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by ansible 5y ago
This is what a post-scarcity society is supposed to be . A world where everyone has enough, and they do things (programming, art, whatever) for the joy of it.
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by ansible 5y ago
Now you're making me question how much I should tolerate that sort of thing. Where is the line between "he's just joking around, he's not really serious" vs. "deep down he really believes this". Am I just
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by ansible 5y ago
If you're just going by that video, I can see why you might think so. But he has a lot of respect for Japanese products in general, because they are well engineered and manufactured. And a lot of the stuff for sale these days in Norte
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by ansible 5y ago
He affects an overly exaggerated Canukistan patois that I find endlessly amusing, but I can see why it would grate on others. Some of the other "vidjaeos" are quite interesting when he is tearing down power tools to see how well t
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by ansible 5y ago
Even if you didn't run many (or any TSRs like Sidekick), there was a bit of fiddling to maximize the amount of the first 640K bytes available. IIRC, you could load the commonly used Microsoft stuff in the upper memory 384K. This seems
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Shell Scripting in Rust? – Jason McCampbell(itnext.io)
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by ansible 5y ago
I was reading stories a couple years ago about how Etsy has been flooded with mass-produced crap, and now it is hard to find actual hand-made stuff by actual crafts-people. As I understand it, the actually e-commerce was still OK. It was mo
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by ansible 5y ago
No, only a small portion of an individual parent's taxes pays for a small portion of their own kid's education.
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by ansible 5y ago
If you can get someone else's account banned for having fake reviews, it would be easy to take out the competition that way. Fundamentally, it is too easy to sign up as a seller.
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by ansible 5y ago
In years past, I'd say his business is perfect for Etsy. But that is a disaster now as well.
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by ansible 5y ago
> Instead of being forced to send their kid to failing schools, ... The real issue is: Why are schools failing? When I was growing up, the vast majority of kids were educated in public schools. They weren't perfect, but they worke
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by ansible 5y ago
You seem to be under the impression that the large blocks of voters actually understand and care about the issues. Large corporations and their considerable advertising and lobbying efforts are what's really important. Much of this e
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by ansible 5y ago
If parents want to send their kids to religious schools, they can pay for it themselves.
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by ansible 5y ago
> We could do it in the US too! Convince the Democrats to give up $x billions in $something to do universal healthcare and I bet you could get a bunch of Republicans to support it. Nope. Leaving aside the the current psychotic break th
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by ansible 5y ago
The debate in the USA is framed with the implication that if you (the health care consumer) does not have "choice" then you will be forced to only see a really terrible doctor, and get substandard care at a high price. And that,
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by ansible 5y ago
Even better. Thanks for the correction.
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by ansible 5y ago
Replying to myself, now narcissistic... > Molten salt reactors in general can't cause a meltdown because they are designed to passively moderate in the event of a problem. At least one design I've seen has a plug in the main
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by ansible 5y ago
Molten salt reactors in general can't cause a meltdown because they are designed to passively moderate in the event of a problem. That isn't something specific to thorium. And conversely, pressurized water reactors, especially old
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by ansible 5y ago
> Also, from the article I have an strong feeling that the author thinks of himself as high-status. It is Robin Hanson, so... yeah, that's exactly the thought process.
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by ansible 5y ago
> They've already 'fixed' modmail for new reddit. So I think they're actively working on that problem. Though that has had some funny issues. One thing I noticed was the enrollment for the new modmail. It is on th
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by ansible 5y ago
I do, but I haven't updated it in quite a while: https://partiallyappliedlife.blogspot.com By the way, back when I had more disposable income, I bought a couple of these for my desktop PC systems when they came out: https:
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by ansible 5y ago
Can't you also pull tricks like moving a bunch of cash into one account, getting the balance printed out, moving that cash into another account, getting that balance printed out, rinse, repeat? Where a full-on legit audit would take
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by ansible 5y ago
Hah, no. At least the early iterations of those chips required considerable fiddling to get all the pixels to line up correctly. Modern monitors are better, but you still suffer some noise and color artifacts. It is fairly common to have
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by ansible 5y ago
It is more a retro-computing platform. Intended use case is for a CP/M like operating system. So I get the whole retro-computing thing in general. However, even 22 years ago, I was working hard to get away from analog video interface
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by ansible 5y ago
People have been doing something like that with GTA-V. If there is another engine that provides good rendering and a better physics model for cars, that would be even better.
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by ansible 5y ago
If it is annotated, it is quite useful for various recognition tasks, alone, or combined with the other sensor data.
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by ansible 5y ago
Obligatory link to "Debugging Rules": https://debuggingrules.com/ ----------------- I.... hate debugging. Just hate it. If I'm developing some code, and it doesn't do the right thing, that's fin
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by ansible 5y ago
Some oils like rapeseed (canola) aren't that good for you either.
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by ansible 5y ago
> Now, if they were making billions in profit and paying zero taxes then that's different. Some companies are, and are very clever in hiding that (offshoring profits, etc.). Other companies (and their boards apparently) are conten
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by ansible 5y ago
> ... why can't we implement a tax system that isn't a Byzantine train wreck? Because the people with power (money) like it this way. They aren't interested in what is fair for everyone, they are only interested in wha

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