Dalewyn

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by Dalewyn 2y ago
You started it first, my dude: >This is Tobin.. but without the Paradigm. >Now no one hates that furry bastard more than me (and I challenge you to try) >I know my fate for trying.. how many will join me knowing that?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Note that the President's budget request is literally that: A request. The power of the purse, insofar as legislating it, rests solely with the House of Representatives. They can listen to the request or completely ignore it or write
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Considering how out of touch techies generally are, I don't think it's an unreasonable stereotype/argument to make. It's easy to see here too, not the least the infamous DropBox comment.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Honestly, I couldn't care less. It's one man shouting against another, it's pointless to try finding facts out of that. But as a simple Pale Moon user, I can say you caused a big enough disruption to the project that even a u
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
All I can tell you is that when normal people don't understand windows, you definitely are not going to get them to understand windows in windows (which is what tabs effectively are). I hate all these simplified designs we see in compu
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>People understand browser tabs My anecdata suggests they don't. I have tried teaching normal people how tabs work, but I might as well be speaking pig latin.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>What are normal people doing instead of using them? They do things very simply . Most people can not multi task , which means they only ever work with one window at a time. They get immediately confused with multiple windows. Likewi
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>The fact that it doesn't take advantage of the multi-window nature of desktop systems. That's because nobody uses more than one window. Remember, Discord was for gamers , not the tech zealot with a taskbar full of windows. Sp
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Anyone who garners fame of any kind needs to have thick skin because he will inevitably get just as much hate as he does praise. It's probably something fundamental in human nature, or even life itself. I've seen this cycle play
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Shrews are cute but MEAN. There is a reason that unpleasant women are called shrews[1], for example as in The Taming of the Shrew [2]. [1]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shrew [2]: https://
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
It feels like everyone forgot Reddit's roots as far as its politics are concerned. Namely, the place was Libertarian Central on the internet until 2015 when it got astroturfed basically overnight to swing the other way. I was there to
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
For context, this is presumably the Tobin who caused significant tangible damage to the Pale Moon project on his way out. https://forum.palemoon.org/viewtopic.php?t=28265
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I sincerely thank you for perfectly demonstrating my point.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
No, what you should takeaway is that misoverusing the term Nazi as an insult patently no longer works precisely because noone cares about being called a Nazi anymore due to its misoveruse. In a different timeline, Trump being called a Naz
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
As Trump said when an interviewer asked him about Ukraine: "I want people to stop dying." I think most Americans share that sentiment with regards to war, so no, trade wars don't count. It's objective fact that Trump did
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Incidentally, our President today really likes his cheeseburgers. I don't blame him.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
I'm a Trump voter (2016, 2020, and 2024) so I obviously find all this a good thing, just for transparency. That said, that is tangential and irrelevant to explaining how and why the pendulum swung back as hard as it did. Trump won his
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>The people are largely unhappy with how things have been This is an understatement to say the least, and the fact it's been denied and even refused by the powers that be until today is why the pendulum has swung as hard as it has.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Much as it is the case with guns, why is the "problem" the tools or provider of the tools and not the user of the tools?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Look: You're arguing that the US goverment preventing insurers from raising rates is a bad thing. I completely agree. You however worded the original query in such a way that I read it as the US government allowing insurers to raise ra
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
And? Congress can impeach the President if they feel the law isn't being executed. The law also extends nearly limitless benefit of doubt to the President when he is executing his Constitutional duties.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>It is a forced feature no one is really asking for. Microsoft mandated TPM after gauging both user feedback and real world metrics and finding that TPM helped increase security by a significant margin. I am inclined to believe them. Te
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Windows Defender is so good that Microsoft Security Essentials was renowned as the worst anti-virus by anti-virus reviewers and providers. You know something is awesome when the putrid market wails like a banshee.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Power of the purse rests with the House with consent from the Senate, but the execution of the purse is ultimately vested with the Executive. Congress as the Legislative Branch has no authority to Execute.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>Breaking it down: if the US gov (or its subdivisions) believes the risk is "gouging" or "egregious" or "too expensive" and prohibits rate increases, You worded the original query badly then. I read it like
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
So you're saying that everything would be fine(ish) if insurers are allowed to raise premiums. I agree. The question you posed as a future potential problem is: "What if the US gov ... allow insurers to raise rates". So again
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Read the question again: "what if the US gov doesn't recognize the risk and allow insurers to raise rates". Breaking it down: "What if the US gov ... allow insurers to raise rates". Now color me confused.
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>This is NOT true for DOGE which has no legal right DOGE and the Treasury Department are both part of the Executive Branch and derive powers from its head, aka the President. This is essentially President Trump telling President Trump to
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
>what if the US gov doesn't recognize the risk and allow insurers to raise rates. I'm not sure I follow: Isn't the entire point of raising rates (I assume you mean raising insurance premiums) to compensate for higher risk?
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by Dalewyn 2y ago
Thinking about it, nearly everything about computing is fundamentally about how to translate between analog and digital.

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