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by johnea 7mo ago
I'm not sure about "closest", but I can name several people currently serving in the legislature off the top of my head: Elizabeth Warren Barbara Lee (actually from California, no longer in congress) AOC Bernie Cory Booker ma
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by johnea 7mo ago
Thanks for the link! I don't use youtube either. This is a great thing from Montana. Now if we could get California, with 1/8 of the US population, to enact such a law, we'd really be getting somewhere. I often point out that
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by johnea 7mo ago
What a cluster fuck 8-/ This is how we spend billions of $ and accomplish, nothing. But, at least we'll have 4K, hi-res, laser beam, video of accomplishing nothing. And, we can all look forward to spending even more billions to do
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by johnea 7mo ago
DnB 4ever!!!
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by johnea 7mo ago
Another poster child for Meta's lobbying (bribery) to encourage OS level age verification. (numerous recent references in HN posts) They very much want to push this liability off onto someone else... As far as end-to-end encryption, on
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by johnea 7mo ago
GTM? Does that mean Get The Money? Assuming everyone knows your acronyms is just not a good writing style. Since I couldn't understand how s/w was going to get opossums out of anyone's basement, I think the correct decision w
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by johnea 7mo ago
Yes! There are other interesting things in the world today, and HN is overwhelmed with pretend intelligence. Hype, detractors, ALL OF IT! Maybe a separate web page or RSS feed could be created that is dedicated to the subject...
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by johnea 7mo ago
I still don't like them, human or pretend intelligence generated. Please use the correct punctuation for subclauses, the comma! However, I will give the comment author credit for _correctly_ surrounding the dash with spaces. This is my
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by johnea 7mo ago
A related Japanese craft, kintsugi 金継ぎ: https://www.kintsugi.engineering/#intro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
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by johnea 7mo ago
Exactly! and no small amount of money is being set aside either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_budget_of_the_United_... And as you would expect in a Fortune Mag article, the "solution" of this budget
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by johnea 7mo ago
Obviously, bigfoot hasn't been seen again because he went back to his UFO...
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by johnea 8mo ago
I don't see how a new unicode point solves anything. What stops any generated text from using this codepoint versus the existing em dash codepoint? I find the punctuation annoying, mostly because the dashes are routinely used without a
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by johnea 8mo ago
So glad to see a mention of Smedley Butler! He has been a long time hero of mine. After a career pillaging for US corporate interests abroad, he realized he was being used, and presented his "pamphlet" to the US legislature, and t
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by johnea 8mo ago
I'm, again, glad to run linux. The distro I run has no affiliated online "account" at all, and I would expect this exempts it from the requirement. I'm no democrat, although I'm sure as hell no republican, and as a
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by johnea 8mo ago
I'm unsnarkly saying this work is completely useless for me. Should all feedback be in the form of "that's so awesome!"? Being unable to absorb negative feedback seems detrimental to a product development effort...
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by johnea 8mo ago
Start when you're 5 years old... There is NO replacement for starting young.
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by johnea 8mo ago
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by johnea 8mo ago
Does this mean all bible study and other religious courses are cancelled?
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by johnea 8mo ago
Ahh, the elon bois. This form of internet brain damage gives me a good LOL almost everyday 8-) My old comment on the subject: "If you want to know what it'll be like living on Mars, bury a cargo container in your back yard, and li
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by johnea 8mo ago
> This document was last updated in October 2024 Thank you for the date! When viewing in my default javascript-disabled mode, I couldn't find the publication date. I'm also thankful to the NASA IT team that made this article, i
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by johnea 8mo ago
This is total bullshit. Or maybe a statement of just how much the US population is uninformed/misinformed. If the later is true, the US 'electorate' really is dumb as dirt...
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by johnea 8mo ago
Well, this is helpful. Now I can refer to this list to let me know who, and what, to vote against...
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by johnea 8mo ago
More direct link to article: https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/new-theory-may-explain-myst... The arXiv link to the HTML version of the paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2601.14368v1 Please don't
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by johnea 8mo ago
This is why the heat pump should come along with local electric generation (mostly solar) and local storage (mostly battery banks). In this configuration a typical suburban home can provide ALL of it's own energy needs, including 2 ele
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by johnea 9mo ago
About a year ago there were a number of articles about how Alabama was greatly improving their public school math outcome with an elementary school teacher training program: https://www.npr.org/2025/03/17/nx-s
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by johnea 9mo ago
And somehow, during the effort to achieve digital sovereigncy, they still manage to host the source on the Microsoft property of github 8-/ Given that the only step necessary to host git on the internet is making port 22 publicly acces
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by johnea 9mo ago
After smoking weed for over 50 years, I would definitely say I am not addicted. When I travel internationally, often for periods of over a month, I don't use any cannabis at all. During these times I experience no withdrawal symptoms o
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by johnea 9mo ago
With the exception of one comment, which simply restated the link correctly, no one here has pointed out that the URL provided is not in fact served by an FTP server. Starting a link with http, makes it a WWW link which is expected to be in
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by johnea 9mo ago
> The U.S. is headed for a real rough patch. I agree with everything you say, but I would say we're well beyond "headed for" at this point...
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by johnea 9mo ago
> a longstanding association of elephants and alcohol in popular thought What? the hell? Maybe not watching television for over 20 years has left me more out of touch with "popular thought" than I realized...

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