isleyaardvark

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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
That dynamic is essential to any stable democracy.
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
The crashed tie episode was part of the larger theme in the series to show the progression/evolution of the Rebellion over the years (and why there was the reveal that it took place on Yavin). That said I agree the execution could&#x27
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
I love how there are a lot of reflections in windows, makes it look more real.
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
It's the first "prestige" Star Wars TV show.
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
For most cases I think that would be correct, but I will say if I am looking at my ATM withdrawals for a trip I made to San Francisco, I would like the time shown to be the SF time and not that of my local hometown, and vice versa if I&#x27
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
The problem with that is you lose the localtime information, which you may want. Say you have recorded the localtime with the known UTC offset of 0, and that localtime is midnight UTC. Now you want to map it back to a localtime in the past.
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
The reason he got in trouble in the first place was when it turned out he didn't have that money.
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
There are plenty of people whose driving purpose is to make money go up.
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
It's the same reason it has been since the judgement, Epic violated the TOS so Apple removed Fortnite. The court found for Apple on that count, and has never ordered Fortnite's reinstatement. Tim Sweeney is using language in a way
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
The NYT itself uses the dark patterns for cancellation that would be forbidden by this rule.
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
Often enough that I am truly shocked to hear someone say they have never needed it.
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by isleyaardvark 1y ago
Don't forget lawyers who are worried their clients will ask them to do something illegal and don't want to be involved with that, even to reject it.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
For anyone unaware, the domain 'example.com' is specifically reserved for the purpose of testing, so you don't have to worry about some rando reading emails sent to "test@gmail.com"
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Normally there are rules regarding how long an emergency can last. This is why, I kid you not, the Republican controlled Congress declared there are no more calendar days in this session of Congress. Every day is March 11. So they'll l
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
The Guardian has had the most consistent "no bullshit" headlines of any news org nowadays.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
I stand corrected, thank you.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
People often say there is no contradiction by looking at it on a philosophical level, but it's interesting to look at it at a more meta level, namely the fact that Rand felt she needed SS. https://www.snopes.com/fact-
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
I don't think steelmanning an argument works if the argument is made in bad faith. Steelmanning should be about trying to understand legitimate reasons for a positions, not bullshit arguments. About being fair and intellectually honest
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Earlier than the first term. "The fever will break": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBvoG7pBc1A
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
"by small businesses", and large businesses, and businesses like ad agencies that specialize in data collection and tracking.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
There's a difference between cosmetic dentistry (teeth whitening and the like) and regular dental health.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Maybe now that’s a factor, but this has been a problem with FE development for many years, well before these influencers showed up.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Is this not addressed in the article? It mentions how the Greeks and Romans were fans of eating pig and discusses at length how that became a point of friction between those societies.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
Well only ancient Jewish priests, in this case. Priests who only give the reason that the pig “has hooves and does not chew its cud" for the ban, instead of pointing out a pattern between diet and illness that people could supposedly d
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
It’s wrong on the same level of “The central message of Buddhism is not ‘every man for himself’, Otto!”
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
I’d add that I follow that approach because the optimizers are more likely to optimize readable code than weird hacks.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
The movie pretty explicitly has Lawrence trying to deal with these split loyalties and has him specifically aware that the result of his actions as a British officer end up screwing over his Arab allies. Not to mention the scene where he tr
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
> to give your component "semantic" meaning according to their content. This is one of the biggest pros for Tailwind, is that it leads people away from this misbegotten mindset. The scare quotes around "semantic" are
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
> and if I'm stalking an ex then fire and sue me. I agree that's really frustrating but that's probably the worst example you could use. Real "can't unring that bell" stuff.
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by isleyaardvark 2y ago
He’s so good in it, and its treatment of masculinity was interesting. Best read after seeing it: https://filmschoolrejects.com/night-moves-neo-noir/

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