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by amrangaye 5y ago
I don’t see the problem - I didn’t read it as “we have NOAA experts working for us” but as “we are sharing data from the experts at…”. I think sleazy is… unkind - especially reaching that conclusion from just one line in a description.
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by amrangaye 5y ago
I don’t want to make any assumptions about who you are, and this is not an attack on you, but “no politics” isn’t a neutral position - it’s a position to take when you’re OK with the status quo and want people to shut up and just go along,
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by amrangaye 6y ago
You’re really comparing a homophobic ban of a gay couple trying to get married, to that of someone pushing an insurrection against the government? Would you also be against civil rights laws because they forced restaurants to allow black pe
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by amrangaye 6y ago
“A curse upon humanity”? Aren’t you getting a bit carried away? You may not like the contents of the show but fact is he presents a lot of really complex issues in an easily digestible, shareable format, for people who only follow the 24&#x
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by amrangaye 6y ago
“Catastrophic privacy” is quite a huge claim - do you have any actual examples? My perspective is that iphone privacy protections have actually gotten better and more sophisticated over time, and I’m much more comfortable having older non-t
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by amrangaye 6y ago
Completely agree. Same thing happens in the US - to hear some Americans speak they have become a dictatorship with a tyrant in charge, and the whole system is broken. Meanwhile they continue to have free and fair elections, first amendment
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by amrangaye 10y ago
There's a Project Manager extension I use ( https://github.com/alefragnani/vscode-project-manager/blob/m... ) that's pretty good for this - replaced Sublime projects for me.
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by amrangaye 10y ago
n-thing ancillary mercy (and the whole series) - best sci-fi I've read in a long while. Just finished the fifth season, and liked it enough to get the rest of the trilogy. It straddles the line between sci-fi and fantasy, but does it w
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by amrangaye 10y ago
This comment made me smile - growing up in west Africa this was my first Linux - its modular nature let me download a floppy disk's worth of sub system every week, using the 1 to 2 hours of Internet access that I got for the week, slow
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by amrangaye 10y ago
The Imperial Radch books are a great read as well. They take place in a future in which intelligent space ships are able to control thousands of human bodies connected (enslaved?) to them, experiencing everything these bodies experience at
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by amrangaye 10y ago
I think it was more the lead trying to be a Steve jobs figuere (and mostly failing at creating actually good products)... The first season culminates in him seeing a Mac for the first time, and realizing everything he's done so far is
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by amrangaye 10y ago
>> Rape is a natural or expected consequence of the failure to take precautions against it. I don't understand - how is that not victim blaming, and going against your last line? And how exactly do you take precautions agains
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3 points by amrangaye 17y ago|1 comments