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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Yup, and look at Seattle now. You used to be able to buy a house in king county in the 90s for under 100k, an example of just one jarring change of many.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
It's never going to gather because nobody wants their cheating methods to become useless. Most of our elected representation got there by cheating. They can resist this political force, by making sure to cheat to prevent honest represe
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Can we stop it with this bullshit. There's no such thing as election integrity in america and there never has been. Everything they say about the previous election is probably true. Everyone involved in elections in the united states i
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I never said anything about platforms. You're misunderstanding me, I'm not talking about replacement institutions, I don't want to have to pay for a power point course and a printable PDF with my name in block letters on it.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
The yoga pants thing wasn't necessary. You don't have to show me pretty women for me to care. I don't care. I'm happy about it actually. We are going through a transformation with regard to our relationship with informat
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Yes it is. If we are strictly concerned with the functionality of our tools, and not the ideology held by their creators, it is an option. For some people that might even be a plus, not everyone thinks the same way about these things.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
As someone who's worked almost the full gamut of work types, from warehouse to sales to manufacturing to software development, even service and call center work, I can say that there's something rewarding about physically demandin
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
So why don't we fork the chromium upstream code and only merge security patches? Imagine, all the web extension maintainers just started maintaining for the forked browser because it's the only one they can continue to support. Th
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
...except sweetness isn't what all those foods have in common?
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Well there's nostr https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr It solves this problem of being tied to a domain.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I think the point is "what were those 8000 people doing for a decade."
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I don't think fundamentally that the problem here is derivatives. I think fundamentally that it is pensions themselves. Think about what a pension is. A pension is a deliberate inefficiency in a labor market. It's a promise to pay
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Speak for yourself. I'd just like to click a video link and have it open in VLC.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
MNT makes some pretty cool devices. I follow them pretty closely. This pocket reform is in the R&D stage, the photo in the article is a preliminary render. They're expensive though. The current reform laptop is fantastic but its a
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I can think of a few decent ways to solve this problem. Have an open system where anyone can design an augment in AR or even an open VR world, and put it anywhere, and publish it. People could select their own augments by importing it, like
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I remember back before all the political noise Gab had a web extension like this, a comment section controlled by them. It was an interesting paradigm, an awesome idea, I tried it once and the comments weren't my cup of tea, didn'
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I can say definitively that the last photo is of 2 women. They're both female. To mee it's plainly obvious, just look closely at them, they're women. That should help narrow it down quite a bit, after reading the article abou
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
If circumcision as a tradition gave cultures an evolutionary advantage due to medical benefit you'd expect that it would've spread farther, yet we see basically 1 small insular group and another much more recent, semi insular grou
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I don't think it's that simple. Human beings evolved while spreading culture, for far, far longer than we have been writing, longer than we have been homo sapiens even. It is a core part of what we are, so understanding it and a
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
FGM refers broadly to a multitude of traditions related to modification of female genitalia, not only to that one specific kind. And generally speaking, they're all illegal in the west, even ones where the damage is comparable to male
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I think it's just an open minded anthropological exploration of culture and tradition, and the beginning sentence hints at there being some long term computation occurring with cultures similar to evolution, i.e "doing things that
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Expecting aliens to behave like logical automaton vulcans and not have any cultural artifacts in their way of living is a bit simple minded IMO
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Plastic's main selling point is it's durability, it's resistance to decay. But it's basically made of organic compounds, the thing that makes it durable is it's novelty in the environment and this resistance to deca
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I'm gonna get in on the fun and try to find ones that haven't been said. Fossil. It is hands down the best version control and code hosting system out there, I wish more people would use it. Gitea... I don't like git, but the
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Helix really is amazing, even with it's current level of maturity (or should I say immaturity) I just can't stop using it, I can't wait to see how well it works in a year or two.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
When you're a guy running a long lived online community on a $100 a year VPS you avoid storing media as mush as possible. There's a reason photo bucket sites used to be so popular.
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
I think the disagreement is about the extent to which these events will be damaging first and foremost, and policy discussions stem from that. I know plenty of people who concur "carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas" and all that co
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
A business that would die without software will write it's own software. A business that would die without getting that software for free is not a viable business. I can see putting some message of intent as a developer, but people c
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
Food, that analogy doesn't apply because nobody is dying here. And it is about boilerplate disclaimers. That's my entire point. "Add a boilerplate disclaimer reiterating what your license says if you really really mean it&q
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by betwixthewires 4y ago
In addition to iceraven (mentioned in another reply) there's also Kiwi browser, a chromium based mobile browser with extensions support. Also, there's a web extension called Redirector that allows you to do these redirects in a mu

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