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by abathur 7y ago
Source on petro products becoming cheaper? It's the natural inference from supply and demand (so I agree it's possible), but it's worth keeping in mind that oil is a very big capital-intense business. Extraction, multiple rou
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by abathur 7y ago
I'm not into it enough to have any sense of the scope of the music out there, but I did notice while I was trying to figure out what ORCA was that a fair number of people are hashtagging short clips on Twitter while they play with it:
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by abathur 7y ago
Adding ORCA ( https://100r.co/pages/orca.html ) to the list. Earlier this year I stumbled onto Hundred Rabbits, which happened to have recently released ORCA (described as "an open-source visual programming language
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by abathur 7y ago
The compromised servers might be doing some primary work to which these queries are incidental, rather than for the purpose of scraping the database. In such a case, the API may be saving them from needing to build infrastructure to accumul
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by abathur 7y ago
Probably. But you can justify a significantly more restrictive rate limit for a website form intended for individual mortal humans to check their own personal email addresses for breaches. The API has to support request frequencies for legi
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by abathur 7y ago
> because we have collectively agreed that it's not a nice idea to do so How many war crimes and genocides have been perpetrated in the shadow of these polite collective agreements? In times of relative plenty and peace? How many go
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by abathur 7y ago
Heh. Heh. So, AFAIR one interpretation of the relative ubiquity of ancient flood myths is that most established cultures had to live through a time of periodic glacial lake outburst floods as the climate warmed from the last glacial maxima,
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by abathur 7y ago
Why not, though? Would how often, in 100, 1,000, 10,000, or 100,000 years would the complete chain of human intellectual lineage be broken, and a generation of people be raised with absolutely no input from the preceding generation? Look th
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by abathur 7y ago
Tyranny might happen, but I'm more unnerved by the realization that it's probably easier (and more effective) to shift emissions by killing people than it is to change minds/politics/behavior.
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by abathur 7y ago
The slimy bit always bugged me. I eventually got over being grossed out, but I still hate that so much of the bar is wasted. I'm not sure how well each of them will work, but I bought a few different bars of SheaMoisture soap and am
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by abathur 7y ago
Well, you can star it on github, too. :]
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by abathur 7y ago
Shaving the entire yak army, as usual. Scatching my own itch on a shell history thing that isn't annoying. Baby steps towards a releasable version.
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by abathur 7y ago
This reminds me of what Apple does to the SMS/MMS ecosystem. MUDs face a similar set of issues. Some new MUD frameworks skip over these by ignoring telnet and going HTML/JS. There's an interesting third path, GMCP, which is b
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by abathur 7y ago
Sigh. I probably didn't phrase something clearly enough. Or perhaps we're not occupying the same universe. Since I was feeling free to impute sloppiness to Gallup last night, I'll do my best to take your imputation of bias in
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by abathur 7y ago
There are a lot of sources of sloppiness here, though. The question is sloppy relative to the definitions. They asked "Just your best guess, what percent of Americans today would you say are gay or lesbian?", but the measuring
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by abathur 7y ago
Edit: I had myself convinced that comments have a different ID space from submissions, but that obviously isn't true. I've partly rewritten to correct for an over-guess on how many new submissions there are each day. I agree with
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by abathur 7y ago
It should, but if anyone knows who these kingmakers are, it's still probably just a matter of time before they accrue enough power for it to be worth someone's time to at least try to track them down and manipulate their decisions
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by abathur 7y ago
I've had the noms repo open in a tab for a few weeks so that I could read up on it when I have time. I was looking at it today and noticed a new statement in the readme. I figured I would post since I think noms was launched (and heavi
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Noms (versioned, forkable, syncable database) maintenance status (abandoned?)(github.com)
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by abathur 7y ago
> There is no intrinsic problem with trust. On the net you are potentially connected to everyone on the planet. Nobody can claim the trust of everyone. And I firmly believe achieving this is the wrong goal. > People need to simple not
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by abathur 7y ago
I'm not sure I see hard top-down scale limits as a goal. I don't think this would be in the best interest of most people with a hand on the steering wheel of large social networks. I'm imagining something more along the lines
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by abathur 7y ago
No, we shouldn't ignore it. But I think there's a risk of sending a lot of bright, productive people off to tilt at technological/interface/regulatory windmills in a way that leaves fundamental trust issues out of scope.
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by abathur 7y ago
If I'm not mis-remembering, there's an interesting section in Dawkins' The Selfish Gene about cooperative grooming behavior (I think it was in some sort of water fowl) and how the birds deal with cheating behavior (individual
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by abathur 7y ago
There's also a lot of dogma/orthodoxy that elected <X>-ans have to at least pay lip-service to, which might exacerbate perceived gaps on issues that are often in the talking points/propaganda efforts/purity tests.
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by abathur 7y ago
I wonder if there's definitional confusion underlying this? I rarely see discussion of the gaps that hide under an umbrella like <party/ideology>-ans. Are we talking about candidates and office-holders? Party officials and o
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by abathur 7y ago
But they all know where the volcano is. Let's say a forecaster projected the impact location and area of mortal danger, and you found out your house is 100 feet outside of the projection. How confident would the forecaster need to be f
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by abathur 7y ago
I haven't read this book, but regardless of its ultimate correctness, it's worth recognizing that it too is interpretative mythmaking (about who we are based on a very small historical slice of our existence). It probably generali
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by abathur 7y ago
I see the logic in point 2 and agree it's possible that this could be the net effect, but I think there's at least one more distinct possibility. I use a good password manager with long, unique, random passwords. The world is mess
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by abathur 7y ago
Thanks for posting this. I've held out as well, but I question myself each time I get a slack-jawed stare (or the text equivalent) for saying it.
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by abathur 7y ago
Interesting. My own mental model (sigh...) is that these are all roughly related to (if not literal types of) the crossover/cross-polination (sigh...) that manifests in synesthesia. I think synesthesia is definitionally involuntary, bu

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