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by bm3719 4y ago
Assuming these conspiracy theorists actually exist, there's an easy way to prove them wrong without pejorative-laden propaganda pieces like this: make one of these cities that people will actually want to live in. I worked hard to move
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by bm3719 4y ago
Been using Clojure professionally for 9+ years now and while I'm thankful that I can make a living writing the language and using Emacs all day, I've found these points to be spot on. These issues have added noise/confusion t
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by bm3719 4y ago
Prison guard. With AI good enough to put programmers out of work, there's not much that is safe from its reach. So, until prison reform happens such that human guards are no longer needed, the market for prison guards will be healthy
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by bm3719 4y ago
The BlockTube extension can make shorts disappear. In the options, check "Block Youtube Shorts videos". I also block all videos under 59 seconds, since they're effectively shorts. You can also block channels and never see
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by bm3719 4y ago
View counts (and similar metrics) are a trap precisely because they are correlated with the things you do want. Say you want to educate others. That's hard to measure, so instead you measure updoots and retweets. They're promin
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by bm3719 4y ago
We have to break out of this view count trap if we want to be free of the ills of centralized social media. Maybe instead of views, consider the effect of your words on the outside world. How often does a tweet change your thinking or deep
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by bm3719 4y ago
IRC + email + VCS system works fine for FLOSS projects. tmux can also be used for screen sharing, if anyone needs support or wants to pair on something. One nice thing about using this comms stack is it doesn't exclude people who are o
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by bm3719 4y ago
If transportation accessibility has recently peaked and will invert, with fuel and vehicle prices continuing along current trends, the lower classes become increasingly less mobile. The better off can drive their $100k SUV to fine dining a
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by bm3719 4y ago
My long-term prediction: Rural areas and exurbs will up-class, housing the higher-paid remote workers. The remaining non-farming rural poor will be priced out of these properties and will have to live in cities, in ever smaller apartments
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by bm3719 4y ago
Can confirm that SWE salary + no kids + modest needs/desires can make for an easy mode life. Myself and some others I'm familiar with in a similar situation use the free the bandwidth to load up on complexity in other areas, like
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by bm3719 4y ago
In that situation, I would just pay for it (and have in the past). If it was one of those nightmare bills you hear about sometimes, I would simply extend my working years by +1 or whatever to even things out. Or, maybe I'd just prete
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by bm3719 4y ago
I have health insurance provided by my employer, but when not employed, I skip it and just pay for anything out of pocket. Hasn't been a problem so far, but I can see how people more attached to health care services might find that ha
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by bm3719 4y ago
Despite being well off income-wise, my expenses are under $20k/yr on average. This is with owning a home, buying a car every 5 yrs, and basically buying anything else I might want. I could go as low as $5k/yr in fixed expenses i
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by bm3719 4y ago
This has been the SEC's stance since at least 2020 when they went after Ripple (XRP) for selling "unregistered securities" in their ICO. It's the SEC's position that you can issue tokens, but they have to be "r
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by bm3719 4y ago
Anecdata based on the men in this situation I'm familiar with: They do have mental health issues, but I'm not sure they're more than what the average employed man is afflicted by. I detect a general life fulfillment malaise,
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by bm3719 4y ago
I own a 6.5 Carcano and can confirm that the this chambering does exhibit non-standard terminal ballistics when using the old bottle-nosed, flat-base surplus bullets. Also, a lot of these late-19th century surplus rifles (including my 1891
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by bm3719 4y ago
> Finished the exam in LUA for a openresty opensource project (didn't even know lua). Everything worked nicely. I was told he didn't like how i laid out the lua. I like take-home tests too, but am reluctant to do them in langua
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by bm3719 4y ago
The F-91W has 18mm lugs, but it uses a friction-held (non-spring) bar, which limits your options. Further limiting it is that it doesn't quite look right without the flare out and taper. Some people don't mind this and swap it w
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by bm3719 4y ago
If you're a cash buyer and considering upgrading, it might be your chance soon. It's hard to make this work perfectly within life circumstances of course, but the ideal timing is to upgrade when the sticker price drops, and downg
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by bm3719 4y ago
> Capitalism is the private ownership of productive capacity and the use of it for private profit. That's a peculiar and recent invention. As someone who's been using the property-based definition, I do think this one is more a
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by bm3719 4y ago
I recognized this as a career-limiting factor too, and took some steps to rectify the situation. My solution was to study the largely unwritten rules of social interaction as I would any other topic, then fake it. That can be draining, as
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by bm3719 4y ago
This is an interesting tech stack, but seems heavy-handed for managing such a small amount of raw data (the l/p list itself). My solution for the past 14 years has been a simple GPG-encrypted org-mode (text) file. I can get to a passw
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by bm3719 4y ago
Since they have formulae to quantize this, they would probably weigh the marginal utility of, say, a billion less hungry people now against a -1% chance reduction of annihilation of the human race, and say the latter is a clear winner. Mayb
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by bm3719 4y ago
In addition to the other good reasons listed here: Inflation. Most of us are now paid less in real terms for our efforts than we were 1-2 years ago. If you convert your labor to something invariant, like carrots, you just aren't given
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by bm3719 4y ago
Still learning about the tenets of this philosophy here, nor do I have a position on it yet, so might get this wrong... However, isn't there a more charitable argument you could make that looks something like this: 4. Unlike with cave
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by bm3719 4y ago
On the contrary, I wish my criminal aggressors had precisely the amount of empathy I have for them. Such crimes would not have occurred were that the case, nor would they even be possible (as I would never violate another fellow human bein
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by bm3719 4y ago
Most of us have been the victim of some kind of crime at some point in our lives. The many times it's happened to me, I also considered the notion of empathy: namely that the criminal lacked it for me, the victim. Not saying the curre
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by bm3719 4y ago
Thanks! I guess the site broke my brain and I missed that.
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by bm3719 4y ago
I put my $10k in. This site is indeed pretty awful and I couldn't find an answer to this question: When getting returns, are these going to auto-deposit into the account I linked to buy it, or should I make a note to log in once a year
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by bm3719 4y ago
Also a fan of mechanical watches, including doing mods/builds of them. I don't mind winding mine up and setting the time, but if that bothers you, you can get a watch winder that will keep the spring topped off on automatics. Rega

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