PhasmaFelis

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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Does it do that? Why?
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> I've wanted this for ages, Laptop ergonomics are horrible. When traveling I use a portable monitor, keyboard, mouse. Yes it's annoying to travel with all that but worth it not to end my work days with neck pain and a migraine
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
You can do your own research on how much disposable monthly income the typical low-to-middle-class American has, and how much good (i.e. significantly better than employer-provided) insurance costs.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
A lot more. More than the majority of people are able to.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
It is indeed privilege, and that's worth noting, but acting like having privilege makes you a bad person really misses the point.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Everything Brian Thompson did was legal, which is not the same thing as being "innocent."
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Agreed. Not monstrous, but troubling. It is bizarre that people are smugly dogpiling on you for showing a shred of empathy.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
We are talking about an all-infecting pandemic. You can certainly weaponize it, if you think global collapse sounds fun. What you can't do is target it.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I've read that he had cronies in the military. My only guess is that he was hoping they'd back him hard enough to suppress the opposition. (Either by ignoring the vote, or by preventing them from voting in the first place--which i
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I'm suddenly feeling very naive for assuming all this time that Y-Combinator/Hacker News was, in some sense, the good guys.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
I mean, personally, I would also hang up on a human who called trying to sell me shit. I don't need to know the difference.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
We're not talking about a targeted weapon, we're talking about accidentally unleashing an unstoppable global pandemic. If only China is risking that, the odds are better for everyone.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Microscopic organisms mutate rapidly and unpredictably, so this sounds like a "swallow a spider to catch the fly" situation.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
If you can't get funding for your research, or publish under your real name if you do, it's certainly going curtail research at least. It could still happen if some nations refuse to endorse the ban, but there will at least be les
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> Look at the quote from Zuckerberg where he expresses regret for the poor choices he and his company made I'm sure Zuckerberg does have regrets, but I think it's a mistake to assume they align with actual human interest except
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> Am I missing something here? This is a graphics card.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Source?
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Ugh, "Ninite." Thanks, autocorrect.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Also a good point. One time I couldn't remember what Minute (multi-app installer) was called, so I googled "the thing what downloads all the things" and lo and behold, Google found it. Their algo used to be really clever.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
In this particular case, it seems like the attackers were trying for plausible deniability (making it look like an accident with an anchor). A comprehensive series of "accidents" wouldn't fit that goal. (And if they decide th
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Not for more than five years or so, at least.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> You don't notice that it isn't giving you the best result That's fine. It's always been fine. I don't need Google to read my mind and fulfill my dreams. The problem isn't that they're not divinely p
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
That is impressive and terrifying.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
As far as I can tell, you're both saying the same thing: that registering a ship in China does not mean China is responsible for that ship's actions. If you've got a different point to make, please make it clear.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
> Mr. Wurth, who tended bar in Chicago for 10 years before moving down South, takes Polaroids of Malört first-timers and asks them to write descriptions of the drink on the border. Hundreds of snapshots plaster the walls of the bar’s tw
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
"FireDucks: Pandas but Faster" sounds like it's about something much more interesting than a Python library. I'd like to read that article.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
The Idiocracy theory. The trouble is that the traits behind the birthrate differences you're observing aren't genetic but financial: it's not genetically "dumb" people who have more kids, it's poor people, an
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
These experiments are exactly why people were excited about cryonics, until they realized that it doesn't work on anything much larger than a rat. You have to thaw them right down to the core very quickly; you need to get the heart p
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
It's on the front page right now. This is a really weird thing to get paranoid about. Alex Jones was no exemplar of conservative values, for all that he repeated some conservative talking points.
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by PhasmaFelis 2y ago
Interestingly, you can freeze a rat solid in liquid nitrogen--completely solid right through--and then thaw them out in a microwave and they actually survive. Well, many of them survive. For a while. Okay, it's not good for the rats bu

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