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by jancsika 3y ago
> Treating all these scenarios as a single thing that you can hold a single, consistent opinion about suggests to me a lack of familiarity with its wide spectrums along multiple dimensions. I'll give it a shot: in all these scenario
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> Also those blobs are often targeted at specific kernel versions, so in 2 years when the upstream vendors stop releasing updated blobs, then it no longer becomes possible to upgrade the kernel, making it very very hard to keep last gen
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> I appreciate when authority originates from competence, and I am brutally introspective about my own areas of competence or lack there-of, and immediately submit and cede control if I encounter someone significantly more competent than
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> If we took all the money given out and gave it ONLY to those people such that they were mandated stay home and survive, however that needed to happen to ensure they avoided infection, imagine how different the would world be right now.
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by jancsika 3y ago
If early-21st-century ethos teaches us anything, it's the opposite. When life has no value, we can finally iterate effectively to achieve enlightenment : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DRJ-Wwj6_A NB: This guy beats
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> By presenting a mystery without any reason why else you might be interested other than the fact that it _might_ be a mystery. In the article, they claim it was a mystery and have a link to a previous story they published in September
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I just read the Wikipedia entry for "Clickbait." While one could technically derive a stark, bizarrely restrictive definition to be a link that requires one to click through to satisfy one's curiosity, any good faith readin
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In which which this article would be an exception to your claim. 1. Headline suggests an answer 2. Content of article delivers the actual answer 3. There are even links provided to previous articles showing that this had been a bona fid
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by jancsika 3y ago
To provide a helpful analogy: Suppose you want to get karma for a low-effort take on an engineering forum. If you say, for example, "academia is just like the mafia," the low-effort will be immediately recognized and down-voted. A
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It's too bad Crypto isn't blockchain-based. It would have scaled up much more slowly to fewer people.
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> Yes there are problems in America, but how many of those problems are the result of an apathetic, nihilistic American population and not the foundational systems America is built on? Excepting refugees, AFAICT U.S. immigration policy p
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by jancsika 3y ago
Activist became Social Justice Warrior. (Finally seems to be going away, though.) Nosy neighbor became A Karen. Being a trans ally/educator became groomer in some conservative circles. Liberal became libtard. In the past weeks, most mo
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Going further-- if the company depends on it, then the man already understands it.
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"Fast like this" means when you click on a video, the page loads header and footer, does a relayout to show a spinner, then another relayout to display the video (and possibly another relayout for video controls?) Reality is so la
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If Government Ran Youtube: This vital service is slow as hell, goes to show government never does anything right Current Youtube: Well obviously this vital service needs to be slow-as-hell because ads, what are you gonna fund it by donati
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> You'd have to desire to eat e.g. yogurt with added sugar over one without. So in your mind, there are alternative, inexpensive 6- and 12-packs of plain, unsugared yogurt sitting in national grocery chains, just waiting to be consu
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> have undue control of local government and politics Now, some facts: In North Carolina at least, the Council-Manager form of government provides that the police chief is hired/fired by the city manager-- who is hired/fired by
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> Here's an example of a USFF (ultra small form factor) for $110 - https://www.ebay.com/itm/325826958401 Hm... > No adapter is included. Needs 65W or above (most dell/hp laptops around the year it came
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by jancsika 3y ago
I'd bet once you start digging down into the details, having a brokerage account becomes less and less relevant as a metric for who can pay simple taxes. For example, how many of those respondents in the Gallup poll answered yes only b
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Apparently they had a psychiatrist character named Harvey Dorfman: Harvey: “Look, I’m Dr. Harvey Dorfman. I wrote the book Success Through Fear. [Audience laughs.]…I live in the South End, so perhaps I can help you. And I’m a psychologist,
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> If you didn’t, but saw the pilot of Park Street Under, you didn’t miss much. They were teeth-gnashingly similar. This is the head writer of Park Street Under. He's writing an article about the extent to which Cheers copied his s
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> Imagine laws requiring the firing teachers because they choose not buy Israeli shampoo or whatever at home. By all means, do not imagine laws in this case. Read about a law, a lawsuit, and an amended law that have already been
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> I can imagine that functional literacy would be aided by school programmes which encourage it, but the core technology of converting between words you say (or sign) and symbols in the world makes no sense as something you just hope the
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> I can imagine that functional literacy would be aided by school programmes which encourage it, but the core technology of converting between words you say (or sign) and symbols in the world makes no sense as something you just hope the
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Wasteful reference: x bags for customers, y boxes online, x + y = z Virtue signaling example: x bags received and delivered directly to landfill instead of to customer at checkout, y boxes online, x + y = z Apparent reality: 0 bags received
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> They're known for having a very open return policy Since 2013 it appears to be a one-year return policy. That's shorter than the warranty on most of their clothing brands (basically "forever" excepting long underwea
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by jancsika 3y ago
> getting Baumol's-cost-diseased out of affordability to the middle class Ok, I looked at the Wikipedia page for your gratuitously-verbed jargon. Wouldn't that phenomenon increase the wages of healthcare and education? In any
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by jancsika 3y ago
It could be true. Because if it were obviously untrue the headline would have read: Is the US transitioning to clean energy faster than we thought?
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> It's standard to use transcendental constants like pi or e for this purpose as you can't select them. If one may choose between one or the other without arousing suspicion, that's one bit of entropy. If I can add the pos
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In an alternate reality there's an equal but opposite HN quarterback: "Too much! I get sending a message with a small initial fine like 150k plus requiring a compliance plan, but this high amount is a step too far. Prepayment is

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