What's the difference between changing the region to France and simply disabling the performance management function?
Whether or not someone will click on the title of an article
Readit Newspeteretep commented on Old iPhones become faster if you change the region to France gizchina.com/2021/08/23/o... · Posted by u/fomine3
peteretep commented on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever theatlantic.com/science/a... · Posted by u/lxm
Yes. For small island countries like New Zealand it works "great." This was never an option for countries like the US, or even most of Europe. Much less so for countries like India.
But we'll see how it goes. If New Zealand and Australia persist in this notion that they're going to stay locked down until the virus goes away, particularly with its endemicity now inevitable, I think you will soon find vast swaths of those countries in open, violent revolt.
It worked pretty well for Thailand, a country with 3k of land borders that people can and do walk across. Delta seems to have changed the calculus though
peteretep commented on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever theatlantic.com/science/a... · Posted by u/lxm
The one thing that still bothers me is that we don't yet know how quickly this coronavirus evolves, and from what we know it very likely escaped from a gain-of-function laboratory that specializes in quickly mutating viruses. I didn't see Delta coming. I want to believe that this is the worst of it. But this coronavirus has so far kept us on our toes so it may well have a few more surprises in store
> it very likely escaped
Do you have a source for “very likely”? I’m at “plausibly escaped from” so far and would be interested in evidence that changes that in either direction.
peteretep commented on It became common in the 18th century to speak of ‘English credulity’ spectator.co.uk/article/a... · Posted by u/pepys
I seem to remember English writers of that time period describing other nationalities as childlike, credulous, and superstitious on the regular so maybe everyone was just running around maligning the folks in other countries and seeing what stuck.
Also, the article title is clickbaity weird, why should people wonder if a common slur against a nationality from 3 centuries ago was true today?
> Also, the article title is clickbaity weird, why should people wonder if a common slur against a nationality from 3 centuries ago was true today?
The publication is a (very nicely written) right-wing rag for Little Englanders who want to believe they're a cut above Daily Mail readers.
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It’s all bullshit marketing until someone is accepting payments for goods priced in crypto.
peteretep commented on OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/minimaxir
OF is a creator platform at heart and not necessarily tied to sexually explicit content except by reputation. There is a likely a huge non-porn market for helping creators of all types monetize their content. The question will be if they can actually get people to completely change their mind about what the platform is for.
Perhaps, but OnlyFans will always be a porn site in consumer imaginations moving forward. Nobody’s going to put their wholesome knitting content on there moving forward
peteretep commented on Ask HN: What's the most life-changing blog post you've ever read? · Posted by u/michalu
Becoming a magician
https://autotranslucence.wordpress.com/2018/03/30/becoming-a...
> Often Codex will write code that looks right at first glance, but actually has subtle errors.
Am I correct in that the primary reason folks are so upset is that the system could (probably) be easily modified such that -any- content could invoke legal action? That the main problem is really the scanning at all, and not the chances that it could be attacked by an individual actor but instead by a government?