haroldp

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by haroldp 4y ago
> Oh and you think you are exceptional too. Of course. Everyone does. > Shall we go for the trifecta? Shall we put your notion in a historical context or no?
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by haroldp 4y ago
I think that is a fair line of reasoning. Most online forums have rules against doxing. Then again, most online forums have problems with anonymous users making false claims. Is wikipedia likewise complicit for publishing articles on nefar
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by haroldp 4y ago
But if you owned wikipedia, you feel it would be best to remove immoral things from it?
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by haroldp 4y ago
You may or may not be the irrational one. Would you like historical examples?
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by haroldp 4y ago
So immoral things should be excised from wikipedia?
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by haroldp 4y ago
> There's no such thing as "just words on the internet". Words express beliefs and intent. I take them seriously. How do you decide which words people should be allowed to read, and which words they should not be allowed t
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by haroldp 4y ago
Of course. The core idea behind zoning is limiting other's preferences. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village_of_Euclid_v._Ambler_Re... .
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by haroldp 4y ago
> YES, we as a society have decided that some forms of discourse are to be shunned. "We as the cultural elite have decided what you may read." > No one is confused about what kiwifarms stands for. This is demonstrably false.
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by haroldp 4y ago
Find restaurants that are celiac-safe. You may find it safer to pick cuisines that naturally don't include wheat, than to get the gluten-free option at a regular gluten-y restaurant.
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by haroldp 4y ago
Excellent analogy. And pretty much no one who advocates for allowing more flexible housing wants to forbid suburban single family detached homes. Buy that, if that's what you want. Just stop limiting everyone else to that.
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by haroldp 4y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/selfhosted/comments/eo77m1/is_there...
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by haroldp 4y ago
> English has no formalized second person plural, so you might use "y'all" or "everyone" as a kludge. It used to! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-problem-with-you/i...
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by haroldp 4y ago
One common pattern for this is the reason English has a comparatively simple grammar. English was learned in adulthood by a series of invaders (Vikings, Normans). Adults aren't very good at learning new languages so they tend to disc
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by haroldp 4y ago
> I've always thought that slashdot handled comment moderation the best. A limited number of daily moderation "points". A short list of moderation reasons. Meta-moderation.
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by haroldp 4y ago
Here's an archive of the FT piece to which the Vox article refers: https://archive.ph/pVrex Lots of additional detail.
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by haroldp 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mn4L_aJ1rV4&list=PLRZePj70B4...
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by haroldp 4y ago
There are lots of quality sailing channels that aren't about that.
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Graduated from that, not going back. :)
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by haroldp 4y ago
Wildlings is def not running on $5/day. They likely spend that little on food and rent (moorings). But they are for sure on the extreme end of cruising cheaply. I think they own four shirts, and have to share them. Their boat came w
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by haroldp 4y ago
Was kind of disappointed by Liz' comments like, > “People watch YouTubers and think sailing life is all about drinking rum and coconut water on deck,” she says. When I have have watched that exact crew persevere through so many incr
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by haroldp 4y ago
That kind of seems like the difference between top-down and bottom-up standards. MS added a weird extension to IE to support their proprietary webmail app, and... actually it was great so people wanted it pulled in to every browser as a st
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by haroldp 4y ago
I paid $97 in the US for my last optometrist visit to get a prescription at Costco, and about $50 for (ehem) "transition" lens glasses from zenni.com.
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by haroldp 4y ago
> it's just that every reactor needs to be playing it's A game every day. That is not necessarily true of modern reactor designs. Reactors can be designed so that neglect by the operators, loss of coolant and other failures re
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by haroldp 4y ago
Commerce between the States?
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by haroldp 4y ago
Por que no los dos? You can build a "real" restful API by returning HTML or JSON based on the request's suffix or HTTP-Accept value. Hit it with a web browser and get a nice "home page" that says, "This is m
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by haroldp 4y ago
I always took it that the point of the Trolly Problem was to demonstrate that moral problems can be difficult, or perhaps even inscrutable, in a way that confounds things like ethical clarity and consistency.
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by haroldp 4y ago
Sitting some years ago in the ancient tavern at Over, one afternoon in Spring, I was waiting, as was my custom, for something strange to happen. In this I was not always disappointed for the very curious leaded panes of that tavern, facing
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by haroldp 4y ago
Well we all pirated it, but I think actually I ended up paying for it in the end. I did spend some time on ShadowIRC. I have a vague recollection that that author hung out on Undernet and his website had an animated gif of the moon that I
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by haroldp 4y ago
Well now we are enemies! I was Anarchie over Fetch all the way. Really all of the Stairways Software apps were tops.
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by haroldp 4y ago
"Save early, save often!" As another respondent also remembered it, I would probably get less than one crash a day. Windows 95 had it's own (multifarious) problems. I was maintaining servers with years of uptime and defin

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