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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I prefer to just call it "the network", but I don't think nomenclature matters as much as Christopher Butler thinks it does. A rose by any other name, etc.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
You won't see the big, "respectable" unions get involved because under the Taft-Hartley Act general strikes are pretty much illegal. https://web.archive.org/web/20120501041417/http://inthes
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
This doesn't surprise me at all. Fascists have been acting as agents provocateur for years, infiltrating non-violent leftist demonstrations and turning them violent to justify police violence against unarmed protesters.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Thomas Paine once asked in Common Sense why an island should be allowed to rule a continent. Maybe it's time to ask why a mere city should be permitted to govern a continent. I'm fine with red state secession as long as blue s
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Paywalls die in sunlight: https://archive.is/NXlnH > “I lost a couple of people that I had been very good to on an interpersonal level because of the Harper’s letter — people who unfollowed me and blocked me with no expl
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I figured it was because Mark Zuckerberg misread SNOW CRASH as an instruction manual rather than a satire and a not-necessarily-affectionate parody of 80s cyberpunk fiction.
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This could be handy if I get COVID despite being fully vaccinated and wearing a mask when I go out — but hopefully I've done enough to prevent infection in the first place.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Repost: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28705657
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> Life-long tech workers have no idea how much worse conditions are even for “knowledge workers” in other fields. I worked as a supermarket janitor in high school and college. Most of my work in tech has been for government contractors.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I get the same benefit commuting allegedly provides by working a strict 9-5, taking an hour off for lunch, getting my work done within 7 hours, refusing unnecessary meetings, and turning off my company-issued devices outside of working hour
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Is that really a problem with C/C++ or an issue with the X Window System?
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[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIdntHAhTv0 ("Florida Man" by the Blue Öyster Cult)
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
IMO, sunsetting a law means automatic repeal after its expiry date. If you want to put that law back on the books, you've got to submit a brand new bill. Furthermore, all bills should be subject to judicial review before they reach the
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Nobody under 18 should be on the internet, period.
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I don't see the point of FyneDesk; I'm sure that a clever person could reproduce this environment with FVWM.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Trigger Warnings are for books what the PMRC's "Parental Advisory: Explicit (Fuckin') Lyrics" stickers were to music. They're a good way for teenage edgelords to find books likely to appeal to them (and shock their
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
When Google made their own glasses we called them "glassholes", but since Mark Schmuckerberg is so in love with Neal Stephenson's metaverse maybe we should call people who wear Facebook shades in public "gargoyles".
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
No tears, please. It's a waste of good suffering.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
As a Randroid in recovery I find the distinctions between right-libertarianism and anarcho-capitalism as interesting as those between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism. They're mostly about recondite points of doctrine that mean nothin
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Why weren't obscenity laws tossed out along with the sodomy laws?
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I wouldn't. I'd use a bunch of secondhand computers running GNU/Linux or BSD until I've gotten off the ground and actually need to dick around with other people's computers^W^W^Wthe cloud.
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
yawn More right-libertarian anti-vax fear-mongering.
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> It’s entirely opposite to the whole field of good user interface design? Good for whom? Good by what standard? The older I get the more I've come to suspect that most UI and UX designers come from the Temple Grandin school. They s
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
<sarcasm>You know, if we legalize cannabis we'll have to legalize driving while black next. How will we legally enslave black people by convicting them of crimes and forcing them to engage in prison labor without laws we can sele
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
Is this guy trying to suggest that instead of getting a cushy day job to pay the bills and pursuing one's dreams as a side hustle one should just just pursue one's dreams, costs and consequences be damned? It's hard to tell b
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
And you could replace them all with dithered WEBP images of William Howard Taft. Nothing of value would be lost, content-wise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft#/media/Fil...
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> How does a landing page work if it doesn’t offer a next step? Does the front page not have links to other pages on the site? If not, then whoever built it fucked up . I don't want to be "directed". I don't want any
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by eigengrau5150 5y ago
I find your lack of cynicism disturbing. The system works as designed. The system is designed to teach obedience and conformity. In schooling, academics are a means to an end rather than an end in themselves. The system takes real boys and
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If I see a call-to-action or a subscription form I hit the back button faster than Doc Holliday could draw his Colt.
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I don't have to imagine. I work with such people. You work with such people. Such people post regularly on HN. They're endemic to the tech industry. Ward Churchill calls such people "little Eichmanns". They just follow o

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