Xorakios

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by Xorakios 3y ago
Writing as someone who actually live and voted in California in 1978, the core idea was that seniors were being forced to sell their homes because real estate values and taxes were rising faster than their fixed incomes could support. The J
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perhaps at theme parks or bribing bouncers/maitre's d not at government checkpoints
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How is your life, or anyone's life, made better, by shading someone from doing some interesting and awesome? Shading something you can quote, that you didn't contribute to, with different numbers makes you happier? Science shouldn
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by Xorakios 3y ago
By definition in formal economic theory, capitalism is rewarding people for saving/investing instead of spending all their money. By definition in formal economic theory, the free market is a bunch of companies competing against each o
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Or just US treasuries.
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Microservices vs monolith at the human level?
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by Xorakios 3y ago
FWIW, I live in Palm Springs, California, and in the early years lost phones not from jumping in pools, but from much of the year being 100+ degrees and even a couple minutes holding a phone to my ear and normal sweating would trigger the e
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by Xorakios 3y ago
I've exclusively lived in hotels/corporate rentals for over 20 years and wipe the sinks/counters every day because I like clean sinks and counters. and I strip the bed mainly in case one of my phones/chargers/earrin
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Most banks can't use TOTP because union agreements prohibit their members from using it. Schools First in California, City National Bank of Beverly Hills, and all military credit unions use TOTP.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Potato prices have been very high this year. And also, Swift's was always a very s(ali|oyl)ent Green proposal is appropriate to Make Room! Make Room!
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Fair enough, but maybe we should allow Maryland to take back most of the rest of DC. The "no permanent residents" rule isn't necessarily bad
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I followed up with clarification and i like playing with ChatGPT but everything I write is my own truth. I am traveling in hotels helping with HIPAA compliance so I get flagged a lot
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by Xorakios 3y ago
I apologize if I was incorrect in my phrasing, but I am correct and tried very carefully with nuance. Profit means creating more value than what is consumed. It is precisely and accurately the exact definition of the word.
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for use on electronic devices designed for portable use over communication networks. even in 2012 sometimes articles wrote clickbait
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What is a broom?
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conflating Puerto Rico and DC statehood is frustrating to me. Puerto Rico should choose independence or statehood, and the Congress should approve either way. Continuance of the colonialist/protectionist status is shocking. But D.C. wa
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Uruguay as well
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words have meanings (though of course they evolve over time - fascism used to mean government control over businesses through regulation, now it's just "everything you disagree with") but "capitalism" has been fairl
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Alas, I learned to type as a kid in the 60's I still avoid looking at the keyboard because in my head i can't find the keys, but my fingers know where to go. :)
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Might sound snarky but really just curious (and I'm older ;) Are we close to standardizing on pluralization in English into 's and 'es? octopuses instead of octopi fishes instead of fish aquariums instead of aquaria media and
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July 14 will tell. ;)
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Firewire drives in 2002 were a minimum of $400 and generally closer to $1000 for 10GB range. Licensing fees were $1 for historical legal reasons per SKU, for the first unit sold, and then 14 cents for each subsequent unit. Still stupid, bu
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by Xorakios 3y ago
"sentient" is often used casually when "sapient" is meant don't whether that's country-level language variation, an example of language evolution ;), or just sloppiness.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
speaking from direct experience coming from a family that builds homes in suburban southern california, it's sorta self-reinforcing and circular people expect familiar floorplans, planning departments approve them faster if the same el
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by Xorakios 3y ago
I generally like strongtowns attitude and articles, but a lot of their detailed calculations about the cost of suburbs being unsustainable focus on sidewalk maintenance costs. One example: https://actionlab.strongtowns.org/h
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Gaul should be ruled by Rome. There are no three parts.
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Harrumph, but you are certainly not the last person to type that you are incorrect and it all boils down to the dialectic.
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Some special characters are not processed as one might expect, particularly by implementations of languages such as COBOL, which is still used on the server side by many banks, insurance companies and government agencies where consistency i
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by Xorakios 3y ago
Again though, what about the electric company or the linux developer that improves image compression algos? Or if an airport provides free Wifi? How do all those people and companies "make it right" instead of just going after the
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Alas, at Princeton University 1980 that was the only way to submit programs. I was doing tech support for professors as part of my work-study package and a couple hours a week on a green-bar paper teletype sorta like this was a huge benefit

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