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by acuozzo 3y ago
> I am young enough to where I "discovered" the existance of news groups within the last year. I am sorry to report to you that even chunks of Usenet are missing. Specifically, significant chunks between the UTzoo archive and D
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by acuozzo 3y ago
Consider my argument here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35716469
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by acuozzo 3y ago
If art has value, then its form has value as well since art devoid of form is just communication which is no longer art. If the form of art has value, then the original form of that art has at least as much value since it reflects the ori
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by acuozzo 3y ago
> Can you offer a full throated defense of why you feel it's okay to pirate media in 2023 -- NOT OP -- In the general case, no, but consider the cases of: 1. "Altered media" e.g. (1) Star Wars, (2) THX 1138. 2. "Remix
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The question still stands.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I lived in Columbia, MD from 2010 to 2018 and from 2021 to present and I can state with confidence that our design does help to alleviate some of these issues. I wish our model would have caught on. We do a lot of things right here.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
What you describe is social anxiety, not introversion. Introverted people without social anxiety exist. I'm one of them. I have no fear of meeting new people and the like, but social situations exhaust me more quickly than others and I
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> There's just too much high value business work to do. e.g.?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
This doesn't surprise me. Our species has proven itself to be exceptionally bad at finding the middle ground between giving individuals the freedom to self-direct and allocating resources efficiently at scale. These resource allocation
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> freed from the shackles of a bullshit job Would you be spouting the same shit if losing your job put your ability to care for your dependents on the line? Look, I get it. You're arguing under the assumption that this technology wi
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> A big part of my role is speaking to people to understand what users need to learn, then designing an organization for documentation around that. If two consultants named Bob show up in your office place, run.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
the warning == theatlantic.com Do they post any articles which are not the length of a novella? :-)
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I believe the intention is to convey "a person located in the middle of nowhere".
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by acuozzo 4y ago
It's because you have one of these installed: https://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html
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by acuozzo 4y ago
Perhaps because the link was running over coaxial?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> If you drive and you get tired of listening and re-listening the stuff At the risk of being snarky… you know that music streaming platforms are a thing, right? I "explore" music that is new to me by listening to the full albu
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by acuozzo 4y ago
I normally agree with counterarguments rooted in the state's monopoly on violence, but in this case other options for the PHY layer exist. Seamless multi-PHY is possible if care is taken to prevent leaks in the abstraction e.g. precise
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> I hate that the vast information of the internet has basically required us mere mortals to try and become experts in literally anything and everything just to be able to buy something that isn't awful. This has always been the cas
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Not sure what else one can do. Participate in the formation of a giant decentralized mesh network with strong privacy/security/anonymity guarantees all the way down the stack and work to make it ridiculously accessible &
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> I barely consume media nowadays, because every book, movie, TV show, video game and song fails to give me an interesting or meaningful experience. I felt this way too until I realized that what I was really experiencing was that my des
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Yes, but these sites target morons I used to wonder why so many scam e-mails use such poor English until I realized this.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The poor in your country know how to be poor. After decades of prosperity, the USA has lost the majority of the generational knowledge and skills that poor people pass on to their children. I've spoken with people who spend almost an e
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Too bad it is a fragile sentiment that is difficult to repair. Too many people have a hard time meeting their material needs which creates demand for crimes like this. A prerequisite for a high trust society is that it must be one in w
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by acuozzo 4y ago
This obviously doesn't answer your question at scale, but lots of stolen "common" goods like cereal and deodorant are sold at places like this: http://www.northpointfleamarket.com/
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> This only makes sense if queries are computationally intensive. Or if the link to your DB is higher latency than you're comfortable with.
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by acuozzo 4y ago
GCC: Via an old, unofficial port: https://github.com/itszor/gcc-6502
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> I thought in the 90's Amazon is what people dreamed of. Click a button and have something at your door in hours. Sure, but most people wanted that without the societal ramifications. The same is true of AGI. And outsourcing. And d
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> Anyone going into teaching minors as a profession cannot be doing it for the money, because at no point in recent history have US teachers been adequately paid, so they knew to some extent what they were getting into. Indeed, but the e
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by acuozzo 4y ago
The Church of Emacs?
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by acuozzo 4y ago
> which Midgely happily participated in Which moves him from the category of buffoon to evil.

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