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by jbm 2y ago
> now faces interest payments on debt following its sale to Roark and can’t afford to have declining earnings, sources said Is this another leveraged buyout? When are they going to make that illegal? You can't even do that in a ga
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Yes, I see a lot of this sort of comment wrt to phones too. IE: People love the iPhone 13 mini — and it is immediately discontinued for low sales.
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> I don't think it takes any particular self control to just cut sweeteners of both the natural and artificial kind out It does.
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If you don't stimulate the identity politics bug, for some reason, the idea that the victim is a real person with real rights that were permanently stolen vanishes into the wind, like passed gas that we all politely pretend never happe
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> Not sure why this is being posted now I was doing something in lang chain and it told me that I had to import ffmpeg or avconv. I had never heard of the latter, and it wound up taking me down this rabbit hole. Like you said, the latte
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The FFmpeg/Libav situation (2012)(blog.pkh.me)
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> As an author of books, I can tell you this just prevents me and other authors from creating new books. I am not impressed by the quality of literature I get from people who are purely fiscally motivated.
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This is a legal semantic argument so you're right; but giving books away for free is of far greater charitable value than most legal charities. I think the eventual historical lesson we will learn 100 years in the future is that "
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> American Bar Association I mentioned them, not the Federalist society. Literally cannot understand where the reddit style purposeful rereading of my comment came from, but ok.
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My experience is that people attack experts incessantly when it conflicts with their politics. (Think: Anti-vaxxers attacking the medical system). In my experience they may raise good points, but those are usually tangential to the matter
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> Brown was unanimously rated well-qualified by the American Bar Association.[23] If the experts are fine with her, on what basis should we normies be concerned?
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In my case, because it crashes incessantly and its apps are all web applications bundled for a platform. None of them perform well. It is somehow worse than mIRC and I used that 30 years ago.
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Yes, the top radical is for drops of rain but the i inclusion of the bottom part has a meaning that clearly aligns with spirit, especially when you see the rare kanji that use it as a component. I only was curious as it was part of another
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Nah, I want it. I use it all the time to do things like translate obscure Kanji and learn more about certain religious texts. For example: https://chatgpt.com/share/4a31c79b-a380-4fa0-9808-8145e3cfb4... LLMs are very
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Definitely before that; The Transformers had a lot of their work done in their 3rd season by Korean Studios and that was 86.
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"Boeing is on the verge of Bankruptcy" Come on, this is like those American videos about how China is about to collapse at any second.
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The look at his old desktop hit hard ( https://brainbaking.com/post/2020/11/desktop-screenshots-of-... ). I recently switched back to Ubuntu, but I was using Regolith with a similar look for a while and I love
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I loved his book (the Humane Interface). I even used ideas from it to create RFPs for a client, and was able to better critique ideas. Not having modes is still a big deal for me. Getting lost in menus and "not being able to get back
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Thanks for the share. I took a look but it still seems to be pretty light on details. https://apwu.org/news/new-research-shows-potential-postal-ba... This seems to be the main thing I could find in a quick search. I a
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> How to Defeat It Apparently this is by creating unions and a postal bank. I have no idea how we get from here to there, I wish they had concentrated on that.
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Ah, my in-laws are in Yamanashi and I will never forget when they took me to the vineyard and I was randomly shocked to find out how much the grapes cost.. (They are very good though)
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Japan was seen as expensive when I first moved there; my rent there was certainly higher than it would have been in Canada at the time (Circa 2008). Also, it's hard to directly compare stuff on shelves to what we have here. For exampl
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This anecdotally back ups what I was seeing when I visited the US. Groceries and food (in general) was surprisingly more expensive in New Hampshire and Vermont than Calgary where I live (which is not a low COL area in Canada). I cannot und
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Tesla is run like shit but I don't trust "climate protestors" who storm an ev battery plant before oil / coal manufacturing. It's like a vegan fighting with a vegetarian while someone next door is hunting elephants
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On the contrary, I wish this was dismissive. It's about time that the Overton window gets shifted about the overly nostalgic articles that get praised by "the right people", which means we need to "read the room" an
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Japan had deflation and as a normal person it was great. Less people got rich off the stock market casino though
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Surprisingly, I read a book that had information about the pay for spies, albeit in the Mossad. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/By_Way_of_Deception Interesting book about how the Israelis infiltrated Iraq's nuclear
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Do you really want direct democracy in the era of fake news and low trust society? It seems to be a recipe for disaster. Say what you want about King Charles, he at least made the effort to try to talk sense to Trump without public posturin
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Yup, but they are also basically powering solar power everywhere. Hence the "if"; my hope is that their elite is not married to fossil fuels like the economic elites in the US and Canada. We'll have to wait and see
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Everytime I hear a local complain about third world emissions, and local small minded politicians mirror that, I start to feel that democracy is a failed experiment. What really irks me is that, if China succeeds in decarbonization while Ca

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