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by frabbit 8y ago
I call BS on the pouring rain and snow: wet, frozen leaves are not blowing anywhere. You would get more hours raking and thus more income if you were not using leaf blowers: you are externalizing costs to the detriment of both your own inc
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by frabbit 8y ago
A pretty decent, lowkey set of practical advice. I would only add to it: enjoy yourself!
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by frabbit 8y ago
The version currently available to us through our IT department suffers from the limit. The updates you mention are held back from us because of 2 problems: one of them being a bitlocker lock-out. Summary: this is a real, current problem e
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by frabbit 8y ago
Windows 10 is a solid OS but they trash it with these awful little pointless decisions While those are definitely irritations I would like to add something a little (IMO) more important: file path limits. I can fudge around it in various
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by frabbit 8y ago
We have a functioning planet with a well developed eco-system, we do not have a back-up What is so hard for people to grasp about this concept? We have an incredible thing here, it would be impossible to engineer something like i
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by frabbit 8y ago
It's a great aside. And as the debate about over-crowding of the last remaining wildernesses is bound to develop, I wonder whether some "price/cost" which involves the effort expended to get to those places is appropria
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by frabbit 8y ago
To add to that, in some places there were both bus and trains and first the train lines were shut to passengers and then the bus service decreased until it was unattractive, and then they shut the bus lines. Specific example that I know of
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by frabbit 8y ago
And his talks on the origins of the state (vulgarly summarized as "cities were not to keep barbarians OUT, they were to keep the slave classes IN": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2ukte-je8k
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by frabbit 8y ago
Marcus Rediker has some interesting scholarship on pirates, and expanding it out a little into the result of mercantile capitalism creating a new proletariat Linebaugh and Rediker's "Many Headed Hydra" is a good read: http:&
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by frabbit 8y ago
Looking at the impact of the City of London on Greater London, or the finacial services sector on Dublin or Silicon Valley on Palo Alto it seems to me that the flight of major, centralized economic powers (with the ability to distort democr
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by frabbit 8y ago
Then we are in agreement about the most important thing.
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by frabbit 8y ago
Glad you like it. He has about 4 more "Power of Nightmares", "Hypernormalization", "The Mayfair Set" . He has been criticized for lacking precision and rigor, but I am willing to forgive that for the experie
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by frabbit 8y ago
They`ve been criticized for over 18 years for being right-wing: https://www.alternet.org/story/4260/the_trouble_with_dilbert...
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by frabbit 8y ago
Adam Curtis's Bitter Lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRbq63r7rys Monty Don's Italian Gardens series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OY413RwBzB0 The original Cosmos (Carl Sagan). https
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by frabbit 8y ago
> I will accept whatever number of referendums there is > support for. If there is a push for an ongoing series > of referendums > The swing in the subsequent referendum was big enough > crazy low turnout Given the harshness
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by frabbit 8y ago
I would agree that is true in a democracy: but the UK is not a democracy. In fact, apart from Lichtenstein¹ I cannot think of any democracies. How open are you to the idea of a third, fourth and subsequent referenda on Brexit should a sec
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by frabbit 8y ago
What damage was done to Quebec? Sure, a bunch of francophobic anglos fled to Ontario, but Quebec remains a vibrant society with a semi-functioning healthcare system and a decent univeristy system. Now, the election of the CAQ last mont: _t
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by frabbit 8y ago
Bike sharing schemes were widely predicted to fail in Australia due to their compulsory helmet laws for cyclists. The argument was that few people would want to put on a shared helmet, and that preparation involved in having to bring a helm
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by frabbit 8y ago
I think you'll find that there are many individuals who share his opinion. And we're not interested in having your ilk dictate anything.
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by frabbit 8y ago
Not to mention dementia, arthritis, diabetes, decreased articulation. Old people in rural areas and suburbs without mass transit are in a very vulnerable position.
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by frabbit 8y ago
Imagine if I proposed taxing people approximately $5000 extra a year and then insisting that in addition they took on an extra job of being a chauffeur every morning and evening? And in addition I sequestered land and the sides of roads in
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by frabbit 8y ago
Isn't that when the car drivers get vast amounts of money spent on infrastructure so that they can inconvenience me?
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by frabbit 8y ago
"This isn't evil; the company needs shareholder value to survive." Viruses need animal hosts in order to survive. That isn't evil either. But if you're the host it's bad for you. Companies as embodied in capi
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by frabbit 8y ago
Any complaint which includes the phrase `the nvidia card' has already described the problem sufficiently. No one who wants a useable F/OSS machine should touch anything Nvidia. Ever. Not even the ones supported by the nouveau dr
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by frabbit 8y ago
Windows has certainly been consistent in not offering an SSH client at all for a very long time That has changed. One of the Windows10 previews offers a client and server (Ed25519 only). I`ve been experimenting with it on WSL and it see
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by frabbit 8y ago
I don't think they are related. The Left is generally in favor of socialism of some sort: common ownership of the important stuff. The Right has two wings: fascists and the sneaky, slippery moralizers known as Liberals. Liberals a
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by frabbit 8y ago
It`s different, but if they`re the information channel used by the majority of people then it has the same effect.
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by frabbit 8y ago
Zuckerberg`s Holocaust comment is one of the few things he`s got right: there is no place for government regulating Free Speech. Not because Holocaust deniers are anything but deranged and odious, but because any such power placed in the
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by frabbit 8y ago
Here is a non-paywalled report on the same topic from another source: https://inews.co.uk/news/labour-staff-deceived-corbyn-facebo...
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by frabbit 8y ago
That`s one of the really interesting questions in this. But if you look at polls on the policies which were supposedly so left wing they would turn away voters then another conclusion can be reached: namely that Corbyn`s left-wing policie

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