Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>The answer to "is this legal" would have been such an obvious "no" to people on both sides of the debate I'm sorry, but the people on the side of letting illegal aliens vote are squarely of the opinion that it i
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
And yet US Treasury bonds are the gold standard for bonds. Besides, if the theory of inverse correlation or no correlation between bonds and stocks (read: the economy) holds, it's arguably a good thing bonds in relative terms aren&#x
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I agree, "The USD/American economy will crash!" and "China will implode!" are perhaps the two textbook examples of yokels yapping baselessly about doomsdays I've consistently heard and turn out wrong over my en
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I think the economy is doing decently in aggregate , but doing either extremely great or extremely bad depending on which specific part of the economy you look at. Kind of like how the US Air Force will tell you there is no such thing as T
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>He suggests the best way to play is on a PC that it was originally designed for. Even Captain Obvious himself is going to sigh something fierce.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>never using soap to clean That doesn't sound (and isn't) healthy.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Many things are named after Robin Hood, but I only know of two things specifically calling themselves Robinhood and one of them I only learned from this thread. In fairness the load balancer presumably came first, but the point remains.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>(and no I don't think it's the space that's important). That space or the lack thereof is important. To date I only know of two Robinhoods, the brokerage and the load balancer, and I only learned about the second with thi
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Why specifically "Robinhood" , though? Robinhood is a fairly well known brokerage. Why not Robin Hood or some other unique or generic name?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>We are willing to burn far, far more fuel than necessary because we've decided we can't be bothered with traditional search. That's because traditional search fucking sucks balls .
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I mean, you're championing the glory of humanity in a subthread where the observation is human society is predicated on humans being special. This isn't a jab at you, rather you're demonstrating the axiom of human society as
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Here's something to blow your mind: Out in the countryside, farmers have stalls where they put some of the day's harvest for sale. It's completely unmanned without surveillance and operates on the honor system; customers leav
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I can infer enough about you from our conversation to reaffirm my point that human society is predicated on humans being special. It is our instinctive nature to place ourselves upon a pedestal and look down upon all non-human life, and y
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Our Industrial Revolution was 500ish years ago? Yeah, and we're talking about maybe we could cause the oceans to rise a few fractions of an inch in that time. The impact of humanity has been massively overblown by people like y
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>No other animal has affected the climate at that scale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event The environmental impact humans have had, if any, is astronomically negligible. Even if it wasn't, we
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Money comes and goes without accounting meeting financial standards. That does not strictly mean that the money has been embezzled Coincidentally, the Liberal Democrat Party in Japan just lost their majority (and subsequently very likel
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Pikemen deal +47 more damage to them, Halberdiers deal +60 more!
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I believe it is backwards: Human society is predicated on humans being special . Any truly objective observer will say humans are no different from other animals on Earth. And of course, an elephant will likely say they're special w
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
State sovereignty is how and why certain States legalized marijuana while others don't, why certain States impose a given tax the way they do and others don't, why States each have a National Guard that is legally independent of t
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It is. The 538 Electors are derived from the 435 Representatives and 100 Senators in Congress, with an additional 1 Representative and 2 Senators equivalents in Electors allocated to the District of Columbia (specifically the same count as
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Considering that the President, Chief Executive of the Federal Government, represents and is elected by the States, a nationwide popular vote election is a violation of State sovereignty. The United States of America is exactly what it says
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I... actually remember that address floating around and it indeed was hentai. We're talking like 20 years back. Holy shit, my brain is getting jostled by this sudden tsunami of forgotten memories. EDIT: Digging around on Wayback Machin
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
If Bezos goes back on his word and lets or orders the Washington Post endorse a candidate in future elections? Yeah, weapons free to torch his ass.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
This is regarding endorsements by the outlet as a whole. If someone wants to go out and publicly endorse a candidate on their own name, nobody's stopping them. What Bezos did is say, no, you cannot and will never again slap the Washing
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
An engineer is someone who develops and implements engines. What is an engine? Citing Merriam Webster[1]: >3a: something used to effect a purpose So yes, an engineer can make implements of war among many other implements. The people who
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
A journalist's job is to journal something, nothing more and nothing less. If a purported journalist wants to influence or otherwise lead his audience somewhere, he is many things (commentator, advocate, activist, influencer, etc.) but
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>We sanitise input all the time. No we don't. Companies like the aforementioned were made illegal because nobody sanitizes input. SQL query injection and other forms of malformed data entry is still one of the most common attack vec
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
That is explicitly not allowed in the HN Guidelines[1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Sony's Concord crash, and generally confused strategy of exclusives vs PC ports/remasters. Sony has two subsidaries making games: * Sony Music Entertainment Japan (SMEJ) through their subsidary Aniplex. They are not to be conf
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I guess that's showing my age, URI used to stand for Universal Resource Identifier which URL derives from. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Resource_Identifier#Re... >The publication of IETF RFC 2396 in Au

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