apollo_mojave

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by apollo_mojave 7mo ago
I was too young to understand the dot com boom when it happened, being in grade school at the time. But I do remember when smartphones became not just a luxury, but a necessity, and how amazing the iPod seemed when it first came out. It was
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by apollo_mojave 1y ago
"“Just like you would eat eggs for breakfast, the sea spider grazes the surface of its body, and it munches all those bacteria for nutrition,” said Shana Goffredi, a professor and chair of biology at Occidental College in Los Angeles a
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by apollo_mojave 2y ago
This is why I think the study of logic and having fields where the culture generally agrees on "what counts" as good argumentation is really important. Does it solve these problems entirely? Certainly not. But look at, for exam
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by apollo_mojave 2y ago
My Zune HD from 2005/2006 still works. I think it's the oldest piece of functional tech I own. No, I don't use it on a daily basis. But I love booting it up every now and again. It's also a fun way to check on what I was
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by apollo_mojave 2y ago
I don't get it. "I'm fighting for you, the little guy!" That's the same refrain I hear from tons of people, from Donald Trump and Biden to TurboTax to the HR department. What I don't understand about journalist
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
So how do you even fix a problem like this? It seems the company had some procedures in place, particularly the documentation of "removals," but the line employees didn't follow that process in this case. One reason appears t
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
I agree with everything you said here. I mean this guy chose to be a movie critic -- probably the dyingest corner of a dying industry. And of course they can pay people nothing for this, because there are a billion people who would love to
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
That last line really resonated with me: "It's the only thing I really know how to do," or something about like that. One of the most terrifying realizations I've had over the past few years is that I've worked mys
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
Amen. What I found so interesting about Girard's perspective on Christ is that Jesus represents the end of the "scapegoat," because he is the "holy and perfect Sacrifice." In Girard's interpretation, Jesus ul
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
All respect to McLuhan, there are obvious and meaningful differences between a message and its delivery!
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
Definitely -- but the problem isn't really "content" moderation. What it seems like you actually want is personality / tone / user moderation -- which Bluesky isn't really doing. To analogize to real life, I h
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
This is true! I'm not sure I 100% agree with your analogy, but your basic point is of course correct.
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
I just edited my comment; see above.
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
Seems like a really, really good way to create a really, really boring website. ETA: Rereading this, that is probably not a very helpful HNy comment, so let me elaborate. Maybe I am old-fashioned, but one of the things that the internet is
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Ask HN: Why does it seem hard to buy an ONT for fiber?
31 points by apollo_mojave 3y ago|59 comments
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
Super interesting, thank you for posting. Agreed with a lot of it, except for one thing: "No syncing without running an eggdrop or some tty somewhere running it 24/7." That's one of the things I miss most about IRC. Th
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
I thought this article was going to be somehow less intuitive, but in reality, it simply says something most people inherently understand: that you have to grease the skids a bit to make things work. Dressing it up in academic sloganeerin
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
From multiple perspectives: Far left: https://jacobin.com/2023/01/canada-medically-assisted-dying-... Center left (citing multiple troubling cases reported in public media): https://www.theatlantic.com&
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
Less disturbing than the raw percentage is the context in which some of these suicides have reportedly been carried out. People who are simply lonely, who have addictions, who don't have money, who feel they simply don't have opt
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
Yeehaw :P
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
I'm not sure your post, while true, is responsive. Rules are naturally infringements on individual liberty. The question is, which rules can one justify? Put differently, when can the state limit individual liberty? And that natural
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
Fascinating. There is a famous course at Michigan Law called Bloodfeuds, which takes a scholarly view of the old Icelandic laws of revenge as told through the sagas. The point of the class is that some of the customs and traditions seem unu
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ISoaker: SuperSoaker Reviews and History(isoaker.com)
1 points by apollo_mojave 3y ago|0 comments
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
IIRC, it does depend on distance and time, and it maxes out at about $600.
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
What was their defense in court?
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
I'm American and once traveled through Europe with my then girlfriend, now wife. We had two (!) flights canceled for mechanical issues -- one on TAP, the other on United. Both cancelations resulted in unplanned overnight stays in Lisbo
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by apollo_mojave 3y ago
Amazing. Have you by chance looked at the new update? Not that anyone should ever use this app in the first place, but I'm curious whether the massive vulnerability you discovered was fixed.
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by apollo_mojave 4y ago
There will definitely still be "hobbyists" who will learn languages for the fun of it. And in certain academic fields I guess they'll still expect people to know a language. But yeah, for the ordinary person, what's the
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by apollo_mojave 4y ago
I am a full time language student, and I use GPT to have "conversations" in the language. I can give it a subject (e.g., going through airport customs) and practice my conversation skills. What's also fun is I can feed it a l
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by apollo_mojave 4y ago
This is a bit of fiction. In most jurisdictions in America, an attorney has an obligation of confidentiality to a potential client during an initial consultation. That's true even if the client or attorney decline to formalize the re

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