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by asark 7y ago
Biased political commentary's better than armchair political campaign strategy commentary and horserace-style campaign coverage. At least that's about something that might matter . Looking at you, NPR.
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by asark 7y ago
Revolutionary Road was released at the tail end of 1962 and has some stuff to say about office work. If it's accurate (I suspect it's pretty close) then it was largely about passing papers around trying to avoid having to actual
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by asark 7y ago
Good lord, don't worry about this BS, it's clearly fine outside the world of fringe complaint-seeking Internet loonies. Or well-attuned trolls, which I'd say is more likely in this case (in which case: well done troll, I mean
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by asark 7y ago
I use Library Genesis for a lot of academic books I definitely wouldn't buy—I need like one chapter or to take some notes, then have little further need for them, and they're usually $50-150 and still expensive or hard to find o
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by asark 7y ago
I dunno, the post's some real n-gate bait. > Being that my background is in CompSci I tend to think about thinks in terms of probabilities, statistics, game theory, and distributed systems. Well. OK. But then a bunch of: > This w
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by asark 7y ago
"Lots and lots of web developers still use 'bad' 'old' languages and technology."
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by asark 7y ago
Garner's advice, to paraphrase—his entry on who/whom is, unsurprisingly, long—amounts to generally understanding and following the rules, but using whichever reads or sounds better if rule-following results in awkwardness, as it c
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by asark 7y ago
The cherry on top of the cherry is that he was apparently kind of a badass, too, escaping from captivity twice before this battle and then, when the castle was already surrounded by SS troops and under attack: > ... Lee [US captain, in c
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by asark 7y ago
> But seriously, how did people live before the 80s without all these form of entertainment and useless gadgets ? They spent $100/mo (inflation adjusted) on bowling lane fees, drinks at the bowling alley, team shirts, bowling shoes,
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by asark 7y ago
Even if you buy your cars cash, unless you already have that much liquid sitting around you've gotta be saving hundreds every month to prep for the next car and for major repairs to the current car. You're either saving hundreds a
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by asark 7y ago
Some of the general attitude-toward-spending stuff is fine. His specific advice is sometimes iffy, and any anecdotes/figures about his personal situation should be taken with a huge grain of salt. Essentially treat the voice of the blo
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by asark 7y ago
Probably 95+% of all my sent or received Whatsapp messages are for groups. If I don't get most of the people I communicate with to switch to another (the same!) messenger, it's pretty inconvenient. It doesn't help that, las
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by asark 7y ago
Yeah, Netflix ain't the problem. Even $100 in coffee budget a month ain't the problem, as long as that's not one of several $100/mo unnecessary budget items. Health care, housing somewhere with non-shit schools, child
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by asark 7y ago
I see that sort of thing come up a lot, but is there, like, a blow-by-blow guide out there for how they get to that position without running afoul of the law? Is it something you can only do with expensive tax lawyers and money to throw aro
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by asark 7y ago
Yup. Rich is when money's just there . Like water on tap. Maybe you'd think twice about running a hose out in the street and turning it on for a week straight, or filling an olympic swimming pool. But if you want a glass to drink
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by asark 7y ago
Shoulda been taxing any extraction of non-renewable resources into a fund like this. The whole country—literally, the physical country—gets poorer when that stuff's taken out. Shame we didn't capture some of that value for public,
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by asark 7y ago
Editions that actually come with all the content, including the stuff they held back to trickle it out over the next ~3-6mo, usually are more like $80-100 at launch. That seems to be how they've (the game companies) dealt with inflatio
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by asark 7y ago
If I don't want it, and I certainly don't want any more, then it's spam. Doesn't matter if it's showing up because I forgot to unclick a checkbox somewhere and so isn't technically "unsolicited". Ain&
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by asark 7y ago
Plenty of otherwise-viable business models can't compete with free-but-spying. Hell, open protocols with free implementations aren't having much success. Just not enough incentive to use them, which lowers incentive to work on t
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by asark 7y ago
> Ads are the magic money fountain that give them the power to organize all of human knowledge, a phenomenal resource anyone can tap. They're not too great at the "all" part. Or the "organize" part, anymore.
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by asark 7y ago
It wouldn't be that big a deal. Ad-funded commercial services like Facebook and Twitter would probably just be protocols, if not for all those ad dollars incentivizing moat-creation and jealous user capture. We'd figure something
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by asark 7y ago
Sheer count's not everything. I thought maybe there was some other analysis that'd support the assertions (first thing I did was check that page, which certainly doesn't support them).
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by asark 7y ago
I think we're about to find out there's a lot of asymmetry in the ability to use executive power, in that laws put some sort of ceiling (fuzzy, perhaps, but it's there) on the power of the executive branch in various areas, b
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by asark 7y ago
> George W Bush vastly expanded the use of executive orders. Libs like myself complained about that to no end. > Then Obama came in and did it even more! What are you basing that on? How are you arriving at either 1) W expanding the u
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by asark 7y ago
Drug companies only have any kind of exclusivity or advantage at the pleasure of governments. They can't go too long playing hardball or countries will just start ignoring their patents.
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by asark 7y ago
Neo4j, at least as of about a year ago, was seriously lacking in constraints and guarantees to use it as a database of record. Performance-wise, it's fundamentally built to perform well at a small set of specific graph operations, whil
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by asark 7y ago
You can shut off auto-play junk on the menus? Didn't used to be able to. Great news, one of the worst UI features I've ever seen (as in, intended behavior, not a bug).
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by asark 7y ago
Now that my kids are old enough to control Netflix, it's awful all around. Needs much better parental controls. I suppose they don't do that because any useful ones would make their preferred metrics drop. Gonna feel good to cance
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by asark 7y ago
Ours has definitely ended up playing to an empty room for a good long while, a few times.
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by asark 7y ago
Unstoppable play-while-browsing plus the price hikes has me poised to drop it as soon as I finish two shows I'm near the end of. Probably in the next month. Either problem alone wouldn't get me over the "bother to cancel&quot

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