jfengel

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by jfengel 7mo ago
Stop trying to make fetch happen.
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by jfengel 7mo ago
There are many, many places of natural beauty. They've actually contained suburban sprawl better than the US. It doesn't have a lot of completely trackless zones the way the US does, but places like the Alps and the Scottish Highl
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by jfengel 7mo ago
I don't doubt that Netanyahu is the reason, but I can't see how this helps Israel expand. He didn't need to attack Iran to get to Lebanon. True, Iran would have helped Hezbollah if it weren't kept busy, but he's not
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by jfengel 7mo ago
If we get record heat in August, it could kill quite a few people.
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by jfengel 7mo ago
Why would they think that? Is it just that they like him because he's a conspiracy theorist, even if he's also in on this particular conspiracy?
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by jfengel 7mo ago
Correlation is not causation, but it would be nice to think that Hungarian voters recognize what a clusterf--- the US has become. It seems too optimistic to believe that this would get the EU to focus more clearly on Ukraine, and perhaps ev
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by jfengel 7mo ago
It took a long, concerted campaign to build up to this. This is a project that began in the late 80s, with roots even further back than that. It was more than just "a bunch of lies", but an entire parallel media ecosystem. Fox New
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by jfengel 7mo ago
It didn't make them worse. It solved one problem. That made the extent of the other existing problem more apparent. That was known and expected. We could not continue to put sulfur in the air; it causes acid rain. The fact that we also
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by jfengel 7mo ago
Depends on the term. Things had been kinda quiet for the last couple of decades. We continue involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan but didn't start new ones. We even pulled out of those by five years ago. So yes, definitely, we did a lot
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by jfengel 7mo ago
It really is too bad. He should have been a hero. The development and mass production of a new kind of vaccine, in less than a year, was an extraordinary accomplishment, and a big part of it was Trump's own Operation Warp Speed. All he
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by jfengel 7mo ago
We don't seem to be getting tired of it. I don't see this moving the needle among supporters of this administration. They may suffer a loss this November, but it won't be a massive repudiation. It will be a swing of just a fe
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by jfengel 7mo ago
Turns out Americans like corruption. Corruption is actually pretty compelling, when it makes you rich at the cost of somebody you consider "lesser". The US has always believed that might makes right, and that wealth is proof of yo
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by jfengel 7mo ago
Iran really would like to stop being bombed. That's why Trump was so convinced that they were the ones who would come begging. He's always convinced that his opponents will knuckle under to his overwhelming force (physical, econom
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by jfengel 7mo ago
I don't think Twitter is going to be the place where a revival of listening is going to start.
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by jfengel 7mo ago
Yet the story that unfolds afterward doesn’t really depict the normal functioning of business at all. Instead, it describes something much closer to what economists call the tragedy of the commons. The Tragedy of the Commons is the norm
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by jfengel 7mo ago
I don't think the comparison is entirely fair. There was never anything to NFTs. It was always a scam. Tesla builds actual cars. For a while, these cars were innovative, and the best of their class. Their price was based on a wildly op
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by jfengel 7mo ago
In this case, dealing with The Enemy is not only funding them, but lending your credibility. Maybe it would be worth it if, as you say, they are finding ways to reach non-supporters, but Twitter has been X for almost four years. If the EFF
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by jfengel 7mo ago
My BluRay player automatically upsamples DVDs. It's far from perfect but it looks pretty good most of the time. Not sure if that's common to BluRay players or not.
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by jfengel 7mo ago
I think it's just that demand isn't there. I haven't yet seen a really compelling use case for smart homes. The people who get them seem to want the tech for itself, rather than the actual benefits. So we don't get a lot
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by jfengel 7mo ago
That's what they're doing: spending their time. They choose to do it by watching some kind of Internet content. They can do it by watching ads or spending money. A lot of people hate spending money. Some don't have the money
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by jfengel 7mo ago
Original title is "Science confirms torpedo bat works as well as regular bat". Which is different from the current headline, which says that they are identical. The shape is different. It just turns out that it doesn't matter
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by jfengel 7mo ago
The impression I got was "too many parts, too much to go wrong, too expensive to build". It doesn't rule out that other people might have better ideas, but it does suggest why LG decided it wasn't worth it.
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by jfengel 7mo ago
I don't believe that the solution revolves around the economy. Everybody wants there to be more money, and you can promise them that to get elected, but it never actually works. The economy is largely out of control of politics. You ca
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by jfengel 7mo ago
I really hope that they are not taking Hiroshima and Nagasaki as models. Those were part of a very different conflict at a very different time. A similar approach would produce very different results. If they simply mean "nuclear bombs
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by jfengel 7mo ago
Very much an LOTR thing. Tolkien stole the name from an Anglo Saxon poem, with a somewhat unclear meaning. His version of the story is woven through lots of his work, from the very earliest days. You could view all of Middle-earth as elabor
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by jfengel 7mo ago
Sometimes I have to go back and fix a bug that appeared during another branch. Having the original commits helps me bisect it. Not often, but given that it costs me nothing to have it all in my tree, I'd rather have it than not.
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by jfengel 7mo ago
There seems to be a pattern associated with grabbing names from Tolkien.
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by jfengel 7mo ago
I was really hoping for some kind of Nintendo/Silmarillion crossover. This is good too, I guess.
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by jfengel 7mo ago
I can't imagine that getting laws passed is going to help. The government can't just order a bank to restore funds, the way they can with regular currency. They could try forcing the culprit to return them, but it seems unlikely f
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by jfengel 7mo ago
That wasn't really the wonks. That was the message from Big Business. A reasoned tariff policy is a pretty good idea, but a scattershot one is much, much worse. Unfortunately, that reasoned tariff policy is not easy to write. The good

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