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by finnh 5y ago
But what's the alternative? Forcing people to sell? Forcing people to mark-to-market? There's no way to (fairly) tax capital gains except at the time of sale.
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by finnh 5y ago
Advertisers also want to actually get that private data, so they can refine their targeting. And then of course there is the problem of leakage (Cambridge Analytica et al). So it's not quite so benign as you suggest. Every marketer I&#
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by finnh 5y ago
Many people give a shit, but it's not straightforward to replace a dictator with something better ... Witness every war since WWII
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by finnh 5y ago
It encourages people to use strongly typed classes rather than primitives, even if the type simply wraps a primitive. As a result you can't pass a invalid (say) accountID deep into your code, bc validity is guaranteed to be checked ear
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by finnh 5y ago
Hah! I stopped reading at the sentence immediately prior to the one you cite: > At the heart of the njahi wars is the question of who gets to determine which foods are tasty. No actual real person argues about this. Everyone past six yea
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by finnh 5y ago
That's not quite how it went down - the really top guys were running the show in Nazi Germany until the very end, and only came to the US after Germany lost the war. See siblings comments about Mittelwerk, eg. Also Chabon's (ficti
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by finnh 5y ago
I actually have an approach here: ASCII diagrams, so i can embed them in code or a README. It keeps things simple - you can't have a super complex ASCII diagram; even crossing lines look terrible - and there's at least a fighting
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by finnh 5y ago
Yeah, I'm gonna stick with it. I've never heard _anyone_ pronounce GNU as "new", so my mind was fairly blown. Sibling comment to yours helpfully points out the "new" pronunciation is only for the animal, not t
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by finnh 5y ago
I believe so, yes. you might need to do a temp password dance to get it configured initially, but after that "lock only" should work fine.
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by finnh 5y ago
whaaat? i pronounce the g in gnu ("guh-new" but short, more like g'new). Google now tells me that's wrong. I guess Gary Gnu on the Great Space Coaster led me wrong in my formative years.
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by finnh 5y ago
Unlox app does this - its primary feature is to use FaceID on an iPhone to unlock a mac, but it also has an AutoLock feature if said phone goes out of bluetooth range. The signal level threshold is configurable so you can keep it on a prett
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by finnh 5y ago
Anecdata from female->male trans guys talk about feeling powerful, horny, and rage-prone as a result of testosterone injections.
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by finnh 5y ago
> it's much easier to fix merge/rebase conflicts when each commit is small and easy to reason about. I agree, but I'd say it in the context of PRs. It's much easier to fix issues (and avoid them) when _PRs_ are small
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by finnh 5y ago
Spot-on for both counts. Preserving a PR's individual commits in the master branch is insane - many of those commits won't represent a fully working system anyway, so why keep them in master?
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by finnh 5y ago
The chart doesn't show AZ data, which seems like an important piece of this puzzle.
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by finnh 5y ago
The problem isn't the 30 lines, though. The problem is "millions of users, billions/trillions of objects" and both are non-hierarchical with pairwise sharing etc. If the requirements were simple, the POSIX model would st
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by finnh 5y ago
They are switching that in many districts nowadays, to recognize that young kids wake up early naturally while teens need to sleep in.
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by finnh 5y ago
A desert hobo, you say? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RySHDUU2juM
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by finnh 6y ago
I've always thought that an elegant solution wouldn't iterate by ones, but would instead increment the correct amount between each print statement... 0+3+2+1+3+1+2+3+3+2+...
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by finnh 6y ago
AA saying: "don't judge your insides by other people's outsides"
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by finnh 6y ago
Weirdly my elementary-school-age kids were taught in kindergarten that "wh" is a separate sound from "w", and that the received pronunciation is "hw". That's in Seattle, where al of nobody does the "h
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by finnh 6y ago
Exactly. "Tech influencer" worked for patio11 much more than "creator of Bingo Card Creator"
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by finnh 6y ago
That high-frequency sound doesn't carry as far, at least
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by finnh 6y ago
bravo! i'll take the downvotes that this content-free comment will garner, but you just made my morning.
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by finnh 6y ago
I can't be the only one who has thought that deep fakes + Cameo = moneymaker! Pitch the celebs "hey you can have 70% of the cameo money, but you don't have to lower yourself to _actually doing the cameo_". We'll j
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by finnh 6y ago
My paternal grandfather and great grandfather both died of cardiac arrest in their 50s. My Dad has always had high cholesterol but went on drugs as soon as they were available - first Niacin, then statins. He's still doing great at 75
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by finnh 6y ago
I have a scar from a poorly-stitched cut on my finger from a "vintage" fan. I wasn't trying to stick my finger in it; i was absentmindedly directing it away from me and my finger apparently missed the cage and interacted inst
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by finnh 6y ago
The road? These are footpath pavers.
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by finnh 6y ago
Freeman Dyson FTW: "In the game of life and evolution, there are three players at the table: human beings, nature, and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of machines.”
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by finnh 6y ago
from the archaic french for "break wind"; i've heard petard translated (for fun) as "little fart"

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