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by DenisM 5y ago
Wikipedia: Sulla played an important role in the long political struggle between the optimates and populares factions at Rome. He was a leader of the former, which sought to maintain the senatorial supremacy against the populist reforms adv
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by DenisM 5y ago
Well, that's a lot of preaching to the choir. Everyone who read through this was already agreeing with it going in. Everyone who generally disagrees bailed out after the first paragraph. However the collection of such incidents with at
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by DenisM 5y ago
Chomsky covered this problem comprehensively in "Understanding Power", I recommend giving it a read. The highlights are: 1) it's always been that way 2) collating news for conflicting or foreign sources is the best way to sus
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by DenisM 5y ago
You have a convincing case, thanks for spelling it out. I'm not sure if I'm ready to be convinced yet, but there is something in it.
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by DenisM 5y ago
Cesar was also one of elite, and yet he is the textbook example of populism.
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by DenisM 5y ago
> trillion dollar megacorporations and the federal government have become essentially one and the same. Aren't you getting carried away? How is Apple one with the US gov?
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by DenisM 5y ago
From the HN guidelines: Don't be snarky. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html So. Could you have made the same point without snark?
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by DenisM 5y ago
Snark is against HN guidelines, hence the cold reception.
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by DenisM 5y ago
What do you make of academia’s complete embrace of Twitter?
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by DenisM 5y ago
Question: Why XChaCha20? If you used aes256 I wouldn't even give it a thought and simply move on to the next question, but now I have stop and ask what's going on and wonder if you did it right. Just seems like unnecessary frictio
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by DenisM 5y ago
I concur. However storage is how they plan to make money, so there will need to be a different monetization strategy for BYO storage. As yet I can't imagine any. EDIT: I think have an idea! Add the S3/OneDrive/Etc support but
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by DenisM 5y ago
It does sometimes. South Korea and Japan come to mind.
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Rome had professional standing armies more than 2000 years ago.
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by DenisM 5y ago
How did you find out it was the microbiome?
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by DenisM 5y ago
It's possible that procrastination is not a software problem to be fixed behaviorally, but a wetware problem that needs to be addressed chemically. By way of analogy, imagine that you have a crippling fatigue due to low thyroid activit
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by DenisM 5y ago
> I don't even know what the whipping boy was before facism. Possibly Bonapartism It depends on the time and place. The favorite boogeyman of the Bolsheviks were the bourgeoisie at first, followed by the Mensheviks (communists of sl
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by DenisM 5y ago
I suspect that for every problem there are dozens of teams capable of solving it, but only one or two will receive enough funding and attention to reach the escape velocity. Investors know it so they want to bet on the team that other inves
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by DenisM 5y ago
Worst case Apple can feed those apps a random location, supplemented with a random film roll and address book.
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by DenisM 5y ago
Good point, I did not know that.
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by DenisM 5y ago
>isn't this mainly because paying in anything other then the national currency is illegal in most western nations? I can offer you 10 chickens to dig a trench, nothing illegal about that. You'd have to pay income tax tho, and t
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by DenisM 5y ago
If you’re ever in Kyoto set aside a whole day for the train museum. It’s absolutely through the roof train paradise.
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by DenisM 5y ago
OneNote has free-hand drawing as it's primary mode and it does that well, but still it fails at being a whiteboard. I don't think it's haptics, I think it's the spacial layout and the social interaction around the board
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by DenisM 5y ago
How about “I leave subpar companies quickly and stay in great companies like Amazon for many years”?
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Do tell?
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by DenisM 5y ago
Off and on. Started on it again just yesterday, hence my comment. >I'm never going to sit down and review the cards Well, don't sit down then. Standing up flip through the cards you filled during the day and toss them into garb
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by DenisM 5y ago
Put a stack of 3x4 index cards in you back pocket, and write thing down as needed. In the evening, (eg when you pull keys/wallet out of the pocket) review the cards briefly and toss the used once into trash unless you really need to ke
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by DenisM 5y ago
> What switch flipped to make all these come out right now? Vaccination rates are nearing immunity across the major US population centers. I can imagine "they" wanted to ensure orderly vaccinations and return to the normal econ
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by DenisM 5y ago
Trump policies were disruptive of free trade and favorable of the blue-collar working class. There is your hypothesis.
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by DenisM 5y ago
Indexed aka Materialized Views in Microsoft and Oracle have been doing “push” for two decades now since the infamous TPCC debacle. It seems strange not to mention them (if only to rule them out).
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by DenisM 5y ago
He didn’t make it up either - the French government did exactly that about 200 years ago in Haiti. They introduced apartheid for the purpose of sowing discord between people and undermining the independence movement.

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