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by justin66 1y ago
> Is it, now? Then why is the text justified entirely differently on their own website, their Etsy store, and their official link on Cartoon Collections? You have posed a potentially interesting (and well researched!) question that would
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by justin66 1y ago
It's not a bad idea.
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by justin66 1y ago
> Not for anyone without an Instagram account This is a lie - I have never had an instagram account and I was able to hop on there and copy the image. (it might be of interest to some that the image shared by the artist on Instagram has
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by justin66 1y ago
The Instagram one is entirely a single image so people will find it easier to share via social media.
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by justin66 1y ago
I can imagine some rather catastrophic negative outcomes from novel new brain surgery techniques, even if the blindness were not somehow made worse.
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by justin66 1y ago
Less cynically, John McPhee would have been fine if what he made from the New Yorker merely covered his expenses, since he would also publish his work in books.
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by justin66 1y ago
> William L. Howarth, who edited the collection, described McPhee’s method for producing what the New Yorker called “fact pieces,” or deeply reported nonfiction. He is an essayist and he wrote essays. Avoiding the word “essay” in favor o
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by justin66 1y ago
> If you are blind it cannot be worse Holy moly.
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by justin66 1y ago
> fake pandemic Well over a million people died from a communicable disease. Whatever issues you have with policy surrounding the pandemic, the nomenclature isn't controversial.
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by justin66 1y ago
> From what I've seen, spending has almost no effect on competitive elections. Groups like Fairshake are more about punishing candidates who take opposition positions. Which... does not influence elections?
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by justin66 1y ago
x86 PCs need insecure and ordinarily impossible to replace blobs in order to boot. It's true that PC firmware doesn't seem to hurt open source people's feelings quite so much as it once did, but there's not a ton of logi
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by justin66 1y ago
dr wasn't infuriated. He would not have written a funny forward for them if he were.
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by justin66 1y ago
> But the worst case scenario is imo when people designing data structures and protocols start to feel the need to disallow arbitrary classes of characters, even properly escaped. This seems like an extremely sheltered person’s point of
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by justin66 1y ago
That's a pretty incomplete telling of the story. Tilt Five is in business and selling the product after the founders bought the tech back from CastAR (after the VC people ran it into the ground).
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by justin66 1y ago
> I'm a bit biased because my home state is Ohio and they have it in their constitution that the state can't have a stake in any private company and can't even lend credit to any private company. The Ohio government works
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by justin66 1y ago
Is it possible this didn’t exist already? Remarkable.
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by justin66 1y ago
> But all of the other criticism of buybacks apply equally to dividends which no one seems to get upset about. I don't know what planet you're living on, where nobody's ever been upset about dividends.
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by justin66 1y ago
Do professional thieves shoplift? That's odd when you think about the risk/reward typically involved.
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by justin66 1y ago
Precisely. To be clear, I don't agree with a comment upthread saying the "shoutout" is what might potentially do harm to the IA in court. I think the actual act of having scraped all those books from the IA's lending sys
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by justin66 1y ago
"Anna’s Archive itself has organized some of the largest scrapes: we acquired tens of millions of files from IA Controlled Digital Lending" Not really helping in the big picture, here, guys.
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by justin66 1y ago
It's not?
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by justin66 1y ago
I've seen a lot of other sorts of failures. On the LED bulbs where individual filaments are visible, sometimes a single filament fails, or flips on and off. I had one LED bulb that just burned, which was interesting.
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by justin66 1y ago
> Woz, meanwhile, always felt like a punching bag for Apple employees on the off chance his name came up in conversation. A little more context would make this interesting. Were people complaining about the legacy of his work for Apple w
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by justin66 1y ago
You're either talking about people who worked with him at least forty years ago and had a problem with him, or people who are talking out of their ass. No doubt about which this is, but I wonder why.
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by justin66 1y ago
Love Woz but Woz U is definitely a sell out.
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by justin66 1y ago
I'm endlessly surprised that Oracle has enough customers to support them. I was familiar with the reasoning a long time ago but so many of those same users have moved on to SQL Server or open source stuff.
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by justin66 1y ago
Not doing another major release of doesn't exactly rule out keeping it as the reference platform for their core database product. I guess my question - I honestly have no idea and it's been years since I paid attention to Oracle o
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by justin66 1y ago
> Solaris was the development OS for Oracle for years. I presume that's now shifted to their own linux distro I wouldn't bet on that. Their Linux distro is a RHEL clone, but they have total control over Solaris.
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by justin66 1y ago
I feel safer already.
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by justin66 1y ago
Doing this in a single-engine Cessna was gutsy. My question for people who know about this stuff: how hard would it have been to get permission to land in Antarctica?

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