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by flatline 4y ago
Private companies can develop software with government data rights. Hosting isn’t free but they pay for an n-year contract with support and can find another vendor for the software and hosting in n years if they want. That’s a good collabor
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by flatline 4y ago
And my 11 year old daughter says that Jeff Bezos could solve world hunger if he just gave away part of his fortune. Unfortunately the world doesn’t work that way.
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by flatline 4y ago
I’m reading this as, he made racist or otherwise hateful statements in a semi-public forum and nobody was going to put their organization’s name behind that. It’s an interesting problem. On the one hand it’s a free country you can say what
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by flatline 4y ago
DC is still easier to navigate by car than by metro and bus, at least when I last lived there in 2016. Red line from MD would regularly shut down or have delays, and you were looking at a 2+ hour commute into the district. If you could get
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by flatline 4y ago
My kids love Mr Beast. I have used the same word used here, “dehumanizing”, to describe him. The very premise places more value on money than people. It’s made for some great philosophical discussions with two ~10 year olds though.
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by flatline 4y ago
The internet is this way. The reality is more about peering agreements and CDNs than a neutral decentralized computer network. But it is still decentralized, just primarily among a few big players.
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by flatline 4y ago
I think the abortion case is more problematic than this. The laws raise a high barrier to entry, not just financial, but logistical and social. You can leave to get an abortion if you have the money, but there will be a fine on you, and y
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by flatline 4y ago
Helped me too. I still deal with pain but it totally changed my mindset about it and relieved a lot of the suffering associated with the pain. I saw an associate of Sarno’s who co-authored one of his books, she looked at my imaging and was
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by flatline 4y ago
Can you write code? Plenty of places will hire part time, let you work from home, etc. Don’t look for big companies, look for small and mid sized private businesses. As an aside, I think this is an important reason to develop and maintain a
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by flatline 4y ago
I was on work travel last week. No Uber from the airport - three cancelations then I caught a Lyft. It was over $500 for a 50 mi ride to a neighboring city which I was mostly looking at out of curiosity. My friend was recently held up (well
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by flatline 4y ago
Isn’t that just what you get with double precision floats?
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by flatline 4y ago
Meritocracies can by tyrannical. Organizations select for sociopaths to rise to the top. People are unaware of their biases. Minorities - in race, gender, viewpoint, or along some other axis - are marginalized and it has a real cost to the
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by flatline 4y ago
I think in the context of the parent post, 1800s is recent . There’s a different between someone having narcissistic traits and being diagnosed with NPD, but we casually say both of them are narcissists. Everyone has some of those traits,
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by flatline 4y ago
I have never put the least bit of thought or effort into frying eggs in cast iron over, say, stainless. It is a better non-stick surface overall. Teflon is gross, do you really want to risk breathing the fumes and eating even more plastic?
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by flatline 4y ago
In Buddhist philosophy the mind is a sixth sense organ, perceiving thoughts. The Lankavatara Sutra from Mahayana buddhism goes into some detail as to how karma is formed, past life memories and the like, in the “storehouse consciousness” wh
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by flatline 5y ago
The industry has, for the most part, been migrating to live collaborative edits via CRDTs and the like rather than exclusive access with non-deterministic terminating conditions. You could argue that the whole field of distributed computing
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by flatline 5y ago
You are discussing a different polarity in communication: do you just care for your own feelings or for the other person’s? That should be a factor in good communication! The article is discussing a different polarity: direct vs indirect co
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by flatline 5y ago
The glut of marriage counseling options, religious counseling, and relationship self help books indicate this is a more universal need than for just poly relationships. Non-monogamy does not just come in one form, either. Kinsey showed that
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by flatline 5y ago
$15 bottles are more reliable in my experience. You can get a great bottle of $7 wine or a terrible one. Double the price and it won’t be vinegar or total crap. Anything beyond that is highly subjective.
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by flatline 5y ago
More expensive as a one-time cost, but managing subscriptions through Apple allows you to pay once for a recurring subscription then cancel and use it for the remainder of the purchase period. Even one unintended renewal will wipe out whate
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by flatline 5y ago
I only use it to find local events. If it weren’t for fb and insta you’d think nothing was happening at all. The old local publications were all mothballed by the pandemic.
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by flatline 5y ago
It’s worth noting that the language has been around for almost 20 years now! Search engine relevance was virtually nonexistent when it was named.
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by flatline 5y ago
Effectively zero is the term in probability: it will not happen, but is technically not impossible.
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by flatline 5y ago
My first house is on that map of the Severn River. I have that nautical chart printed out hanging on a wall.
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by flatline 5y ago
The link for New Mexico takes me to South Dakota, further evidence that New Mexico is not a state.
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by flatline 5y ago
Unfortunately there is more than statistics at play: http://www.wayne-county-forfeiture.com/content/drug-dogs-and...
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by flatline 5y ago
And the rest will be captured by predatory lenders. I too am a fan of the concept but there are a lot of incentives in the US in particular that work against the idea.
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by flatline 5y ago
They recently started showing friends’ response comments first, so you can easily see those of your friends out of the 116,000 replies. The rise of these in my feed seemed to correspond with this feature. Disclaimer, am infrequent FB user a
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by flatline 5y ago
What liability? A few million dollar fine? Look at what Microsoft did to numerous competitors over decades: Borland, Mozilla, etc. FB squelching Mastodon is minor league.
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by flatline 5y ago
Drug and alcohol use in commercial kitchens is also a factor that doesn’t really make it onto TV.

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