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by eadmund 6y ago
> In recent years, local and international animal-rights groups, particularly in France, Germany, and the U.S., have been ramping up pressure on governments and the egg industry to commit to ending the practice—particularly given technol
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by eadmund 6y ago
> I struggle to understand how I disregarded animal minds for decades, but I suspect it can be reduced to arrogance, convenience, and gluttony. I don't think that cephalopods are arrogant when they eat other creatures, although I su
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by eadmund 6y ago
> I know last time I seriously considered testing it out in my workflow, it was kind of crazy that I had to have a separate machine (VM or real) just to run container images... Why does that seem 'kind of crazy' to you? A cont
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by eadmund 6y ago
And also the United States form a federal republic. It makes sense for the states qua states to have a voice in the federal government (just like it makes sense for the states of Europe to have a voice in the European Union government).
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by eadmund 6y ago
> the senate needs proportional representation too No, the Seventeenth Amendment should be repealed and state legislatures should be required to appoint senators. The United States form a federal government, not a unitary state; that me
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by eadmund 6y ago
> >Why from the outside? You're, quite literally, one command away from being on the inside: "M-x ielm" > I have no idea what point you're trying to make here. By opening with what I'm sure is an oh-so-witt
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by eadmund 6y ago
I could be wrong, but it seems like someone who is happy to frequently switch between macOS, Linux & Windows is probably not actually taking advantage of all the features of any of them, and hence is not actually terribly productive (
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by eadmund 6y ago
I hate the ads on Amazon Prime! The same ad, playing over and over every. single. time. And always for something I have no desire to watch, not in the slightest; something slightly offensive to be shown once and definitely offensive to
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by eadmund 6y ago
> I'm not sure why I'd reach for Tcl today when lua exists. Regular syntax, for one thing. Command-oriented sensibility, too.
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by eadmund 6y ago
> I honestly didn't think anyone browsed the web without javascript enabled. How common is that? I don't know how common it is, but I do. I have a secondary browser profile which does allow it, but frankly for just about any p
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by eadmund 6y ago
You don't need a firewall; you just need not to be listening on a port. And if you want to receive a file on a port, you can … start listening on it.
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by eadmund 6y ago
> In 1986, perhaps I would have used telnet or ftp instead of scp. Modern scripting languages didn't exist yet (perl was created in 1987 and perl5, the first version that some argue is modern, was released in 1994), so writing code
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by eadmund 6y ago
> There sure are some who benefit from having canabis sativa prohibited. If I was running a private prison, for example. Why the adjective 'private' there? Surely wardens, prison guards and the prison bureaucracy in each state
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by eadmund 6y ago
I also wouldn't have considered Farmers Branch to be an inner-ring suburb — my recollection from the 90s was that it was way out in the sticks. But maybe I misremember.
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by eadmund 6y ago
> It was the winter of 1987-88 in South Dallas, or maybe it was the following summer … Tussles were frequent, and being Texas, half the club came strapped. Texas did not pass its concealed-carry law until 1995. In fact, in 1991 its legi
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by eadmund 6y ago
I think the issue is that the 'nebulous middle-men' actually provide value: they each make decisions based on ambiguous signals, resulting on the whole in better overall decision-making than a central production authority. As an
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by eadmund 6y ago
> If Prop8 had won, would it have been on the right side of history? Prop 8 did win. I don't know if it is still on the books; it was rendered inoperative due to a later Supreme Court decision based, so far as one can tell, on ne
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by eadmund 6y ago
> The machinery to make this is extremely complicated and takes 6 months or more to build, by which time there may be no demand. No amount of invoking the defense production act would change this reality. Allowing mask manufacturers to c
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by eadmund 6y ago
> If this is what it sounds like would it be like making a /path directory and defining it as a union of all the directories containing executables. almost like an efficient and idiomatic way to create a single directory containing
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by eadmund 6y ago
As a sibling notes, they could have just added a new file while supporting the old format, but they had some leeway in the format itself: the buttons value only uses three bits. Had they been a little more clever and used a delimited format
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by eadmund 6y ago
> The socioeconomic situation in the U.S. is so poor that some of the top things public schools offer their attendees is food, water, shelter, and socialization. The people benefiting from these aspects have 0% of attending private schoo
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by eadmund 6y ago
> Seems to me when a crisis hits the last thing you want to have is debt you need to pay back. I think that when a crisis hits the first thing you want is cash, and that means the last thing you want is to have just spent all your cash p
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by eadmund 6y ago
> Private industry is certainly not immune from incompetence or accounting scandals. Wirecard just happened, and history has many other examples. Corruption exists in both private and public sectors. This is getting way off-topic, but th
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by eadmund 6y ago
> one thing gwern doesn't Sigh, caught it just after the edit window closed!
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by eadmund 6y ago
> The difference is that holy wars are always about platforms with network effects, and the indirect second-order effects are much more important than the first-order changes. That is a really insightful point. One think gwern doesn
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by eadmund 6y ago
I am a professional, and I primarily browse with it off by default and whitelisted for only a few sites. I do have a JavaScript-enabled browser for user-hostile websites which require it, but I rarely need to use it (and I have real anim
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by eadmund 6y ago
Here's an article from one of the project's own fact checkers: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/03/06/1619-proje... And here is a letter signed by numerous historians, the NYT r
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by eadmund 6y ago
> I'm not saying anything about anyone's intent, but replacing "man-year" with "person-year" is a painless, traditional-grammar-friendly way to go gender-neutral. It is not painless: it is dissonant and ta
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by eadmund 6y ago
> Edit: I should also add that Elisp is an absolutely terrible programming language when compared to more modern alternatives. I think it's arguably the second- best language out there, losing out only to Common Lisp. Maybe third,
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by eadmund 7y ago
How is Shepherd broken with LXC? Is it sufficient to run Guix atop another distribution, or run Guix SD in a qemu VM?

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