JuniperMesos

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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
Perhaps the judge in this case thought the same thing you did - that being a lawyer in a law firm that at one point took a public, pro-immigration-enforcement political stance makes you a "clearly unreliable and outrage-seeking" p
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
Maybe right-wing agitators should make a point of trying to get Judge Brian J. Smalls of the 9th Judicial District Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court of Virginia under formal legal scrutiny for abusing his authority as a judge
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
It also reduces the number of Indian people who physically reside in the US and can influence the American political system.
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
Why is it bad to make a codebase better for agentic development?
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
Several of the claims of on-site water pollution that I've looked into were clearly bullshit, basically unrelated to a building being a data center at all; and I have no reason to think that the claims of people being impacted by exces
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
This specific argument will move some people who weren't in favor of the rename in the direction of supporting it.
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
I would say that the traditional notion of Unix root and normal user accounts is outdated, no longer useful for how people use computers today. On my personal laptop, malicious code having access to my user files is as bad as having root ac
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
And the word "pine" is kinda close to "penis", what of it? Words in languages sometimes sound kinda like rude or sexual vocabulary, especially in a language like Japanese with a relatively small phoneme inventory.
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
This is a weird metaphor - why do you think people buy matcha at coffeeshops or use peptides? Those two things don't have anything obvious to do with each other, let alone with Omarchy.
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
Meta's stock price went up on the news, which I took to be a sign of the settlement costing less than investors feared it would when they previously priced meta stock. I didn't think about the regulatory capture angle.
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
> In February of this year, federal prosecutors twice sought search warrants for account information for the YouTube channel of Fort and the journalist Don Lemon, both of whom have pleaded not guilty to criminal charges in connection to
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
Cryptocurrency advocates are the more useful ideological group in this situation I think - the main way that this US government designation harms Autistici/Inventati is by cutting them off from legitimate fiat payment rails controlled
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
How many of those same people are Republicans today, because of various shifts in the political positions the different American political parties take with respect to demographic groups such as men?
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
And just like stochaistic terror, it's a label you can apply to basically any media you don't like, that seems to support a political agenda you are opposed to.
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
Where I live, if data centers actually had the power to cut home values in half then supporting building more data centers would become my single biggest political priority. I do not own the place I live, and every dollar of property apprec
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
Musk's takeover of Twitter was in fact a net win for free speech, in large part because it encouraged large numbers of people to actually abandon the platform and post on somewhat-more-censorship-resistent platforms instead, which thos
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
I would support a law requiring official government messages to be promulgated only via channels that do not require an account to view. It's not the most important thing to spend political capital on, but it would have the positive ef
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
Dishing it out but not accepting it being done to them is exactly what it means to be a monopoly on legitimate violence. When two parties are dishing it out separately to each other, and one of them calls themselves the government, this is
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I think the data center backlash is mostly about data centers(blog.andymasley.com)
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by JuniperMesos 1mo ago
The sorts of people who turnstile jump are likely to commit further crimes on the public transit system that more directly affect the ordinary people trying to use it legitimately. For this reason I specifically want the police to prioritiz
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
The system I'm complaining about is Google forms, not any open-source software project. I cannot actually improve it because I am not Google.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Why should you adjust for socio-economic factors though? Migrants coming to a new country where they score systematically worse on some kind of socio-economic metric, and then systematically committing more crime than the indigenous populat
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
I've run into a lot of Google forms for projects that do in fact require me to log in with a Google account in order to submit, which I think might be related to Google detecting that I'm using a VPN and treating the submission as
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Inflation of the USD is considerably higher than 2% and has been for a while now.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
An NFT doesn't have to be just a link; nothing in principle stops someone creating a NFT that stores the full bytes of some digital asset directly on the blockchain, just as nothing in principle stops someone from creating a NFT that d
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
These are good qualities in general; but it's worth asking why this anti-censorship technology required funding from one organization (Protocol Labs) that could cut off that funding and now has done so. Being economically non-viable wi
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
It's a problem for the entire ecosystem that the most expedient thing to do, the thing that we should have sympathy for them picking under a time of stress, is the thing that relies on people who want to communicate with them having a
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> If you have a favourite memory of working with Shipyard, or an idea you always hoped IPFS would eventually achieve, we’d love to hear it. Google Form One important thing I'd like to see IPFS or a similar decentralized web technolo
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Yeah, there are retrocomputing hobbyists who mess around with sometimes-physically-large computers that were important many decades ago. I don't know if anyone is hacking on vacuum tubes of the kind that you could in principle build a
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
I'd say that's such an important oversimplification that it's tantamount to a lie. Bitcoin's issuance model is one of the several completely novel financial concepts that Bitcoin introduced, and involves mentally-modelin

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