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by flukus 6y ago
I wonder how efficient this would be for mass transit? One light rail line for short distances, heavy rail for longer ones and high speed rail for really long distance would be able to get you to every home in the country. Cities already gr
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by flukus 6y ago
I'm not sure if they count as rough edges, but most common things I've come across tend to be security related and the limitations on a normal user. From (foggy) memory you can't sudo by default, and you also can't mount
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by flukus 6y ago
But i386 will still run on 64 bit hardware. A place I was working recently was insisting on sticking to 32 bit linux while they migrated off Solaris, mostly for stupid reasons on code that wasn't too hard to port, but just because the
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by flukus 6y ago
> I wonder if this is less a longing for "simpler times" than a longing for a society in which one has more power. I always thought it was more about control and self determination rather than power for most, something many her
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by flukus 6y ago
> Why is this good? Saving money instead of being manipulated to buy something I otherwise wouldn't is good for me and the environment.
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by flukus 6y ago
I think both are a rightful condemnation of previous video conferencing "solutions".
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by flukus 6y ago
For some context, we're pretty strict on quarantine and introduced pests here and have been for a long time. Comedians have often joked that you could walk through an airport with a nuke under your arm but you'd be arrested for a
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by flukus 6y ago
I wonder if this could be the causal link between the two that has always been missing, lead -> higher testosterone -> more violence.
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by flukus 6y ago
Wasn't there a lot of drinking and drugs between his SAT scores and becoming president? Enough of that can create some cognitive impairment, but I don't know if he indulged to that degree.
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by flukus 6y ago
> the first thing that should come in people's minds when they think about Bush should not be silly & almost endearing gaffes, but Gitmo, Irak, Afghanistan and the hundreds of thousand of corpses he left behind. Isn't this
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by flukus 6y ago
I thought that border did close briefly? I understand it's a touchy issue, but here we had some rather soft closures between states as well, borders don't have to be binary opened or closed. In some instances people could work per
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by flukus 6y ago
All the content was hosted on s3 and you just needed the URL's, security by obscurity.
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by flukus 6y ago
> I will do like my parents did and emigrate. Where to? Nearly every country in the western world is far less absolutist when it comes to freedom of speech. I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that you'd find them far more
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by flukus 6y ago
> It's summer in the southern hemisphere and don't say you got rid of sars2 in your winter, you didn't Victoria had a large outbreak in winter, a (way too late) lockdown bought it under control. New Zealand had an outbreak
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by flukus 6y ago
> The WHO warns that lockdown should only be treated as a last resort, to truly flatten the curve and no more. We ignored that. Countries that have eliminated the virus have ignored this for good results. Some like us here in Melbourne h
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by flukus 6y ago
Something people reading this would probably be interested in is Recutils: https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ . It combines Human readable and writeable plain text with the ability to handle relational data an
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by flukus 6y ago
> Where do you think American Neo-Nazis get their symbolism from? Considering the KKK were using torches before nazis existed the relationship goes the other way if anything: https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/kkk_r
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by flukus 6y ago
They did it in Germany, where Charlottesville was likely a 30 second news clip that everyone forgot about. Stop with the cultural imperialism, race relations in the US are rather unique.
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by flukus 6y ago
Yep, my dwm re-compiles, installs and restarts faster than a theme change in gnome.
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by flukus 6y ago
Border closures don't have to be all or nothing. In Australia we closed borders between states but allowed work permits in some places and had fuzzy borders (people within 100km could cross) in others. No measures are 100%, but they do
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by flukus 6y ago
> No tourist would be interested in coming over to stay two weeks on their own dime locked in a hotel, only then to be able to do some actual traveling. Depending on where they're coming from they'll have to do that on the way
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by flukus 6y ago
You've probably never had the flu, you've had a cold you called the flu. A week of not sleeping because you're alternating between burning up and freezing, diarrhea and aching muscles is not pleasant.
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by flukus 6y ago
> only for it to happen again in 6-24 months when the next passing of the baton occurs. And each one comes up with a revolutionary plan that has to be completed in that period and you end up with 6 layers of half finished 3 year plans. E
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by flukus 6y ago
> What hope do those people have then? Especially for future generations? None, that's what I'm getting at. These areas are in a long term terminal decline and there is no fixing it. It's an international economic trend, n
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by flukus 6y ago
Yes, living wage aside (a different if related problem) I really don't think there will be jobs, at least enough of them to support rural areas. If there are no jobs their then the only options are welfare in some form, relocation or j
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by flukus 6y ago
> Like healthcare, affordable housing, decent schools, and jobs that pay a living wage. Nothing crazy. These things were the bedrock of the Sanders campaign, both times. The hard one is jobs, it seems like acceptance that jobs aren'
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by flukus 6y ago
> Phones from 2016 for example feel completely usable today. The problem is that this has happened despite my usage not changing.
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by flukus 6y ago
This is what should have been protected all along, this is the infrastructure level and if anywhere has a universal access obligations this should be it. Unfortunately people were crying about being deplatformed and losing their audience fo
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by flukus 6y ago
I wonder how many people use facebook as a single sign on? Half their regular web may have been blocked.
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by flukus 6y ago
If we're going to talk about universal access obligations then this should be where we start, this is real unavoidable infrastructure. Yet we don't often see calls for this from anyone worried about deplatforming, they're mor

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