JuniperMesos

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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Well, we're all going to die of something unless we invent radical life extension technology. I personally hope that artifical intelligence makes progress on this before I myself get old and die.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
The difference in attitude between cell phone conspiracy theories and data center conspiracy theories is almost entirely driven by the media reporting on them. The media (correctly) identifies people worried about cell phone radiation affec
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
The entire point of cryptocurrency is to be money that is independent of any government's ability to enforce its laws. I would personally vote against polticians who enacted those kinds of regulations; and if they passed anyway I would
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Certainly the fact that Proxmox heavily uses perl is a strike against it. I'm genuinely curious what some reasonable alternatives to it are.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Assertions that Twitter/X was surely going to shut down after the Elon Musk acquisition were wishful thinking on the part of two groups of people: 1) political progressives who liked the way the pre-Elon-Musk management of Twitter enga
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
I don't see how this is any different than the United Kingdom and its monarchy.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
What are you migrating to?
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
So, uh, was the guy planning on bringing the vehicle back to the logging camp? It's not obvious to me that this wasn't in fact vehicle theft.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> It doesn't really make sense to unjustly punish the employees for the employers' mistake, does it? Those foreign employees followed the process. It's not their fault that their employers abused the system. The idea that
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Wikipedia has articles on the general concept of races of humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_(human_categorization) , as well as on specific racial groups such as white people: https://en.wikipedia.or
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
One of the most important ways to make a train network that doesn't suck is to aggressively police the sorts of antisocial behavior on public transit committed by the most marginalized people in society. There are a lot of political ba
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> Car quantity overall goes down unless you can 20x current utilization, which is a lot of trips and fuel. Pretty much every self-driving car will be electric; battery charge has a very different set of considerations than fuel tanks do.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> But on this night, three weeks after the birth of CHOP, the air is filled not with songs, chants and demands for justice, but with paranoia, menace, gunshots. In the absence of police, an armed, voluntary security force emerged, set up
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Bay area housing costs are so expensive that a $10k fancy wooden table starts to look like a reasonably-priced piece of furniture. The expensive thing is the housing square footage to put the table in.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> Dendrite is kind of deprecated as a homeserver these days, at least it doesn't seem to be the main focus of development and most recent commits are mere dependency bumps. Years ago, when the server was set up, choosing Dendrite se
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
I am looking forward to the day when food delivery transport robots fully replace human delivery workers, because the robots don't need to be tipped and have zero chance of spitting in my food if I don't tip them.
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> Starter homes are defined for this analysis as those in the 5th to 35th percentile of home values in a given region. Nationally, the typical starter home is worth about $202,000, up 2.3% from a year ago. Luxury homes are those in the t
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
> Is a lone individual, or even a whole room, clapping a speech, disrupting? Yeah, if the presider of the meeting asks people not to do that in order to get through more comments. > What law has the individual broken by clapping or sp
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Looks like this is basically what happened - the linked video footage https://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/2081182966030745720 shows the guy being asked to leave the meeting by the cops, he refuses to leave and tell
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
Also even before that, many queer bars were owned by institutions like ethnic mafias - it's pretty well known that the famous Stonewall Inn was owned by members of the Italian mafia in the New York City area. There were lots of institu
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by JuniperMesos 2mo ago
The classical cipher component is additonal complexity in the protocol and maybe some meaningful amount of additonal time to compute and key data to store/transmit, is it not? I can see why we'd like to avoid effectively encryptin
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by JuniperMesos 3mo ago
I think it is an American thing; a principled grounded in many Americans not actually believing people like you when they claim "that isn't being suggested". Moralistic arguments that using air conditioning is harmful to soci
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by JuniperMesos 3mo ago
> “We’re private citizens; we don’t need this stuff,” Gunn told CL. “And they’re reporting now that the Chinese have already picked up all of our voter registrations. They’re picking up more information on us, on how we live, and you kno
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by JuniperMesos 3mo ago
And apparently also much more explicit depictions of Kusanagi Motoko having lesbian cyborg sex than in any previous anime adaptation.
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Computable Secrets: computer science from first principles(computablesecrets.com)
2 points by JuniperMesos 3mo ago|0 comments
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by JuniperMesos 3mo ago
> The comments here indicate a surprisingly, in my view, mixed reception, for such an unambiguously good talk? It wasn't an unambiguously good talk. Many of the people attacking various portions of the talk are making good points. I
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by JuniperMesos 3mo ago
It's definitely cultural critique that people who don't agree with his broad political stance will find divisive and mean. I also completely believe that Andrew Kelly is talking sincerely about his own beliefs and experiences, gro
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by JuniperMesos 3mo ago
I'm skeptical that this is true with respect to net worth, given that I have worked at both FAANG and non-FAANG companies and I know what I got paid at one vs the other.
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by JuniperMesos 3mo ago
I am vehemently in favor of politicians in my state who are trying to change laws to remove the ability of public commenters to prevent the construction of new housing, because the status quo for decades has been that whenever developers tr
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by JuniperMesos 3mo ago
You also really don't want ideological NIMBYs protesting against sewage treatment plant construction and claiming that sewage treatment plants are something that only benefit the wealthy.

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