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by aa-jv 2y ago
It is never a good idea to believe ones own propaganda. The 'weakness' of Russia is a fallacy that need not be tested, ever, with aggression. A far better use of ones time is to wonder where all the diplomacy has gone.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Some of us do it so that our kids learn something important, regardless.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Welfare is only sustainable for as long as there is someone willing to pay for it. That's the entire point of the heroes in the original article. You can't make bread out of thin air. Vienna has a serious welfare budget.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>I wonder if NORAD would have detected it if a satellite remained from the previous civilization. We might've come pretty close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_satellite_conspir...
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by aa-jv 2y ago
There's a very quick fix to this, which also radically improves the strength and potency of any organization : Do not ever accept management directives from someone who couldn't do your job. Yes, you heard me. If your manager
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by aa-jv 2y ago
You'd basically be writing a treatise on the Peter Principle, anyway ..
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by aa-jv 2y ago
No mention of the Zefiro ZA2 sound card, which was the first generally available full-duplex SPDIF and AES/EBU digital soundcard for PC's: http://www.dancetech.com/item.cfm?threadid=259 This card was standard fare
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by aa-jv 2y ago
You can plot class by district # in most cities?
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Sure they're real, and sure they live comfortable lives. But this doesn't mean that Vienna isn't a welfare state which buys the happiness of its citizens through heavy, heavy taxation.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I sure wish we'd get iPhones with laser projectors as an option. The comfort such an accessory would provide is superlative.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Compare the wealth of the 1st District with that of the 7th .. or 15th .. Vienna's districts are literally a class system, encoded in the streets. And then compare the easier-walking districts, the ones designed for horses (i.e. wea
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I'd rather be employed with San Francisco wages, but living in Vienna. That'd actually make it a little more comfortable to be paying Austrian taxes .. But no amount of wage hike would lure me to live in San Francisco. Its a shi
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by aa-jv 2y ago
If you are wealthy enough to leave Vienna, you're not seeing the real Vienna when you're here. (Disclaimer: I've also lived in many top tier cities around the world. Vienna is still a lot better than most of them, but don&#x
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by aa-jv 2y ago
>(Disclaimer: White Stolen Generation Australian.) For those who are reading this thread in disbelief at the magnitude of Australia's dark history, this is a compelling read: https://research-repository.griffith.edu.au&#x
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by aa-jv 2y ago
If the Internet went down tomorrow, I'd finally have time to organize the 90,000+ .PDF files I have collected over 3 decades, of every single web article I've read and printed to .PDF for later reading/reference. I'd pro
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by aa-jv 2y ago
> actually bulletproof Its only 'bulletproof' in PR and Ad copy, because for as long as the US is capable of undermining any tech company that operates within its purview with NSL's, the 'perception of security&#x27
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Lua is a fine language. You can do wonderful, delightful things with it. I've used it in million-dollar products where other languages cowered in fear at the memory BOM. Lua can go places many other programming lanuages simply cannot
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Hey, what about merging some of the pending PR's on LOAD81, one of these days? I've got a few more I'll clean up and send your way - SFXR support, for sound effects, joystick (already in the PR queue), MIDI, and a first pass
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I've been a fan of, and a hacker of LOAD81 since antirez released it, and have put it in tons of places in order to induce hackerdom on kids and adults, alike. Its one of my favourite projects to bust out when someone tells me they wa
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by aa-jv 2y ago
It was .. bearable .. back in those days I wrote a lot of database recovery software, and mostly worked on an undelete tool for the Progress 4GL Database which I customized for the customer needs - so all I really ever needed to edit on the
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by aa-jv 2y ago
With easy money, there's never enough money. ;)
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I often like to daydream of a world where some SGI engineer used a titanium casing to build the "SGI tiBook" instead of Apple, and we ended up in a world where SGI, not Apple, is the trillion-dollar computing company of the 21st C
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by aa-jv 2y ago
It was enough money, but I shouldn't have spent it all on computers. :P
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by aa-jv 2y ago
If only SGI had built a laptop, too.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
No, but I did use mine back in the day to write a ton of C code that made me lots and lots of money, recovering databases and such .. Still got it, it still works, and Turbo C still boots up just as quick.
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Can you condemn the atrocities of October 6th?
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by aa-jv 2y ago
I would not know a mathematically accurate response to this question - but I did see a lot of references to embarrassing pro-Zionist (i.e. historically racist, colonialist, pro-Zionist) materials at the IA in the last week in various other
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by aa-jv 2y ago
There is a lot of embarassing pro-Zionist material archived on IA, but scrubbed elsewhere from the Internet: https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=zionist... So just to play devils advocate, since Zio
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Does it come with the tools, onboard, needed to build apps for it? No? Then its not a platform that will get my support. Any new device in the modern era which requires permission from a third party in order for its owners to do whatever
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by aa-jv 2y ago
Are you sure you're not overlooking the fact that the use case you describe is exactly what was intended by the engineers who designed this airship? Its portable, and meant to be brought into a cave, for the case where caverns and hall

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