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by cykros 3y ago
Hundreds of millions might be better kept at Treasurydirect.gov, due to SIPC coverage limits. Though I'll admit ignorance on knowing exactly how insurance over there works, but it'd be a REALLY bad look if the government lost your
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by cykros 3y ago
Worth pointing out here that OpenGrid does exist, and you can absolutely just spin up your own instance, if you want that building experience without paying (separately) for hosting. At this point you could probably run it on the same hardw
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by cykros 3y ago
My favorite thing in SL years ago was probably the Rantmedia studio that was set up to do live radio shows (which were also of course distributed as podcasts). It tied in the live audience experience with the text chat, and made for some a
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by cykros 3y ago
A good few subs have already quite fluidly moved over to lemmy. Sure, you're not taking the archives with you, but if that's really what you're after, surely you can afford the price of "free" for wget.
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by cykros 3y ago
Sad to see Reddit news is still relevant, as it indicates the site still has users. With alternatives growing and the motivation for so many to leave, I'm not sure I have much sympathy for those who just won't leave at this point
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by cykros 3y ago
Fighting back against totalitarianism by doing away with freedom of association and assembly. Cute. No better than the gang laws we have here in the US. It seems Jefferson's rule about 200 years or so between revolutions was right af
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by cykros 3y ago
They seceded from the Union. The war was started when the Union under Lincoln asserted that this was unacceptable. Which, in fairness, there had been no prior precedent for. This is why many southerners know it as "The War of Northern
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by cykros 3y ago
They had help from (and were egged on by) Britain and they didn't count on the help the Union was going to get from Russia. Also, war on home turf gives a "home field advantage." Also, in the end, the war lasted over 4 years
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by cykros 3y ago
Muscle strength is far from the most valuable military skill in most roles these days, and arguably hasn't really been since the 19th century when most combat became firearms oriented. Yes, it still plays a role, and for some jobs, it
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by cykros 3y ago
Local laws vary WILDLY even sometimes within the same state, let alone country to country. C-Squat in NYC was notoriously annexed by the punks living there, and they are the legal owners, but far more often, you are looking at the likeliho
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by cykros 3y ago
They should have looked into packaging Instant Pot-ready meals, a la Blue Apron, but with a more conventional delivery method (ie, store shelves). Heck, go to a successful food producer with a licensing deal to slap the Instant Pot brand o
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by cykros 3y ago
It depends on the use case. Flat forums are vastly superior when it's about having a discussion (singular) rather than a bunch of splintered bits of information being shared. It's worth remembering that Usenet had threading -- it
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by cykros 3y ago
I still wonder if we're just reinventing the wheel when NNTP and FIDONet both solved this issue of connecting the disparate message bases nearly half a century ago. I get building out to include more features, but it really feels like
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by cykros 3y ago
There used to be a great android app called Irssi-Connectbot (which was a slightly modified Connectbot app, which was an SSH client. You could set it up for automatic running of commands upon connection (ie, "screen -d -r"), and
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by cykros 3y ago
Discord also has a godawful client that you can't (without breaking the EULA) substitute for another. And even then, the options are pretty limited. Matrix seems to bring along the features of Discord with the freedom of IRC. But, as
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by cykros 3y ago
The difference was, back in the good old days, you were making friends with the people who owned and ran the platforms you were on. And they weren't (usually) slurping up all manner of data about you to sell off access to in one form
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by cykros 3y ago
I've been spending a lot of time thinking and talking about the decline of independent forums. And I think there's a lot to be said about the fundamental change in the legal environment today compared to the early 2000s. Back the
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by cykros 3y ago
Well, for one, Drs. Timothy Leary and John Lilly were both avid readers of his methods, and it helped shape their take on what in large part can be seen (and is sometimes explicitly referred to) as "programming the human mind." Ri
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by cykros 3y ago
Indeed. Unlike the case for some of his opponents from other religions.
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by cykros 3y ago
Book 4 isn't a bad place, but Magick in Theory and Practice is more approachable as a first read. It was written as a series of letters to a female student, and Crowley's Victorian attitudes about the intellect of women made it s
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by cykros 3y ago
As opposed to the guy that moved there to a house on Loch Ness...
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by cykros 3y ago
What are Yeats?
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by cykros 3y ago
I'm just waiting to see third party apps that, in lieu of API access, work by scraping the website, and are a LOT heavier on the servers. A major selling point of API's is to lighten the load.
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by cykros 3y ago
This is mostly true, but does depend a bit. There are of course investors looking for a steady price and steady dividend (income investors, as opposed to growth). Nobody is ever annoyed when their stock goes up of course, but it isn'
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by cykros 3y ago
You can pay for school, but you can't buy class.
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by cykros 3y ago
This goes back to at LEAST 19th century socialist thought, if not beyond. Russian anarchist Mikhail Bakunin writes about the evils of inheritance in his works.
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by cykros 3y ago
Indeed. They could go with an anthology of seasons style show, however, if Mike Judge is up for it. New start ups with new seasons, with the occasional throwbacks perhaps.
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by cykros 3y ago
I'd say there's nuance to be had here. They don't just choose leisure, they, through generational practice and upbringing, can do so without completely becoming undone in the process. See: what happens to most people who win
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by cykros 3y ago
The best solution there would be using some sort of web based hosted solution, which may well not exist. Thinking something like how TT-RSS replaced Google Reader. Basically, self hosted Google Groups, back when Google Groups was synonymou
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by cykros 3y ago
Eternal-September.org has free text based Usenet. No binaries, but works just fine, and has for years.

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