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by justin66 8mo ago
> If all of the undocumented people in the US spent this much time trying to emigrate legally Many of the "undocumented people" (what an Orwellian phrase) that have been rounded up by ICE are picked up during court hearings or
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GDP being affected negatively by reductions in tourism, with the loss being offset by increased business for Raytheon as well as the human centipede-like economics of big tech companies buying stuff from other big tech companies, sounds abo
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> ECC should have become standard around the time memories passed 1GB. Ironically, that's around the time Intel started making it difficult to get ECC on desktop machines using their CPUs. The Pentium 3 and 440BX chipset, maxing out
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That was a pretty epic story. I'll admit that I skimmed a few parts. :) Sad that it's discontinued, but mostly it's remarkable that so much was done by so few people.
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“An Unrivaled Experience with macOS Tahoe”
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Iraq’s Ba’ath party were secularists.
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This is a willfully ignorant misreading of what's actually going on. They've decided to use the "Department of War" moniker in part because they think it sounds cool, but more significantly because it demonstrates they c
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by justin66 8mo ago
> the top level of government just needs to make the declaration: as of X, all Microsoft licenses will be terminated. No exceptions. Adapt or die. Edgy! But it sounds like really terrible government. As if the failure of a government ag
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by justin66 8mo ago
> I hope that the good people of Israel realize what their hideous regime is doing and stop it. There’s a small but courageous peace movement in Israel. They don’t have the kind of sway it would take to stop anything.
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I've got to admit that I'm unclear on the relationship between the US's attempts to juggle public health priorities with the constitutional right to freedom of assembly and... the UK glory hole thing. But I'm wondering i
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Rip van Winkle, let me tell you how they are treating conflict with Russia…
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It's super weird to believe auditing a normal person and auditing "the uber rich" is in any way comparable. In both cases the thing being done can be referred to as an "audit," but that's it.
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I appreciate the thoughtful reply - thanks! There are some things here to follow up on eventually. I'm very skeptical that the aforementioned "consultants" made money off of the phonics controversy in a way that was comparabl
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> I went through school in the 90s and was 100% not taught any method involving phonics or sounding out words. I mean... would you remember? Pretty much the only thing I remember about the relevant early years of kindergarten and element
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I'll certainly review the podcast when I have time. Thanks! I read Pournelle's column in Byte in the late eighties and at times he bemoaned the lack of phonics in modern reading curriculum while also pumping his wife's expens
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> not teaching phonics Teachers use phonics all the time. “Teachers don’t use phonics anymore” is just a thing people say. It’s odd.
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Thanks for that reminder of some cultural differences (!) between us and our friends across the pond. Hopefully it goes without saying, that rather colorful example is a few steps removed from the replication crisis, although the point abou
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People who know anything about the replication crisis are a single-digit percentage of the population. Doesn't help explain the public's attitudes.
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> Based on the story line alone, I quit when, for no apparent reason, during a tense moment in the story, the lead sales guy has a kissing session with another guy. The lead guy isn't gay. I don't think the guy he kissed was ga
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It didn't peak before the end of season one?
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> Wouldn't some investor decide to just net the approximately ~1.8% by increasing demand and buying it up? When it comes to individual investors, sure, in a situation where everything is going crazy in the markets some will buy and
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by justin66 8mo ago
Revisited the game in greater depth (I made an earlier comment below). I'd forgotten entirely that Simon leaves behind a copy of himself at one point while proceeding on his journey, and gets pretty spazzy about it. If you were going t
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They'll respond to a loss of business or reputational damage. Reputational damage is a less useful tool today, when so many of the people in power at CBS have personal reasons for wanting to curry favor with the administration. So, los
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> unobjectionable editorial reasons The bulk of their staff objected to it, either on or off the record.
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by justin66 8mo ago
> how do you crash an ETF? I'm talking about broad index funds. Not stuff like ARKK Any ETF's share value can "crash" if there are not enough buyers to purchase shares when they are trading below NAV (net asset value)
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A corporation can hold t-bills and cash equivalents instead of relying on a bank account where the $250K FDIC limit will bite them. This notion that the $250K FDIC insurance limit is an acceptable part of our system, except in cases where a
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Peculiar to think he was already forty when THX 1138 came out, 55 (!) years ago.
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I believe in the present day, the premise motivating these undergrad books and courses based on alternatives (VU and Minix, MIT and xv6, Purdue and Xinu, God knows what else) is that Linux has become too complicated for an introductory cour
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> students were forced to work on Minix long after that that made any sense at all Not to defend the textbook grift or the lack of vision here, but I strongly suspect an undergraduate minix course taught at VU would be very good. It’s no
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It’s been a while so I just viewed a video of the ending of the game. I don’t know that he ever really “got” it (either version of him, at the end). It would have been a more emotionally complex game if he’d made his peace with the reality

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