api

156 ms·

9121.
by api 7y ago
"When an idiot wants to rob a bank, they get a gun and a ski mask. When a smart person wants to rob a bank, first they get a banking license..."
9122.
by api 7y ago
People have very short memories. Sketchy debt sausages of the sort that helped cause the 2008 crash are a big thing again.
9123.
by api 7y ago
I hope so. It was a transparent attempts to make parts of the web Google proprietary.
9124.
by api 7y ago
Yes I'm well aware of that. If woke is nice feel good bullshit then the opposite of woke is mean edgelord bullshit, so I'll take woke over "based" or whatever the hell it's called this week. Sometimes you have to pi
9125.
by api 7y ago
A lot of "woke" is BS just like most political posturing. The good parts can be boiled down to "be wary of stereotypes because aggregate statistics don't work like that and our brains are biased" and "don'
9126.
by api 7y ago
Acid rain was real. It was mitigated to a great extent with flue gas scrubbers.
9127.
by api 7y ago
Think of it this way: distance in time is like distance in space. It's just another dimension (with the catch that apparently we can't actually move backward). The dinosaurs are as far from us as Alpha Centauri, maybe further.
9128.
by api 7y ago
... and only in parts of the US. Historically compensation tends to be tied to age/seniority and hierarchical status, not contribution per se.
9129.
by api 7y ago
I wonder if that high score had a negative effect on you somehow by making you feel like you were somehow not living up to it. In any case I wish you well. I have some similarities in my background including high scores, isolation, and depr
9130.
by api 7y ago
youtube-dl is your friend.
9131.
by api 7y ago
The world might not need China as much as Xi Jinpeng thinks. A lot of production is already moving, and China is less and less valuable as you move up the value chain. Most high-end engineering and other high value stuff is not in China.
9132.
by api 7y ago
In the US Southwest there is the Salton Sea which is an already artificial saline reservoir. Just pipe more ocean into it and use that as the salt water source.
9133.
by api 7y ago
The "bait" for these traps is almost universally ease of use and overall user experience, something open platforms and open source has failed to provide.
9134.
by api 7y ago
Its better today than it used to be. Go read some renaissance alchemical or natural philosophy texts. These are often called occult. The word "occult" means "hidden" as in "concealed behind a wall of unbelievably lo
9135.
by api 7y ago
Just needs the cloud-to-butt feature too, so you can have butt bullshit or bullshit grade butt storage.
9136.
by api 7y ago
That would just close the browser window.
9137.
by api 7y ago
One of the first examples of being Sherlocked was done by Microsoft when they basically killed Netscape by adding Internet Explorer to Windows.
9138.
by api 7y ago
I think he's speculating that Copernicum and other super heavy elements might offer some angle. Oddly enough I recall reading about a large amount of interest in studying mercury back in the 30s and 40s that tapered off. Maybe there is
9139.
by api 7y ago
People could also see it as evidence for a creator, e.g. that the universe is obviously fine tuned for life. Theism isn't scientifically testable or falsifiable, so science can't say much of anything about it.
9140.
by api 7y ago
The perception that all scientists are atheists comes from a small number of loud dogmatists. This is exactly like the perception that all Christians are literalist fundamentalists or hold right wing political beliefs.
9141.
by api 7y ago
I get the feeling that contrary to rhetoric the search for life on Mars or anywhere else is almost an anti-priority. Not much designed to look for life has been sent since Viking in spite of direct observation of water ice, brine, and other
9142.
by api 7y ago
Company scrip (Libra, this) could well be quite a bit worse than anything about fiat currency. The new boss is often worse than the old boss.
9143.
by api 7y ago
I just did some work to get together info for an investor due diligence questionnaire and I LOLed when I came to a long series of questions at the end that I swear were an itemized list of all the shenanigans that went on at WeWork. Loans o
9144.
by api 7y ago
A small team could have written all the software for WeWork to do what it actually does. Each location could run it on an Intel NUC or similar. Central cloud could be moderately sized, maybe a dozen instances. That would be efficient, but i
9145.
by api 7y ago
... as is its doppelgänger, the "red pill" or "manosphere" or "alt-right" or whatever it's called this week crowd. Other side, same coin. The other day I came up with a dorky acronym for social media and w
9146.
by api 7y ago
University of Cincinnati, Michigan State, lots of large universities have that.
9147.
by api 7y ago
The Pop page on system76.com is just bizarre. It leads with things that are really niche interests and you have to scroll way down to get to what the desktop looks like. My 30 second impression is "this is for children who want to prog
9148.
by api 7y ago
I love what System76 is doing, but I have to say that the name Pop OS is just horrible. It just screams "toy" and sounds like a name that would come out of some fly by night junkware vendor. The exclamation mark makes it even wors
9149.
by api 7y ago
GPL virality does not apply backward from app to platform. There are loads of GPL apps on Windows and on Mac outside the app store.
9150.
by api 7y ago
I have had no issues so far, and I like the permissions requirements as they are allowing at least some privacy improvement. Funny that everyone complains about privacy invasion but then also complains when the needed permissions to protect

More ›