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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
> 1964, when all the Dixiecrats had finally had enough and switched over to the Republican Party, Oh they had? When did Robert Byrd switch parties?
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
Is the irony of saying Solzhenitsyn is unreliable while linking a Reddit thread as a better source lost on you?
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
Just don't get rhabdo
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
My understanding of the situation is that there is enough damage already done that a significant portion of the population, if not all of it, will be dead in the next half century, regardless of what's done. Didn't you see the new
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
Speaking as a converted climate skeptic, the person who finally convinced me that this is real and serious overdid it and convinced me that we'll be seeing massive famines, extinctions, and widespread death as biomes shift around world
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
No, because 1) FastMail doesn't make money through advertising so they have no incentive to read your mail and 2) if you pay for an account with your own domain, you are not locked in, so if they start doing something you don't li
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
duck.com has really gotten good recently.
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
Physical gender stereotypes? The differences in physical appearance, like the shape of the bones in your face and the fact some people have penises and other people have vaginas, caused by activation of the SRY gene (the sex determinism gen
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
I'm just nervous about off-the-shelf "smart" cameras also sharing the feed with someone upstream who is not me
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
>replacing the motor in your car is also a pretty extensive operation requiring extremely expensive tooling Well SOMEONE's dad didn't have a small collection of junker vehicles in the yard to pull parts from growing up. Shoot,
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by giggles_giggles 7y ago
It says on the front page of the website that PostmarketOS cannot receive calls. The commenter that you're replying to is obviously using his phone as his daily driver. Being unable to receive calls relegates PostmarketOS to toy status
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
>the President and many Republicans routinely break laws in obvious manners Can you link to some citations regarding this? If one of our political parties and our elected officials are brazenly breaking the law I'd sure like to know
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
If you use ssh-agent with default settings it's very easy to accidentally expose access to systems you would not expect via the agent. This seems to be a good post about the problem: https://heipei.io/2015/02/
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
>Countries who can consume and produce within themselves are going to succeed more than those who primarily import / export Citation heavily needed for that claim.
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
This old trope again? Being a millionaire isn't even rich in many parts of the US anymore -- just look at Silicon Valley as an example. A million dollars gets you, what exactly in terms of housing there? Most of the millionaires that e
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
It's not inconvenient, it's broken. The issue I described above is not the only misbehavior to which I'm frequently subjected. Another example: messages are delayed, often. Recently I failed to reply to an urgent text about a
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
>Signal UI used to be horrible but as of the past few months it's improved a ton! That's funny, I've had the opposite experience. Once I got everyone I know to start using it and was completely locked-in, I started having
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
M-x package-install RET evil
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
This only just started happening? I use a PS4 to watch Netflix and the auto-play has been happening for months. I find it so irritating that now I don't go to Netflix to browse anymore, because I don't have long enough to consider
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
>I fail utterly to see how "there are some things that need to be done" is most appropriately addressed by "Ok, make everyone do something... If something needs to be done, someone has to do it. The person who is going to
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
But what about the privacy concerns of this technology, especially from Amazon? My fiance needs voice-to-text software for accessibility reasons -- does that mean that in order to get her the best accessibility software, we have to sacrific
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
>As a recent example, Net Neutrality involved massive amounts of lobbing and had very clear "pro-consumer" and "anti-consumer" sides This isn't as uncontroversial of an opinion as it might appear to be in a place
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
It's not socially acceptable to chat up women at work or in a public place like a coffee shop or grocery store. It was acceptable 10 years ago, but it is not anymore. If you don't want to be chased or told off as a creep,
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
Hawaii considers the benefits of creating a black market for tobacco
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
Can someone explain this in layman's terms? This is interesting to me but I've lost the meaning in the jargon. TBM? "Descend into icing"? IFR hours?
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
I've heard a number of horror stories about the game dev industry that would be unheard of in the larger tech community. I've always thought this was because there was a less restricted labor supply among game developers. I knew a
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
I've never had a panic attack at the airport because I couldn't have sugar for a couple of hours, but I have had one because I couldn't vape. I've never yelled at a coworker because I couldn't have a cookie, but I d
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
Or thats not a problem because everyone is already on their 2nd marriage by 28? This is what anti-Southerner prejudice looks like.
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
I could be wrong but I think you've misunderstood the comment that you're replying to. It sounds like the comment is talking about a company that uses VR to train employees to do certain tasks, not a company that trains people to
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by giggles_giggles 8y ago
Do the companies that you're starting or investing in with the $10m/yr you earn need that cash? Do you think Uncle Sam can do a better job of investing it than, say, Warren Buffett or Elon Musk? It's not like rich people just

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