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by jancsika 3y ago
Not sure what the problem is. "Ancient" is a no-brainer, and both "Bacchanalian" and "rites" seem perfectly doable for a trained historian.
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Up a level: why were "activists" protesting Cop City at all? I thought "more training" was the thing people were always agitating for. If this is an honest question, it must be coming from a lack of knowledge about
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by jancsika 3y ago
> And then if you're wrong about those things, reflect on what led you to be more certain than you should have been and try to prevent it from happening again. This is counterproductive for people who have a fear of being wrong, w
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by jancsika 3y ago
That sounds like a great slogan for a kinky dating web site. It's relevant because good sex probably has a diminishing effect on polarization between the participants. Or in some encounters, among the participants. :) I offer into ev
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by jancsika 3y ago
> (e.g. sad neighbors make neighbors sad) I much prefer, "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy." At least in that case nobody will confuse a trucker hat slogan for a viable system of ethics.
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by jancsika 3y ago
It was a troll. Suppose I've already sunk my money into a "special" thing and find out it lacks some bog standard goodness. Perhaps it was even designed to lack this goodness. I might reflexively ask, "Does anyone ac
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by jancsika 3y ago
Given the history of the diamond trade I'm fairly sure the slope slips in the other direction!
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by jancsika 3y ago
They're just 9% away from giving 110%. Good hustle!
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by jancsika 3y ago
Sure, with your 3.0+ devices you never need to think about speed, as you say. But how often do you really need to never think about speed? Apple is an enormous company with the best engineers in the business. So I trust they are deliverin
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Don’t tell me these tactics don’t work. I'd like to see a citation they do work. E.g., something tells me "preventative" unreported domestic violence would rise. If the increase is high enough it could easily be argued
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Unless they are operating outside of the law, I don't fault "Big Tobacco" or any "Big Business" for, you know, operating a business. Aside from concerns about memory safety, I don't get the criticism of C
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by jancsika 3y ago
Unfortunately for you, we live in the world where "socialist" anything is the work of evildoers in the minds of many older Americans. So you're going to have to choose a different word if you want to be not only understood bu
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by jancsika 3y ago
Is there a fantasy map of the U.S. with mass transit lines and associated cost? Hell, I'd even love to look at such a fantasy map for Atlanta, GA where Marta is built out throw all that crazy Atlantan sprawl...
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by jancsika 3y ago
Why GrapheneOS and not, say, a stock Iphone?
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by jancsika 3y ago
Reworded slightly: If you're poor enough, the US government won't punish you for relying on an older car.
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by jancsika 3y ago
And don't forget thwarting timing attacks from the bazillion cameras aimed at roadways. Plus satellites. If the car cannot defend against such basic attacks then you're best walking alone under cover of the trees, whispering your
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by jancsika 3y ago
This is the thing I keep trying to remind people about when people complain about how much energy Bitcoin uses. Just think about how much energy is used by the U.S. government to maintain fiat. It's wild that people want to focus the p
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Which one of these statements is more probable? I wonder if the error is more probable when there are no stakes. For example, suppose aliens have captured Linda. They will only return her if you choose the description of her which has
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by jancsika 3y ago
> I'm wondering if humans are mostly incapable of producing great things without (artifical) restrictions. I think the real issue is that there isn't a program language that produces a compiler error if the given code can excee
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by jancsika 3y ago
> And yet HIPAA is often cited to me over the phone as the reason why we can't seem to get incorrect bills figured out for my dependents. That's actually a great reason to refrain from discussing someone else's medical dat
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by jancsika 3y ago
> McDonald's wants a machine that's so brain-dead simple to use safely and keep sanitarily that even a new-hire with 5 minutes of training can operate it effectively. They get that by forcing standardization on one unit and one
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by jancsika 3y ago
> * Consumers despite "Least common denominator" which is often the result of "design by committee". Usually consumers are after something niche, unique, artistic, and creative, which is the inspiration or vision of a
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by jancsika 3y ago
Replying to my own comment because I just can't get over how ingenious this is. On HN we're used to FOSS devs acting quickly when, say, a proposed or implemented license change turns project X into project X'. Upon reading th
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by jancsika 3y ago
This is brilliant. Instead of saving on labor costs by pretending your employees are contractors like Uber and friends, they go in the opposite direction. You're not a contractor, or even an employee, but an owner . Just imagine how b
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by jancsika 3y ago
> but no one is being forced to scroll a feed they don’t enjoy On what do you base this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Zero breathability (just like Gore-Tex in practice!) but because designers know this, they have excellent vents added, with waterproof zippers to close in extreme weather. That's not a distinction. Most Gore-tex or similar proprie
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by jancsika 3y ago
Looks like the Tetris pieces aren't aligned to the canvas pixel grid, causing unnecessary antialiasing. This causes the piece borders to look eternally blurry. To fix it, you should add a "cleaning cloth" app that the user ca
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by jancsika 3y ago
Someone got rightly flagged for making a call for vigilantism. I'd like to respond to them in a non-flagged comment. To the person apparently so frustrated that they were brainstorming vigilantism-- I'd suggest first at least tryi
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by jancsika 3y ago
An open research problem isn't what I'd call a great alternative. Both the history of takedowns of large private music trackers and the current state of Sci-hub show that nobody knows how to build such a thing.

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