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by dsr_ 9mo ago
The article text cites a comment about ice cream becoming unaffordable. The numbers show reduced prices for milk and butter (e.g. cream), and sugar remaining constant. Thus: ice cream is being priced too high.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
The purpose of a system is what it does. ICE is government-sponsored terrorism. Incorrupt governments follow their own laws.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
ICE isn't police.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
Authoritarians also love ascribing the methods that they use to their opponents.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
> the entire idea of an objective, universal truth is faulty. Which is the key aspect of authoritarianism: power is expressed by stating their opinions -- even, indeed, especially, insincere opinions -- as fact.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
You've made this comment three times so far. That changes my perception from "maybe that's a good point" to "spammers should die painfully."
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
The attack helicopter is named after... Hint: other helicopters were named Kiowa, Cheyenne, Blackhawk, Sioux, Mojave, Iroquois.
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
... And then they didn't!
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
One of you uses the word value to mean "how much money can I get in exchange for this thing?" and the other means "how much utility can I get out of this thing?". As long as you use the same word, you will run into this
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
Other direction: the entity giving you the income is responsible for supplying the 1099-INT statement in January. That said, they could be required to supply a copy electronically directly to the IRS and the IRS could calculate your taxes f
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
That is so January 1. Get with the program. Your approach is obsolete. You will fall behind in the global arms race. It's almost January 3, it's time for a new methodology! Pro-tip: move to an earlier timezone so you can get the r
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by dsr_ 9mo ago
That's an excellent example of victim blaming.
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by dsr_ 10mo ago
What problem in the physical world does a knowledge of A1 homotopy theory enable you to solve?
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by dsr_ 10mo ago
"Historically black" is a euphemism -- that's a term that makes people feel better about something awful -- which refers to the fact that for the majority of the last three hundred years people have been systematically, gover
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by dsr_ 10mo ago
My router owns the IP 8.8.8.8 when seen from inside my network; the Roku literally can't ask Google for DNS via DNS, HTTP, or DNS-over-TLS.. It also answers DNS requests on port 53, and believes that there is no scribe.logs.roku.com, a
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by dsr_ 10mo ago
... because Mozilla doesn't pay any attention to them?
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by dsr_ 10mo ago
You also want to orient those radiators at 90 degrees to the power panels, so that they don't send 50% of their radiation right back to the power panels.
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Last Call for Mass Market Paperbacks(publishersweekly.com)
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by dsr_ 10mo ago
"grinding" is doing something repetitively, with the connotation that it is difficult and goal-oriented. "farming" is the same but without the difficulty: just doing an easy but boring task repeatedly because it gets you
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by dsr_ 10mo ago
....former White House economic adviser says... and it's a bad thing, not a "solution". Bad headline. No biscuits.
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
Delivering 9 of 10 revolutionary things would, I agree, be amazing. However... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_predictions_for_autono... making 31 public predictions about his self-driving cars over 20 years and
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
In fact, you only have consent. People who don't want to work with you don't have to; everyone who does want to work with you only does so because of mutual consent. Act badly and they will walk away.
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
I think the fediverse is great but: the specific desire for "more people that you already know coming to the Fediverse" is good; the general desire "more people" is not such a useful goal.
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
They're privatizing their profits and socializing their losses. It's not healthy.
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
Not for special VDEVs, which is the explicit purpose here.
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
Culture changes under the impact of technology, but culture also changes when people deliberately teach practices.
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
These days, I would start with ZFSBootMenu and Debian Stable. Why ZFS? So that backups are easy, snapshots are cheap, and when the inevitable happens, it takes a few minutes to reboot and roll back. Why Debian Stable? Because it will contin
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
Sometimes it's the only sane response.
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by dsr_ 11mo ago
That's a quote from the NYT obituary.

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