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by jiscariot 4y ago
For a show where you spend 300M just for the rights, you are showing your best effort in those first couple of hours to hook people. At least that's what I've experienced with the many HBO shows I've watched and loved. Maybe
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by jiscariot 4y ago
Is Popper's POT drivel the only talking point the anti-free speech people have these days? Every time. Sometimes with the associated cartoon.
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by jiscariot 4y ago
Agreed. And Applied Economics after that. These books change the way you think.
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by jiscariot 4y ago
The context of this story is words written on paper, not absolute freedom. Violence in response to words is an escalation, full stop. We don't need to go in to all that abysmal "paradox of tolerance" drivel to agree on this.
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by jiscariot 4y ago
> I am skeptical of giving the government the power to censor speech and to determine what is hate speech, because this power can be abused. But... Good example of what Salman Rushdie call's the Free Speech "But Brigade":
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by jiscariot 4y ago
But they're the good guys(TM), so we probably won't see NYT hit pieces every other week.
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by jiscariot 4y ago
So really your PTO is subject to the discretion of your manager. Unlimited sounds good, but in practice, I think it is better to have ownership of your time off. I remember like 20 years ago having unlimited sick time, which in reality jus
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by jiscariot 4y ago
I enjoyed this piece immensely. Might be a "missing the forest for the trees" thing, but it was odd needing to scroll so far down for a comment that grok'd the theme of the article, instead of chiming in on discounted gas and
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by jiscariot 4y ago
Urbit docs and app dev has come an amazing long way in the last 10 years. You don't see many projects with the staying power of urbit, despite being constantly called a cult poo-poo'd every time it comes up on HN. Feature not a bu
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by jiscariot 4y ago
Shhhh. Let sleeping dogs lie.
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by jiscariot 4y ago
I like it, but Chef's Table uses "that one simple trick" 5x an episode where 18th century orchestral music is overlaid in a montage using all the available camera and editing tricks, showing someone literally is just making a
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by jiscariot 4y ago
Sounds like many of the things Vox produces--ideological content ostensibly labeled as "explainers".
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by jiscariot 4y ago
I was responsible for cutting cups the morning on one of these tournaments (long, long ago). On the par three in question, it was due to be a middle front (red) pin (we rotated a 3x3 grid). I gave it a little over a pin length off the frin
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by jiscariot 4y ago
Nice. Those are the first two commands I usually issue after jumping on a box to investigate something.
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by jiscariot 4y ago
It is actually pretty amazing how quickly they self-imploded their brand reputation the past few years, culminating with the Brian Stelter self-own where he's whining how "they" are the real journalists, not Joe Rogan.
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by jiscariot 4y ago
And x-years from the redesign now, the UI is still so bad that you have to use old.reddit.com to not have an abysmal user experience.
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by jiscariot 4y ago
HN is heavily affluent and westerner-skewed, but how about when you have a corrupt government and highly inflationary currency? We often praise projects that morph from their intended purpose in to something else (e.g. a good % of tech out
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by jiscariot 4y ago
The other odd thing is to see so many journalists who have walked away from supporting free speech. They used to be some of the strongest supporters. The cynical take is that free speech is great when you're the institutional gate-kee
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by jiscariot 4y ago
If we are going that route, we should also desolve the NYT for using shaky evidence to sell the war in Iraq.
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by jiscariot 5y ago
Element was available from 2003-2011--are you talking about "certain demographics" who wanted the reliable automobiles that Honda made during that time? So weird. That is in addition to offering AWD, stick shift, stow-able rear s
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by jiscariot 5y ago
If you want a car that's main function is seating four, your parents had about 20 other models to choose from. Everyone I know with an element has removed the rear seats or has them stowed. I've hauled a full patio set, appliance
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by jiscariot 5y ago
> The latest appointment's only distinguishing qualifications were partisanship and youth. Can you expand more on this? From my understanding, Gorsuch and Barrett have a solid pedigree, while there are questions around Kavanaugh&#x2
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by jiscariot 5y ago
12 year-olds have always laughed at Facebook and instead used, X (kik, Snap, Tiktok, etc). They are a fickle bunch with no interest in being on the same platform as their parents. This is not anything new. I'd argue that the NYT's
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by jiscariot 5y ago
In the US the press can be openly antagonistic toward the government without reprisal beyond maybe having a WH press-core pass tossed. This provides a path for whistleblowers. Could the Russian press behave toward Putin as the US press towa
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by jiscariot 5y ago
If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing you do is stop digging. The majority of these serious crimes are committed by people with extensive wrap sheets. We should go back to using the criminal justice system to incarcerate people wh
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by jiscariot 5y ago
From what I have seen in Minneapolis/St. Paul, those are things (low-level, livability crimes) which have stopped being enforced over the past 5-10 years. We are starting to see the effects of this inverse-broken-windows social experi
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by jiscariot 5y ago
I really appreciate this advice and it is also extremely refreshing. My sister is in amazing shape and for the longest time kept a picture of her younger "fatty" self on her fridge.
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by jiscariot 5y ago
Spend 50k on a Tesla and you get to enhance you lifestyle, signal your eco-solidarity and to some extent, affluence. Bang for buck, if you really care about the environment, don't have children. There is nothing that comes close to imp
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by jiscariot 5y ago
To me, that book comes across pretty preachy and doesn't offer little in nuance between knowledge work and manual labor, a la starting a motorcycle repair business badly. It also had this "guy switches careers and needs to write
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by jiscariot 5y ago
If I recall, the amount Netflix is paying to Apple for a cut of subscriptions, is comparable with their AWS bill year over year. Absolute madness.

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