SomeOldThrow

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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Rule of law is used by all states regardless of quality. What makes China autocratic but, say, national security letters non-autocratic?
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
This is true of all countries. Try posting threats about federal employees and you will also get arrested.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
You can use the adult content restriction feature to blacklist domains. This only works for content loaded in a browser that respects resource filtering, like safari, and won’t affect things like apps at all. Or pihole! That’s the most effe
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
> “A lot of water went into the start of the tunnel and then it froze to ice, so it was like a glacier when you went in,” she told the Guardian. Fortunately, the meltwater did not reach the vault itself, the ice has been hacked out, and
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Man I’d love to just throw a tesla engine into like a Corolla. I’m sure there’s good reasons it’s not like that but this is some stupid bullshit to have to wade through.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Why are the door handles that expensive? What can even break about them?
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
How good are Japanese cars?
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Actually this is a missing piece that essentially allows content based micro transactions and allows cutting out ad salesmen. Win for everyone. But ad salesmen.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
How do you even take 3 semesters of category theory?
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Maybe, I think it depends on your expectations.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
This seems like a reasonable definition of implanting to me—it’s east to trivialize this with “just”, but intent to implant and visible indication of implanted behavior are both in place here. What mechanism would you expect implantation to
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
> Certainly there must be something in the universe that "started it all" and has no origin of itself. Why not have the creator exist inside of time, or around it, or beside it? Maybe all existence was just out to tea right the
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
What are the alternatives? Even with panspermia life would have had to begin elsewhere. The universe would have been too hot at the Big Bang to support organic molecules if that theory is true. Even with “intelligent design” the intelligenc
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Actually yea, we should be doing absolutely everything possible to get cars off the road.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
The answer is yes.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
> Libra might not dominate the world, but it'll be a success (at least a niche success) and it'll eat up some of the marketshare of these financial institutions. This relies on people consciously choosing to give money to libra
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
The claim is that only hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen are necessary for the base nucleotides, right?
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Are you implying America discriminates against the mentally ill?
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
While that is true, nobody fits neatly into a right/left spectrum.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
If that were the case Fidel Castro would have gotten it.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
We all know the cause of homelessness and it ain’t an excess of tolerance, that’s for damn sure.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Hell, it’s nakedly visible in policy in treatment of children from different cultures in the US itself. Xenophobia is a known route to power. This impulse CAN be countered by putting it in the light. Policy can and should always be driven i
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
> If we avoid straws and stop there, the action doesn't add up. Ehh, not much point in doing this without also tossing some execs in prison. People won’t see the justice in it otherwise and it will continue to fail catastrophically.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Fwiw my question was not intended to be facetious and it may not be obvious what makes Windows worth using.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
What’s the killer app for win32?
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Presumably you can still use a window manager to page through all that content.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Schumpeter
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
In the long view, all tech companies are small bubbles. They don’t stick around and have no long term value.
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
Hey I was just trying to figure out if you were bringing up anything of value :)
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by SomeOldThrow 7y ago
> I do find if I walk into the random restaurant on a street I expect to be unimpressed, even in SF. My sincere condolences.

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