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by harry8 3y ago
Sure but total focus on the amusing side of it, the perceived insult does not register. Australians in general don't feel at all bad about whatever australian culture comprises as compared with European or American. Stupid caricature i
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by harry8 3y ago
Once upon a time being sensitive was perceived as a good thing. As opposed insensitive. "Have you always managed to avoid being insensitive about X?"
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by harry8 3y ago
>zero connection with (or operation within) Australia https://outbacksteakhouse.com.au/locations/
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by harry8 3y ago
If by "pretty certain" you mean "not remotely certain" then sure. Empathy is a thing. I am having empathy with your lack of it and seeing how it could be due to your good health right now and lack of exposure to disease
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by harry8 3y ago
Time machine with netatalk, I use the technique described here: https://palvelimet.net/1116/ Took about 5 minutes, Works for me.
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by harry8 3y ago
>An early 20's guy who follow these basic recommendations can be pretty certain to have a pretty nice quality of life. This is both delusional and horrible in the sense of being victim blaming. No amount of eating healthy and doing
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by harry8 3y ago
Stupid people don't understand risk and do dangerously rushed jobs: study The headline writing is known to be idiotic here (including mine) and everywhere. Article content is no better. I can get nothing else from this.
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by harry8 3y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8126311/how-much-of-what... Discussion of it in slightly more modern context, worth looking at.
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by harry8 3y ago
> Shortening it to just Apple may confuse people wanting to buy apples. Or fans of Lennon, McCartney, Harrison & Starr who definitely had "Apple" as their corporate name first.
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by harry8 3y ago
The ones that don't seem very tasty don't become targets of predators? All of these things are ridiculously gendered. s/men/women/g and it's the same. Likewise same sex relationships. And there are as many diff
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by harry8 3y ago
The point is that the n900 was Gnu/Linux with glibc like mama said was good for you and worked along very similar lines to your desktop machine. Maemo was gtk+ based and many Gnome applications ran really nicely. Eg Gnumeric was great.
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by harry8 3y ago
The Nokia N900 made short work of all of that on all carriers in this country a decade ago. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N900
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by harry8 3y ago
Reminder whenever this comes up that the Nokia N900 was a beautiful, functional thing running linux and Free software 10 years ago. No really. Best phone I've ever owned. Better than apple or android. It's loss was immense.
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by harry8 3y ago
I can see how you'd think this if you thought that the FSF's role was to "speak." I think of the FSF as doing something entirely different and the work that it does is valuable in and of itself and also, in addition, ena
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by harry8 3y ago
Assange, Manning and Snowden was a huge focus of Ellsberg's work for the past 15 years or so. Basically every time he appeared in the paper he was opining on that subject and for many of us it's how we first heard of him. You woul
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by harry8 3y ago
Taibbi pays bank fees. And tax. And his isp. And for stationary. And substack to provide his cms and payment gateway. He is the customer in /all/ of those transactions. There is no credible claim of substack trying to influence wr
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by harry8 3y ago
Sure But 1) Russian had nothing to do with Hunter's laptop and his Jared-Kushner-Roger-Stone level sleaze. A level of sleaze we consider normal because "But them! They do it! They're worse and they hate us." Repubs and D
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by harry8 3y ago
smartphones started out as a gimmick, neat fun toy, barely worth it. I never saw needing one to run an app deal with the government, for example. .. Smart home now is not smart home in 5 years is not smart home in 10. You could still be cor
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by harry8 3y ago
Sibling comment is flagged and should not be. Would be interesting to know the process and details that led to that.
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by harry8 3y ago
Taibbi is paid by his subscribers. The end. He's not influenced by the vendors of his pen or his pc or any of his other suppliers. Each of those supplier companies has owners and nobody need care. If substack the company don't lik
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by harry8 3y ago
I'm old enough to remember when any journalist who didn't check their facts wasn't worth reading for anything beyond entertainment value. P.J. O'Rouke would need someone to do the work for him. Sy Hersh, not so much. I
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by harry8 3y ago
Yes. And this is not the first time I've heard this. Eg mobile phones. Then everyone else does it and you can't exist in the world without it unless you pay a huge penalty. No smartphone is really tough to pull off nowadays so all
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by harry8 3y ago
Is that really fair? 100% leaves no room for sheer incompetence and laziness. (Not all... etc)
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by harry8 3y ago
I guess that means my favourite myth that I've done it. Get the os out of the way, cpu pinning, user level network stack, no system calls after setup, lay out all your memory carefully in a cache line aware fashion noting the virtual a
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by harry8 3y ago
sibling comment is flagged and really should not be.
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by harry8 3y ago
You didn't want to because nobody made that claim perhaps? I do it when i want to. So do Dave and Mary. Abby is a professor who takes a professional interest in it as it pertains to X. And so on. It's open, anyone can. Anytime you
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by harry8 3y ago
Oh come on. Seriously. No. Come on. If we're discussing Freddy De Boer this is relevant. He was on that deal. Which they won't renew and can't easily withdraw fwiw. Kinda different to being fired by Rupert Murdoch. Or having
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by harry8 3y ago
>I paraphrased you No. And I hope the clarification is understood. The difference is between trusting that a system of checks and balances is required and trusting some particular implementation of something calling itself a system, with
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by harry8 3y ago
>I think trusting in our system of checks and balancees No. A thousand times no. No damn way. Don't trust, observe, verify. That is the /whole/ point of it. Like really, all of it. Compromising that system is the first hur
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by harry8 3y ago
I'm not "admitting" anything nobody claimed. >The claim that the funding doesn't come from a "billionaire owned outlet" doesn't really track if you look at the investors[0] in Substack. That's your

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