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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
They should really have the right to vote!
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
This is clearly someone who thinks the mantle is an actual burning fire and doesn't understand that it is molten rock. "I don't get how that fire burns without oxygen" Well, it's not a fire...
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
Maybe I'm stupid but could someone enlighten me as to what "intellectual tourism" might mean? Is that like, a normal person pretending to be intellectual, or is it like browsing Wikipedia with no specific purpose except for t
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
I cannot possibly encourage you more to check out magit. It is unbelievably good. I always share this demo with people to show off just a tiny portion of what it's capable of doing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzQEIR
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
It's $350 million in economic activity brought to or generated in the city, not in tax revenue. You can see the breakdown here. https://explore.sxsw.com/hubfs/2019%20SXSW%20Economic%20Impa...
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
You're confusing GDP with GDP per capita, and also 350,000,000 / 1,460,000,000 = 0.23972602739 and to convert that to a percentage you multiply by 100 so you get 23.973% as the result.
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
According to this[1], SXSW brings Austin about $350 million annually. According to Wikipedia, Austin's annual GDP is about $1.5B so 350/1500 = roughly 23% of the city's annual GDP. Anecdotally I know of many people who work y
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
Local businesses are a huge part of Austin's culture
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
It's a typo, he meant porn
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
Hol' up, are you saying that there's a reason besides economics that the government might introduce protectionist trade measures to keep some critical manufacturing domestic for use during an emergency when you cannot trust your s
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
Everything after your first "but" contradicts what comes before it. Should people who are at more risk get priority? Because if they should, then yes, people with regular immune systems SHOULD in fact just suck it up and go inside
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
> One of the reasons we decided to release the app was so friends of ours who are immunocompromised could use it. Understandable, but it becomes a gold rush if people with normal immune systems use sites like yours to reserve slots. My o
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
Well then I'm glad that the blog post linked above was written, because obviously this situation was confusing when I set up Synapse a couple years back. I might not be a genius but I'm not stupid, either, and I'm obsessed wi
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
Hi, my wife is on an immunosuppressant and so we have been trying to avoid going to the store at all, except curbside, because it could be extremely bad if she were to get COVID-19. Save for a single emergency, no one in our household has l
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
I'm sorry if I was unclear, but > All it does is keep track of email->matrix ID mappings for users who have published them This is what I mean by "it leaks the userlist." Matrix (the organization) stores the email addre
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by giggles_giggles 6y ago
If you use the Matrix identity server, which is required to have federation, the 3rd party identity server operated by the Matrix organization retains a list of your usernames. They don't tell you up front about this, either, and I thi
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
This is interesting because the GP, I think, didn't intend to say "private" to mean "privately held", but I think it's worthwhile to note that GameStop and Guitar Center are publicly traded while H-E-B is still
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
Are you a doctor? Can you explain why a study about influenza would apply to SARS-CoV-2? Or is your doubt baseless speculation?
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
Wow, say what you will about whatever economic theories you're attacking, "America Brain" (with the obvious implication that you're calling the person stupid because they're American and hold some view you view as s
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
Every generation inherits a world full of the problems created or only half-solved by the generation before it. It's not unique to our generation and it won't be unique to the next one, unless the young people are the first genera
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
I just think it's extremely irresponsible to downplay the addictive power of nicotine and it's a theme I see recur frequently on this forum. I have a caffeine addiction as well, and have broken and restarted it multiple times in m
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
Are you joking? When I quit I had a month of full on panic attacks over the tiniest things, and I only vaped for 5 years. I don't understand the motive for downplaying the addictive potential of nicotine unless you're excusing you
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
That's funny, that sounds like exactly the kind of lie I used to tell myself when I was addicted. Nicotine is a powerful force for rationalization of your addiction to it.
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
I hate to tell you this, but it's not Emacs that's slow and clunky, it's Spacemacs. I dumped Spacemacs and spent a couple days building a new config with everything I used from Spacemacs and it is a good 10x faster. It should
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
One benefit? Did you mean to say "the most obvious downside" instead?
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
> Why does this say that the DOJ has been pushing for this since 2016? Because that's when Trump came into power and nothing bad ever happened under the Obama admin.
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
> Completely agree. It's frustrating, because with words like "capitalism" and "socialism", why use words at all? Nobody means the same thing And there's the reason why, in my original post at the beginning
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
> This might be retconned by saying that most housing is occupied and that's where you found a vacancy, but it's still pretty artificial. Actually this just sounds like the California housing market where NIMBYs perpetually pre
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
Exactly, the pharmacist is there to provide expert advice when you have a complicated prescription or combination of prescriptions. You can tell by these comments that the HN crowd leans young -- not enough people dealing with chronic illne
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
You can also self host the upstream service if you want there features that come with logging in but don't want Mozilla to have the data: https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2014/05/08/firefox-account.

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