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by jahnu 3y ago
1) They are not government economists, it’s an independent body. 2) With increased tax revenue from billionaires a government could choose to reduce the tax burden of non billionaires and keep total taxation the same.
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Haha I didn’t notice that before
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Excuse me, you dropped this -> l
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Reminds me of this story https://www.wired.com/2007/04/canadian-psycho/
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Sometimes getting a contribution into a FOSS project is more difficult than proving your application will halt.
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Vice seem to be the only ones who took note: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kg5d/major-tech-investor-c...
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You can't record system audio without extra software and configuration that is not trivial to set up. It's not an option for the average user.
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by jahnu 3y ago
Yeah I’m aware of Blackhole but honestly these sorts of hacks are fine for me a software engineer but not for regular users which is what trivially easy means to me. There is no good reason it’s not possible in Quicktime to record the syste
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by jahnu 3y ago
Ok thanks. Still not as trivially easy as it should be then :(
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Is it easy to do on macOS if system sound is needed to demonstrate the bug?
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by jahnu 3y ago
I followed the links on a couple of these and they were not the last comments and the users are not currently banned it seems.
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by jahnu 3y ago
Latest Mindscape episode might interest you. https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/10/02/252-...
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by jahnu 3y ago
For reference: > Attosecond pulses: Flashes of light that last only a few billionths of a billionth of a second. In one attosecond, light covers a distance of 0.3 nanometers (one nanometer is one millionth of a millimeter). This correspo
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Will Musk’s Starlink satellites lead to Kessler syndrome?(bigthink.com)
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by jahnu 3y ago
Depends. Am I being hired with the power to change things?
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And they don't even properly honour default browser settings for the other WebKit browsers they allow. There are many instances of this; E.g. make Brave your default browser. Then select a word or phrase in a page in this browser, then
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by jahnu 3y ago
Sheep grazing also strips the land bare of deep and complex vegetation upending whole ecosystems. Perhaps in a futile or misguided gesture I try to keep my consumption of lamb to an occasional treat rather than a regular thing.
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I love lamb too but my love for it is heavily tempered by its extreme environmental impact :(
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> stock with no dividend and with only a speculative future value are always a trap Berkshire Hathaway paid a dividend once. 50 years ago.
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Well Newton was seriously into alchemy so you never can tell.
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I absolutely adored the psychedelic stylings of the pinball number count as a kid and still do. The kids tv stuff from that era even in conservative Ireland was well weird and funky. Check out the into to this mainstay of children’s tv I gr
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by jahnu 3y ago
The main reason I aim for (2) is that I want to be able to drive my build locally if and when GitHub is down, and I want to be able to migrate away easily if I ever need to. I think of it like this: I write scripts (as portable as possible)
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by jahnu 3y ago
It’s extremely cruel but as you saw people can be resilient. The artist TransFatty made a very moving, sad, brilliant, and even funny documentary about his experience being diagnosed with ALS. https://m.imdb.com/title/t
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Yeah somewhat like the “moron in a hurry” standard. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_moron_in_a_hurry
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I wish we developed a culture of managed retreat. This change is an opportunity to consolidate some villages and remove old ones letting the land re-wild. We can better serve the needs of people when clustered closer together than spread th
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by jahnu 3y ago
This animated projection of their population pyramid shows the future quite neatly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Population_pyramid_of_Jap... Used on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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Check out how massive the subsidy difference is https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/18/gigantic...
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If only we subsidised this as much as we subside meat production. Or perhaps subsidise nothing. Either way it’s not yet a level playing field.
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“Germany’s Lake Constance” Switzerland and Austria might like a word ;)
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by jahnu 3y ago
Same. The previous company I worked for we went all in on UWP for our Windows SDK. An almost complete waste of time as Microsoft failed to deliver on their promises.

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