bigbillheck

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by bigbillheck 3y ago
They tried to say George Floyd wasn't murdered either.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
People have been saying that for years and it's just as absurd now as it's ever been.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> The lead author is an “independent scientist”. The other one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanie_Seneff
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I can't imagine anarchists thinking Obama would have been any better than Romney, and as for the Nation of Islam, in 2011 Farrakhan called Obama an assassin and a murder.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> Nothing struck her He hit somebody, who was it? https://wina-am.sagacom.com/files/2018/12/WINA-car-in-eviden... (from https://wina.com/news/064460-james-fields-trial-every-pictur...
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> FWIW I don't think either of them are any sort of bigots I just poked around at some recent transcripts and there was plenty of anti-trans stuff.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> not a single molecule of the driver's car ever touched Heather Heyer? I thought the medical examiner said otherwise: https://wset.com/news/local/medical-examiner-heather-heyer-d...
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I wonder if 40 years ago people got as bent out of shape about X as they do now about systemd and find one reason or another why it didn't fit the "unix philosophy".
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
That sounds like a state actor thinking, not a terrorist.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> Serious Communist China ended with everyone starving This is certainly a claim, let's see how it stands up against the historical record (as from wiki): 1961: Last famine in the PRC 1966: Start of the Cultural Revolution 1976: Mao
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> I think this will in fact not make the author feel better, It might, actually. From the intro paragraph: "Both taught me about choosing unfair fights and playing by your own rules…"
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> a lot a lot of brain damaged people It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I'd be OK with banning automatic trading.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> It only benefits some parties that aren't really invested into the company. Whoever's on the other side of the trade is by definition invested into the company, either before the sale, after the sale, or both.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Good luck proving it.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
One joke.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
The devices and media might change more often, but the important stuff -- the content -- is much more persistent than it ever was. Between 1924 and 1974 the primary format for listening to music only underwent minor changes (78rpm to 33 1&#
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I first started listening to mp3s in the last 90s, didn't fully transition away from listening on CD until 2012, last bought some CDs just a couple months ago, and up until 4 or 5 years ago the vast majority of my music purchases were
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
There's both a Walgreens and a CVS near me, and both of their pharmacies close at 6pm. The nearest 24hour pharmacy is not quite two hours away.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Does AM/PM still not take credit cards?
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I don't.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Just like lead? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39087999
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
There's a lot of things that go into plant yield, and it's not just as simple as "less sunlight, less grass".
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
CGI was a simple model that died out as better alternatives came along.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I think we've all heard of it, but I for one don't find it persuasive.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> So any Wayland evangelists out there, tell us: where in the file system can I find the files describing a window on the screen under the Wayland protocol? What file holds the coordinates of the window, its place in the Z-order, its col
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
I've felt my way around a new problem domains many times, and my experience is that a vector and a map will do just fine.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
Lisp seems to be a language for individualists, which isn't a great way to build a community and beyond.
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
And a neutrino: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron_capture
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by bigbillheck 3y ago
> I personally call it Mussolinian Named after somebody better known for other ideas?

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