Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 1y ago
This an example of the agency shell game where your argument assumes the side you want to bash has agency and thus responsibility. And the side you want to shield does not so is blameless.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I have a friend that used to work for TV people at one time. End of comment about those people, it is so much worse than you can imagine.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I'm not sure what to say about people that encourage other people to keep starting wars they can't win instead of cutting a deal. While being at no personal risk themselves.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Best response to AI scrapers is to poison their models.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
A friend had an apt description of these guys. They are TV people. Take that and run with it and it all makes sense.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
You're confused because you favor a simplistic view of the world where you have evil people and good people. The US is not an enemy of Palestinians in general. Policies historically reflect conflicting goals and problematic facts on th
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Because we have people like you such things are unfortunately necessary.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
If you know your history the US has always been run by lawyers until about 50 years ago when it started being run by MBA's and Finance Capitalists.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
We need people to charge their EV's when the sun is shining. At least in California. But perhaps not Scotland and Germany. Given Californians drive 340 billion miles a year at 3.5 kwh per mile and 2200 hours of sunlight a year. I get y
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Marvin the Paranoid Android voice. 'Oh... that. Just do a linear search on a dictionary. Put the small words first. I know it's woefully inefficient but you won't fuck that up'
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
What I think is one should question if something is the point of the exercise. I'd argue that where writing spelling is something completely arbitrary and thus of no fundamental importance. Arithmetic is the same way, lots of algorithm
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Wholesale violations of legal and social norms as the secret sauce that will give your company a leg up? Sure if we get caught the stockholders will have to pay to keep our asses out of jail. But we'll get to keep our share of the loot
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Oh absolutely not true AT ALL.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I'm not smarter than you but. I believe the terms reified generics and erased generics is the type sweaty donkey ball terminology you get for professional CS academics. Sticking my neck out further. Reified generics means the type is a
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
An observation is because women's unpaid labor is valued at zero people then assume the cost of raising children to adulthood is also zero. Classic neoliberalism is to add 'without spending money' to questions like how can we
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
My theory is in the US light vehicle sales have been flat for 40 years. Yeah sales fluctuate depending on how confident people are. Only way then to increase revenue is to sell more car.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
George Orwell made a comment that the landlord in the impoverished coal mining town he visited was usually an old widow. Always gets me is the ideological contortions people will get up to in order to not face that California is short a cou
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
There is an argument that common stock is just a type of fiat currency issued by a non bank corporation.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
My thoughts about this after 50 years of thinking about it is that war results in a relentless normalization of deviance. It's a good reason not to start wars.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Considering current shitshow reaction to having to deal with smaller issues I'm not optimistic about how that's going to play out.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
First thing the new Arab countries did when they gained independence after WWII was to kick out the Jews. It's an ideologically motivated fiction that Israeli's are all Zionist colonizers from Europe. 60% of them are refugees from
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
After working at small companies most of my career. Anytime someone angrily states that little people must pay their bills or else I reflexively think about how much corporate America does not. Really common they'll withhold the last p
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
If you're going to make statements like that you should at least know your history. Egypt ended up with Gaza after the 1948 Arab Israeli war. They controlled Gaza until the 6 day war when they lost it and the Sinai Peninsula. Israel of
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I remember reading that google tried to impress on WG21 and 14 the need to update the ABI and they were utterly opposed. The result is google is no longer interested in C++. Apple I think is also no longer interested in C++. I think also Sw
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
What I realized when I bought a house was for an owner occupier buying a house is the only way to 'invest' the money you'd otherwise spend on rent. You'd never make such a low return illiquid investment otherwise.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Egypt tries to keep the border sealed because Hamas supplies money and weapons to Islamic terrorists in the northern Sinai. Notable Israel offered Gaza to Egypt as part of the Camp David Accords and Egypt didn't want it.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
What helps you get a little more oxygen to you muscles thus winning the race is worth nothing to someone pushing a shopping cart around Costco.
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
I've read a few references to electrocatalysts where you use electricity to promote reactions potentially ones that are endothermic. One wonders a bit, you take hydrogen and nitrogen to make ammonia. Then you spray that on a field and
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
This reminds me of a coworker that was writing a program for some late 80's based DSP accelerator. He tried compiling the thing and nothing happened for a few minutes and then it printed out 'too many errors'. When he went to
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by Gibbon1 1y ago
Unless I'm going senile, I've done this calculation a few times and consistently I get that a solar farm produces 25-50 times more energy a year than corn.

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