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by ahelwer 5y ago
Those rights are available domestically in the West, yes, at least for the time being. Those same rights have never been extended to the citizens of the countries whose democratic governments were toppled or subverted by what we call the We
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There are never any sources on these things until 20 years after the fact. So we really don't know. But if you'd gone ahead and assumed America had a hand in every coup in the Western world over the past century, you'd at lea
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Do you have any reading about this or terms I could search to learn more?
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Same boat. I ended up just paying for adguard and using safari. All the browsers on iOS are just wrappers of safari anyway, as far as I can tell.
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In my view it's about the interface. Any utopian community must interface with the rest of the currently-not-utopian world. I suspect the utopian aspect can only be maintained if that interface is very small and restricted. Otherwise t
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Dual-booting needs to become easier and less bug-prone. People need to be able to try Linux before committing their main system. One year ago I tried setting up dual-booting on my system with Ubuntu and it irreparably trashed the Windows bo
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Nobody ever says that in professional environments. They’ll retroactively develop a plausible-sounding justification for their gut instinct. Sometimes, if they’re not particularly self-observant they’ll even believe the explanation they cre
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I've been thinking - continually I hear the way to help with a problem is to donate money to a charity. But is there a single social ill that has actually been solved (not ameliorated - permanently solved) through a bunch of individual
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If you didn't have a pre-existing desire for that product which led you to search out its existence then why was having the desire for it instilled in you a good thing? Why deliberately create the hole of dissatisfaction within yoursel
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Okay, so you actually can pick out the issue. You just don't mind being manipulated by corporations. Fine, but strange that the angle you took was "aw shucks geez guys I'm so confused about all this".
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You can't pick out the issue with large corporations sinking billions of dollars into trying to manipulate your behavior?
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Then let people who believe that go stare at ads. Submitting yourself to manipulation out of a sense of duty to the viability of a business model is deeply weird. Alternatively, if you believe those ads don't affect you then why does i
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Model-Based Testing(johanneslink.net)
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Ease of entry, transferability, etc.
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You can argue against this all you want but these arguments sound eerily similar to the "it's just a slow database" type arguments of yesteryear. Bubbles can eventually have value, weirdly - their irrational nature can sort o
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by ahelwer 5y ago
> No, it authenticates the seller Reminds me of that tweet about how programmers are like compilers that read things until they find the first concept they disagree with, then post it like an error message. Read the directly-following pa
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I think I can explain. I understand why others value them, although I don't agree with the valuation (as a litmus test, I also think shelling out $30k for a genuine Rolex is very stupid). My lack of agreement also does not prevent me f
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by ahelwer 5y ago
If you can live anywhere in the world at negligible cost to yourself with little change to your standard of living then you will not be affected by climate change. The earth will not be uninhabitable; just large swathes of it. The rich will
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I'm thinking the only way forward is building an alternative power structure to electoral politics that bullies the politicians around. Corporations and money control the government - it's a truism at this point. Place that which
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Not very mysterious. The reason you were elected was due to an intensely-expensive PR and media campaign. This requires a lot of money. A potential source of this money is a small group of people who financially benefit from the country&#x2
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I'm not talking about games published/developed by epic, I'm talking about games purchased on the epic games store. Looking online it seems you can run & download EGS games on wine, maybe.
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by ahelwer 5y ago
Heating is extremely simple compared to cooling. There will never be a part shortage for heating appliances. A space heater is basically some high-resistance wire and a fan.
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Hats are good, as is sun-protective clothing in general. There are a number of companies providing some kind of ultra-thin sun-protective hoodie which is surprisingly comfortable to wear even in hot temperatures. I have a few echo hoodies f
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by ahelwer 5y ago
I've heard good things about proton. I also have some games outside of steam on gog and epic, does it work with those too? How about streaming the games to an Nvidia shield on a nearby TV?
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I've especially not enjoyed Windows occasionally hijacking the post-login screen to try to convince me to enable Cortana or whatever. The most frustrating thing is the only options when presented with the window were "Continue&quo
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The issue with this standard is it can only be applied to situations where you're making decisions about the fates of other people - where you don't have skin in the game. It would be ridiculous to, for example, require that all t
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by ahelwer 5y ago
See my other comment on why this isn't lying. And stop being scared of your own shadow around interviewers.
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You mind seems to be trapped in the employment binary where you're either a full-time W-2 employee or you're unemployed. With contracting and startups it isn't so simple. Contractors (especially ones working in boutique niche
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Beyond the distasteful idea that we should always act in a way demonstrating obedience to potential employers, the solution to this is extremely easy. Gap year? No! I am merely doing independent consulting. Do I actually have any contracts?
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Yeah. Hacking together a deployment or CI script is basically an exercise in figuring out which API calls take what parameters, and I would not count it as programming for the purpose of retrospectively feeling like I wrote code.

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