fsckboy

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by fsckboy 10mo ago
> Unfortunately politics has become the religion of modernity. religion was classically politics. Moses's tablets were Law. the circle of life.
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
>I've stopped thinking of automobile repair as a single dial, where more automobile repair is bad or less automobile repair is bad. It entirely depends on what is being repaired and how. Some areas need more automobile repa
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by fsckboy 10mo ago
>Wasn't the WP fight at its core about who gets to make money ... I'm not sure how moral posturing fits into this. “If you have a case where the law is clearly on your side, but the facts and justice seem to be against you, ur
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
unfortunately, many of the people who are in favor of providing more financial resources to patients are also in favor of a more extensive regulatory framework, so the two ideas don't get balanced.
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
was what I was responding to supposed to be a constructive suggestion? > It's inability to provide for its citizens provide some evidence, and also the counter evidence that shows that other countries don't leave people waitin
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> because the richest country on Earth can't be bothered to provide for its citizens The USA spends more on healthcare per person than any other country Locations 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 USA 14,885 13,818 12,898 12,
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
I once got yelled at by a Safeway employee because I didn't respond to her "have a nice day, sir" "I SAID, HAVE A NICE DAY SIR!" (just in case you live in a civilized part of the world, understand: this was in a p
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
there are valid arguments about patentability of software, but you didn't make any of those arguments. > But disclosure is rarely an issue with software patents require disclosure. patented software requires disclosure. if you are
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
I have the intuition, I understood what you meant. but I still think it's an error.
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> obsessive seeking of external validation which I have never felt myself if you've never felt it, why are you mentioning it? why are you so focused on it? A useful psychoanalytic rubric is "there is no negation in the unconsc
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
i have a strong quibble about calling this XOR. XOR takes two arguments and one of the arguments here is implicit. The game inverts the square colors, which XORing with "1" will do, but it's not defined whether white or black
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
empirical equations are driven by data about devices. they didn't have any devices, they were inventing the first ones.
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> Show me one useful software patent that ... (b) benefits society by being granted a monopoly. Just one! that's a bullshit criterion, and nothing about what you said applies to software in particular. it's generally agreed th
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
https://www.solanatracker.io/tokens/BgWateWiY7dN2JuxnWxnr67d...
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
what's the significance of the 67? https://www.amazon.com/BrainRotBlender/dp/B0FZF57J2T
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
you dissected the blog post to ascertain how bad you thought traffic would be at that hour. that's actually what made me notice the timeline she had established and the appearance that it seemed to get more severe later.
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> Fire crews here in BC are dispatched to severe medical incidents (like heart attacks) and most of the time can even beat ambulance crews to a scene according to the blog post, the father was talking (said "be careful" about
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> That cannot possibly be true. Not knowing what exactly is going on with the charge carriers at the subatomic and quantum levels is not the same as not knowing how the amplifier works since everything that happens inside a transistor i
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
it's a bit weird that I never thought about it before this, when I already had the facts in my head: the triode tube amplifier was invented by Lee de Forest, but he had no idea how it worked or even what it was capable of. then 45 year
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> Eventually your domain will be available to others for purchase and therefore your accounts will become vulnerable. what are you talking about? after I'm dead?
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> designed to fit any iPhone given Apple's track record in the past, this is the first indicator that there will soon be an annual line of iPhones that will not fit in these slings
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> I've been called out previously here for having unknowingly introduced some undefined terms to readers, and which they found to be perplexing. i wasn't criticizing putting in a link; just put it in, it doesn't need laye
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> As for CDs, I don't see the rush; the ones that were properly made will likely outlast human civilization. recordable CD-Rs or DVD-Rs do not last close to that long, and those are the ones that hold the only copies of certain bit
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> In contrast to a crossword there's a type of crossword called "diagramless" where you have the numbered clues and an empty grid there was one in NYTimes Magazine Sunday puzzle page this past weekend
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
so what you're saying is, there's no problem sailing upwind, you just need to worry about getting there on time?
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
[2] [2]: I just wanted to add the most unnecessary footnote formatting possible as a kindness, so yours would no longer hold the crown as worst
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> Myna tries to emulate the smooth look of ligatures but also retains the simplicity of ASCII this sentence makes no sense, ASCII is something like a code page and ligatures are something like glyphs
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
if there are assets to put up as collateral, then debt is cheaper than equity. hard to see the point of this? also, debt is leverage, it leverages you, you don't leverage it.
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
> what is meant by chaotic media environment? it means that the almanac does not bring in enough profit to make it worthwhile to continue or to find a buyer for the company, and the owners are also aware that many of the same profit rel
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by fsckboy 11mo ago
barbanera = black beard

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