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by eadmund 5y ago
> The absolutely staggering level of income and wealth inequality we have experienced in the last decade has taken all of those problems and multiplied them tenfold. An increase in inequality does not necessarily mean an increase in abs
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Even Grenada wasn't spared (11th tiniest country in the World) with hardly any military. Bombed by USA. The Prime Minister of Grenada assassinated. The leftist Communist government executed its own Prime Minister; the U.S., Barbad
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by eadmund 5y ago
I wonder if this effect is behind why people seem so miserable nowadays. We spend all our time 100% efficiently engaging our eyes and brains with our phones and apps, and meanwhile all the other things in life just queue up behind reading
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by eadmund 5y ago
> EU is not a country I don't know about that. A lot of anti-Brexit folks really seem to have felt loyalty to it the way others feel to their states. It sends ambassadors to other states, so it has its own foreign policy. It does
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Should we support the concept of the Confederate States of America seceding from the United States? If California or Texas wanted to secede, should we support it? Yes. The Tenth Amendment reads, 'The powers not delegated to the U
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by eadmund 5y ago
> And that war was also immediately after a NATO related escalation. What 'NATO related escalation' immediately preceded Russia's invasion of the Ukraine? I don't believe that there was one. As far as I can tell, Pu
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by eadmund 5y ago
That filth you linked to is scored 0, which I think means it is not visible by default. I think it is preferable to leave stuff like that available-but-hidden rather than to delete it altogether. Free speech is a virtue.
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by eadmund 5y ago
Ah-ha, thanks. I missed that my first read through. Must need to finish my coffee …
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by eadmund 5y ago
Does this mean no more app tokens, e.g. to retrieve IMAP mail?
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by eadmund 5y ago
> If you read the chain, the clear political statement was by eadmund. Ummm, I made no clear political statement, just a linguistic one. I am instinctively conservative, and deeply suspicious of folks who promote change for change'
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by eadmund 5y ago
IMHO it’s still 'the Ukraine,' 'Burma' &c. There's no need to change. We say Paris, with an 's,' not 'paree'; the French say 'Londres,' not London, and that's okay too. Lang
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by eadmund 5y ago
>> They've also suffered a lot to end two world wars that they didn't start. > This is even more true of the Russians No, it is not. The First World War was started because Russia backed up Serbia's refusal of Austr
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by eadmund 5y ago
> But, more than that, he points out that it shows the world was not divided between East and West in quite the way it was long assumed to be. One of the foundational legends of Western culture, it turns out, involved a powerful politica
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The ugly truth of how movie scores are made(vanityfair.com)
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by eadmund 5y ago
> In the beginning, there was HTML, and it was good. No, it's really not. It is excessively verbose for human usage, and too loose for computer usage. It's a hack. For human usage, Markdown is pretty decent. For computer usag
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by eadmund 5y ago
You write: > Huh? Markdown was created in 2004 … Did you read OP? > > It didn't start when it was named and mapped to HTML. Markdown is a formalisation of conventions which were in common in email & news long before HTML
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Every time I read an article like this on HN, I can't help but wonder, is anyone actually using a Linux/FreeBSD machine at their workplace? I have been using Linux exclusively at my workplaces for over a decade now, and hones
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Sounds terrible to me, neck pain from constantly looking down at your laptop screen would not go well for me. I have an external monitor and a stand for my laptop. It is pretty awesome.
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Do you really still use Ethernet ports and USB-A ports directly on your laptop? At my workstation, yes: Ethernet is so much faster than WiFi, and I like to use a real keyboard and mouse with a KVM, and the whole setup is USB-A &
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(Finally) Fired Google(puri.sm)
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by eadmund 5y ago
> Firefox conquered massive engineering challenges and aggressively fought its own users for its current position as an also-ran/historical footnote. I regret that I have but one upvote to give. I still use Firefox, but from switch
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by eadmund 5y ago
> now, discourse around love and sex is far more "agnostic", for lack of a better word. I don't think 'agnostic' is the term: modern discourse is pretty strongly on the side of complete and total libertinism. Th
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by eadmund 5y ago
> the inbred and largely incompetent European monarchies were incapable of resolving the serious diplomatic issues that arose from the 'crisis', this then led to war I don't agree: the issue was less the monarchs and more
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by eadmund 5y ago
I think that's needlessly cynical, and moreover does not align with my own experience in large and small corporations. I think that most folks in a corporation are trying to do well and do good. What you don't see is that &#x2
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by eadmund 5y ago
Those of y'all frustrated with Postman might be interested in restclient.el: https://github.com/pashky/restclient.el
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by eadmund 5y ago
Maybe they are both corrupt due to the near-2038 cookie? It would be weird, but … bugs can be weird.
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by eadmund 5y ago
My comment about spending bits makes more sense in the context of my other comment about the cryptographic (in)security of Yggdrasil addresses. I agree with you — in the context of IPv6 addressing in general, who cares about 7 bits? Heck
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by eadmund 5y ago
It's not officially allocated, either. You can squat something that is not available for use. I see that they don't use ULA after all, but their approach still spends 7 bits on the prefix.
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by eadmund 5y ago
That's not hugely secure, though: IPv6 is only 128 bits, which means that the hash is would only provide 64 bits of security if it provided all the bits for the address. And I assume that the IPv6 address is not _only_ the hash, but i
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by eadmund 5y ago
The beauty of federation is that it provides an opt-out. Take a look at Mastodon, for example (FWIW, I am not a user): yes, at the time the article was written the vast majority of folks were on three instances (I am curious what it is l

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