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by giaour 3y ago
Just think what the private sector could have accomplished if the military didn't waste its time developing ARPANET and early internet standards. Lot of good those ever did us.
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by giaour 3y ago
I'm not even sure if I would like it if I were to reread it today, but reading Of Human Bondage when I was 21 led me to rethink a lot of my life and make some pretty impactful changes (e.g., got out of an unhealthy relationship, deci
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by giaour 3y ago
You can generally compost food-soiled paper products, though I expect the cardboard used in pizza boxes wouldn't break down easily in a home or vermiculture composter. Commercial or municipal compost service providers should be able to
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by giaour 3y ago
Rent a beach house, bring a bunch of books, and host friends on vacation.
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by giaour 3y ago
> US$7.75 million in damages for (rereads it) stepping on someones property? Not even stepping on private property, just crossing through its airspace.
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Reflections on Ten Years Past the Snowden Revelations(ietf.org)
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by giaour 3y ago
Solaris is a classic, and anything else by Stanislaw Lem is probably good. Not Russian, but he wrote in Polish in the USSR.
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by giaour 3y ago
Many holders of higher rate mortgages refinanced during the last 10-15 years, too.
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by giaour 3y ago
Signing a lease is a new, expensive obligation, and being a landlord is a second job. That approach might be right for some people, but it's definitely not the same as just selling your old house and buying a new one somewhere else.
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by giaour 3y ago
With carve-outs for national security and privacy sensitive transactions, most government transactions have long been public.
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by giaour 3y ago
Boasting about 0.2 requests per second, even on a minimally spec'd VPS, is damning with faint praise.
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by giaour 3y ago
The way developers are encouraged to structure PHP projects (mainly due to autoloader semantics) always felt more like Java or .NET to me than it did like python. The resource consumption comparison between a Symfony web app vs the same thi
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by giaour 3y ago
The framing of this story is kinda bizarre. The author keeps insinuating that Holmes is charismatic but full of shit, but the first mention of this is 40% through the article (and the first 40% is pretty flattering of Holmes). My takeaway,
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by giaour 3y ago
That's not true in most states in the US. Programs with means testing (TANF, Medicaid, and the like) don't consider you poor if you have assets. You hear about this a lot when people require certain kinds of care that Medicaid cov
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by giaour 3y ago
Let's say that the terms of a trust dictate that interest revenue be immediately paid out to a specific charity, but you are allowed to spend the principal. Are you poor?
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by giaour 3y ago
The property's transfer or sale may be prohibited by the terms of inheritance. IANAL and am mostly familiar with this type of situation from rom-coms about down-on-their-luck dukes who live in crumbling, unsellable castles, so I'm
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by giaour 3y ago
So, if someone has a low or nonexistent income and vast inherited wealth, you would consider them to be poor?
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by giaour 3y ago
> On top of that, the NBA is always going to have a problem with height diversity When I was a kid, I recall people loving Muggsy Bogues because he was a short guy thriving in a tall man's game. It was really dramatic to watch him s
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by giaour 3y ago
Every price includes an interest rate derivative, even if you pay with cash. If interest rates are high, then buying something has a higher opportunity cost since you're forgoing earning interest on your capital. As patio11 put it in
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by giaour 3y ago
zOS?
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by giaour 3y ago
At least as of the time of this comment, no special label was applied to Stars and Stripes (50% funded by the US Department of Defense), Al Hurra (100% funded by the US Agency for Global Media), or CBC (>50% funded by the Canadian govern
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by giaour 3y ago
I don't think bad code and failing to find product market for are mutually exclusive. A lack of tests, an inconsistent code base, or a shaky architecture can make it hard to make changes, which can freeze software in place. In a sector
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by giaour 3y ago
One thing I was told at USDS is that people's willingness to engage in the democratic process is directly related to how much trust they have in the government to fulfill its promises, which in turn is directly related to whether the g
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by giaour 3y ago
You're right, but I don't see that as a point in the negative column for bikes. If people can use a bike for trips that would have previously required a car, that's a positive development, even if the bike isn't able to
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by giaour 4y ago
In theory, yes, but it doesn't do you any good if no one's installed bike racks near your destination. I live in a pretty bike friendly suburb but I still have to drive to a destination and scope out the bike parking situation bef
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by giaour 4y ago
> They’re significantly more likely to injure you than a car Are there reputable statistics that attest to this? I agree that your odds as the cyclist in a bicycle v auto accident aren't good, but driving is (statistically speaking)
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by giaour 4y ago
At least a sixth of the commandments haven't been followed by anyone since 70 CE.
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by giaour 4y ago
Don't forget about humans pretending to be an AI so that other humans will be impressed with how far AI has advanced: https://www.forbes.com/sites/cognitiveworld/2020/04/04/artif...
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by giaour 4y ago
Technically, what ChatGPT is doing is bullshitting because it doesn't have any knowledge of or concern for truthfulness. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Bullshit
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by giaour 4y ago
It has support for type annotations, though, and tools like dialyzer can check for type errors much like TypeScript does: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/typespecs-and-behavi...

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