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by istjohn 6y ago
No, but Brave has adblocking built in.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Who decided this at YouTube? What's their name? They weren't elected and they have no accountability to society for making decisions in our best interest. The WHO states that healthy people should "only wear a mask if [they]
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by istjohn 6y ago
We had this debate 250 years ago and decided that society is better off with free expression than with someone deciding what speach is and is not OK. It seems to have worked out pretty damn well so far. If we are going to change course, the
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by istjohn 6y ago
We could have antitrust enforcement that prevents companies like Alphabet and Facebook from becoming so dominant in our society, but if we are going to have such dominant corporations, we cannot allow unbridled censorship of speach on their
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by istjohn 7y ago
Counter-example: "You may not print that--the President doesn't like dad jokes."
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by istjohn 7y ago
Anki and mnemonics are complementary tools. Use them both.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Anki usage is huge in medical school [1]. There are a handful of huge premade decks students drill hours a day. I think flashcards are hugely underrated for software developers. Memorization is commonly dismissed as unnecesary when we have
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by istjohn 7y ago
Nice! I made a similar thing for myself, but without nearly as much polish as your project [1]. I use a custom text file format to allow creation of cloze deletions and reversible cards as well as basic cards. I also annotate text files on
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by istjohn 7y ago
That's a false choice.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Interestingly, the submitted article finds the opposite. According to it, masks are more useful when worn by healthy people than when worn by sick people.
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by istjohn 7y ago
My understanding is that the illness will be more severe if the patient was exposed to a higher viral load.
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by istjohn 7y ago
I recently discovered the "watch" command. With an autosave plugin in Vim, I can put some "print()" statements in my code and run "watch python3 mycode.py" in a small Tmux pane to get nearly instant feedback as
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by istjohn 7y ago
Which terminal lets you do that?
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by istjohn 7y ago
"real French" "the kind [of] people that loot trains" As littlestymaar points out, this sounds an awful lot like dog-whistling.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Not to mention the societal costs incurred by failing to provide mental health services to everyone.
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by istjohn 7y ago
You can usually get around paywalls using http://archive.is
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by istjohn 7y ago
Which is here: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/02/lambda-schools-job-p...
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by istjohn 7y ago
I 100% agree that there are horribly misguided policies pushed by many progressives that do more harm than good. An overly aggressive minimum wage would be devastating to underskilled or undervalued workers. Rent control is a disaster. Mark
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by istjohn 7y ago
Lawsuits are part of doing business, just like taxes and accounting.
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by istjohn 7y ago
So because you made it despite the odds everyone else has to live or die in a Mad Max free-for-all?
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by istjohn 7y ago
Immoral is forcing thousands of people to live on the streets in squalor because people don't like change. No one is calling for Grandma to be evicted. Property taxes for residents could be allowed to accumulate unpaid until sale or tr
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by istjohn 7y ago
And the people who did get in often approach the problem as, "yeah, screw them, I got mine." So we have two groups who have countervailing interests. But of course the property owners have more money--and also time, education, soc
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by istjohn 7y ago
It goes to show that housing is a national issue that needs national solutions. We need federal legislation.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Because the great value of cities lies in the network effects that arise when hundreds of thousands of people live and work in the same neighborhoods. Ideas cross-polinate, spawn, and mutate creating wealth. And the value produced by a city
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by istjohn 7y ago
Turn off your JS and upvote something. It becomes substantially less pleasant.
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by istjohn 7y ago
Simulating r/StonerPhilosophy[1] Post: Do we live in a simulation? Comment: I just realized, we are a simulation, and we are a simulated simulation. Comment: We're all in a simulation. We're still here. We're all in this
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by istjohn 7y ago
In Ohio, most schools permit open enrollment, but virtually none of the school districs surrounding the major metropolitan areas do. Coincidentally, while there are plenty of poor children in both rural and urban areas in Ohio, it is only
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by istjohn 7y ago
Basing policy on 99.99 percentile sized families would certainly be odd.
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by istjohn 7y ago
You can read about his tech stack here[1]. Curiously, his "About" page loads fine. He is using a Django REST API with DynamoDB and the "whole site is hosted serverlessly on AWS Lambda." 1. lucassimpson.com/about&#x2
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by istjohn 7y ago
Most asylum seekers do show up to for their court dates. https://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2018/jun/26...

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