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by darkpuma 7y ago
Of course it's not a new problem, which makes the failure many people have to recognize the problem this time around rather disturbing. Evidently the general public cannot be counted on to learn from history.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "By your logic there would be no YouTube." In it's current form, no, and I'm fine with that. I'd like to see what a self-sustaining youtube alternative looks like. The status quo is not divine providence.
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You can't even trust 60 minutes to tell you how long their show is; it's 45 minutes at best! Seriously though, I honestly don't get why that show is so popular. Maybe decades ago it was the best thing on TV, but that's
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Is youtube still being operated at a loss? If google runs a video sharing platform at or near a loss, funded by cash they get from search ads, then how can any other company possibly compete with them? By also running a video sharing pla
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The problem is not so much that a corporation has political opinions (or rather that the executives have political opinions and don't keep work and politics separate.) None of that is particularly unusual. The problem in this case is
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That's what it always means in the lower 48, though notably in Alaska there are some communities that are true dry, in that they outlaw simple possession as well. In Alaska, they use the term "damp" to describe places whe
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It's not one-or-the-other. This is still America; you'll get both. There will be more wars, more corporate tax breaks, and more bank bailouts. You can count on that.
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That's such a gross misrepresentation of the issue it's borderline malicious.
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Not a big problem for technical users, but it's enough to dissuade many non-technical users. With vertical tabs being such a second class feature in this and other ways, consumers have not been given a fair opportunity to try both sch
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It most often bites me when I'm in a new tab and I'm trying to complete a site URL from history. AFAIK there is no other clean way to open a new tab of a site you've been to before. Maybe if the history sidebar were usefu
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Israel's non-signatory status in the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, combined with their refusal to admit the obvious truth of having nuclear weapons despite their not-so-coy threats of using nuclear weapons all c
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In the 80s when they were at war with Iraq, the CIA assisted the Iraqis in dropping poison gas on Iranian civilians. Even if America were Iran's only enemy, America has a history of supporting other nations in wars against Iran. So I
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "To be honest, Israel is very very aggressive in terms of warfare and they’re only doing it so that they take more land..." Israel has a few motivations, land is just one of them. Whether it's land, oil, distracting th
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Religious tomfoolery is also the root of why large swaths of the American public continue their unbridled uncritical support for the rogue nuclear nation of Israel. That Israel plays a key role in the nutty religious prophecies of various
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Temporary Containers is almost perfect, except when you create a new tab it takes a split second for that tab to be assigned a new temporary container. For that split moment, if you're typing in an address whatever you've typed
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by darkpuma 7y ago
In a few years, Stadia will be cancelled.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
It can also be error prone. Analysising arbitrary lisp code to see which functions could conceivably ever be called isn't as trivial as it might first seems.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> "dynamic loosely typed" Both Python and Scheme are dynamic but strongly typed.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Turbine compressors can also 'stall': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compressor_stall
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by darkpuma 7y ago
The racket docs having such great cross-referencing with hyperlinks is probably a decent part of why it's been relatively so popular. Cross-referenced documentation invites deeper investigation and learning.
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> "After programming for 20 years, I've noticed that programmers are aware of the potential benefits of any abstraction that they have internalized, and blithely unaware of the costs." 'Lisp programmers know the va
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by darkpuma 7y ago
> Considering boat travel wasn't a possibility, Why not? From the article: > “If rhinos can swim and get to places, certainly we can think of erectus, floresiensis, and luzonensis not necessarily just swimming but at least raf
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Radiation damage? My Facebook feed told me this is a spiritual affliction relating to the mark of the beast!
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by darkpuma 7y ago
By my current standards (which were totally mainstream in tech communities in the 90s) most modern non-FOSS software these days is malware. And some of the FOSS stuff is too, depending on what build you get.
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by darkpuma 7y ago
That's really bizarre phrasing. Maybe it was a botched attempt at a porpoise pun?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
I've got some Hezbollah propaganda mp3's laying around here somewhere. Does that count?
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by darkpuma 7y ago
If HN is the standard by which to judge the west, then such sites seem to get a fair shake at things. That's a taboo website but not taboo enough to silence discussion about it. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=unz.com&
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Honey bees were brought here by humans, but there are also thousands of species of bees native to North America. The health of many of those species is unknown. Whatever factors are causing honey bees to die could be causing trouble for
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Yes. They'd also take corn syrup or whatever other sweet liquid you give them, which may or may not be as good for them as honey. But when you're trying to make the most out of some tight profit margins, perhaps that isn't
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by darkpuma 7y ago
Not "capsicum hot" per se, but very flavorful. More salty and acidic I guess. But it's a very bold and complex flavor, a top tier snack imho.

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