falcolas

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by falcolas 3y ago
I think that colorblindness, as espoused by MLK, is a fantastic concept; I love to see it in reality. However, when someone today claims they're colorblind, I accept that they most likely don't mean it in the same way that MLK d
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by falcolas 3y ago
The phrase has been co-opted; its meaning has changed. As happens with all languages, a phrase is not defined once and never changes, much to my chagrin.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Hate groups are fantastic at co-opting previously reasonable ideas. Some examples: - Woke - The OK hand symbol - Gay - turning a word that literally means "Happy" into a slur - The Punisher symbol - He is not a police-adjacent vig
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by falcolas 3y ago
> How often are you setting up queues anyway. Very infrequently. Even more infrequently as we move to IAC and use terraform or even cloudformation.
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by falcolas 3y ago
It's funny, Hank Green expressed a very similar attitude at the question of "What would you do in the Zombie Apocalypse?" (which quietly is "What will you do during the collapse of modern society?). His answer was "
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by falcolas 3y ago
What would you consider a better activity to recommend to them then? After all, if they're having trouble comprehending anything but the most basic of tropes and vocabulary, they're not going to be going for thought provoking TV s
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by falcolas 3y ago
Considering that the average reading comprehension level in the US is 7th Grade, I think we're fine recommending that people read - even if they're reading trashy books.
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by falcolas 3y ago
This is easy to understate, given how panned fiction and YA both are in other venues. Even Reddit's /r/books is (and long has been) absurdly stuck up when it comes to YA novels. Dear YA prudes, remember that Heinlein and Asim
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by falcolas 3y ago
> Why do you think that reading in general is good? It exercises your imagination, your vocabulary, and ironically your writing ability. And that doesn't even count any new knowledge gained from books - not guaranteed with fiction,
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by falcolas 3y ago
This is quite an understated truth, particularly if you're a remotely voracious reader. As in over a book a week. Plus, moving a library of books? The worst. Gods below have mercy upon you if you live in an apartment.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> their literary quality In one book title of four simple words... "50 Shades of Grey" The biggest market has always been romance, followed by mystery, and neither of which requires tremendous literary quality. Beware of surviv
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by falcolas 3y ago
Pretty aside (while not denigrating its value in videos), the book market has long been dominated (reading, writing, and publishing) by well-off white women. Not always dominated, mind you, but when they took it over, they grabbed ahold of
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by falcolas 3y ago
FWIW, compared to real sword fights, fencing (as practiced in the Olympics et.al.) isn’t generally considered to be “real”. Points scored from tapping toes, foils which bend unrealistically, artificially constrained movements, one winner wh
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by falcolas 3y ago
It always has been for the FBI. They have long treated any outspoken anti-establishment or anti-authority with suspicion and - especially when combined with a minority race - hostility. See how they treated anybody who believe socialism was
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by falcolas 3y ago
> But LARPing shouldn't be an excuse for people who want to don real tactical gear and weapons and plan mayhem. Just saw a video talking a bit facetiously about this. The question is, "What's the difference between Paintba
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by falcolas 3y ago
Your link is 404ing for me.
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by falcolas 3y ago
IMO, because ad code is a step above “potentially unsafe”, it’s sometimes malicious, and even intentionally malicious.
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by falcolas 3y ago
I cant think of one positive thing to say about this. It’s a dick^wcorporate move whose sole purpose is to extract more money out of its existing users. I guess they believe the market can bear siphoning a bit more profit. At least for a li
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by falcolas 3y ago
Because its routinely used to dismiss unrelated symptoms. Take the parent’s advice and talk with a woman about it. The amount of medical gaslighting they receive is astonishing.
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by falcolas 3y ago
The cost of entry is absurd, and the industry is highly regulated. The profit margins for acting as just an airline are also pretty thin, IIUC. I think you’re ultimately right, but finding an investor would be irrationally difficult.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Raising the life you birth into the world is one of the responsibilities assumed when choosing to be a parent. But if they believe they have a good cause to commit infanticide, let them argue it in front of a jury of their peers.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Care of the Fox Entertainment conglomerate. They’ve been claiming this for years now, and their fans eat it up. Another successful story cast as if it were news.
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by falcolas 3y ago
One can hold both parties responsible. And we should. There are steps they could take, as you have pointed out, that they have not.
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by falcolas 3y ago
> This is HN, some people here probably advocate for abortion after birth. That’s called murder - the ending of a person, which by the law is a fully born human being. I doubt anybody sane on either side of the political spectrum support
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by falcolas 3y ago
Somewhat tangential: Can you imaging having to come up with a price point involving the planned destruction of millions, if not billions of dollars of assets every few years?
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by falcolas 3y ago
Soundproofing requires mass. A lot of it. It also requires careful control of airflow to remove paths the sound can travel. Museum quality glass and argon are both fairly expensive. Especially in quantities sufficient to fill the mass quota
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by falcolas 3y ago
Ad blockers can - some do by default - take care of this.
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by falcolas 3y ago
Which part? That 10% of all houses in the US are vacant? A quick Google search shows that 10% is probably low. That they're not competing? What evidence is there of this? Prices aren't falling, after all.
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by falcolas 3y ago
The builders and the property owners are often the same entity. Speculative house building has been a thing since forever.
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by falcolas 3y ago
They have 10% of their stock sitting empty, waiting for their asking prices. Builders earn their money by selling houses for what the market can bear. The act of building itself is merely a cost.

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