Affric

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by Affric 2y ago
> Islam not relying on subjugation and force Ah yeah, so long as we disregard a lot of history both within and outside of Islamic societies this is true. Huge waves of conquests, the jizya. These are all coercive as any Christian state a
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by Affric 2y ago
When did Zeus provide moral teachings? Jesus is fundamentally interesting because the moral teachings of the cult in his name have persisted as the dominant state morality for European societies for about a millennium and a half since Julia
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by Affric 2y ago
Yeah, it’s interesting that they have no motivation to separate the art from the commission nor any attempt to understand that it was a very different time. Broadcast television and low bandwidths. The idea that advertising is a “cancer upo
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by Affric 2y ago
Having a language that only your in group can speak is a good survival strategy
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by Affric 2y ago
Kodachrome was beautiful it’s a shame we will never see it’s like again. Do you still do film photography? Ektachrome?
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by Affric 2y ago
I think it’s partially a generational thing. I know a couple of “Bill”s my age but couldn’t count the “Will”s. My father and older age though there’s not one person I know called “Will” but I know countless “Bill”s
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by Affric 2y ago
By all accounts.
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Without the p most English speakers would turn the s into a z because the m is voiced.
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by Affric 2y ago
Here’s [1] a report from the early days of electricity privatisation in NSW. In all honesty it’s been about a decade since I have read it closely but I would say it’s fairly serious and it does like efficiency as a metric. Underproductive t
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by Affric 2y ago
> “the tax payers are being ripped off as asset owners because once the debt incurred to pay for the energy system is cleared they just give out cheap electricity and don’t seek profit. It is more efficient to sell, reinvest, and then
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by Affric 2y ago
Exactly. Causality isn’t an equivalence relation with blame. A moral aspect has to be established.
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Absolutely not and if it weren’t for the US copyright/IP lobby it wouldn’t even be a crime in many places. Copyright infringement may be criminal. But compared with theft there’s, rightly, a higher standard of proof required.
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by Affric 2y ago
Ah yes. Dahl’s depiction of genuinely abusive guardians in a clear fantasy world vs real life parents worried about screen time in a world where a child is receiving incitements to parricide with only information from a child.
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A service where four counts of this offence can be committed before any action is taken?
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If one were to believe there are actors in our society bad enough to justify a service existing then one would also have to believe there are actors bad enough to abuse that service with a view to kill anyone. It’s paradoxical that such a t
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by Affric 2y ago
Donkey Konga is a huge missed opportunity. Guitar Hero/Rock Band are probably best in show for the genre. Weird that they were so huge for such a short time. Probably the death of popular instrumented music.
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by Affric 2y ago
100% Imagine if your maths class was getting you to draw curves and make art from tilings with a view to making art as opposed to the same 6 recycled examples about how fast a car is going or how to tile a floor. Mathematics funnelling stud
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by Affric 2y ago
Surely autocorrect.
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Beautiful.
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Indentured labour was done by contract for a fixed period, and they were paid. For people who believe that there was workers who got on the ships through their own agency this is important. This undoubtedly happened along with those who wer
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by Affric 2y ago
Count up the number of bribes you have had to pay as a normal working person in the west. Places with big corruption problems have people demanding bribes at every turn.
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by Affric 2y ago
I don’t fit in their boxes so generally I go with “prefer not to say”.
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by Affric 2y ago
Not true. Only the social media companies will be liable. It’s an important part of the legislation.
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by Affric 2y ago
Good parallel. Super easy to fix on macOS.
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100% There are some great recordings of music out there but fundamentally their sum is worthless up against a society where there is music and dance being performed all the time. Maybe modern medicine and food abundance is worth it but the
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by Affric 2y ago
Except xdg mime types are easily heist-able by programs and there is no universal truth for it. Install vscode on Linux and have fun with it hijacking opening directories. Which is easy enough to fix (with a bit of know how) or work around
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by Affric 2y ago
How did you fix the user habits in the end?
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Except without a way to get the computer to behave the way they want they have an arm strung behind their back in the modern economy. EDIT: I think my experience could likely be in a situation very different to yours. Thinking about it more
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by Affric 2y ago
That all iterate too slowly and don’t put the development in the hands of the people doing the job. Excel is near universal and flexible. It’s not a hammer. It’s a swiss army knife.
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by Affric 2y ago
Write a piece of software that ends Excel’s dominance and then I will take your opinion seriously. I hate Excel for many reasons but it is king for a reason.

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