elipsey

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by elipsey 6y ago
How is anyone able to be confident that they have found genuine MDMA in this age of global synthesis and export of other cheap and dangerous analogues?
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by elipsey 6y ago
and we are learning about this on twitter. hope they let it slide... https://redecentralize.org/
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by elipsey 6y ago
What do you want to use it for? Debian is probably easier to set up, and will be more likely to have pre-built third party packages if you want something that isn't in the distribution repositories. Some of the software is getting a li
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by elipsey 6y ago
"There are currently no plans to publish the source code either. Those who are hungry can use any disassembly tool, there is nothing supernatural in the program code."[1] this seems kind of strange. does MIT lic. permit that the s
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by elipsey 6y ago
heh, well, by "important" i meant like freedom, justice, and the continued existence of humanity. but like i was saying up-thread, i think software quality is important, and in that sense, ubiquitous and accessible type safety def
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by elipsey 6y ago
This seems like an appropriate moment to remember Cow Clicker[1], and reflect on it's lesson: "The player is initially given a pasture with nine slots and a single plain cow, which the player may click once every six hours. Each t
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> some may feel that their expectations of futuristic utopia have been subverted, making them cynical. i know i do! lot's of stuff about the future sucks, and i can't think of a way to fix anything important with faster gar
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> If an engineer in 1996 fell into a coma and woke up today, they'd be greeted with an entirely different world. i was little and didn't know shit, but i was already learning to program, and i think about this all the time.
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by elipsey 6y ago
I'm sure the Dunning-Kruger effect is real, and I'm much better than average at being able to tell!
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by elipsey 6y ago
ok, i'll bite: is there something more to this than meets the eye? i see nothing interesting in the page source other than an apparently earnest haiku...
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by elipsey 6y ago
TY :-)
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by elipsey 6y ago
does anyone know what headphones those are?
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by elipsey 6y ago
They did last time, and in the middle of the Palmer Raids at that. The necessary and proper use of pulic health orders during pandemics has been thourougly adjuticed in the US, and has a basis in precedent centuries old. This is hardly a re
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by elipsey 6y ago
TL;DR: I think it is reasonable to blame Purdue for the reduced access to opioids we are now stuck with. Purdue caused more addiction to occur, which in turn caused reduced access to the opioids that existed prior to the creation of Purdue&
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by elipsey 6y ago
Yeah, I think it's interesting to consider whether some of the assumptions that held at the time neo-liberalism emerged have been invalidated by things like greater industrialization and productivity outside of US and Europe, globaliza
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by elipsey 6y ago
thanks for the reply. you would probably laugh out loud if you knew my background, but i don't really want to cop to this explicitly, in one post, and in public on HN. even so, you have absolutely lapped me in this particular race. at
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by elipsey 6y ago
first reaction: is this authentic? how can i tell?
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by elipsey 6y ago
>> Etc, etc etc. I can't help it. Totally! I can't help it either. I dont' really think I'm that clever either, it's just a personality thing. You just want to know how things work, especially when they seem t
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by elipsey 6y ago
industrial sugar is a cheap filler. it is the rightful role of government to regulate the externalities imposed on consumers by producers that use asymmetries of information to sell adulterated staple foods like "bread" with a lar
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by elipsey 6y ago
I'm tempted to ask if it isn't possible to simply anounce a game _when it's done_. But I guess that's how we got Halflife3 :p
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by elipsey 6y ago
For _tactical_ use, I rely on my trusty model M, with metal base plate. For home defense, it is without equal. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ The rest of time I greatly prefer the ergonomics of the old thinkpad keyboards w/ track-point, but the extern
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by elipsey 6y ago
Thanks for the tip!
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by elipsey 6y ago
I agree that it's important to have stable responsible male role models. I object to the state preventing abandoned parents from getting divorced, and treating them with them various other forms of animus -- something that is advocated
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by elipsey 6y ago
I am currently unemployed/independently-wealthy/thrifter/bumming around the bay area. I love debian, and I sometimes joke that if there was such a thing as a minimum wage dev job, I would gladly take it to get out of having t
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by elipsey 6y ago
I spent several years of my life raising someone else's son "out of wedlock" with great care and devotion, while his other male family members have so much family values they have been married several times, but couldn't
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by elipsey 6y ago
"What has been getting far worse, however, is family life. Stable families have been in free fall over the last few decades. In 1960, the out-of-wedlock birthrate in the U.S. was 3 percent. In 2000, it was about 30 percent. Today, it i
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by elipsey 6y ago
I see a bunch of both cards and they're both around 400 bucks, give or take... but I kinda figured putting a link to a view into a selection of newegg inventory would end confusing at best :facepalm: Anyway, ain't no $200 RX 5700.
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by elipsey 6y ago
Thanks for the clarification. GPU prices have been so volatile that I will credulously believe almost anything at this point. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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by elipsey 6y ago
Interesting, thanks.
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by elipsey 6y ago
Which bar was your favorite? I liked Mikkeller for this, but it got too loud. Irish Bank was also good, slower but quieter. I used to nag my friends about opsec... back when you could go places with friends :*(

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