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by Lazare 6y ago
There's a few answers here. First off, we expect all things to be as resilient and reliable as makes sense via a cost benefit analysis. If it's cheap to fix, and expensive not to fix, we expect it to be done. If it's expensiv
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I don't know anyone who has a problem with books that contain a dash of fantasy, or indeed, nothing but fantasy. A fantasy book with dragons is enjoyable. A book that claimed that dragons really existed historically and were instrume
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by Lazare 6y ago
In my view, the linked article, and the series it is a part of, utterly demolishes the argument that the Dothraki are based on real cultures with a dash of fantasy. If it doesn't convince you, I suspect nothing will.
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by Lazare 6y ago
That would be a strong defence, but I believe GRRM disagrees with you. :) > The Dothraki were actually fashioned as an amalgam of a number of steppe and plains cultures… Mongols and Huns, certainly, but also Alans, Sioux, Cheyenne, and
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by Lazare 6y ago
> if with Telegram "the privacy, security, and governance story is not great though", why would you migrate from WhatsApp to Telegram in first place? A lot of people use WhatsApp for a lot of reasons. If security was foremost o
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by Lazare 6y ago
Telegram is a great IM experience . The client is good, feature set is good, the stickers are amusing (if you're into that kind of thing), the feature set is complete and everything is polished. Telegram is, I think, going to be one o
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by Lazare 6y ago
The headline seems to be....quite accurate. What a terrible job by Sixty Minutes. Then again, Sixty Minutes has a long history of making stuff up, lying about it, or peddling other peoples lies without bothering to investigate (eg, https:&
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by Lazare 6y ago
> The problem I had with KSUID is that they have a custom format, so not optimised in Postgres As far as I'm aware, Postgres doesn't really have any "optimisations" for UUIDs. The type just provides some help for norm
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by Lazare 6y ago
I replied in haste, and was incorrect. Mea culpa.
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I also spent some time evaluating them, and came to the conclusion that KSUIDs ( https://github.com/segmentio/ksuid ) were strictly better than ULIDs. The differences aren't huge in practice, but the ULID spec has a
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by Lazare 6y ago
There's a hundred small issues with Jira, but there's one huge one: It's slow. Really, really slow. Atlassian seems to make a lot of money, so I guess they're optimising for something that matters to someone , but fr
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The FDA forced distilleries to add methanol to the hand sanitiser, despite that causing significantly higher costs and delays. I'm not sure you could have have this story more backwards.
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by Lazare 6y ago
That's not entirely true. Historically, the US distinguished between European hemp (aka Cannabis Sativa), grown for its fibres and with a lower THC content, and Indian hemp (aka Cannabis Indica), which was sometimes grown for its fibre
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by Lazare 6y ago
In many countries, hemp was banned as part of the ban on cannabis. The US effectively banned hemp production prior to WWII, although temporary exceptions were made during WWII due to needing hemp fibre for war time production. Hemp producti
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by Lazare 6y ago
FWIW, Joplin allows you to have a single panel "raw markdown" view, and you can just assume it'll all render the way you want, and maybe double check at the end. I find that works well for me. As you say, previewing what bold
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by Lazare 6y ago
A bit of everything. Nothing is SUPER bad, it's just always, always a little slower than you'd expect/hope. UI lag and page load are the big ones. Not terrible , just...you can tell it's a big pile of JS written by a te
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by Lazare 6y ago
I wasn't using Notion for it's collaboration features, but as a personal wiki/knowledgebase/note taking application. Basically, I want an app I can run on my desktop and phone, I can shovel every random thought, link, id
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by Lazare 6y ago
I love the idea of Notion, and I love what the team is trying to do, and I love almost all of Notion. Unfortunately, it's too slow , at least for me. For a tool like that I need it to be a frictionless as possible, and Notion (for me!
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by Lazare 6y ago
> show that their argument belittling the BLM protests was correct. David Shor has not, to my knowledge, ever made an argument belittling the BLM protests. I welcome any links you have that might demonstrate otherwise. > how wrong i
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by Lazare 6y ago
You probably know this, but sprints have been added to Clubhouse, and they've tinkered a bit with teams and projects to be more sensible.
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> There is no evidence nuclear waste can be disposed of safely in the medium or long term. There's no evidence that it can't be. And given that it's pretty safe, pretty stable, and there's not much of it, the burden o
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by Lazare 6y ago
> It seems entirely plausible to me That is plausible. It's also plausible Amazon, who famously has poor customer service and often makes mistakes when their automated system glitch, has done so yet again. You are, of course, free t
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by Lazare 6y ago
> At least four customers complained that the merchandise was not authentic. According to the article, one customer said the item didn't fit, and wondered if it might be a knock-off, but they didn't outright claim it was. And t
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by Lazare 6y ago
> the lowest hanging fruit seems to be noting that you’ve seemingly forgotten about freedom of the press with all your examples. That's a deep, deep non sequitur. Citzens United was about whether the government can stop corporations
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by Lazare 6y ago
You're totally right. As long as you have a different, secure password for every site and service, and you keep a careful list of all of them, and make sure to keep this list backed up, and encrypted, and sync this list across your dev
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by Lazare 6y ago
Are you really arguing that laws restricting or compelling the speech of media outlets is fine? That, eg, it would be perfectly constitutional had the Republicans passed a law making criticism of Trump by newspapers or television channels i
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by Lazare 6y ago
> I think the main problem with the decision was the assertion that entities like corporations, rather than simply individuals, have free speech. The decision did not assert or assume this. It rested on the idea that individual have righ
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by Lazare 6y ago
Money isn't abortion either, but the Supreme Court would toss out a law instantly that claimed not to ban abortion, but to ban spending money to obtain an abortion. Money is a tool which enables people to exercise a right. Limiting y
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> what about citizens united Sure, what about a decision that said individuals do not lose their free speech writes when they organise collectively, and that it would be a grossly illegal for government to muzzle groups like the New York
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Put it this way: It's possible that you could manufacture LCDs profitably in Wisconsin... ...but nobody has ever proposed an even vaguely plausible plan to do so. Foxconn seems to have to viewed it as so obviously absurd they never eve

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