Eumenes

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by Eumenes 3y ago
And people of the revisionist bent consistently project the virtues of current age into introspection of the past
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by Eumenes 3y ago
reddit will be fine w/o the power users, they've been purging them for years ... I have several boomer age family/friends on reddit and they don't even understand the concept that other subreddits exist, they only know t
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Parents fault. credit cards and bank accounts have alerts. Who doesn't check their account's multiple times per week? Even more so if you give your child Free reign
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by Eumenes 3y ago
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/cancer-warning-over...
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."
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by Eumenes 3y ago
How come all these fires started at the same time, on the same day across Quebec? https://is2.4chan.org/pol/1686160767790674.webm
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Dan Carlin has an excellent podcast on Carthage as well: https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-punic-nig...
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Authoritative religious figures stealing baby from a mothers arm and the local shaman sacrificing it on an altar = same as driving a car. Hacker news is a RIOT.
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Homeboy just compared human sacrifice to [current social justice talking points]. Most who died of covid were overweight, old, and had preexisting medical conditions related to lifestyle. They contributed to their own "sacrifice".
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Perhaps they knew something we didn't know. I'm convinced human sacrifice is more than just, lets appease this deity or usher in a form of eugenics/genocide. These people were far more advanced then we give them credit for.
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by Eumenes 3y ago
I simply stopped eating out post covid ... saved tons of money, eating healthier, and zero guilt!
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Also anything past the first page, will just show you crap on the first page. I use to be a power user of operators like 'site:' but agreed, it results in a captcha every other page sometimes.
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by Eumenes 3y ago
I wouldn't suggest AI making policy decisions, but replacing jobs at the post office or DMV. You aren't entitled to a job. Congress can vote on CoL adjustments for workers, both at the state and federal levels. Right now, its pay
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by Eumenes 3y ago
We should be trying to optimize public services, even if that means cutting staff. This is an area where we should 100% leverage AI and automation. Tax dollars shouldn't be used as charity to employ administrative staff. Many states ar
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by Eumenes 3y ago
The UK is an absolute mess in regards to this stuff ... from anti monarchy protestors being arrested, to journalists questioning the Ukraine narrative being arrested ( https://thegrayzone.com/2023/05/30/journal
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Does a splitter cable exist?
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Cause its HBR. Conventional HR wisdom doesn't believe in nuance when its coming from the employers side - everything must be repeatable, process driven, and very corporate. Deviating off of that, is scary because it introduces bias int
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by Eumenes 3y ago
School should be suing the FCC or congress for lack of action around social media ... This isn't about change though, its about $$, so yes, go after the companies to "do better"™
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by Eumenes 3y ago
I wanna know the quality of software developer engineering these features. Are they hiring bootcamp grads?
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by Eumenes 3y ago
I had a very similar problem - a mouse ate through my wiring harness and it was tripping my brakes lights out, which the ECU thought I was braking, and I couldn't accelerate. Took the dealer like 5 trips to figure it out. Insurance cov
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by Eumenes 3y ago
The Byzantine empire fell in 1453 and you can argue that the Vatican maintained some institutional power of western Europe through the middle ages
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by Eumenes 3y ago
One important thing that I feel this article left out was how technological innovation was driven by military endeavors. From antiquity to Europe getting comfortable with gun powder was a very long time. Prior to gun powder, the focus was o
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by Eumenes 3y ago
If you think of the West/US as the inheritor of the Roman Empire, they technically did !!
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Hopefully this accelerates the death of reddit ... I think once they nuke the Google SEO fu they have on questions (they'll screw it up, like Quora did), get rid of NSFW content and kill old.reddit, they're done. That should reduc
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Wonder how many ADHD and depression diagnoses could be flipped with sufficient vitamin D and exercise
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by Eumenes 3y ago
This is an industry that reinvents open source libraries every 3 weeks, so ......
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Unless you have some pre-existing medical condition or are over 45 years old ... I don't see the purpose of annual visits. I'm in my late 30s and haven't gotten a physical in a decade. Why would I? I'm heathy, exercise,
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by Eumenes 3y ago
Companies bribe Glassdoor and those "best places to work" lists with fees, ability to remove negative reviews, etc. Hacker news/Blind/Reddit seem to be better for discussing how its like to work at a company . .. for now
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by Eumenes 3y ago
And its not unjust for the state to seize inheritance in the name of equity? I think there are limits ... I'd like to give my children my wealth when I pass, but I am a modest person, not Bill Gates or Jeff Bezos. We pay tax on our inc
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by Eumenes 3y ago
I wasn't aware of this paper, thank you for sharing. Paine is an interesting character and mused on alot of subjects. Way more utopian in his ideas compared to his peers at the time. Obsessed with Revolution. Wouldn't say economic

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