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by cpr 7y ago
Nearly every mass killer in the last 10 years has posted an angry rant on Facebook or Twitter. A couple may have posted on 8chan. Guess which platform is being criticized for allowing hate?
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by cpr 7y ago
Certainly email lists as a discussion medium were always doomed. ;-) I remember taking part in the first mailing list (1973?) on the ARPAnet, which was, appropriately enough, about mailing lists, hosted by BBN. Flame wars sprung up day and
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by cpr 7y ago
And not a peep about the almost inevitable involvement with SSRI drugs, most of which warn about side effects like "suicidal, murderous ideations".
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by cpr 7y ago
The burning question of the day: Did it work?
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by cpr 7y ago
Some languages (I think Cobol) allowed the last 8 columns of punched cards to contain sequence numbers for physical sorting...
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by cpr 7y ago
Adobe has always made it a priority to be able to export your entire document in IDML. There's nothing hidden or proprietary in there--just all of the InDesign document content and settings. In fact, it's standard operating proced
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by cpr 7y ago
Good ol' MSM trying to get ahead of incriminating videos of powerful, well-known people doing extremely evil things...
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Divorce Is Destroying the Finances of Americans over 50(bloomberg.com)
7 points by cpr 7y ago|4 comments
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Lightning Fast App Creation(quarkjs.io)
2 points by cpr 7y ago|0 comments
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by cpr 7y ago
We get it. People hate the broken keyboard design. I do. But can we stop posting random blog posts about it? Unless the person has some unique insight into the problem, or ideas for homegrown solutions, let it be.
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by cpr 7y ago
Hah, back in the late 70's at the MIT AI/LCS/EE departments, we just called that normal conversation. To the loudmouths the spoils. ;-) Took me years to painfully wean myself from the habit when talking with my wife, who obje
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by cpr 7y ago
Same here, years ago--6 day silent retreats. My experience, though, is that it takes about 4-5 days for all the "noise" in your head to start fading away, and then, boom, it's over. ;-)
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by cpr 7y ago
Had some interaction with Corby back in the late 70’s. What a gentle, generous thoughtful man! Requiescat in pace.
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The Reason Renewables Can't Power Modern Civilization: They Were Never Meant To(forbes.com)
3 points by cpr 7y ago|2 comments
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The Nun Run(medium.com)
32 points by cpr 7y ago|0 comments
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by cpr 7y ago
They're actually really easy to remove without breaking, in my experience. You just have to use a very thin piece of flexible plastic to get under them from the top.
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by cpr 8y ago
A statement like that requires some explanation.
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by cpr 8y ago
Tom Woods has a series of good critiques of Piketty. Here’s one: https://tomwoods.com/ep-318-piketty-taken-down-for-good/
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by cpr 8y ago
...where "idiots" here means "people who aren't as enlightened as we are." C'mon, if you go with an open mind into the serious problems with vaccination safety, you come away with serious questions. As least I
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by cpr 8y ago
While the LispMs designers might have originally intended a network-based file system over Chaosnet and a network-based shared terminal configuration, in the end the LispMs each had sufficient local storage for standalone operation, and ded
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by cpr 8y ago
The one question 'pro-vaxxers' can't answer is: If vaccines work, why would someone fear non-vaccinated people? Isn't that just taking 'anti-vaxxers' out of the gene pool? I say this as someone who isn't a
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by cpr 8y ago
Been using this for over a year. It's so spotty it's useless.
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by cpr 8y ago
Has the whiff of a typical black ops CIA operation...
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by cpr 8y ago
(Sorry, didn't revisit this until now.) I started Em with the idea of a futuristic wysiwyg document editor, with the help of my brother's friend who wrote us a check for $50K to get started, "and cut me in appropriately"
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by cpr 8y ago
So moving away in the hopes that SV will magically get better while you're away? Doesn't sound like a practical plan.
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by cpr 8y ago
Yes, it's pretty clear he was set up in order to get him off the Vatican bank reform effort. I'm a Catholic and my stomach turns at the level of corruption in the Vatican.
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by cpr 8y ago
Start my own company and become the boss. ;-) (29 years ago. I guess Em Software is a "lifestyle" company (just 4 of us working out of our homes, so you can discount the anecdata...).)
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by cpr 8y ago
Front page--click the Submit button.
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by cpr 8y ago
So you're less human the more your physical and mental problems? From same publication: http://churchlife.nd.edu/2017/11/16/disability-debunks-myth-...
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by cpr 8y ago
Exactly, it's Brave New World and 1984 married--the jackboot on the neck plus the self-drugging anodynes.

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