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by frenchy 6y ago
It is a strange saying. My guess is this is something that's lost in translation—a leaky metaphore—and the people using it don't think about real cow paths. Real world space is (generally) 2 dimensional, and these cow paths are of
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by frenchy 6y ago
Ancient empires also regularly spawned friendly or unfriendly colonies on their periphery, and regularly lost control of them. Space colonization doesn't have to be useful for earthlings for somone to bother attempting it. All of that
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by frenchy 6y ago
> The scientists told us that a vaccine wouldn't be ready for years, it was actually ready in months I remember the messaging at the beginning of last year being to expect at least 18 months, possibly much longer. For most people, 1
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by frenchy 6y ago
You can say it's an opinion, but I think you'll find it's almost universally held. Most people would enjoy romming Mars for a few days, some would enjoy it for a few months. I think only a select few would enjoy being there f
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by frenchy 6y ago
FTL travel actually implies FTL communication, since you can send a traveller with a message. What I think you mean is that communication needs to be either really fast, or at least a lot faster than the travelling. I don't think that&
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by frenchy 6y ago
That's overly reductive. In many cases, it's easier to make more money from existing money than it is to make money from just time.
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by frenchy 6y ago
> You were both right, and it all depends on your definition of productivity Sure, but at some point, you can pick a definition that is so far removed from what was intended, that this exercise is utterly meaningless.
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by frenchy 6y ago
There's also a inclination (not specifically modern) to mythologize traditional institutions. For example, the notion of a medieval knight in full plate. The modern notion of traditional parenting is about 60 years old. Before that, th
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by frenchy 6y ago
> Join the military, kill people etc I don't think we should push women into these job, but I don't think we should push men into those jobs either. > it's crazy that a women doesn't get paid for raising kids Actua
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by frenchy 6y ago
A good ethicist & communicator will probably be able to embarrass you if you're doing something wrong, but so will a comedian. I don't think OP is claiming that there ethicists have no skill, but rather that it's fundamen
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by frenchy 6y ago
> The other thing I don't like is when you are experimenting and fleshing out an idea you want to take a try it and see approach but with Typescript you have to really commit even though you just want to experiment. When you want to
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by frenchy 6y ago
Fair point.
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> Only a troglodyte would use JavaScript for server-side programming. As a troglodyte myself, I don't disagree with you, but you're being unnecessarily demeaning. > And you can’t use rust for front end work. You certainly ca
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by frenchy 6y ago
> "Don't need 100 wrenches, just a crescent." Is that contradictory? Non-adjustable wrenches still exist, and are still used on a regular basis. If you do a lot of work on at a single size they're nice because they we
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by frenchy 6y ago
If 99.9% of people missunderstand what a word means, then maybe it doesn't really mean what you think it does, or has no clear meaning at all. Webster didn't get his dictionary from a discrete meeting with some cave spirit.
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by frenchy 6y ago
> - they can afford to skip Cookies because they have elaborate fingerprinting solutions This is really just a special case of your last point. As far as I know, there is nothing cookie specific in the GDPR.
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by frenchy 6y ago
> The toolchain has changed significantly in 4+ years. It started as literally a shell script invoking Gruber's original markdown.pl. Then I switched to CommonMark, etc. Wouldn't switching formats like that break peoples pages?
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by frenchy 6y ago
I think Google's brand power is by far the most important thing here. When people don't find what they're looking for on Google, the figure it's hard to find, or they need to learn how to query better. When people don&#x
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by frenchy 6y ago
So, replace our democracies with capitalistic dictatorships?
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by frenchy 6y ago
I'm not following, why would a 500 be ironic from site with a domain that belongs to a bunch of islands in the Indian Ocean that the Brits seem to think they own.
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by frenchy 6y ago
> In defense of the d.school, what they teach are techniques and tools - not ethics. Is that a defence? That sounds like trying to explain your friend's rudeness away by saying "In Bob's defence, he's an asshole"
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by frenchy 6y ago
I haven't used the new Edge, but simply inverting the colors is going to give you a bad time, all your photos will look rather strange. Realistically, it would want to do something quite a bit more complicated than that. On simple webs
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by frenchy 6y ago
Having a microphone to detect broken glass is very much not obvious. As someone completely unfamiliar with the problem space, I would have assumed the normal solsolution was something along the lines of: run a current throught the glass and
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by frenchy 6y ago
Well, in some cases, much of the life on earth went extinct. It's also not clear how long it took to make earth a good place to live again. The planet's ecology might be able to "heal" the damage we're doing, but it
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by frenchy 6y ago
What you're saying is true most of the time, but some times a difference in quality really is a difference in kind. I'm really not a fan of most store-bought bread. I'd eat it if the alternative was homelessness, or if I thou
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by frenchy 6y ago
> I can't imagine people use the chat function either. Spammers do.
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by frenchy 6y ago
> it's not "FOSS" at all Source? I don't remember the url, but the other day someone posted a link to an opinion posted by someone at OSI back when Elastic was thinking of getting certification that basically said: &q
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by frenchy 6y ago
My guess is that simosx is using the term "plant" in the strict/colloquial sense, not the either Plantae kingdom (so not including things like cyanobacteria).
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by frenchy 6y ago
For what it's worth, there's a difference between pro-drugs and pro-legalization. I personally think that legalization is our best hope for reducing drug use.
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by frenchy 6y ago
For sure. I'm not American myself, and I also grew up as an ex-pat in a 3rd world country. While it certainly gave me some perspective, I wouldn't say for a moment that I really understand what it's like to be them. If things

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