Tao331

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by Tao331 4y ago
> does it have better content than Twitter? That's a pretty low bar.
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by Tao331 4y ago
> you could perhaps reasonably criticize him if he were using, say, Emacs to do his presentation, and there was a bug preventing him. Emacs doesn't have video conferencing yet?
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by Tao331 4y ago
"Get eggs while you're at the store!" He's still there to this day...
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by Tao331 4y ago
Important bit of state from the Show-Don't-Tell Department: > “Due to unforeseen technical difficulties, RMS gave his talk over audio only.”
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by Tao331 4y ago
;)
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by Tao331 4y ago
The only trick I see is that the copy-paste-find-replace solution is preferable to the one that attempts to maximize reuse.
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by Tao331 4y ago
I suspect these are people who think you're an actor for a nation state who accidentally let slip something s/he knows about Einstein being an alien. I was basically accused of being a Russian agent on here once for using the word
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by Tao331 4y ago
> It's a viral mechanism to franchise selling the scheme. Anyone can buy in, promote the narrative, and get others to buy in. This is a great definition of cryptocurrency. It nicely frames how they become pyramidal.
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by Tao331 4y ago
Please put the cherry back in it's context, or I'll have to ask you to leave the store.
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by Tao331 4y ago
The moth went in because "the light was on", which is vernacular for "open for business", but it has a double meaning because moths are attracted to light at night. The punchline itself is admittedly weak -- the humor co
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by Tao331 4y ago
Have you seen the amount of stuff in Wikipedia that doesn't really merit an entry? Or noticed that Google usually returns a summary from Wikipedia to tell you what the thing you just searched is? The bar to entry is arbitrarily enforce
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by Tao331 4y ago
That was heartbreaking. I really wanted to believe in Scots Wikipedia.
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by Tao331 4y ago
So what you do is write an article with your findings, citing your sources. Then edit wikipedia citing your article.
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by Tao331 4y ago
;)
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by Tao331 4y ago
Socrates wasn't cancelled. Insofar as we can trust Plato and Xenophon, we know who he was and the things he said. Athens may have executed him, but they didn't deplatform him. > Socrates would be jealous. I doubt that very much
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by Tao331 4y ago
"For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture." So I guess you're going with interpr
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by Tao331 4y ago
"Fiduciary Duty Pile-On Thread" is always a good square to score in HN Bingo. Now I just need a guidelines reminder to complete this row...
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by Tao331 4y ago
> don't want an oxygen subscription And that's fine! As long as you stay within the bounds of the free plan, you can have ad-supported oxygen! Terms & Conditions apply.
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by Tao331 4y ago
For most of the company it was an expedition. For York it was more like touring with Motley Crue.
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by Tao331 4y ago
Purportedly, some of these encounters were initiated by the natives as a means to transfer some benefit of manly prowess from the expedition. https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/anthropology/bar-r... Though
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by Tao331 4y ago
> More than a few of the men did end up needing treatment for syphilis, either for pre-existing problems or for ones picked up along the way from friendly Native American women. This struck me as odd. "What? How did syphilis get to
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by Tao331 4y ago
Considering they started calling them "Thunder Clappers", they must have found it entertaining to some extent.
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by Tao331 4y ago
Write code and document it with a dumber version of yourself in mind.
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by Tao331 4y ago
If you believe Hunter S Thompson (I realize that's a big "if") he was one of the most calculating and mean people he'd ever met.
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by Tao331 4y ago
It's "advising" in the same sense that you pay a gangster for "protection". Nice career trajectory you got here, but in a field like this one... shame if something bad happened to it...
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by Tao331 4y ago
Maybe it's not their kid!
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by Tao331 4y ago
When our daughter was 3 or so, she would ask why she wasn't in our wedding pictures. "You weren't born yet" would trigger an incredible meltdown as she confronted the idea of having not been alive. Inconsolable. This kep
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by Tao331 4y ago
Alright, which one of you added the part "A more technically correct way would be to program orthographic ligatures into the font." I know it had to be someone from here.
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by Tao331 5y ago
When has mass adoption of a social networking platform ever worked out well for users?
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by Tao331 5y ago
Note to self: mastodon comes with "people who passionately dislike use of the word toot" already filtered out.

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