Igelau

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by Igelau 5y ago
> that ship has sailed and it's ok. I've seen this comic, and the dog is melting in the next panel.
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by Igelau 5y ago
> Which begs the question Heh. I think you just unintentionally used this correctly by assuming there even is a new use case.
453.
by Igelau 5y ago
So in other words, there's a campaign (centralized or not) to pump Chia on HN? :(
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by Igelau 5y ago
Lobbyists lobby.
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by Igelau 5y ago
He also designed Amatic SC, which is practically everywhere.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Field Notes, Terran Expedition 6, Chief Archivist Blaxarll: "Terran life took a sudden dramatic shift after the fall of Hominid dominance. The turning point appears to have occured when the sacrificial demands of Blockchain worship spi
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by Igelau 5y ago
Pha loves Pa.
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by Igelau 5y ago
> I used the word deliberately. They mistook their relationship with their employees for a feudal one Feudalism: "the dominant social system in medieval Europe, in which the nobility held lands from the Crown in exchange for militar
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by Igelau 5y ago
At that level, "cheaper" is the killer feature. There's no competing with the cheaper option.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Result: a class of families consisting of unemployable parents supported by the state and their own working children :(
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by Igelau 5y ago
No one is good with Excel. Only Socrates is, and he knows he isn't good with Excel.
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by Igelau 5y ago
I refer to mine as pint-sized biological weapons labs. I never thought catching a cold was such a big deal until I caught one that had been mutated first by preschoolers.
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by Igelau 5y ago
IBM
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by Igelau 5y ago
The funny thing is I can't even vote with my dollars. Most of the ads I get are for insurance companies that have already refused to touch my century-old house with knob-and-tube wiring.
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by Igelau 5y ago
The actual travel distance would be further because you can't just bore through the moon.
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by Igelau 5y ago
Still holding out for an article about the benefits of Covid before you find out what that is?
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by Igelau 5y ago
This is special. It's bad enough that too much of the internet is in walled gardens. It's bad enough that one company makes most of the browser and search decisions. It's bad enough that phones have controlled app ecosystems.
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by Igelau 5y ago
I'm using YouTube less and less. The ads have become intolerable, and I had my own bad experience with their copyright violation detection. That's the easiest one for me to abandon.
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by Igelau 5y ago
I shall seek out this teacher, whose name I assume rhymes with "Boing".
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by Igelau 5y ago
I had the darkly humorous experience of meeting my HR rep for the very first time on a (pre-pandemic) video conference. Meeting agenda? I'm being fired! Of course now that we all live in Covidland, we've had horror stories of whol
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by Igelau 5y ago
I can't even read your butchering of my words for all the bracketing. You call it implication born between my words, but I call it interpretation born between your ears. What it's confessing, I have no idea.
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by Igelau 5y ago
> Does that make it more clear why that phrasing should be called out? You have successfully obscured the issue even further by introducing the irrelevant factor of race. > sloppy reasoning and other prejudices should be resisted when
473.
by Igelau 5y ago
Noted. Next factor in: [1] the fascistic pricks of my generation (who are still most of today's fascistic pricks) happen to be what I said they were, and [2] I never said all Boomers were lead-contaminated or that this was historical
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by Igelau 5y ago
Ageist? I didn't say they all were, just the ones with this special kind of anti-youth aggression. You know, the ageist ones.
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by Igelau 5y ago
I wish I knew. I tend to have pretty dry affect at certain hours of the day, which has caused considerable frustration for myself and others when I know I'm sincere but they don't. Nor does it make much sense to me for that sort o
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by Igelau 5y ago
D_wnv_te ratio here is a decent indicator of the proportion of readers who are out of touch with the experience of being a teenager in an environment run by administrators who are violently hellbent on making sure no one is allowed to do an
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by Igelau 5y ago
I pretty much never use Python. I've false started on getting into it a couple times, but never quite got enough fun or dollars out of it to stick with it. That said, whenever an interesting or controversial PEP starts making the round
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by Igelau 5y ago
Ah, the classic "Death Cube and Tracker Drone" design pattern. DCTD for short.
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by Igelau 6y ago
What a long, strange trip it's been.
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by Igelau 6y ago
Because at some point you just have to say times were different. I know, it sounds horrible, but I don't mean this in some "things were different when Grandma was growing up" kind of way. Societal norms actually do shift, and

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