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721.
by apothegm 2y ago
Probably because of how frequently screen content changes.
722.
by apothegm 2y ago
The monster they claim they sought to destroy.
723.
by apothegm 2y ago
How … how does that happen?
724.
by apothegm 2y ago
Why not both?
725.
by apothegm 2y ago
Most people don’t know they’re in the cage. Most of the rest don’t know how to keep in touch with their friends without it. Or worse, they’re literally addicted to it because it’s deliberately designed to administer a steady trickle of dopa
726.
by apothegm 2y ago
Getting the word out is not mutually incompatible with taking action. Collective action is more important than individual action. And right now, collective action is being hampered by suppression/manipulation of what people see on soci
727.
by apothegm 2y ago
This assumes they’re trying to make government less effective rather than to render it impotent to resist their plundering.
728.
by apothegm 2y ago
https://archive.is/u0Vyj
729.
by apothegm 2y ago
Are you sure that’s not just the domain privacy setting being enabled?
730.
by apothegm 2y ago
The issue isn’t the compliance with the order. It’s the order being issued in the first place.
731.
by apothegm 2y ago
Which was awful. And was not a dictatorship.
732.
by apothegm 2y ago
The question remains of what one could do at this point that would have any impact.
733.
by apothegm 2y ago
Yes. It also helps to have it document a plan or spec and refer to that document.
734.
by apothegm 2y ago
That makes the big assumption that we’ll ever have free and fair elections here again.
735.
by apothegm 2y ago
Wake-up call? It’s a little late to close the barn doors.
736.
by apothegm 2y ago
Some of the assumptions (25% growth in crypto annually?) seem… questionable.
737.
by apothegm 2y ago
How does that even work? Does the phone just never truly power down? Can they track it even if they battery is dead?
738.
by apothegm 2y ago
It feels like having lower mental load because it handles a certain amount of the most granular complexity for you. It’s less tiring and I can code for longer. I already used TDD on occasion. It’s even more enjoyable now that someone else i
739.
by apothegm 2y ago
Oh, I agree he’s a lying, self-aggrandizing schmuck. I just don’t get why video game skill is so important to his image in the first place to be worth lying about.
740.
by apothegm 2y ago
Why does anyone care in the first place how good this clown is or isn’t at playing video games?
741.
by apothegm 2y ago
In some cases it’s pure ignorance. In others I suspect they want to prevent the “infinite free trial accounts” hack.
742.
by apothegm 2y ago
It’s called the pipe in computing circles because we use it to “pipe” output from one command to the next on the command line. But IIRC it exists on the keyboard from back when it was needed to draw borders for tables in the typewriter era.
743.
by apothegm 2y ago
A meme coin is a pump and dump scam propagated on social media —- ideally (for the creators) going viral. They cost virtually nothing to create and can’t be used to buy anything other than cash from someone even more credulous and later to
744.
by apothegm 2y ago
Is it the year of Linux on the desktop?
745.
by apothegm 2y ago
Passive investing may well be in the best interest of each individual when regarded separately and yet when everyone does it, makes the market worse and riskier for everyone. Which from what I can tell is what TFA is arguing. It’s like a gi
746.
by apothegm 2y ago
How do you keep something at -200C when it’s lining the reaction chamber of a nuclear fusion reactor, tho?
747.
by apothegm 2y ago
Flipped it on? Or off? Edit: off.
748.
by apothegm 2y ago
You keep roads but aside from a few arteries, allow only bicycles, pedestrians, emergency vehicles, and things like dropping off/picking up passengers with disabilities. If the roads are closed to non-emergency traffic, fire trucks and
749.
by apothegm 2y ago
I meant more stuff like fast food and retail jobs.
750.
by apothegm 2y ago
Hopefully this means improved response times for emergency vehicles, which have been pretty bad and getting worse due to traffic. I imagine we’ll start to see data in that in a couple months.

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