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by _mdpn 7y ago
It really does. There are two things that fit together for me: First, access - I can think of twelve bars within walking distance of my apartment, four of which are on the same block, and a total of eight of which are within two blocks of
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by _mdpn 7y ago
Speaking from experience (856 days sober, had my last drink a year after moving to Milwaukee), Milwaukee is a hell of a town for an alcoholic. One of my favorite coffee shops is right near the PKWARE building off Pittsburgh Ave.
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by _mdpn 7y ago
Margaret Sanger unapologetically supported eugenics and sterilizing 'inferior' people. Does that make Planned Parenthood a bad idea?
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by _mdpn 7y ago
It's interesting how parasocial interactions form, often without us consciously doing so or meaning to. The drive to form these associations seem to be wired more deeply than the side of our brain that listens to reason. There's
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by _mdpn 7y ago
Bad times make hard men Hard men make good times Good times make soft men Soft men make bad times And so the cycle goes
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by _mdpn 7y ago
I just moved to Catalina, and the fact that zsh has a clear and reasonable standard for startup files made up for the fact that I had to move my shell init to its files.
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by _mdpn 7y ago
The older I get the more I realize that there is often an inverse correlation between popular and useful/valuable.
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by _mdpn 8y ago
>Do you choose to either prosecute a burgler or put a lock on your door but not both? Physical property and intellectual property are not the same, so this analogy does not hold. Copyright is fundamentally a balancing act between these t
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by _mdpn 8y ago
Yes, I know that I have to make a judgement call about whether or not to trust infrastructure I don't own, and I have made that judgement, but I'm asking for myself and others if the Homebrew project haa any additional information
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by _mdpn 8y ago
The stores wouldn't even need to be wired up to the Internet. All they would need is a call center to dispatch pizza orders to the stores or a fax machine if they wanted to dispatch orders without a voice call, both mature, widely dep
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by _mdpn 8y ago
If you didn't know, he has a blog ( http://www.dvorak.org/blog/ ) and is a co-host of the No Agenda Show Podcast ( http://www.noagendashow.com/ ) and DHUnplugged ( https://www.dhunplugged.co