29athrowaway

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   by 29athrowaway 6y ago

   Lula and Dilma certainly were criminals, but that doesn't make Bolsonaro right. Partisan mentality is a logical fallacy. It's divide and conquer. Keep people distracted in an infinite tug-of-war while some people collude and benef
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   by 29athrowaway 6y ago

   You can record a footage of you at the desk and then loop it.
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   by 29athrowaway 6y ago

   I am getting HTTP 500 errors when I try to see a collection.
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   by 29athrowaway 6y ago

   Why should we trust that your story is true?
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   by 29athrowaway 6y ago

   I stopped using Instacart when they were unable to deliver an order in the time windows I selected and then unilaterally changed the time to a time when I was not going to be at home. I complained and they insisted and eventually the food w
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   by 29athrowaway 6y ago

   Most narcos do the same thing. Escobar was powerful, in part, because he donated millions of dollars for the construction of residential units in Colombia.
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   by 29athrowaway 6y ago

   We should cancel all of China. All the crap happening in Xinjiang, Hong Kong, Tibet... Sesame credit, Falun gong murders, forced organ harvests, Great firewall, censorship, forced labor, child labor, Tiananmen square massacre, and we could
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   by 29athrowaway 6y ago

   How many times have you heard the cliche phrase: the US spends more money in its armed forces than the top K other countries combined? Well, spending and results not always go hand in hand. And in the case of aerospace contractors, they can
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   by 29athrowaway 6y ago

   And now 40 years later, we are back into 1984. Centralized systems ("the cloud" and large companies) have taken over privacy.
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    If I lost access to coffee I can still have tea, guarana or yerba mate.
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    Gnome 2 and GTK 2 have no support for HiDPI. It is possible to mitigate some of that inconvenience by using a theme where everything is scaled up (and there are tools to generate them), but there will be still GTK 2 software that looks bad.
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    Bald eagles eat fish and other animals like squirrels and prairie dogs. The size and health of the bald eagle population is also an indicator of the health and size of the species they use as food.
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    Well, if you are at home putting a baby to sleep and suddenly some guy blasts some music from their car and wakes up your baby, what would you do? it's not a hard decision. There's a hierarchy of needs. Being able to be at peace i
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    What was the atmospheric pressure of Venus ~700 million years ago? Right now, it's 90 atmospheres.
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    Common mistake in stream code: -- .on('end') ++ .once('end')
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    That is pretty good, to be honest. Any experiences with videoconferences over Starlink? I wonder if I can just build a house in the middle of nowhere, with some solar panels + battery (but with trash service and water access) and move there
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    Has anyone tried Starlink yet?
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    https://youtu.be/H27rfr59RiE
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    No need to demonize China, or better said, the Chinese Communist Party. They already behave in ways that are the envy of actual mythological demons. Social scoring, mass surveillance, the Great Firewall, forced labor, harvesting organs from
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    All-robotic armed forces are inevitable. Robots don't say no, they do not need indoctrination, they keep secrets, they are expendable, they don't receive benefits, it doesn't take 20 years to make 1 robotic soldier at a time,
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    AI is not affected by G-forces. The biggest limitation in a fighter plane is the pilot.
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    It is not an emulator. It is a compatibility layer for ELF binaries that implements Linux system calls on Windows, among other things. It uses the same approach WINE ("WINE is not an emulator") uses.
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    > Arch Linux used to be an official app on the Windows Store some time ago, but the Arch community isn't onboard with the concept of WSL, or they aren't exactly comfortable with how easy WSL makes Linux installations for Window
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    As soon as it becomes popular, it will be backdoored for sure.
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    How else do you expect that national security agencies do their job? :^)
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    It looks like that post got edited as I was replying to it.
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    What happens when you make a lot of money? Then you have a lot of taxes. There are various ways of paying those taxes. One of such ways is by making tax deductible charitable donations. Another one of such ways is doing tax deductible resea
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    When we get hit by an asteroid and we have nothing to do about it people will finally understand that perhaps we should waste less time getting in the way of science.
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    > So much like we allow children time to learn in school before we expect them to compete in the job market, we should allow developing countries to employ protectionistic policies like tariffs, in order to protect and build up their fle
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    by 29athrowaway 6y ago

    Can it be used to make RDRAND always return the same number?