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by boxmonster 6y ago
If you watch the multitude of videos on YouTube about Slab City, some by reputable media outlets, you might get the impression that its an artists colony with complete freedom of expression. "The Last Free Place On Earth" says the
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by boxmonster 6y ago
Solar panel farms seem like a good option.
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by boxmonster 6y ago
The Salton Sea area has its environmental problems, but it's less of a disaster than the author writes. There are picnic areas along the water that are nice. On the other hand, Slab City is more of a disaster than he writes. The reside
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by boxmonster 6y ago
You'll find out just how much HR is your friend when and if you ever get laid off.
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by boxmonster 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I listened. I was surprised that it didn't qualify as a mental illness because it didn't cause distress. I didn't know about that qualifier in regards to mental illness. And then I was surprised the interv
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by boxmonster 6y ago
"C arrays are zero-based, so the indexes have to run from 0 to n-1. One might want to allocate one more element instead to simplify converting legacy code." From https://luajit.org/ext_ffi.html I am not a Lua prog
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Russia Might Issue Fines for Using SpaceX Starlink Internet Service(extremetech.com)
1 points by boxmonster 6y ago|0 comments
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by boxmonster 6y ago
Ah yes, the old slippery slope argument. First they banned posts saying a man's children should be skinned alive in front of him to teach him a lesson (actual post I saw on Parler) then they're going to come for me making reasonab
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by boxmonster 6y ago
Yeah right, I didn't' think of that!
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by boxmonster 6y ago
I used to drive Uber as a retired programmer and found out I have a talent for putting people at ease. I've been told I'm a calm person. I've also been told I'm kind and a good listener. I quit Uber because of the pandem
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by boxmonster 6y ago
unrolled : https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1349510769268850690.html
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Apple Car expected to shake up auto industry in Asia and world(asia.nikkei.com)
35 points by boxmonster 6y ago|86 comments
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by boxmonster 6y ago
Of course it has a right to exist, just like the rest of the internet that's not on Apple/Google/Amazon
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by boxmonster 6y ago
The Supreme Court ruled corporations are people. Do you let people say whatever they want about you in your blog (let's suppose you have one) So if somebody comes on my Facebook and writes that I'm a rapist and a murderer (falsely
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by boxmonster 6y ago
> Those who continue to argue that the social media companies are purely private ventures acting independent of US government interests are ignoring reality. The corporatist merger of “private” US social media companies with US governmen
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by boxmonster 6y ago
Womb Cannibals: great death metal band name
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by boxmonster 6y ago
I'm confident safety measures can be developed. I worked in the nuclear field where the concept of "fail safe" is very important. I'm much more concerned about a corrupt human dictator utilizing nearly-super-intelligence
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by boxmonster 6y ago
> You’d have to pull the plug on _everything_ to shut it down. Right. Individual countries have shut off their internet. Why not the world?
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by boxmonster 6y ago
Pornhub dropped a bunch of content at the behest of MasterCard, so they don't mind their porn being curated. "Recent studies have found that state-level religious and political conservatism is positively associated with various ag
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by boxmonster 6y ago
These arguments about hypothetical super intelligences are interesting, but my concern is not very great because we can just pull the power plug if necessary
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by boxmonster 6y ago
It took me seconds to find credible information arguing against your assertion: "Using the model, we found that fatter individuals would indeed survive longer and, at a given body weight, females would survive longer than males, when t
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by boxmonster 6y ago
It seems weird to me that someone on HN would declare a computer that doesn't run Linux the best computer
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by boxmonster 6y ago
"You Literally Can't Believe The Facts Tucker Carlson Tells You. So Say Fox's Lawyers" https://www.npr.org/2020/09/29/917747123/you-literally-cant-...
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by boxmonster 6y ago
I didn't say get rid of it. How about requiring a warning label on these shows? I mean the lawyers for Jones and Carlson have already argued they aren't meant to be taken seriously. I think a label run on their shows would be enou
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by boxmonster 6y ago
We need to crack down on performative speech. Alex Jones and Tucker Carlson shouldn't be able to hide behind the legal arguments that their words aren't meant to be taken seriously because they are performative.
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by boxmonster 6y ago
Don't do this. The easier you make it for people to download music, the harder it is for youtube-dl to continue to exist freely available.
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by boxmonster 6y ago
This is the problem they need to fix. Two different looks, with the modern look removing needed functionality, sacrificing functionality for UI goodness.
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by boxmonster 6y ago
I'm in the Windows 10 beta program. I don't even think much about the 2 times a month I'm asked to restart my machine.
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by boxmonster 6y ago
I've been doing debugger driven development my entire adult life and consider it a bad habit. I'm much better off and happier when I plan out and compile in my head. Then I get a good feeling when it compiles and runs the first ti
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by boxmonster 6y ago
I find it totally believable that a Muslim would get harrassed given the current toxic political climate.

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