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by ilammy 5y ago
The point being: you're supposed to grow up eventually.
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> What's the biggest hurdle when trying to refactor the code? I'd guess it's updating cross-references in prose and rewriting chapters of documentation which no longer make sense after your refactoring.
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> you can not enjoy that right unless you have a car Most of the people were born with a pair of legs, which they can use to enjoy their natural freedom. A car is still a privilege for those, even if economics “require” them to own one
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by ilammy 5y ago
The age might very well be correlation, not causation. Wealthy 50-years-olds having their firstborns, then promptly leaving them vast inheritance — boom! you get “successful” children merely because they got quite a boost. Meanwhile, you do
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by ilammy 5y ago
I think woodruffw meant that the conflict in the Old World might be spearheaded by those people who still have a romantic infatuation by war, which has been steadily declining since like WW1 but manages to hold on in some capacity to these
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by ilammy 5y ago
> Besides, seizing property is better than more violence. Also, governments can un-seize property back after a while. It's not like this stuff gets immediately liquidated and funneled into defense spending or disaster relief or wh
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by ilammy 5y ago
> when you pass some threshold [...] then it should escalate up to 99% Why stop at 100%? Assuming it is okay to put a cap on how much wealth and income a person can have, it should be sensible to have marginal tax rate higher than 10
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by ilammy 5y ago
It's a risk management thing. If the company folds or has bad times, it would suck to lose both your job and a significant part of your investments. For that reason, you should not treat your company stock as more special, more safe,
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by ilammy 5y ago
Thankfully, Article 9 is still in Japan's constitution, so it's very unlikely that any action would happen. Just rolling back to pre-2018 status quo, before Japan was seemingly willing to resolve the dispute at last.
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> If Putin flattens a major European city, the outrage in Europe will be huge. Ukraine is not in NATO. And I'm afraid if NATO and EU have to choose between a direct military confrontation of nuclear-capable powers and a genocide o
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by ilammy 5y ago
It's about civilian population not accidentally leaking intel through their personal twitter. Of course, official propaganda of any county at war would highlight wins and dim the losses, if anything but for morale purposes.
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> Even the craziest shitheads like the Taliban and North Korea won’t do it. Never base military decisions on what the enemy would do, rather than what they could do. Granted, your personal coping approach is not such a decision, bu
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In this case, the prod is posted from an account that was created a minute before.
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> I wonder if the Ukrainians could try to make it super easy and somewhat attractive for Russian soldiers to defect. That's what they constantly calling for: surrender if you're in the action. It's very attractive when t
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by ilammy 5y ago
Even if they do this cosmetic change now, take effort deal with silly regressions and reeducating users, it will still take quite some time for people to stop parroting in every thread about $newfs, that it's about “$newfs, previously
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by ilammy 5y ago
> it does not take place on 2022-12-25 00:00:00 through 2022-12-25 11:59:59 Wait, what did you do to the other 12 hours of the day? Oh. Time is hard.
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by ilammy 5y ago
Yes. And carb passes that you need to flash in bar, restaurants, shops to purchase anything edible or imbibible. Plus a mandatory diet check every 4 months, or else you are not allowed to work in a society. Want to eat whatever you want? Go
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by ilammy 5y ago
Of course, you have to test your code. But testing is not a good way to demonstrate absence of unknown bugs and incompatibilities. You don’t know that an unknown issue exist until you have a test that exercises that particular code path
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by ilammy 5y ago
Want to break your mental model about the real world? Try overlapping polarization filters, get puzzled why the center spot stays brighter than surroundings as you add more filters.
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https://archive.fo/z8wbO
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by ilammy 5y ago
15.3B in profit on 426B investment is 3.6% yield, and that's over 6 years. US inflation alone between 2008 and 2014 was about 10%.
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Arch and Ubuntu are just layers of complexity on top of a very simple concept – install and configure some packages. apt and nix are just layers of complexity on top of a very simple concept – copy and edit some files. Files and directories
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> Everyone wanted a piece of the block reward pie, so the arms race was created. And that's intentional – getting people pursue the goal for their own egoistic reasons, because that's bound to succeed. As a result, they all i
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> Is there an approach you can choose early in a project on that prevents ever getting in trouble later? 1. Never accept outside contributions in principle. Works fine for SQLite, for example. 2. Pick a well-known copyleft license and
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> Is that considered a feature rather than a bug? It's a policy choice. Using Gemtext and Gemini makes you acutely aware of limitations, so eventually you either stop using it, or start enjoying it, with most of Gemtext readers sh
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> For Japanese readers: in the United States, when you get your statement, you can pay in full, in which case you will not be charged interest, or you can pay any amount less than full but more than a specified minimum payment, in which
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by ilammy 5y ago
I find the original article more readable with JS disabled.
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So, a more verbose (or less terse) syntax for troff?
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I didn't mean it in a negative way. I've never lived is US so what do I know. Just suggesting a reason for why people might want credit cards. But you have a point with circularity and arbitrarity. Credit is basically about trust,
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Compare and contrast this with military spending. Arguably, all of it is pure waste since you wouldn't need it in the first place if people weren't using violence as a means to resolve conflict. And yet here we are, so states have

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