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The Contrarian Coronavirus Theory That Informed the Trump Administration(newyorker.com)
34 points by glhaynes 7y ago|7 comments
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by glhaynes 7y ago
You can also use an alphanumeric sequence.
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by glhaynes 7y ago
A known liar making a truthful statement doesn't mean they have credibility.
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by glhaynes 7y ago
Hoping one day it can be a standalone device With all the watchOS 6 stuff that makes it more independent (App Store on watch, iPhone-less apps, etc), I was thinking this might be the year. Oh well, bet it happens next year.
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by glhaynes 7y ago
Is there any identifying info included in the URL showing which account it's from, etc? That'd be a significant difference from a screenshot which could easily be faked. The write-up seems to imply there is: This process differs
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by glhaynes 7y ago
I worked at IBM Austin on the performance team when the Mach-based IBM Microkernel/Workplace OS was ongoing. (Ask me anything! :-)) Kind of off-topic, but, every once in a while, I think of Workplace OS and how it was this mystical p
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by glhaynes 7y ago
I had no idea the limiting of lists was at the option of the car maker. Interesting! I hate that aspect of it in my Honda.
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by glhaynes 7y ago
I'd guess the intersection of people who will even consider using Firefox, have search engine needs that won't be satisfied by DuckDuckGo, and won't be able to change their search engine is vanishingly small, so I'm not
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by glhaynes 7y ago
Maybe so, but how many people knew that the names were assigned in order?
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by glhaynes 7y ago
American, never heard anything bad about the name Kyle.
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by glhaynes 7y ago
If you are a middling programmer, youre better off doing something else. There are a massive amount of people that would absolutely love to be "stuck between 75k and 175k."
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by glhaynes 7y ago
I think a ton of people bought them because they weren't that much more expensive and compatibility was such a headache in those days, it was worth it for the peace of mind alone.
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by glhaynes 7y ago
Bet those words universally show up more prominently in modern brochures / their web page equivalents.
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by glhaynes 7y ago
Which seems crazy. But, yeah. Also can do a search for "Working Copy", tap that app, then tap the button to show more from the same developer.
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Apple spent like 30 seconds of the keynote on it.
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by glhaynes 7y ago
I think you rebut this one yourself - terrorism has a natural limit in the ability of terrorists to launch attacks. Also the limited number of willing terrorist attackers.
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Are people there worried about being prosecuted (maybe severely) if they're caught bypassing the censorship?
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by glhaynes 7y ago
It had a 16-bit graphics processor, which arguably was a lot more important for its software than whether the CPU was 16-bit. See also the TurboGrafx-16 console, which had a similar arrangement: an 8-bit 6502-descendent and a 16-bit graphic
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by glhaynes 7y ago
>Twitter's code and formatting very often causes chunks of threads to become detached, This nearly never happens these days. About the only time I see it is from the President.
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by glhaynes 8y ago
You can delete the vast majority of the base apps on modern releases.
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by glhaynes 8y ago
It's not clear to me that we shouldn't still have the same fear, perhaps slightly diminished.
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Benefits Of Open Office Not Extended To CEO - https://local.theonion.com/benefits-of-open-office-not-exten...
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Meanwhile, HDR makes a massive difference, but laypeople seem to be pretty familiar with the term "4K" while very few know about "HDR". A testament to the power of numbers in marketing.
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by glhaynes 8y ago
"Patriarchy" isn't a gendered insult, it's a description of the perceived traits of a social and economic system. But, if you'd prefer, feel free to substitute "Our social system and values" for the word.
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by glhaynes 8y ago
We seem to be moving in a relatively less open-to-immigration direction while still currently taking a large absolute number of immigrants.
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by glhaynes 8y ago
Is there? Seems like a massive difference between recordings in the privacy of one’s home and, say, tweets intentionally published to the world.
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by glhaynes 8y ago
I found this line interesting: “All of the reasonable designs that have been developed have been a lot closer to each other than people expected.” It feels (to me, who is admittedly not a hardware person) as though instruction sets haven’t
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by glhaynes 8y ago
The petition is here. Looks like it just crossed 1,000,000. https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/241584
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by glhaynes 8y ago
I'd be up for most anything that's not this unfortunate combination of the article title with the partial title of the book being reviewed; that combo leads to a headline that sounds like it's intending an unfortunate and inc
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Awful title.

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