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by cat199 8y ago
sure. my point is this is the package maintainer interjecting their own notions of what a package is into what is actually provided by the upstream source. the only 'package X' that is 'correct' w/r/t original
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by cat199 8y ago
> Take that as you will. you mean like, by prefacing with a big disclaimer like: "here's the generally slightly left leaning washington post allowing publication of an OP-ed entitled" if it were that far out there, they wo
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by cat199 8y ago
sure am. prove me wrong. also, you presume there are only 2 sides, when in fact this is not a 1 dimensional topic. however, duopoly polarizes debate, which is my point.
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by cat199 8y ago
> I have never heard that in my life. check us foreign policy. it's pretty clear. >Saudi is one of the scariest places on Earth to me, I don't see anything nice or good there, and neither does anyone I know. hey great, your
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by cat199 8y ago
> Energy is a matter of national security primarily because our energy sources and distribution are destroying our own country. Really? Then how come Saudi's are "nice good guys" and Iranians are "scary bad guys"
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by cat199 8y ago
of course 'the hill' blames the backwards people in flyover states in need of superior bicoastal enlightenment for resisting the change to renewables, rather than looking for the lobbyists hiding out in their own full-of-hot-air b
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by cat199 8y ago
imho (and I wasn't there at the time) this is a result of proprietary unices constricting the growth of 'free unix' (e.g. source based BSD) in the commercial realm along with the rapid growth of space-constrained 90s PC'
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by cat199 8y ago
trump? really? pretty sure polarizing and biased shutdown of opposing opinions is prevalent on all sides, and mizz pelosi does control the house these days..
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by cat199 8y ago
I dunno, here's the generally slightly left leaning washington post allowing publication of an OP-ed entitled "The Southern Poverty Law Center has lost all credibility": https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions
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by cat199 8y ago
software written in other environments may fail due to assumptions of non randomness, and so need patching to work on openbsd. on the upside, these changes often improve overall security of the code and are merged upstream so those using ot
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by cat199 8y ago
well, it's what happens if you actually install a package from source, and so is congruent with what it really means to 'install <package X>' seems preferable to accepting arbitrary segmentation of packages into subsets
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by cat199 8y ago
robotpeople's republic of china
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by cat199 8y ago
or, the person who should do it should do it and not rely on others to do their job for them?
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by cat199 8y ago
distorting share prices doesn't cause harm? i'm sure all of the poor Enron shareholders are mad at the SEC for the same reason, etc etc etc
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by cat199 8y ago
it's not about shareholders, it's about ensuring 'healthy markets'.. manipulating markets in either direction damages this. also: the terms of the agreement required him to have statements audited by counsel, this was ap
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by cat199 8y ago
as stupid as tweeting incorrectly and without legal review when tweeting correctly and with review is essentially your simple, easy to observe, 'terms of parole'?
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by cat199 8y ago
> There must be existing uses of this encoding, but I’ve been unable to find any or even determine what its name is. not a tree guru.. but isn't this somewhat related to 'fractal tree indexing': https://en.wikip
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by cat199 8y ago
> And you'd be able to run up to 10.11 (El Capitan) on the Pro or 10.7 (Lion) on the MacBook. or switch to any current linux, if you can figure out the 32bit efi booting
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by cat199 8y ago
semantics != syntax
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by cat199 8y ago
you definately sound informed on this case for sure and i'm certainly not but it seems like there are 2/3 threads being comingled in the case: a) illegality of marijuana itself b) interstate commerce-related issues pertaining to p
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by cat199 8y ago
not saying it's easy, and no, doesn't sound like a lot. but it's possible, is my point - the difference on whether it is possible or not possible is the lifestyle one chooses to lead with it.
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by cat199 8y ago
this sort of polarization isn't exactly novel in american discourse - we have inherited puritanical zealousness/reductionism, a mechanical/calvinistic sense of 'the predetermined elect', an overly rationalizing sens
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by cat199 8y ago
> However, in fairness those same passages also call out those who are adulterous, slanderous, greedy, and drunkards with equal force. whoa there, you are saying that the actual bible doesn't just harp on homosexuals, and that their
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by cat199 8y ago
> Certainly a whole host of laws from keeping kosher to keeping the sabbath seem to be on a pick and choose basis, which has always made me a little cynical about the choice to pay lip service to Leviticus only where homosexuality is con
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by cat199 8y ago
> In a state with legal medical marijuana umm.. not familiar with this case, but: from a federal position there is no such thing as legal marijuana, and from a constitutional position federal law trumps state law - which is not to say i
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by cat199 8y ago
... pay no attention to the post-enlightenment free-market liberal materialist bias behind the curtain
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by cat199 8y ago
> But it's very misguided to think that having a lot of money is how you become happy. still applies
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by cat199 8y ago
The first subheading in the post is 'Progress Report' and various details of progress in various areas are provided.. doesn't seem like spin to me.
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by cat199 8y ago
Is it? Many people could retire after one year at 500k or 1M because their cost of living is such that they would be able to save almost all of it, and this would spread across their retirement..
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by cat199 8y ago
> If only we had a plugin/extension called Meta-x. Absolutely not. Clearly this extension should be called Escape-Colon. .. which is actually funnier in more ways than I thought .. hmm.

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