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by dudinax 3y ago
He'd already said for months previous that he knew Iraq had WMDs and were planning to supply terrorists.
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by dudinax 3y ago
He was lying about weapons of mass destruction. The context is that he'd previously said we had to invade Iraq because of the imminent threat of the weapons of mass destruction. So he's using a trivially true and non-interesting s
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by dudinax 3y ago
How do you commit to CVS when you're off the network?
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by dudinax 3y ago
"That this moderation strategy would prevent the use of all slurs (even reappropriated ones) sounds like a feature to me, not a bug." You're proposing erring on the side of censorship to avoid some gray areas. While this is
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by dudinax 3y ago
This would make me choose erlang over Elixer. It's convenient to find an assignment to a variable and not have to worry there might be another.
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by dudinax 3y ago
As an undisciplined person who nevertheless does something similar, elimination of the fear of forgetting something is enough motivation.
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by dudinax 3y ago
I just had a paid open ai service tell me all about a command line argument that doesn't exist. It isn't possible to do what I wanted with the proposed command, but the hallucination helped me to Google a method that worked.
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by dudinax 3y ago
This script is good evidence they made up the connection part way through Empire. Also, if Lucas already had it in mind for Star Wars, I doubt he'd have Obiwan straight up lie about it.
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by dudinax 3y ago
You're collateral damage
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by dudinax 3y ago
Of course. It only "makes sense" for divorce to be hard if women aren't allowed to be independent.
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gollum + schizophrenia = smeagol
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by dudinax 3y ago
These sorts of people have been around forever.
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From one of my family members: if the bank transaction doesn't go through, and you call the bank and they tell you it's probably a scam, don't overrule them.
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I'm sure the author is right about Narnia, but I stopped reading at this point. It shows a lack of taste.
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Pirx the pilot
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by dudinax 3y ago
You'll need a ton more programmers each 10x more productive at half the salary.
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by dudinax 3y ago
Compared to it's neighbors, sweden had a huge excess death rate in 2020.
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I work with scientists and most of my conversations are about facts. Young Joscha Bach would have liked it here.
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by dudinax 3y ago
I'm all for small-scale social experiments, but trying to run an "independent" society between two Balkan states doesn't seem like the right way to do it.
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I think you're saying any small group of people is in danger of being pushed around because they can't defend themselves. Heck, just look at the difficulty communist China had being recognized as a state, and they certainly could
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by dudinax 3y ago
One way is to build bigger telescopes and hope its not too cloudy.
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by dudinax 3y ago
Before "modern" life evolved in the pre-cambrian era, there was the Ediacaran life forms that were complex multicellular life, but died out millions of years before the Cambrian explosion. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by dudinax 3y ago
"security through obscurity" as an insult. Sorry, but obscurity is a big part of security. Always has been, always will be.
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But it wouldn't be incorrect to say the idea was contrary to Platonism.
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Ironically Earthsea is almost exactly anti-Taoist. One of the key ideas in Taoism, that incidentally sets it way beyond Platonism, is the name that can be spoken is not the true name. LeGuin asks, "what if we could speak it?"
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by dudinax 3y ago
The second trilogy is great. The last book is a masterpiece of an author reexamining her own work from within her work.
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Probably his accounts were closed as part of sanctions against Russia.
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In my case I made some choices following my belief that we don't have transcendent souls (took transporter), then the game says we do have transcendent souls, so I changed my course of action based on this new knowledge. The game criti
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by dudinax 3y ago
Password wouldn't recognize chess moves on row 7 or 8, and the best move was on row 7!
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+1 for the theory that humans wiped out the megafauna in America.

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