jterrys

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by jterrys 4y ago
Yeah, I'm old enough to remember how absolutely fucking garbage Flash was, and the source of many a web-based malware that haunted many a Windows user. I don't really blame Apple's decision not to support it. There's no
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by jterrys 5y ago
The noble goal of this movement is to correct the racism and oppression in mathematical discovery. But I wonder if its supporters possess any self awareness about the weight of tacitly expressing these statements in the language of an oppre
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by jterrys 5y ago
>Pythagoras did not discover the theorem - it dates back to the Egyptians or Babylonians, and it was written of in a fairly extensive manner in India hundreds of years before Pythagoras as well. Ah, see viewpoints like these are why I su
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by jterrys 5y ago
We're in this weird point of attribution where the discoveries and popularizations of white men (in a society they created and dominated mind you) must now be discredited because similar theories existed in cultures and languages that
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by jterrys 5y ago
>They are not run by idiots, but generally desperate people with no other means Eh I wouldn't say that's entirely accurate. Much like any other domain there's opportunity and cost. When an illegal enterprise is profitable,
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by jterrys 5y ago
But there's cost of shipping and maintenance of the warehouse, alongside with the product loss/tampering. None of these are revenue generating.
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by jterrys 5y ago
If you are an American and shop at Costco, the toiletpaper section has been practically overfilled for the past six months. People simultaneously overestimate and underestimate just how much time it takes to ramp up and ramp down production
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by jterrys 5y ago
The world isn't a stock market simulation.
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by jterrys 5y ago
>In the spirit of adult conversation: 1990s enlargement of NATO was and is 90%+ popular in these countries. Exactly because we knew Russia will at some point try to recreate USSR/Tzar Russia/whatever the new name is. Russian el
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by jterrys 5y ago
Considering that boss design is essentially "big ol' fat windup, -with a teeny pause to mess with your reaction times- then slamma-jamma into the ground" then it's pretty solvable. I'm playing Elden Ring and some mo
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by jterrys 5y ago
>It's oppressive because it's supposed to be, and frankly people who don't get it and demand explicit difficulty settings don't really want to play Dark Souls at all. I 100% agree. I'm not really deep into the So
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by jterrys 5y ago
I think a lot of rebellious sentiment in this thread comes from a position of privilege. If you've ever interacted with cops when they have their kid gloves off, you know. You don't fuck with them. You do what they say. Because un
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by jterrys 5y ago
Start off a new job as a v-tuber...
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by jterrys 5y ago
I guess I'll reveal my boomer age but yeah, as a little kid that shit was 'unfair' and we all made an effort to find the nudie mags and watch the scrambled cable TV porn channels and lament the fact that we weren't adult
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by jterrys 5y ago
There are some companies that managed to pivot, though it wasn't easy. https://github.com/fikrikarim/companies-with-successful-pivo... Some of these are pretty funny actually.
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by jterrys 5y ago
I don't think so. I think back when Occulus was a thing and Carmack was involved, Zuckerberg thought it was just cool and bought it because it would've been fun. A complete guilty (and kinda expensive) purchase. There was no way f
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by jterrys 5y ago
That's still a considerably small number of people considering the protesters number in the tens of thousands
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by jterrys 5y ago
It was also probably a career limiting move going around in 2020 trying to rally against school closures as literally the rest of the country was shutting down. You might have empirical data now, and you feel that your gut feeling was corre
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by jterrys 5y ago
It's also not unrealistic to assume that a nonzero number of people died because they weren't able to receive specialized treatment or care due to the lockdowns impacting hospital services.
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by jterrys 5y ago
> Why is it that so many people seem to think "crafts" are irrelevant or unworthy of academic study? Are we still that bound to silly notions about what should carry 'prestige'? Are you mulling about some general stat
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by jterrys 5y ago
I never claimed that textiles were trivial women's work. I call her a gender studies professor because most of the published work on her bio page are in reference to gender relations. https://as.nyu.edu/content/n
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by jterrys 5y ago
I really hate to be the person to raise this controversial opinion, which will probably annoy most readers (and moderators alike)... But this article really feels like its trying to squeeze feminist women empowering blood from stones. And
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by jterrys 5y ago
As someone who recently found out that the new grad hire that I was training was also making more than me, I really can't fathom myself giving any sort of sympathetic shit about the employer's perspective. You are absolutely corre
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by jterrys 5y ago
Reminds me of that "War is a Racket" essay that was posted here a few days ago: https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html A trillion dollars wasted in a World War lined the pockets of a few
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by jterrys 5y ago
Looking at the meeting minutes, one of the board members named Mike Cochran is pretty upset with the comic book. He says its too graphic and inappropriate. There's swearing and the comic goes in great detail about the father of the mai
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by jterrys 5y ago
Especially when it violates a treaty you signed promising that if the country you invaded disarms itself that you would protect it.
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by jterrys 5y ago
>Are you Romanian? Because your comment seems like one of those jokes about aliens seeing humans cooking and then reproducing what the humans are creating, but without the taste, because their monitoring doesn't capture that. Are yo
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by jterrys 5y ago
ah. I've seen posts like these before. These are Trojan Horse discussions. Nothing constructive ever comes out of these. A person with a website and a furry avatar passive-aggressively going after all elements of a community they disli
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by jterrys 5y ago
Interestingly, there was a Hacker News discussion on this article when it first came out, debating the claims made by the paper you cited. TL;DR: It wasn't sarcastic. Whewel was an admirer of Somerville. The paper made some liberal att
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by jterrys 5y ago
By virtue of trying to prop up this wall, I think the same "civilization-builiding moral standards" aren't being applied here. More realistically, it's a tinge of Zimbabwean nationalism shrouded in archeological dressing

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