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by jrmg 3y ago
I mainly agree with what you’re saying - though I do think we should strive, at a societal level, to better raise opportunity for the less fortunately born. And despite much nihilism, we’ve actually been doing that for a long time now (univ
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by jrmg 3y ago
I think you're just racist conservatives making up facts from whole cloth to support some narrative of deintegration. I’ve been trying to discuss with them on the merits of their argument, but having thought on this overnight I agree
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by jrmg 3y ago
I think I agree with your first point about actively seeking diversity being worthless in the abstract. In a world of biased people, though, it can be a way to act against unfair bias. Biased people tend to lose their bias when they become
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by jrmg 3y ago
There's no reason every child has to have equal opportunity. Wow, that’s bleak. Perhaps it’s true if you’re operating in an amoral framework. The society I was raised in has aphorisms such as “Do unto others as you would have them do
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by jrmg 3y ago
Affluence would not equalize _because_ they’re living near each other. Living near each other, though, seems to me to be something that would have to evolve alongside a more equal society. If we go by your assumption that the squares are ri
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by jrmg 3y ago
Affluence and opportunity are currently not evenly distributed amongst the human population (or, if you like, the American population). Certain groups, for historical reasons, have way ‘better’ lives than others. I don’t think this is at al
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by jrmg 3y ago
You may know this and not like it, or find it doesn’t work for you, but on the off chance you don’t: just keep going. Autocorrect will often step in and correct things one or two words later when it works out that letters near where you tap
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by jrmg 3y ago
(2013) Looks like this is from the dawn of NeoCities.
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by jrmg 3y ago
This still seemed implausible to me, so I looked it up. The Icelandic government has all the details on the web in English! It looks like it’s for up to 30 months, and you need to be employed for 24. months to ‘reset’ it: https:/&#x2F
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by jrmg 3y ago
That’s a very good point.
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by jrmg 3y ago
Also reminds me of ‘Onecoin’ - similar ‘nation’ framing and mysterious leaders. There’s a good BBC podcast series about it, “The Missing Crypto Queen”: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07nkd84/episodes/downlo
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by jrmg 3y ago
It is unclear how these messages of support were obtained, but all four celebrities are available to hire through the website Cameo, which allows people to pay high-profile individuals to read out a script for them, for anything from a bir
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by jrmg 3y ago
Iceland is an affluent western nation with its own language, but a population of less than 375,000 people - fewer people than many cities in other countries. And yet these people want books just as much as any other people - perhaps given t
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by jrmg 3y ago
Not sure why you’re getting so many downvotes. The first two are definitely real issues with a lot of self-published work.
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by jrmg 3y ago
I don’t think your impressions are entirely off-base here. If the author is so bad at judging the quality of the cover art (or, for me, the typesetting) I think it’s possible that it suggests a similar lack of judgement of quality for the w
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by jrmg 3y ago
Do you have a source for Iceland having a universal basic income like that? How much is it? I’m not finding anything about it with Google searches, and it seems kind of hard to believe.
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by jrmg 3y ago
It’s just in my email account. I’ve had the same email address on my own domain since 1996. Changed providers a few times, but I’ve always migrated the archive over.
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by jrmg 3y ago
I literally mailed cash to, I think, the author of ShapeShifter for the Amiga - a Mac emulator: https://shapeshifter.cebix.net/ …or - memory is hazy - maybe it was more esoteric than that - was there a fast graphics driver
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by jrmg 3y ago
That’s an interesting idea. I wonder if, for some services, the outcome for the supplier would be better. I think I’d be likely to subscribe to more TV services if they only charged me on months I used them. I’d feel I could just let them s
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by jrmg 3y ago
Ditto for Belkin docks. A Belkin Thunderbolt 3 dock can sometimes be had from $20 on eBay if you’re prepared to get one with no cables.
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by jrmg 3y ago
[Replying to myself] I read this ages ago and thought it might be a rare book - but it looks like used copies are still available really cheaply. Not sure if the second edition had updates - looks like it’s from 1989. Anyway, I highly recom
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by jrmg 3y ago
The inspiration for this book, ‘Programmers at Work’, from 1986, is also a gem: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2092681 It contains interviews with 19 prominent programmers from that era - some of who you’ll d
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by jrmg 3y ago
Not just Amazon. It’s very obvious that much of e.g. YouTube and Instagram’s funding (and that of creators) comes from ads for fraudulent and/or potentially dangerous medical supplements (not to mention other things like financial sche
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by jrmg 3y ago
This may be the first historical marker about the internet Surely that’s not the case?
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If we didn’t have NAT ISPs would provide a router with a firewall that was just as safe.
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by jrmg 3y ago
I’d also like to understand where the ‘explosion of noise’ on changing tracks on the phone comes from.
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by jrmg 3y ago
I wonder if they consider using their closed-source CD player as ‘paying a tax to Bush’.
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waiting for media to appear on your timeline What do you mean by this?
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It’s also interesting how almost all the negative responses here are comparing the situation to what would’ve happened with a laptop that has no feature like ‘find my’, and somehow concluding that the original owner would’ve been in a bette
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by jrmg 3y ago
Are you fishing for this classic reddit thread? https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1c1g96/comment/c9c6ll... If you’re actually new to it - it’s a fun read! The full threads: https://w

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