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by Digory 5y ago
I spent a dozen hours looking at Mastodon, trying to find a quick-spin-up solution. It ain't easy to toot. Finally went with Jekyll and github page, just to get down short bits here and there.
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by Digory 5y ago
Strong "JC Penney hires away Ron Johnson from Apple's retail project" vibes.
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by Digory 5y ago
The jump from Northwest Territory to Louisiana purchase basically defined the Midwest. Everything northwest of the Ohio River and east of the Colorado River has a fair claim at “Midwest.”
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by Digory 5y ago
You can gum up an eviction in the States for several months on very flimsy grounds. “We had an agreement” is sometimes enough to get the police to go away, requiring a lawsuit. The real experts find a target and record fake deeds, almost g
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by Digory 5y ago
Some fascinating developments going on at this Socialist magazine, where the staff was just fired for trying to organize. https://twitter.com/lyta_gold/status/1428011761635143681?s=1... Let the reader understand.
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by Digory 5y ago
“They’re just consequences for abusing your right to privacy,” they’ll eventually explain.
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by Digory 5y ago
It's baloney, but they must mean something more than that. "Roughly one-third of US shoppers are Costco customers," says the article, and Asian Americans are 5.7% of the US population. I'm not sure how you'd get tha
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by Digory 5y ago
I suspect the standard will be to say "everyone must," with a long list of exceptions. And the truly vaccine-adverse will find their way into an exception. So the "mandates" moves the needle 10 or 15 percent, not the la
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by Digory 5y ago
I love Cornel West, but he's left Harvard in a huff three or four times in the last twenty years. I feel like this is the second news cycle for this departure, even.
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by Digory 5y ago
For thousands of years, people said ancestry produced meaningful differences between populations. That 'construct' held that infinitesimal differences in ancestry could be used to divide society. So discrimination based on race w
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by Digory 5y ago
I know the facts are the facts, but this is depressing. If this holds, it seems our politics are doomed to tribalism and paternalism in the long run.
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by Digory 5y ago
From pictures, the pool deck seems to have survived the collapse; it wasn't under the towers.[0] I wouldn't expect this paragraph to have anything to do with a tower collapsing. Pools-in-the-air (over a garage) are notoriously le
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by Digory 5y ago
Joe, nah.
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by Digory 5y ago
Normally it does, but seldom are the stakes high enough to sue. The concept is called "detrimental reliance." But it looks like she was already unemployed and the job was remote (so she didn't have to move). If it was at-wi
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by Digory 5y ago
Tyson? Nah, these are the thousands of ranchers spread around Texas. Tyson looks forward to selling you chicken-a-la-vat, and will pay handily to get a federal exception to this rule in a few years.
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by Digory 5y ago
I think it makes sense to standardize some word for the difference, especially since you’re talking about a commodity. I imagine cheap meat is going to be qualitatively different than cheap Meetabix or whatever they will call it for some ye
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by Digory 5y ago
And apollo app on mobile.
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by Digory 5y ago
I get wanting to keep HN from old-fashioned vulgarity and gossip, but I can't imagine finding it less-than-intellectually-interesting. It's an improbably clean example of the conflict between modern and traditional religious views
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by Digory 5y ago
After 30 years, you'd like to think marriage allows for some growing apart, though. Loyalty and honor count for something, when you're thinking about who should hold your hand in the ICU, or who should be with you and your kids in
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by Digory 5y ago
Unfortunately, structured competitive debate these days has gone off the rails. At least, college debate in the US has become ridiculous. Moot court and mock trial retain some semblance of argumentation. But you would have to reinvent the
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by Digory 5y ago
>figures with disputed historical relevance No serious person debates whether Washington was relevant to national history. We're debating whether good people today can praise the achievements of a person who held Washington's i
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by Digory 6y ago
It feels like we are falling away from the ideal of speaking plainly. That was a product of idealistic journalism, Strunk & White, and mid-century writers like Hemingway. You will frequently see Tyler Cowen call out “Straussian” prose.
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by Digory 6y ago
I'd be shocked if there wasn't a shareholder class action. I'd almost think they had to price it in, but VW really seems to misunderstand regulatory risk. If a car was going to have shrimp tails in it, it'd be VW.
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by Digory 6y ago
"Naturalism" posits that natural laws are the only rules that govern the structure and behavior of the natural world. So "beyond the natural world" would be shorthand for alternatives to naturalism; the idea there are ru
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by Digory 6y ago
Yes, university tenure is also a demand for “consequence—free speech.” I guess academic freedom was a bad idea.
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by Digory 6y ago
Who's the "B" here? Paypal? Square?
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by Digory 6y ago
The traditional way of solving this problem is to assume stronger social obligations -- to a spouse, and to family, and sometimes community. I realize some people won't do that. But we're talking about tech CEOs, so these are peop
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by Digory 6y ago
Every human being can value traditional female work (or, more broadly, human obligations to each other) more than money. But we seem to want to be paid. It's interesting that socializing the payments seems to strike people as more f
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by Digory 6y ago
All the FB alternatives had crazy spin-up problems for a few days. Prominent cancels on the right and the WhatsApp fiasco freaked out some on the left at about the same time. Signal did as well as anybody. They bounced back after about 48
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by Digory 6y ago
"Choice" is very much alive in your examples. We seem to be in an open fight against negative reinforcement. To say "policing is the consequence of bad behavior," or "You should go to jail for dealing weed" or

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