FiggyPudding

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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Think of the real estate value living near the food forest... Like central park in NYC, why don't we cut that in half and put up more high rises on our precious expensive land.
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
"breeding out" is the horrible version of eugenics. Gene editing is the less family destroying, individual abusing way to go. As long as it's more focused on disease removal and less about having thousands of [insert favorit
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Novel Results Considered Harmful(adamdrake.com)
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
I do love lucid dreams but I'm going to need milder non-prescription chemicals. Just need to be content practicing the mnemonic induction I guess, I've never done it seriously enough to see if it works. Similarly with those games
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Well said, I hope for a thoughtful rebuttal.
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
I cowardly use tabs viewed as 2 spaces so if needed in the future some quick lazy code like sed can convert it to 4 spaces or something if someone demands.
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Fibonacci? Never! Golden ratio with fractional spaces. With fibonacci someone is always going to screwup the whitespace. :p
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Notepad++ has a nice feature to convert leading spaces and tabs back and forth though I never used it on a big mess of a file to convert to tabs to see if it is successful there. Every editor I've encountered beyond Notepad/Wordpa
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Some of these comments seem to support that LBRY thing that was on HN again recently if using it for blog docs instead of videos
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Throwing around 'psychopaths' remember a good number of people grow up with abuse or neglect. Probably easier for them not to care about distant strangers and meaningless numbers. We are a vast planet with 99.99% of people in ne
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
There are 2 kinds of people/governments during a pandemic: Those with okay parents, and those who need that inheritance/medical savings On a serious note, were Sweden's larger deaths early on in the pandemic when the governme
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Probably not. Because that turns lives into statistics and he is making an emotional appeal about the 10000 theoretical families affected by lost loved ones. I for example, frequently look at local hospitalization rates and remind myself t
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
I'm talking from the point of view that the lockdown measures managed to keep ICU capacity open which reduced our current excess mortality observed. As far as I've read ICU capacity dropped greatly in many countries over the past
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
I guess it helps to know where/when you can stop assuming everyone else is a seething virus cauldron. Or from more testing... Peace of mind for the testee, social liability coverage for self or employer, knowing if infections are incre
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Necessary for what? To convince everyone to stop with masks and restrictions? It's not just about mortality rates. The other problem is hospitalizations. If you get in a bad car accident, get a bad infection, or have a pregnancy go
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Chin diaper
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Probably why most of the richest Americans are working on spaceflight to colonize the moon instead of carbon emissions. Not going to get enough people to do these things and they don't want to foot the bill themselves. They have those
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
For all we know a few choke point suppliers could say let's be like De beers and manufacture more scarcity of something like Neodymium or further down the supply chain buy most of a resource up and sit on it. Uncertainty of the future
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
"I think Facebook spends much more resources than TV channels and newspapers trying to address such issues." Proportional to their extremely greater profit they better be. "All of those nasty effects of social media existed b
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Government Warning: (1) According to the Surgeon General, people should not pursue "likes" as it may lead to mental health defects. (2) Consumption of social media impairs your ability to drive a car or operate machinery and may
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Maybe they are hedging pipeline failure and clean up costs with water profit... This exchange was nice. What are alternatives to markets? Government direction of all economic developments? AI overlord telling everyone what to build and ex
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Wouldn't this also open up to foreign influence dumping money and misinformation to promote negative policy decisions. Or not even foreign influence. It's just rephrasing money = speech. Instead of spending millions to influence
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Could argue they sell more by fashion and desire to have the newest thing than people caring at all about specs, more ram or cpu or x% better resolution etc.
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
With wacked US politics lately business regulations are just turned on and off as the parties trade control. Laws will probably make it harder to kick off foreign influencers and bots with plausible deniability if it's protecting reg
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
It's not super hard to resist using your primary Google account to tell people to kill themselves, or that you are going to kill them, or tell others in general to attack people or places. If you own a Nest Thermostat you probably own
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
This is the first time I heard of acab. If anything thanks for the laughs. It's a hilarious acronym, I was expecting something highbrow like apartheid government claims.
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Might need to worry about crane or boat house exploding against the neighbors
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
That's probably very regional considering the different reactions to COVID everywhere
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Still the trouble of learning history to reason what ought to be... STEM education leaves that out. In the US you need to actively research recent history to even know we did anything in the middle east, barely know anything about the rela
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by FiggyPudding 5y ago
Thanks, I'm interested in this too. I have seen talk about the issue of your restore image containing unpatched (or even zero day) vulnerabilities. So you need to worry about your restored systems quickly becoming compromised again. A

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