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by debacle 2y ago
"The common meaning of a little used word changed nearly 100 years ago." ...
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by debacle 2y ago
Not yet, but I imagine at some point it will. Open source, much like the oft maligned Thanos, is inevitable.
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by debacle 2y ago
What's the difference between this and a container?
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by debacle 2y ago
As a New Yorker, these "subsidies for jobs" programs never work. Yet we keep doing them. The last time I ran the numbers, NYS was paying Tesla/Panasonic 110k per year per job, yet the jobs only paid 45k.
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by debacle 2y ago
Most modern anger is derived from helplessness. I don't get angry when I spill my coffee or someone cuts me off on my commute, but I recently discovered that I've been overcharged for my cell phone plan for the last 18 months and
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by debacle 2y ago
I knew a Navy cook. He told me a story about how he'd get sick when the food was good because he'd gorge himself on e.g. an entire tray of chocolate pudding that was about to go bad. Not a bad gig.
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> It turns out this paper from Talhelm & Dong supports its methodology by citing a paper by Talhelm et.al. and one by Dong et.al. This should be the top comment. This thread is chock full of pop sociology, to the degree that I really
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by debacle 3y ago
I tried switching from Plex to Jellyfin, and one of the greatest limitations that I noticed with Jellyfin is that it doesn't seem to really give a shit about managing libraries, and seems overly opinionated about file structure. There&
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by debacle 3y ago
The American model is to eschew socialism with the public/private duality that brings the worst of both worlds - high prices, zero accountability, and double the bureaucracy. The need for competition is real, and in many instances regu
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by debacle 3y ago
I've read this fairy tale. Get them with Boeing and you'll have doors that open just right.
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The lesson here is that, even when the stakes are small, human beings are still human beings, with all that that entails.
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by debacle 3y ago
Cyclomatic complexity (and the other new kind of complexity that I forget the name of) are a good way to measure code readability/reasonability. We have a few rules of thumb for JavaScript that our junior devs have absolutely railed ag
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by debacle 3y ago
@dang, headline is highly editorialized.
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by debacle 3y ago
What town was this in? We are fighting the same type of thing right now. They are trying to put in a light rail to bring in more "equity," while at the same time re-zoning the existing low income housing that they're claiming
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by debacle 3y ago
What disability is treatable with GHB?
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by debacle 3y ago
I respect the right of Africa to try and reforest, but logically the most likely outcome is that the Amazon will start to die from the lack of the 30 million tons of dust and sand that fall on the Amazon each year from the Sahara. Should Af
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by debacle 3y ago
Likely, because they will be our generation's lead poisoning, but the lead is everywhere and in everything and will be around for generations to come.
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by debacle 3y ago
Enders Game had this technology and it was so much worse than an SAT.
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by debacle 3y ago
> Used to be that newspapers were the fourth estate This has never (really) been the case with "mainstream" media. "The media" in common parlance is a farce. Historical news has almost always been agenda driven, and w
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by debacle 3y ago
The best part about the post DEI era is that it's shockingly easy to be misogynistic, misandrist, heteronormaltive, and obtuse all in one article.
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by debacle 3y ago
The "source" for The Verge article is a sourceless hit piece. There's no actual source claiming he tried to take over OpenAI in 2018 anywhere, besides "people familiar with the matter."
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by debacle 3y ago
A non-profit can have a for-profit subsidiary?
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by debacle 3y ago
Is there a resource I can use for understanding how "dumb money" impacts the markets?
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by debacle 3y ago
Many companies are shifting away from electric cars right now. As someone who doesn't pay much attention to the industry, is it about capital costs, battery material shortages, consumer behavior, loss of subsidies, general competition,
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by debacle 3y ago
I think part of the problem is that you can't properly contextualize the issue without badmouthing police. Most police, like most people, are good and want to do good. The US (and likely many other countries) is being plagued by activi
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by debacle 3y ago
Cashless bail, dead neighborhoods, and an overwhelmed law enforcement system have led to this. The barrier to be arrested and held with even cash bail, let alone without bail, is startlingly high.
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by debacle 3y ago
I live in the country. I have huge wild native gardens. I also have dozens of snakes, foxes, and raptors that patrol those gardens. When you mix the fecundity of urban life with these types of areas, eventually you either have massive rat p
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by debacle 3y ago
The overnight about face on reddit when the DNC stabbed Bernie Sanders in the back, coupled with the way Ellen Pao was yeeted off the glass cliff, the way IAMA was killed, the way conservative subreddits were purged, the moderator ousting d
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by debacle 3y ago
It's concerning to see that the site that was once the absolute paragon of Internet freedom going down this path. Reddit has gone from the shining start of the Internet to a hollow, slowly rotting husk.
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by debacle 3y ago
Most reddit investment in the last several years has been about buying mindshare. Whoever controls the reddit board has a huge sway on public opinion, at least in the US.

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