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by cykros 4y ago
This concern is why ESG investing has picked up, though personally I'd call that more of an opportunistic way to convince people they can have their cake and eat it too (and take a nice fat cut of the profit in the meantime), given how
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by cykros 4y ago
Turns out that it's easier to store and transport a few hundred thousand dollars worth of gold than it is to store a few decades worth of salt and farming equipment. Even if you're prepping for a disaster you see as inevitable, ha
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The mother of three part is where she went beyond her means. Children are a luxury, and they're one of the more expensive ones people widely indulge in. By all means, if they're a major value in your life, spend your money where y
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by cykros 4y ago
>Is this because oil/gas has penetrated the Canadian government lobby and made it too big to fail? You're almost certainly onto something here. Much like why water cooled nuclear reactors are still a thing, despite molten salt
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They should do it with the Holy Bible. Then it can really be the "living word" of God.
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It may be exacerbated lately because of the fact that we have so many fewer wars that involve sending off large swaths of the young male population to fight and die, so instead they're surviving long enough to complain about the situat
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Pure speculation, especially because most of this all is, but in keeping with wild assumptions: They're divorced, after their high status husbands traded in for a younger model. The solution seems to be for 20-something men and 40-some
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For what it's worth, legally mandated quotas for DEI that are externally imposed on private companies are also quite problematic. However, a lot of that trend these days comes internally, for a variety of reasons. At the end of the da
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This was my issue -- "okay" seems a synonym for "acceptable." And 47% of those polled saying that they cannot accept the existence of white people, taken at face value, would indeed be quite alarming. But, most people w
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by cykros 4y ago
The technology behind mastodon is all well and good. In practice, the instances have a lot of sysop drama that results in a very poorly federated network. Having a model like Usenet, where perhaps you could have some groups federated among
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by cykros 4y ago
Emacs, though, is a great operating system, which just sadly doesn't ship with a decent text editor. Don't worry though, you can install the eVil plugin, and get what is essentially Vim running inside of it.
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by cykros 4y ago
They're a lot more widely used amongst long distance backpackers, particularly on multi day or week section or thru hikes. This guy set out on what sounds like it would have been a day hike (I'd expect, given the distance, and th
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by cykros 4y ago
Indeed -- much like with roads that have the same name with a different ending; ie, Maple St. and Maple Ave., found in the same town. Though I do feel bad for the people who live on such streets, with how often their food delivery gets sent
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by cykros 4y ago
I mostly left Mastodon once Twitter stopped being so onerous with their wrongthink policies. The abundance of splintered fiefdoms is reminiscent of the power tripping found amongst IRCOps in years past, and is frankly a bit of a yawn fest.
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by cykros 4y ago
Blocking a server because it's full of randos. Ahh, the rise of antisocial networking. Bill Hicks would be proud; his people who hate people party has been growing quite well.
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by cykros 4y ago
I'd be curious if Medium Term Notes have a role to play here, particularly considering the size. A lot of the term benefits of some bond issues, without a lot of the red tape of actually going through a bond issuance.
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Definitely, just like it's good for coal miners to be out of that awful line of work -- they seem really happy about it down in West Virginia. While we're at it, we should free up software developers to no longer have to have jobs
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by cykros 4y ago
There has been a major uptick in porn consumption over the past 29 years. Perhaps pulling on them all the time makes them stretch, ever so slowly.
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by cykros 4y ago
Bear in mind that this was exactly the idea behind trailer parks and mobile home parks when they first started popping up -- a "leg up" for impoverished people, and, well, the results sort of speak to some problems that came along
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by cykros 4y ago
Most actual adult sites also blur themselves if not keep you out until you set a cookie too, and frankly this is much more appropriate. I don't want to be at work, looking for a picture of, say, a banana, and inadvertently getting... &
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by cykros 4y ago
30 minutes a day? For weight management, it'd be hard to beat High Intensity Interval Training, particularly with a jump rope (if you don't mind dropping some cash, the weighted jump ropes from Crossrope are pretty slick). If it&#
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by cykros 4y ago
Just, whatever you do, when you find yourself in such a situation, don't watch "The Shining." Even if the message "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" may be worth learning.
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It seems the issue with scraping as it pertains to copyright issues isn't the scraping, any more than buying a book to sell off photocopies of it cheaply doesn't indicate that there is a problem with buying books. The issue is th
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Well, an outright ban would make most corporate business in the EU impossible, which is why China hasn't even gone this far. I guess you could go ahead and try to ban VPN's for private use, but frankly my suspicion is that this w
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It doesn't seem to actually go this far -- it means however that any repository for this free software, which can be obtained from the open repositories around the world, would need to have age verification in place. Meaning that in o
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Each layer of abstraction takes away choice in this model, and is indeed why Republics have Constitutions, among other reasons. The scope elected officials have is frankly too grand, resulting in positions where one wants to restrict your
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How hard is it for repos to just "not do business in the EU" -- especially those that are donation funded in the first place? It's been awhile since we saw the amusing maps drawn by the Pirate Bay pointing to the big pond th
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This certainly explains why Ubuntu includes bad design choice after bad design choice. You'd hope they'd learn from mistakes, but the people making mistakes over and over again were barely born the first time they were made. I&#x
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"Yelp" is the sound a dog makes when you step on its tail. "Review" websites are, to a large portion of the population, complaint websites. By all means, keep an eye on what's being said about you and look for red
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And you'd think with all the inane things they've finances in the name of trying to stimulate economic activity they'd be putting more into subsidizing childcare and other birthrate stimulators. Surely that would be more stim

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