earthboundkid

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Forget Gladwell(culture.ghost.io)
11 points by earthboundkid 2y ago|2 comments
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Crypto's Missing Plateau of Productivity(macwright.com)
2 points by earthboundkid 2y ago|1 comments
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
When I lived in Hawaii I knew a person who was a recovering drug addict with unstable housing who had gotten enough money to come to Hawaii at one point but not enough to leave. It can happen.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
You can’t remember a time that never existed.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
If they aren't doing a credit pull, it's fine. If they are, you unfreeze for the month, but credit pulls hurt your credit. You shouldn't just do them randomly.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
The Constitution does not mention judicial review at all. Since it's ambiguous, it must be unconstitutional; therefore the Supreme Court must stop doing it. This is the same logic.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
If there's ambiguity, the Supreme Court should defer to the executive and let Congress pass a new law if they disagree. It doesn't make sense for the tie to go to inaction. We elect Presidents exactly so they can steer the executi
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
You freeze your credit by making an account on TransUnion, Experian, and Equifax's websites. It sucks, and they suck, but it's free. Unless you take out loans quite frequently, there's no reason not to do it. My credit has be
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
For Skyline, I don’t think you can discount all of the years of political effort to try to cancel it. All that work did was just to slow it down and make it more expensive and risky for the companies involved. In theory, starting in West Oa
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
The problem is that it sends you files before you need them, which clogs up throughput as you try to figure out what the files are supposed to be for. It's more efficient to slow everything back down to NVMe speeds.
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Was early modern writing paper expensive?(folger.edu)
3 points by earthboundkid 2y ago|0 comments
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
They literally think the scissor statement is a real thing that will really work, fml.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
> The conclusion that I finally came to (right or wrong) was that I was unwilling to study the chessboard and weigh the consequences of each possible move I might make. Even people who couldn't see complex patterns might at least pe
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
Love Galactus.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
In Japanese and Chinese, there are alternate numerals used on bank notes that have more strokes and therefore can't be amended. The normal number 1 is 一 and the fancy bank version is 壹.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
No, the objection to not keeping .DS_Store per folder and doing it per file system instead was that a non-Mac might make changes that would not be seen. The point is that this can already happen for a lot of different reasons! So keeping it
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
This also happens with .DS_store files if the other computer on the network isn’t a Mac. It’s irrelevant.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
All file operations have been watched by Spotlight since forever at this point.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
You don't need or even want well defined terms when you're trying to explain why a mathematical formula is useful or naturally applicable to real world situations.
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Local, First, Forever(tonsky.me)
8 points by earthboundkid 2y ago|1 comments
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_agriculture_in_t...
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
It's not "noble savage" to note that Native Americans domesticated numerous crops used globally today and that such domestication was a technological achievement, much like the domestication of the horse in central Eurasia or
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
> If the native Americans had the technological ability to extinct the Buffalo I think it's more the case of if they didn't have the ability to create a balance. Things like the creation of the Amazon rainforest and the domesti
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Against Optimization(aworkinglibrary.com)
21 points by earthboundkid 2y ago|3 comments
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
https://www.scottaaronson.com/writings/bignumbers.html
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
Your prior post was an expression of genuine confusion about whether all music videos are made on VHS.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
No, it is 100% literally true that there is not a single exception to the trend of all music videos being shot on VHS now. This is how language works. All quantifications are always exact quantifications, and there are never any humorous ex
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
Yes.
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
I got into this in the 2000s and 2010s by which point it was already obsolete-ish. There are levels and levels of bad cameras people can get into for fun: Polaroids, lomography, Holga, Instagram filters, GameBoy camera, Nintendo DSi, Ninten
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by earthboundkid 2y ago
Every link every hour. https://github.com/spotlightpa/linkrot

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