benrbray

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Free movement is not wrong, but there is a reason that many nations including the United States charge an "exit tax" for renouncing citizenship.
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No wealthy person became wealthy on their own. Almost by definition they participate in a market, which can only be established by some kind of state-like entity to prevent descent into chaos. The marvels of modern life are all due to the
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Sure, I only very recently started expanding my music horizons, but here are some I picked randomly from my library. Lately I'm into desert blues / enka / math rock / city pop. Tinariwen - Sastanàqqàm (https:/&
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How is the tagging system in DeaDBeef? My music library has grown exponentially in the past year or so, due to boredom during covid, and I've come to the conclusion that playlists (as in, static lists of music files that you need to u
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generate new keys and announce it on Twitter
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ELI5: What can NFT achieve that a combination of Twitter + public key cryptography cannot achieve? As far as I can tell the only benefit is "decentralization" and just like BTC, the average user is beholden to bank-like entities
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For abstract algebra self-study, I highly recommend "A Book of Abstract Algebra" by Charles Pinter. Each chapter starts with a few definitions and examples, and the rest of the chapter is a series of exercises meant to help you d
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Some people, including myself, see life in prison as a fate worse than death.
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What if a comedian loses his audience because views of his come to light that his audience doesn't support? It's no longer profitable for him to go on tour, or for studios to offer him roles on tv, etc.. Is that cancel culture o
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Indeed. My point is that "cancel culture" is a problem on Twitter, since Twitter intentionally amplifies the voices of the people who participate. So, "cancel culture" on Twitter is not representative of how real peopl
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How many?
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Billionaires aren't all colluding, but their incentives are aligned, and they do individually use their money to advance a political agenda that regular people who don't own TV networks are powerless to push back against. See: Ro
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To clarify, I think you're right, and that all the disagreement about cancel culture really boils down to semantic arguments about what the word "cancel" means and whether it is subjectively fair or unfair in a given situatio
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The argument "I haven't met a single..." is equally as strong as an unqualified "You are misinformed.", which I was responding to. Note that I asked for clarification :) Since I have you here, would you mind elabor
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Am I? I personally haven't met a single left-leaning adult who doesn't think Twitter's "cancel culture" has gotten out of hand. However, I've never lived in the bay area, where I understand things may be diff
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Correct me if I am wrong, but my understanding is that such people have been duped by channels like Fox News into doubling-down on a way of life that is simply not possible anymore. What I'm saying is that if Fox and CNN (for instance)
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I believe the main point of the person you're replying to is that it's a relatively small, vocal minority of people on Twitter who care about this stuff, and the media snowballs it into a big ugly controversy for clicks. As far a
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For the lazy, here [1,2] are some wiktionary links. Assuming these are correct, wow, this makes the whole main vs master thing seem even more silly. > SLAVE: From Middle English, from Old French sclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus (“sla
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In all fairness, this sort of silly business is more representative of the "Twitter left", comprised of cogs in a perpetual rage-inducing machine, than it is of "leftists" whose main objective is to address the limitatio
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Will they? Most companies' internal systems are locked down and we'll suffer the same problem. Open source is the best way we have right now to preserve software knowledge.
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What I don't understand is why a company like this doesn't embrace maker culture. They're already selling some seriously expensive hardware, so raise the price a bit if necessary to ensure a safe profit margin, while making
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Do you have any recommendations for machines that someone could reasonably fit in their home to replace a cricut?
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I have never used FF mobile, but so far no one has gone into detail about what changed about FF mobile that made it so much worse. Can you elaborate a little?
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You might be interested in Merigoux et al 2021, "A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code" [1]! [1]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2011.07966.pdf
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I should clarify that I'm upset that they lived through it but still manage not to let that experience inform their votes today. Hindsight is 20/20, and now they have the benefit of hindsight!
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On a related note I'm 25 and am bitter about how older generations lived through Watergate / Iran-Contra / etc, and not only let everyone involved off the hook, but then let them all pull the strings behind the scenes through
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> Speaking for myself, I tend to listen to music with no lyrics or with lyrics in languages I don't understand because it lets me program without becoming distracted. Same here, plus it helps me better appreciate the human voice as
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I like Adam Ragusea's video [1] on the subject of iodized salt. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B00K66HivcI
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No, this is not true. There was a brief period from October-December where they began to issue work and student visas again, and I was let in to the country on a work visa during this time. However, on December 28, due to rising case numbe
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The past year has been brutal for the entire world, and holding a championship for professional athletes doesn't really justify the billions of dollars Japan has lost in its decision to postpone the Olympics rather than cancel them. Ja

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