crunchiebones
Breaking the 100bps barrier with Matrix, meshsim and coap-proxy
Re:France's Basque Region Creates Its Own Currency
on Saturday April 20, 2019 @01:14PM (#19707630)
I was kind of hoping this was about the entire basque region using it's own cryptocurrency ;)
Re:Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags ...
on Friday April 19, 2019 @02:54PM (#19702018)
it obviously depends on the context, but China is homogeneous enough that 'chinese' is often used to mean more than just nationality
Re:Austrian government seeks to eliminate internet anonymity, with sev...
on Friday April 19, 2019 @06:17AM (#19698303)
it won't stop people getting multiple sim cards and registering those under different names
Re:Mastodon and Keybase
on Monday April 15, 2019 @10:07PM (#19670558)
it's basically twitter when you're not following very many people and all the people you are following share your political views.
Re:Under-18s face 'like' and 'streaks' bans on social media
on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:47PM (#19668282)
now all the creeps will have to lie and pretend to be under-13 when they want to befriend or send gifts to your daughter :(
Re:People Who Eat the Same Meal Every Day
on Friday March 08, 2019 @03:06PM (#19341669)
I guess this means the 'meat maximalist' carnivory diet will eventually 'die off'
Re:Tim Cook explains why you don’t need a college degree to be successful
on Friday March 08, 2019 @01:29PM (#19340486)
>Almost all engineering programs I've seen, practically don't have any English requirements.
This is certainly true if you're a rich international student paying international student fees.
Re:What's the minimum number of words you'd need to define all other w...
on Friday March 08, 2019 @08:25AM (#19337257)
I don't think you would ever lose a concept like 'aboveness' - even if that word didn't exist in our language, we would have found away to express the same idea, perhaps in a less abstract way like 'closer to the sky'
Re:U.S. users are leaving Facebook by the millions, Edison Research says
on Thursday March 07, 2019 @06:22AM (#19327199)
this happens to MMO servers too, I used to play the game DOFUS years ago and it was one of my favorite places on the internet when first started but then people left the game as they grew up and it was gradually taken over by bots and scammers until it got merged with another server
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Re:Everywhere and Nowhere: A Journey Through Suicide
on Friday February 15, 2019 @06:14PM (#19175641)
and also 3: The fear of death is extremely difficult to overcome for most people, even when it's objectively their best option.
on this topic, there's an excellent blog post called 'Who by very slow decay' which I think would change most people's minds if they read it. https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...
suicide, if done right, is one of the best ways to die.
Dolphins ‘deliberately get high’ on puffer fish nerve toxins
Re:This person does not exist
on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @06:37PM (#19158257)
With some of them you notice it straight away like the woman with something sticking out of a hole in her cheek:
https://fb.pics/image/38yjt
and the woman with the mutilated left ear:
https://fb.pics/image/380UC
and the child with the adult eye bags:
https://fb.pics/image/38Jva
One thing it almost always does wrong is glasses.
https://fb.pics/image/38NNu
And apart from pictures of young children, most of them have strange vertical wrinkles under the eyes, even when everything else is relatively convincing.