial support and so forth. Hiring quotas are counterproductive. So I’m hoping that after the rubble settle and a new progressive movement eventually rises from the ashes it’ll have the opportunity to take a better approach.
One silver lining that I’m hoping for is that the collapse of American global influence might result in a rollback of the insane intellectual property regime they’ve been pushing on the rest of the world for generations. There were already hints of this sort of thing happening back during Trump’s first term; the Trans Pacific Partnership treaty originally included a bunch of clauses protecting American IP but when Trump withdrew the rest of the signatories redesigned the treaty to remove those clauses.
The withdrawal of American foreign aid sucks, but likewise may end up removing roadblocks to various good things like family planning, sex ed, and so forth being offered. A lot of America’s foreign influence was a mixed bag due to their puritanical demands.
"There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.
Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this: Try."
Anyone who has to ask is probably as bad as he is.
Not actually the case. GPL’s “viral” nature depends on copyright prohibiting the use of the code you publish without agreeing to the GPL’s conditions. Without copyright you could take GPLed code and use it in a closed-source program without publishing your own version or licencing it under the GPL. Most copyleft licenses are like that, including stuff like the Creative Commons.
Ooh, they’re offering free database hosting? Put me in touch.
It’s been funny over the past year or two seeing threads in piracy forums where people were upset with AI trainers scraping pirated material to train their AI with. I’m curious where the general consensus will eventually land.
Open source generally depends quite heavily on copyright, though. None of the copyleft licenses work without it.
He was 88, a stiff breeze would have been as effective an assassination method.
Giving answers on that is exactly what this community is for.
Decline the license. Now you are limited to just the basic rights that copyright law gives, which includes the ability to resell or lend the book.
I would just remove that page physically from the book.