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by epakai 4y ago
They jail them on trumped-up charges. https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/2022/octob...
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by epakai 4y ago
I replayed it last week and managed under 6 hours (2nd time). Probably some poor ordering of perks; plus I shut off the auto-bet thing to find I needed a lot more of the resource it provided. Otherwise I found this playthrough pretty straig
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by epakai 4y ago
Steve Jobs founded Apple, and was running a workstation computer company in the interim. He was in a way better position to be making sweeping changes. The 4,100 was a 30 percent workforce cut at the time. Apple had already cut 2800 jobs ov
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That fee was for external factors causing the deal to fail. Musk was already committed. His attempt to walk away was construed as breach of contract, and he would be liable for much more than the fee if that had happened.
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This was not an option with a publicly owned company. For the board members to walk away from this offer would have breached their fiduciary duty. They certainly benefitted as did everyone else with stock.
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by epakai 4y ago
Timing feels really poor. In the middle of an election while Twitter was about to undergo a change in ownership. I wonder if it would have seen the light of day if they waited until after the acquisition though.
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They're precursors. Cut programs you don't like until public opinion changes enough for them to be completely dismantled.
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Musk's prime motivator for purchasing twitter seems to have been ideological. Of course people are going to oppose him on ideological grounds. More succinctly, Musk performed an activist takeover.
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There's plenty. Legislators can introduce, co-sign, and otherwise endorse particular bills or amendments. Floor arguments can be public, and the news can actually collate and report on that. If you want representatives to represent the
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by epakai 4y ago
Yeah. It was also common with early game titles. We didn't have CPU power to decompress audio. Quake II was distributed on a single CD and could run on a Pentium 90MHz, but that CPU would struggle to play MP3. Its soundtrack was regula
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by epakai 4y ago
Not worth it. Interest groups can have very long timelines. Think Federalist Society. Besides I wouldn't even expect a group as small as the senate to be able to record votes this way and keep it secret. Better to control who votes, bu
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by epakai 4y ago
Lobbying is fine. The problem with the US is you can literally buy votes in the legislature. That's because the legislator's individual votes were made public via sunshine laws. As long as you keep those votes visible they can be
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The people didn't vote him in the first time. We just have weird rules that enable our minority party to win the presidency. This is often claimed to prevent tyranny of the majority, but it's not a boon for democracy, rather a way
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by epakai 4y ago
It's a vector format. It's better documented here: https://plasma.ninja/blog/devices/remarkable/binary/format/2... and there's a 3rd party API by the same author at https:/&#x2F
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by epakai 4y ago
There's an option to self host (rmfakecloud) if you find the hardware compelling. Still a fairly niche device though.
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by epakai 4y ago
abcde is pretty nice, but will choke on hybrid data+audio CDs. I think you have to enter a comma-separated list of track numbers (excluding the data track) when this happens.
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by epakai 4y ago
These aren't the Thinkpads power users usually buy. The bloatware machines are generally their consumer lines. I use the Lenovo Vantage update app that I think the thread is talking about on my own dual boot Thinkpad. It's a parti
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by epakai 4y ago
Not clear at all. A journalist was raided and has said nothing about his current status except to withdraw from his apartment and work. The only seemingly questionable thing is a lack of charges, but he doesn't seem to be detained so i
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by epakai 4y ago
This is an extraordinary claim. What is so ruthless about the administration's actions? Who is being gone after?
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You could start with rationalwiki if you want a rather biased and very critical take.
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Probably similar, 1 a month. I'm using them for bookmarks, but they also get copied by a github-backup cronjob.
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by epakai 4y ago
I think the Google Fi MVNO has been an exception. Pricing might not be as competitive as it used to be, but it doesn't feel questionably monetized. Just an OK plan for people that fit a small niche.
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I once ended up with a copy of "Nippon: The Land and Its People" and found it interesting enough to read the whole way through. I don't know how to compare it since I didn't have a lot of interest in the subject to read
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by epakai 4y ago
Just in the last decade 4% more of the population has reached retirement age. Wouldn't be surprised if it makes up the bulk of the participation change since 1990. https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/dis
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by epakai 4y ago
Why bother calling them out? That would require considering and denying their claims. It is much easier to make your own stuff up.
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I'm doubting these are actual fonts. All we have is two characters made from SVG paths. The blue g is quite distinct, but whatthefont ( https://www.myfonts.com/pages/whatthefont/ ) doesn't return a match.
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by epakai 4y ago
Sometimes a persona might be created to establish rapport. It's probably pretty rare because of the extra effort isn't commensurate with with returns.
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by epakai 4y ago
Fove [0] built a headset with eye tracking features. I had a senior project trying to use it for visual field testing in 2017. [0] https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/fove/fove-the-worlds-fi...
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The contents were probably laundered from an iCloud hack if you consider the shady backstory and forensic analysis. Somebody seems to have dumped the rest of it a couple months ago. Of course that got even less attention outside of right wi
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https://twitter.com/bp_plc/status/1186645440621531136 Maybe not directly, but neither is Bill Gates.

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