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by cpursley 2y ago
I think most reasonable and quite frankly, honest, people understood now and then, that taking the kids out of school would fuck them up pretty bad. When the actual science was suggesting we take care of the medically vulnerable and elderly
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by cpursley 2y ago
Interesting take, I feel like the current iteration of the Windows UI is actually really good. Microsoft seems to be continually tweaking and improving it.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Yep. Typical landscape crew rolls with $50k in equipment (maybe more). People push back on tooling pricing in other industries (especially when the tooling is "soft') but have no clue what that the cost of doing biz is huge for ot
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by cpursley 2y ago
You could have at least provided some constructive feedback...
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by cpursley 2y ago
Sounds like you're just looking for excuses to justify bigotry and/or collective punishment (not a western value, btw).
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by cpursley 2y ago
The book did not invent the term Russophobia in 2016, it's an exploration of historical negative sentiment towards Russia and Russians. And to be precise, philosopher John Stuart Mill coined it back in 1836 (who was no doubt, under the
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by cpursley 2y ago
Yes, every data point is worth taking a look at and considering. That's not the same as agreeing. And yes, there's a long history of Russophobia - especially in Western Europe that goes back to "uncivilized hordes from the ea
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by cpursley 2y ago
Have you read the book? Or you simply don’t like the premise because it might challenge your existing world-view?
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by cpursley 2y ago
That's 127 too many.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Goes back a while, there's even a book on the topic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34237648-creating-russop...
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by cpursley 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_history_of_the_United... Thankfully we got to keep SWIFT and our McDonalds since those invasi
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by cpursley 2y ago
Nice to know, thanks and sorry for the mistake! Finish culture is one of my favorites and Helsinki is amazing. Ditto on sauna culture.
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by cpursley 2y ago
I hate to tell you this, but most of the major powers did all sorts horrible things during that time period. Especially my people group, who were arguable the most effective at it. And fwiw, the late Soviets tried to course correct regardin
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by cpursley 2y ago
Half of hn posts are people showing off things where they spent a herculean amount of effort reinventing something that elixir/erlang has had solved 30+ years already.
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by cpursley 2y ago
> you are a cynical hypocrite This kind of name calling is against hn policy and will get you banned fyi
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by cpursley 2y ago
I know SQL pretty well (enough to write complex procedures) and prefer it over doing biz logic in application code (yuck ORMs). But SQL is just such a wonky syntax that I appreciate any help that I can get.
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by cpursley 2y ago
This is similar to what I’ve done with my sass where most of the logic lives in Postgres. I went through much of the logic and refactored it with GPT a while back and improved it significantly. It’s soooo good with SQL. Like insanely good.
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by cpursley 2y ago
> Why do you think you are entitled to FoM? Because I'm a human being, not a slave or subject. > everything is perfect according to your worldview What you described is called "cronyism"
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by cpursley 2y ago
Hardly, I did that once (it was great). But we were just a few hundred vs a couple thousand. And really only 30% were actually true digital nomads (in the remote job/biz, real income sense); the others were just your typical travelers
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by cpursley 2y ago
Why does everyone seem to blame digital nomads - that seems lazy and probably not backed by numbers. I bet if you actually look into it, there’s way more retirees from northern European countries in the desirable sunny, warm places. And tho
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by cpursley 2y ago
This is really nice, especially for feeding LLMs web page data (they generally understand markdown well). I built something similar for the Elixir world but it’s much more limited (I might borrow some of your ideas): https://gith
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by cpursley 2y ago
The book is pretty dated so some of the specific examples might be boring, but this is a good book on this topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent You could probably get by with the cliff notes versi
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by cpursley 2y ago
You're just upset that someone called you out on your own BS.
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by cpursley 2y ago
What’s crazy is few people even talk about who currently owns major US news networks and what their motives might be. People don’t like Musk owning Twitter/X, that’s a start - but start reading about who owns the rest (especially tradi
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by cpursley 2y ago
You sound quite confident. Are you willing to place financial bets?
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by cpursley 2y ago
Why not just use the database correctly?
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by cpursley 2y ago
That’s a typical drive-by headline. Did you even read the article? Or the first hand sources? Putin never once threatened using nukes out of the blue like some kind of madman - only reinstated their pretty bog standard nuclear defense polic
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by cpursley 2y ago
Kursk, while embarrassing as hell, is not an actual threat to Russian statehood in the military sense.
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by cpursley 2y ago
Speaking of bubbles…
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by cpursley 2y ago
Nonsense, there was no call. Blowing some shit up in the grey zone (or even Kursk) is one thing - his state hasn’t been threatened in any real way (which is their nuke threshold policy). However, lobbing western made (and make no mistake, w

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