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by Redoubts 5y ago
Last time someone tried that, they capped property taxes by ballot initiative instead.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
I’m sure there are many many more reasons for enjoying a return to the office.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
Willfully missing the point is typically a negative quality.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
> not specifically COVID19, but we can infer You can’t do this with the vaccines too? Especially in the realm of long-term-sleeper side effects? > relative risk of the virus (basically 0%) vs the vaccine (2% risk of severe incident) I
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by Redoubts 5y ago
> If you’re at the point in your life where you can make major sacrifices to a greater cause On the flip side, you’re making major sacrifices for the direct benefit of one of the richest men on the planet.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
Do they hand out good chunks of equity for this at least?
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by Redoubts 5y ago
> Finally, the numbers of people dedicated to improving CPython performance in an upstreamable fashion is ridiculously low compared to other languages Yeah because Guido and the maintainers have proclaimed multiple times that they prefer
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by Redoubts 5y ago
Well, it could also be like the Manhattan Project. Once you do it, everyone can get nukes.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
I think it’s subjective, both gnome and elementary seem like interesting designs. But Elementary is obviously inspired by macOS so it’s going to attract people who like that over Gnome’s take, or would otherwise like the windows XP end of t
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by Redoubts 5y ago
Glad we’ve entered the year of the Linux desktop.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
Yeah, but that’s what Android is for. I have absolutely no faith that developers won’t pick the easiest, cheapest, least restrictive distribution channel available. And I have every inclination they will sacrifice every user desire for priv
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by Redoubts 5y ago
iPad is probably the best choice for most, and is what most of my older relatives have independently chosen.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
50 years of worse-is-better ruling the software world suggests otherwise.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
Yeah though I can see people not wanting to deploy a fat runtime just to run some cli tools.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
Yeah, I have a 2013 Mac Pro that still gets Big Sur updates.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
Or conducting paints! https://www.lessemf.com/paint.html (Warning, literal tin foil hat site)
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by Redoubts 5y ago
Not sure what you mean, he revealed the UK gov was a willing co-conspirator.
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by Redoubts 5y ago
> And the one quarter, we didn't get the max bonus. In fact, I don't think we got it all. Was there a clear reason for this? Given how it’s framed, it sounds like there wasn’t.
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by Redoubts 6y ago
Really was a case of ligma after all.
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by Redoubts 6y ago
Yeah, kinda wish they'd redo GTA 1969 though.
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by Redoubts 6y ago
“Only” six people so far have suffered this, but they’re in a younger cohort so it’s worth taking very seriously.
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U.S. Calls for Pause on Johnson and Johnson Vaccine After Clotting Cases(nytimes.com)
24 points by Redoubts 6y ago|13 comments
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by Redoubts 6y ago
Given the upload bandwidth is so paltry, I’m surprised they’re complaining at all.
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by Redoubts 6y ago
Sorry, could you explain what’s straightforward about the first quote?
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by Redoubts 6y ago
> How the world has changed... Was this before of after the release of Windows XP Embedded?
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An Accidental Disclosure Exposes a $1B Tax Fight with Bristol Myers(nytimes.com)
3 points by Redoubts 6y ago|0 comments
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by Redoubts 6y ago
It would be fun if we got some federal law which invalidated this landed gentry legislation.
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by Redoubts 6y ago
> the red/blue function trap What should have been done here?
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by Redoubts 6y ago
What's the label/musician split again?
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by Redoubts 6y ago
Interesting. Looks like they're talking about the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine which uses a reengineered virus as a delivery mechanism.

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