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by kevbin 5y ago
I remember the days of $800/cpu for a System V R2 license with no outline fonts :)
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by kevbin 5y ago
The sticker is to explain the price increase: why do these sneakers which cost $109 last week cost $179 now? The price increase is the deterrent, not the information. Companies would be free to market their products as they see fit: “Nike F
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by kevbin 5y ago
A market that can support fair trade, carbon-neutral, organic, and gluten-free markups can support a human-rights /value-subtracted/ tariff: goods produced by slave or child labor or under authoritarian regimes can be assessed a t
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by kevbin 5y ago
You and the commenter to whom you’re responding are referencing different “F” words. Two words which seem to have switched places in terms of power and acceptability over the last generation-and-a-half.
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by kevbin 5y ago
I mostly agree. But Rogan’s physical appearance and demeanor in his apology reminds me of Anthony Jeselnik’s shark story from “Thoughts and Prayers”. To paraphrase: it’s one thing to put your own job on the line to take a stand, it’s someth
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by kevbin 5y ago
> Assuming this is a genuine effort and not some kind of corruption, this potentially sounds great. It’s a genuine effort to put something positive on the table for the administration as the mid-term elections ramp up. Biden, like his pr
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by kevbin 5y ago
Section h.4 on page nine is where Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, et al., are targeted.
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Bill: certain discriminatory conduct by covered platforms shall be unlawful [pdf](klobuchar.senate.gov)
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Psychedelics: The newest tool in nuclear negotiations?(thebulletin.org)
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by kevbin 5y ago
> I'd rather spend my "weirdness points" on pushing radical ideas than on dressing unusually Agree. This could be a post in itself.
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by kevbin 5y ago
I dig the Beagle Brothers’ aesthetic.
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Richard E. Borcherds’ YouTube Channel(youtube.com)
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Ebooks Are an Abomination(theatlantic.com)
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How to Join a Psychedelic Clinical Trial(psychedelic.support)
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by kevbin 5y ago
Not nearly slow enough. Please rewrite the frontend in pidgin Ember and the backend in confused Scala.
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Beyond dopamine: New reward circuitry discovered(medicalxpress.com)
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by kevbin 5y ago
> Above all, these figures present a model for thinking differently, and not in the glib sense touted by Steve Jobs. As the homogenization of culture proceeds apace, as the technology of surveillance hovers at the borders of our brains,
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The Naysayers: Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and the Critique of Pop Culture(newyorker.com)
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by kevbin 5y ago
| “The global scale of the China challenge is not just about China’s rise, it’s not just about the genocide,” says Josh, “It’s about what kind of world we want to live in.” https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZ
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by kevbin 5y ago
Historically, totalitarian "experimentation" hasn't gone so well.
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by kevbin 5y ago
"The new restrictions targeting videogames, however, highlight the emphasis that Beijing has placed on cultivating morality in its youth, a preoccupation of senior officials that has come to the fore in recent weeks."
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College Was Supposed to Close the Wealth Gap for Black Americans(wsj.com)
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Why Everything We Thought About Drugs Was Wrong(michaelshellenberger.substack.com)
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What equipment was used to put together Blue Monday(machines.hyperreal.org)
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The Secret Language of Cults(bbc.co.uk)
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Critical theory and critical thinking in engineering education(tandfonline.com)
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Alphabets, Axioms, DNA: On Human Knowledge and the Myth of Alphanumeric Coding(hkw.de)
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How Covid Skeptics Use Orthodox Data Practices to Promote Unorthodox Science(arxiv.org)
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by kevbin 5y ago
Thanks for the that link. I just spent an hour in the Eyes on the Solar System web app and listening to Carl Sagan wax poetic about our Voyagers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H92iCnecYGQ "…and far from home, untouch
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The climate solution adding millions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere(technologyreview.com)
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