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by grawprog 6y ago
>If everyone has a gun, we aren't all safer, we're just all each at the mercy of whoever decides to pull the trigger first. But isn't the basis behind MAD and the whole premise behind the continued existence of the world s
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by grawprog 6y ago
>For example, misinformation that might persuade voters into voting based on a false premise undermines a democratic system. So, what's different now vs when there was paid political campaigns and advertising on TV, radio, magazines
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by grawprog 6y ago
>so control over dangerous ideas makes sense to them This is another concept that confuses me 'dangerous ideas'. How is that different than what the church did with things like witchcraft and paganism, those were 'dangerou
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by grawprog 6y ago
So, facebook employees are mad they're not allowed to censor things they disagree with that people post on facebook? I don't understand how facebook came to be responsible for policing political opinions anyway. In fact, I don&#x2
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by grawprog 6y ago
> I don’t expect the discount coupon comes out of the store’s cut. That's how it used to work at the grocery store I worked at. The flyers were prepared a couple weeks in advance, the sales matched up with every other store that ord
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by grawprog 6y ago
The medium is stone, the mistake was not a mistake, the difference was not noticable.
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by grawprog 6y ago
Well, i dare say, that would be an example of an editorial judgement. Agreeable or not.
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by grawprog 6y ago
I grew up in a metric using country, I didn't learn imperial until I had to for a job. I came to appreciate the way being broken into 16ths, 8ths, 4trs, and halves really worked well for hands on practical things. Unfortunately, I had
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by grawprog 6y ago
Yet try and make any reference to the Disney version in your own production and see how fast the C&D's show up. On that note, check out the Popeye version of the Aladdin and the magic lamp story. If you've ever read the origin
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by grawprog 6y ago
Our current copyright laws do nothing hut stagnate human creativity. As much as people like to believe they're creative geniuses, most creations tend to be based on previous creations. Just look at the majority of popular music between
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by grawprog 6y ago
I didn't find that aspect of Dark Souls too tense or stressful, maybe because I'd played salt and sanctuary and Hollow Knight first and was used to it. Dark Souls did have some good creepy moments though. The first time entering t
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by grawprog 6y ago
Even 8chan had some level of editorial judgement, however small it was. It was there.
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by grawprog 6y ago
This >(at the moment, this Hacker News squib has resulted in a veritable tsunami of Klein bottle orders -- over a dozen -- and I'm getting kinda backlogged. Looks like I'll be working tonight & tomorrow. And it's my tu
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by grawprog 6y ago
So, when they develop full body suit versions of these, i'm guessing society ends? Who woulda thought, not climate change, global war, massive upheavel, nope, just everyone trapped in their own personal pleasure suit until they waste a
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by grawprog 6y ago
Pretty much, it's also vague and ambiguous to begin with. My first question even just seeing it was, work with what? Being HN, I figured it to be something related to programming or something rather just a general acknowledgement that
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by grawprog 6y ago
I agree with this. I read the top comments before the article and went in totally expecting someone just dismissing books as useless, by the end though, I got the same takeaway as you, the author was stating the need to immerse yourself in
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by grawprog 6y ago
This was the high profile one a few months ago. https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/23/21078989/rocket-league-ma...
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by grawprog 6y ago
I've barely been able to have conversations with people in public since this started. I couldn't even imagine having to try and date during all this.
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by grawprog 6y ago
Well sure, I just mean, I dunno, I guess what i'm trying to say is, 'he who casts the first stone, 'pots calling the kettle black'...'don't dish it if you can't take it'...etc.
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by grawprog 6y ago
>Moreover, Russian attempts to manipulate the 2016 election As a non American, I always found this Russian manipulation stuff funny. America has no problem manipulating elections in other countries, overthrowing elected leaders with poli
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by grawprog 6y ago
>A friend operates one at a granite shop. They use a software that maps the surface and then uploads it to a webapp that lets the customer choose the pattern layout. That would have been pretty cool. One of the biggest holdups to our sch
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by grawprog 6y ago
We had a waterjet at the granite shop we worked at for cutting stone slabs. Even after years of working there, I'd still just sit and stare at it sometimes fascinated. That thing was always a hassle with maintenance though and sometime
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by grawprog 6y ago
>if a Steam monopoly would have been any better for consumers and developers. Well steam runs on and is actively supported on linux, Epic takes games that used to support linux then removes linux support and makes the games exclusive to
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by grawprog 6y ago
Hell I seen one yesterday that was only 'accept' or 'subscribe to newsletter' with the 'not accept' being linked to the 'cancel' button of the subscribe to newsletter popup. Which you had to click int
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by grawprog 6y ago
I've had them. My grandma would buy them sometimes when we were kids. I don't really like them. They're kinda like frozen processed chicken nuggets with a fishy flavour and a softer inside texture.
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by grawprog 6y ago
>If Epic prevails, it pretty much wrecks the idea behind contract law TOS's have already wrecked the idea of contract law. A contract isn't a one sided agreement forced upon people with arbitrary changes allowed at any time by
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by grawprog 6y ago
When I was doing consulting for small websites, data work and programming through craigslist, much like the original article. I charged $35/h with a minimum one hour charge. This was 6 or 7 years ago and at the time, I wasn't rea
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by grawprog 6y ago
So why has nuclear waste become a thing that's not mentioned anymore? It was a pretty big thing in the 90's, now it seems to get brushed under the rug for all this 'safe' nuclear power marketing. It's mot just meltd
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by grawprog 6y ago
Yeah to agree with you and the parent commenter, salvia's not fun. It's interesting, but not fun. It can be fairly terrifying and i'm not a big fan of the body feeling. It's certainly not something you start craving or w
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by grawprog 6y ago
I've never tried DMT, though it's something I'd like to try. I did have an experience with entities and salvia though. I've smoked it a few times and there was always things there...it always felt like to them I was an a

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