6figurelenins

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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
On an annually recurring license. So the taxpayer doesn't just buy hundreds of books no one asked for and will never read, he buys them ten times over.
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> Do people just not actually believe ... how decades of disinvestment leading to violence just might possibly lead to generational issues? It's a bit fuzzy, yes. It would clarify the argument to replace "generational issues&q
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
I think you're pointing out that sometimes the jerk with leverage is not a large enterprise. I can stipulate; this is why running companies is hard. Adversity exists. I don't think it diminishes my assertion that visionaries do,
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> spoken like a true temporarily-embarrassed billionaire Until quite recently, the quip was "millionaire." What forced the change was American socialist icons embarrassed to find themselves on the wrong side of the barricade.
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> The "visionary/great man" ideal is just good PR. I reject that proposition. It's how record labels (investors, etc.) gaslight their artists (founders, etc.) into signing bad deals. The businessman ("anthropomo
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> My guess is that folks coming from those other ecosystems are frustrated that it doesn't work exactly like NPM, which is the general model other ecosystems have decided to follow The general model for package management in other l
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
"Web app?" I remember when they were forums. Heck: bulletin boards. This page could be an email.
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> Maybe I’ll revisit it again now that support is finally here. I hadn't heard, thanks! https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/ "Web push notifications Coming in 2023." https:/&#x2F
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> wasted resources and duplication This is 19th century zeitgeist. It failed to recognize fulfillment of human needs as an evolutionary process. "Waste and duplication" -- trial and error -- is necessary. You can't de
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
What do you mean by inequality, and how much can you accept for a machine that kills poverty? https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/world-population-in-extre...
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> the free market requires a government to enforce peoples' rights and to enforce contracts That seemed obvious to most observers, up to the Cold War. It can't account for international trade, which functions on mutual self-int
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
Are you really going to pretend -- to this audience -- you haven't enjoyed the (yes) magical benefits of profit-seeking innovation? Progressivism conquered America a century ago. Antitrust law. Central bank. Income tax. Universal suff
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
"If you object to the government making shoes, he'll accuse you of making everyone go barefoot." https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsteel/surprise-fo...
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
For me, an emulator solves the 80% case: I'm soliciting quick feedback on specific changes. I'd happily use one as TestFlight for dev builds. I'm optimistic my users (my team) would find it more convenient, less interruptiv
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> mobile app developers are stuck with pushing builds every night and waiting a day for the team to see the new code That doesn't ring true. TestFlight / Play Store uploads are typically available within 15 minutes. Still, it&
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> In testing, LoRa works up to a few miles away with a good line of sight.
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
My cultural touchpoint is vapes and flashlights. "Yes, they literally wire 'em together to power a lawn mower." https://youtu.be/L_VManypHV4
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
Allow me to suggest, in all seriousness, American government is not so different.
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> Some of you may know Hong Kong has been attacked by China and most of the pro democratic media companies have shut down... I also would like to host these files on a public domain, just to ensure more people can revisit on these events
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
> Intel needs 3-4x more power draw just to match Apple on performance. The M1 Max is arguably price competitive with Intel 12900K, at half the performance and 1/6 wattage (at full load). The M1 Ultra is twice the price, closer in pe
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
Click through to Balko, 2014. The rot in the criminal justice system is so deep that DNA exoneration just means they drop the rape charge. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2014/03/20
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by 6figurelenins 4y ago
Not the state, the city of Durham. 39% of residents are black[1]. 17% poverty[2]. 80% Democrat[3], mostly the new kind that can't see why moderates ought to exist. Does that change your assessment? [1] https://worldpopulat
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by 6figurelenins 5y ago
Shallow (partial) cycles are better for longevity (measured as permanent capacity loss over time). The effect is "better than linear;" see Table 2. https://batteryuniversity.com/article/bu-808-how-to-prolong-.
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by 6figurelenins 5y ago
His name being synonymous with "genius" makes the socialist ideal of equality a tough sell.
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by 6figurelenins 5y ago
Pardon the domain. https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/dongle-auth/dongles/ Personally: - NFC Yubico with my car keys. I can't remember ever using NFC to authenticate directly on mobile, but I like having a
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by 6figurelenins 5y ago
> There is only one way to [grab dependencies] and it's built into the language runtime The `go` tool. "Language runtime" refers to the ~2MB of thread scheduler, garbage collector, etc. > No central server required! No
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by 6figurelenins 5y ago
> Land value depends mostly on public infrastructure paid with public funds - roads, subways, schools etc This is a strange conceit. Martha's Vineyard and Maui do not have orders of magnitude better "public infrastructure&quot
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by 6figurelenins 5y ago
> Permission controls for browser can be managed the same way they are being managed for native apps. They can't evolve the way the latter did. "New API every year or we break your app" is not an option for the web. As a
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by 6figurelenins 5y ago
C-36: https://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/43-2/bill/C-36/first-r... amending https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/FullText.html
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by 6figurelenins 5y ago
> what just looks like more subsidies for private energy companies I don't think there's a future where "energy policy" (a euphemism for subsidies/lobbying/permitting) ceases to exist. If nuclear power is th

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