Twixes

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by Twixes 6y ago
That's not an alternative, health insurance is mandatory anyway by virtue of us being made of flesh – the alternative is going bankrupt due to having no leverage after getting treatment for anything.
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by Twixes 6y ago
That's not theft, just policy. The state is exactly what enforces the concept of property (private, public, or otherwise), if there's popular support for the state to incentivize private property owners to act in the interest of t
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by Twixes 6y ago
What do you mean by "degenerating"? Is for instance today's English degenerated in comparison to the English of 100 years ago?
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by Twixes 6y ago
The Touch Bar is really nice.
155.
by Twixes 6y ago
The stylus comment was more of a quib on clunky resistive touchscreen which forced phones to come with a stylus rather than the idea of drawing with a stylus being bad.
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by Twixes 6y ago
I love Homebrew – but it really isn't that much of an achievement compared to damn Python, and I also have no idea who is its creator.
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by Twixes 6y ago
These people won't get much better if they go to prison though. Well, yeah, they'll have difficulty shooting heroin, but they definitely won't get better. They need healthcare and at the very least a safe roof over their head
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by Twixes 6y ago
I can recommend Kea, which is quite beautifully elegant compared to all the plain Redux boilerplate. https://kea.js.org/
159.
by Twixes 6y ago
That user base basically looks like Voat. As in, not pleasant.
160.
by Twixes 6y ago
French and English have much much more in common than English and Mandarin though.
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by Twixes 6y ago
It is quite common for names to need administrative approval in Europe. Rarely is that an obstacle, it's just so that people don't name their kid "Fuck", "X Æ A-12" or something else that could cause them to ha
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by Twixes 6y ago
Copyright laws _are_ overly restrictive, but that's not what gives Apple and Google such power. It's how much they're established in the mobile systems market - which is not a free market. At this point it would be a miracle
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by Twixes 6y ago
This feels like sarcasm but I honestly can't tell with fans of PRC's authoritarianism aka ""socialism" with Chinese characteristics" popping into various discussions about Chinese violations of human rights.
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by Twixes 6y ago
Saggitarius A* at the center of our galaxy is at the center of our galaxy, obscured by a soup of stars. This distant black hole on the other hand is positioned so that it's activity is visible to us.
165.
by Twixes 6y ago
If anything, NSA are the true traitors of their nation.
166.
by Twixes 6y ago
Surely Africa… half joking, half serious.
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by Twixes 6y ago
They don't need your IP, they've already got it. They scan all of IPv4 around the clock.
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by Twixes 6y ago
Brb, buying a 787
169.
by Twixes 6y ago
It's quite amazing that all these years on, SQL is still king. There are basically no rules for the syntax, how come nothing cleaner replaced it in RDBMSes?
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by Twixes 6y ago
Malformed link it appears!
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by Twixes 6y ago
Their GPUs are great. But their business practices are bad, and if they apply them to ARM, that will hurt us all.
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by Twixes 6y ago
Poland definitely could be a lot better, but these are some odd points. VAT is higher than in Germany, but lower than in Sweden. Nothing that gets anyone going really. Real estate is quite cheap (dollar to dollar, not exactly for Poles) for
173.
by Twixes 6y ago
Yes, on the face it's tautological. In reality it isn't, because black lives clearly do not matter as much as white ones, particularly to the police, but also to many other institutions public and private alike. That's what t
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by Twixes 6y ago
Writing "Russia" in a nevertheless plausibly deniable way might exactly be the point though.
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by Twixes 6y ago
I imagine grandparent meant the broad field of software. Where you do need at least somewhat performant hardware and an environment to focus in to enter it. To be an entrepreneur, you do need connections and a cushion (like savings or famil
176.
by Twixes 6y ago
I love Apple design, but the mice are meh. MX Master 3 on the other hand… brilliance all around.
177.
by Twixes 6y ago
Any 2020 MacBook with 4 Thunderbolt ports and 16 GB of RAM or more should be pretty great (I really like the Touchbar though).
178.
by Twixes 6y ago
This was feasible here in Poland and some other European countries managed to proceed with exams seemingly safely as well.
179.
by Twixes 6y ago
Don't devour me… But I really like it. It can do a lot more than F keys and I've never really used those.
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by Twixes 6y ago
Yeah, that's more in line with their system.

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