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by fsckboy 1y ago
> The Twin Towers sort of represented the height of American power and prestige, and their fall kicked off the decline no. The twin towers opened in 1973 at a time when NYC was becoming a hollowed out urban core. "New York City nev
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> which would ruin any single one of us, should they get creative about how to actually enforce this actually, it would ruin all of them collectively should "they" get creative enforcing it.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I think making an argument that is weaker than it could be is a form of innaccuracy, "by omission". The case for the Israeli side is stronger than he states it, but those who "just criticize Israel" would not be likely t
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by fsckboy 1y ago
tortious interference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference Tortious interference, also known as intentional interference with contractual relations, in the common law of torts, occurs when one person int
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by fsckboy 1y ago
many of the suggestions are part of the right set of ideas, there was more than one reason, including mimicking paper. at that time many of these things were new and hadn't been done before, so they were done to show that it could be d
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> There was no need for complex societies anywhere ever. there is no need for life at all life exists because it replicates and multiplies while testing variations. apparently complex society variants do a great job of that.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i was never attracted to the gattaca UX, it's a UI pre-crime. reaching is muscle memory for me. buttons i like because i know what i'm getting, and what i'm getting can be many different things as buttons allow.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
on linux desktop, rolling the mouse over it makes things happen; clicking and dragging aren't different
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by fsckboy 1y ago
you probably want a qualified economist running the AI to leverage productivity and assess/assert that output is high quality
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by fsckboy 1y ago
just reading the blurb here I thought, "Austism simulator with masking?" Ironic, autistic masking is already a simulation"
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> Are they making the claim that showing porn is a normal behavior for TikTok's algorithm overall, or are they saying that this is something that specifically pervasive with child accounts? the latter is what they tested, but they
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by fsckboy 1y ago
but that's how every polity operates, you can't influence it more than people already try to influence it. you can ask the same of Hamas, is theirs the policy the populace wants? Israel does have a robust free speech democracy and
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by fsckboy 1y ago
next on history.com, "Whence Weebos?" right after "The Decline of Cowboys and Indians"
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by fsckboy 1y ago
1 office politics tip for engineers: engineers are helpful people, people who believe in putting in hard work now because future benefits. office politicians believe in focusing on politics (relationships) and putting their name on as much
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by fsckboy 1y ago
just as a point of interest, in US small claims courts, the judge can award monetary damages, but cannot order somebody to do something (like turn your account on) i'm not sure if this varies by state.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
>> Wasn't Microsoft Access basically that? > No because the datagrid in MS Access is too rigid and doesn't have the extensive slice-&-dice features of MS Excel. i'm not saying it worked or worked well, but i&#x
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i never loved nor hated hypercard. it was straightforward and clever but i really only used it for one thing: i made cardstock labels and liner notes for my audio cassette "rips" of albums (my 20mb hard disk (we didn't have M
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by fsckboy 1y ago
we've used ours on cocktail's for happy hour
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by fsckboy 1y ago
to me, the most detestable view is the view that he should go first
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by fsckboy 1y ago
I like your comment, I think I get the spirit of it, as opposed to the other reponses to it which sound to me like opening negotiations for codes of conduct
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by fsckboy 1y ago
you're trying hard to paint a picture of fail, but your evidence doesn't stack up > It'll be interesting to see if they still can design and build a new ground-up airplane design. The last all-new design was the 787, initi
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> There's an opportunity for a service like CloudFlare i don't think "compliance" in a micropennies per click market like imgur is a full on "opportunity"
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by fsckboy 1y ago
corn starch is widely used because it has no taste raw; a flour based roux needs to be "browned" in oil to eliminate the floury taste (i've tasted the grain of wheat from a plant in a field: tastes floury)
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> if you're struggling to tell if it's "done", take a bite of a single piece, and look at the cross section a bit of "white" in the middle means that hasn't hydrated fully. Maybe you like a bit of &quot
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> JPM is out that money regardless ... probably most of it was spent an MBA entrepreneur who starts a business and sells it to you for $175 million through normal channels is not likely to spend the money. this wasn't a fund wiring
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by fsckboy 1y ago
markets can fail ("descend") for many reasons that are not lemon information asymmetry lemon markets never stop descending till all honesty is gone i see a point in maintaining the distinctions.
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by fsckboy 1y ago
> But all things being equal, investors would like their money allocated into projects with the best returns. Borrowers of course would prefer that they get the money so that doesn't really tell us anything, but society as a whole w
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i don't know what it means to not know what a compiled language is
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i'm not being snarky but, if you want to focus on alpha, construct a portfolio that removes beta, and nobody does that except portfolio theory. so probably "funds that focus on obtaining private information, or flaws in public inf
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by fsckboy 1y ago
i had similar objections to yours but i would phrase the corrections differently. > The point of a financial market is no, the point of a financial market is to be a place where people who need money for lucrative projects can get it, a

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