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by agent327 2y ago
Is it possible to download the entire database? That way we could undo the breakage using a browser extension.
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by agent327 2y ago
Musk makes it optional, Bill Gates required it (vaccination, presumably including the chip) of everyone.
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There's one in the Netherlands that dates back to 1395: https://hofjesinhaarlem.nl/hofjes-in-haarlem/hofje-de-bakene...
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by agent327 3y ago
It implies you are not living in a communist society, and therefore allowed a measure of control over your own life. It means you have the right to own property, while making it less likely that you'll be sent to a reeducation camp, or
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by agent327 3y ago
Actually we do: we grow a lot of food to feed cattle, which we can switch to human consumption (and we get to eat the cattle too). We produce a huge surplus of food. And the potential of disaster does not imply the sky is falling. The poten
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by agent327 3y ago
Periodic downs are mostly minor things, and even during major things like the fall of Rome, there weren't gangs in chariots roaming the country side looking for the last barrel of gasoline, like some demented pre-industrial Mad Maximus
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by agent327 3y ago
No, we shouldn't, because it isn't true. Civilization will muddle on, as it always has, with periodic ups and downs. The oceans aren't going to boil. The economy will stop growing, almost an inevitability as our populations c
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by agent327 3y ago
No, just the other way around in fact. Qt applications don't come with a starting requirement of ~300MB just for the mandatory webbrowser - before adding any of your own code.
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by agent327 3y ago
You just forgot to specify the end condition for the recursion, that's all. It's a common mistake, and one you should fix before going to bed. Otherwise you'll blow out the stack, which is what leads to migraines.
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by agent327 3y ago
From most of the London airports you can get to central London in about an hour. Add another two hours to be early at the airport. Travel time to the airport (Schiphol) for me is 15 minutes, so totale 4h 15m. But wait! The train also requir
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by agent327 3y ago
I have traveled between Amsterdam and London by Eurostar and by plane, and I don't see why anyone would take the train, considering that it takes much longer and also costs much more. To put some numbers to this, if I were to travel to
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by agent327 3y ago
Predictably, someone comes along to argue that anyone who is not fully in the left must therefore be right-wing. Don't you see that the word 'centrist' indicates people who are in the center, and therefore by definition not r
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by agent327 3y ago
Here's an overview of the political composition of the European Parliament: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Parliament#Elections How do you reckon it is "dominated by right-wing parties"? Those pa
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by agent327 3y ago
Oh, is it 20 now? Strange that the US does so much worse than the global average, which is 6-8 years. Is it a competency issue, you think?
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by agent327 3y ago
> Have you ever dreamed of a system that boots in less than few seconds from power-on to working GUI? I didn't have to dream, I actually owned an Amiga.
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by agent327 3y ago
It says they either chose that option for themselves and are happy with the outcome, or that they will find the outcome unsatisfactory and move on to do something else, something with more carrots. I'm not sure why this is even a quest
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by agent327 3y ago
Give me Liberty Mono or give me death! No wait, it's called "Liberation Mono". But it's still a great font for coding. https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/liberation-mono
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by agent327 3y ago
I worked with a solar simulator that has 19 lamps, each using 35 kW of power. It has a heavy metal shutter that is used to quickly turn off the light. Once the shutter is closed, the operators have ~45 seconds to turn the lamp off, otherwis
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by agent327 3y ago
You have to, because people do not work for free ("each to the best of their ability, and taking according to their need") if they can freeload. The only way to get them to be productive members of society is either a carrot (the
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by agent327 3y ago
If you take away capitalism, you are still going to need a system. The alternatives are either anarchism (and I don't fancy living in a Mad Max-style world), or some form of dictatorship: either communism, or outright dictatorship, or
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by agent327 3y ago
Is there no exploitation in communist nations? I should actually phrase that the other way around: is there, or has there ever been, a communist nation that did not exploit people to the max, even killing them if that was the most convenien
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by agent327 3y ago
It still beats having a central planner from the politburo tell you to work in the mines for zero compensation.
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by agent327 3y ago
If you are a developer, you really should observe your users struggle with your software. It will make it very clear that all that clever stuff you thought of just confuses the hell out of everybody. And since I am a developer, I have never
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by agent327 3y ago
The principle by which this is organized, and mind I'm not saying it's a good one, is available space. Screen space is extremely valuable, so the ribbon contents are constrained in two ways. The first is that the ribbon cannot be
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by agent327 3y ago
That's not what we were talking about, and you know it. Elon Musk transformed the space industry with his cheap, reusable launchers, something that nobody before him has done, that was in fact considered to be impossible since launcher
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by agent327 3y ago
This is missing the point so badly that I don't know where to begin. The point was that Elon Musk's political views are neither extremist, nor rare: they are shared by roughly half of the people in the US. To take that statement a
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by agent327 3y ago
Did you, by any chance, miss all the political anti-Musk rhetoric in this thread? Why are you singling me out, and not telling all those other people to leave politics out of it? As for your "facts": without Musk, there would be n
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by agent327 3y ago
Where in the world can you earn €134k/mo as a developer?
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by agent327 3y ago
Would any of it have happened without Elon Musk? Sure, there are many people who work in the organisation that he built that help him achieve his vision, but none of that would have existed without him challenging the world to an impossible
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by agent327 3y ago
My great-grandmother and her sister were the last two women who wore the tribal clothing of the tribe I suppose I belong to. That tribe no longer exists; we are all Dutchmen in the nation of the Netherlands now. Is that bad? I don't th

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