Afforess

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by Afforess 6y ago
Yours is much better. http://bash.org/?946436
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by Afforess 6y ago
You don't have to imagine. Trump leaked a satellite photo from a spy satellite last year. Wired has a great piece on it: https://www.wired.com/story/trump-tweeted-a-sensitive-photo-...
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by Afforess 6y ago
This is more of the same sanctimonious toxicity. You don't know me. I already donate to act blue. I already go to political rally's. I already help get friends to go vote. I already am a member of local political groups. I
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by Afforess 6y ago
This attitude is toxic and worse, incorrect. The majority of Americans did not vote for our President. I live in Austin, and my state district in TX includes a tiny slice of a city hundreds of miles away, Houston. Many state districts are l
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by Afforess 6y ago
Ah, this is why my Doordash mobile client started crashing. I was wondering...
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by Afforess 7y ago
The fundamentals of the economy are strong.
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by Afforess 7y ago
When the current COVID-19 crisis has past, and historians look at government responses, the CDC messaging on masks may be the single biggest mistake the US made. Bigger than the testing fuckup, bigger than the complete lack of contact traci
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by Afforess 7y ago
We need to ban most consumer uses of plastic. Plastic is much like nuclear waste, it's harmful to life, and takes thousands to millions of years to degrade. Outside of uses like medical devices or smaller electronic devices, plastic is
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by Afforess 7y ago
Employment guarantees may include benefits (FMLA/Healthcare), which you definitely will not have with unemployment. The American system of tying healthcare to employment is showing it's huge weakness right now - when Americans nee
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by Afforess 7y ago
The trump trade policies (specifically, the China tariffs) have reduced the exposure of many US firms to Chinese goods. A lot of factories shifted to Vietnam and other SE Asian countries. Europe is already showing early red flags in their s
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by Afforess 7y ago
I check my resting heart rate on a weekly basis to monitor if my Leukemia has relapsed. It's less invasive than regular blood draws.
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by Afforess 7y ago
Agreed, profit motive in the rating agencies was to blame during the 2008 financial crisis buildup: > The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission estimates that by April 2010, of all mortgage-backed securities Moody's had rated triple-A
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by Afforess 7y ago
Apparently, there originally was something like 60 cents backing each $1 of tether. Then bitifinex needed the money to cover its legitimate business, so they swapped the tether dollars with an equal amount of dollars in a frozen bank accoun
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by Afforess 7y ago
So many problems with this. 1. 300 million people are not registered voters. ~50-60 million are. 2. First Past The Post means people are voting for the candidate they hate the least, not the candidate they prefer. 3. The election wasn'
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by Afforess 7y ago
I seem to recall Sony being sued in a class action for yanking linux support from the PS3 after it was released, and losing. I hope the same happens here.
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by Afforess 8y ago
> "what does malloc return?" This is particularly pernicious, because it's a trick question, too. On linux, malloc always returns, it will never return NULL. Even if you ask for 4 petabytes of memory on a 128mb system, ma
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by Afforess 8y ago
> People really underestimate how poorly suited our modern political structure is to accomplishing large scale public works projects. Did you read the article? There's something deeply wrong with large scale construction costs in A
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by Afforess 8y ago
I block all US calls now, using Hiya (I block +1 ) and warn new contacts to either text me, or use signal, whatsapp, discord, etc. Originally, it was just enough to block my own area code (+1 616 ), since I had moved and didn't have
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by Afforess 8y ago
Is this still even a thing? Michigan also has a 10 cent deposit, and fraud was an issue in the 90's, but it's been fixed since. Grocery stores use automated bottle scanners to check barcodes. I'm not sure how you could "
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by Afforess 8y ago
Traffic is induced demand. Traffic is induced demand. Traffic is induced demand.
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by Afforess 8y ago
This is one of the symptoms of the decline of religion. As the moderates abandon their faith, only the more radical members and fundamental adherents are left. Radicals who were previously moderated by the more centrist members now find the
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by Afforess 8y ago
> what are the chances that it was a random flyby? ~99.9̅% chance of being random. Absent any sort of evidence, it was a rare, meaningless event. The law of large numbers, however, suggests that rare events occur more frequently than yo
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by Afforess 8y ago
I think the article strayed a bit far into metaphor, but the core story is about the red queen hypothesis. The red queen hypothesis is that organisms adapt and change in response to an ever-changing background environment, just to maintain
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by Afforess 8y ago
Companies exist to serve society, not the other way around. Corporate charters are granted by governments, from the people.
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by Afforess 8y ago
Paying income tax _was_ unconstitutional. The 16th amendment had to be passed to make it constitutional. Only Federal Income taxes after 1913 were constitutional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteenth_Amendment_to_the
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by Afforess 8y ago
> I'll probably be downvoted on a forum like this, but I worry about the most successful universities using their funds to subsidize those who would be fine without it. This is the definition of "means-testing" and it is
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by Afforess 8y ago
> I don't think it's unreasonable for an adult to believe that their well-considered views are correct Millions of teenage voices suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced. Suffering under a "reasonable&quo
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by Afforess 8y ago
Uh, morals? What does ethics have to do with Google operating their search business in China? I'm confused why I am supposed to be outraged. I don't have any particularly strong feelings about censorship in foreign countries - how
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by Afforess 8y ago
Unfortunately this is likely correct. The race to the bottom with credentialism will continue until we break the game. The answer isn't more credentials (free college, etc), but to make credentials worthless as a social signal. Educati
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by Afforess 8y ago
Samsung flagship phones (Galaxy / Note) still have the 3.5mm jack.

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