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by kls 6y ago
I understand the sentiment you are trying to express and to some degree I agree but I would argue that the AK is a really bad example that actually is probably the greatest example of the Soviet simple utilitarian technology. Out of all of
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by kls 6y ago
For the record, lithium as a mood stabilizer is pretty solid and settled science in the realm of mental health, which is actually saying a lot as the only other mental health medication that can really claim the same amount of success in tr
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by kls 6y ago
Ridicule is one of the more extreme tools scientists use in that social process to reach consensus about which hypotheses are plausible. It is also a very sinister and discrediting tool. As an example the CRU employed this tactic and set
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by kls 6y ago
In all sincerity I wish you well and hope your endeavors succeed in this market. I cannot help but be cynical given my experiences with of being a farmer in the 70's and 80's. I do hope someone can solve the issue and bring a retu
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by kls 6y ago
I am sure there is, no doubt, overlap of people that associate with the Proud Boys and also associate with white supremacist's, but they (the Proud Boys) have been very clear that white nationalism / supremacy is not their charter
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by kls 6y ago
I think you are off base on this, I think there is a small contingent of the far right that are white identity adherents. The rest get labeled in with them, because they have not been vocal in their distancing themselves from that contingen
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by kls 6y ago
The issue with teaching it is it would hit too close to home as the captains of industry found a more subtle way way to bring Fascism to America in the form of corporate Fascism via lobbying, but at one time, they contemplated just trying t
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by kls 6y ago
I agree here, he could have just as easily mailed them cash. Pretty much the same result.
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by kls 6y ago
I consider myself a classic liberal, not a leftist most people on the left assume I am a conservative, most on the right assume I am a leftist because of my belief in social liberties. I bring this up, because I am generally the hey, hey, h
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by kls 6y ago
This is a well know white supremacist's phrase and originates from an organization that was known as The Order. It is called 14 words, if I where on the receiving end of a donation with that phrase I would be quick to distance myself f
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by kls 6y ago
Yes I get it, I remember the day I told my grandfather that I would never scratch a living out of dirt, that I respected him for doing it but that the reality of the world has changed and that it was time for him to sell before he lost ever
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by kls 6y ago
Some of this is by design, food insecurity is one of the largest driver of unrest. Those in the power seats and politicians have a vested interest in taking an active part in the management of agricultural production. I grew up on a small c
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by kls 6y ago
Even with a gas range, you really need a wok burner for example I have an older Viking range and the wok is pretty much useless without this burner: https://pisces.bbystatic.com/image2/BestBuy_US/images/produc
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by kls 6y ago
Honestly the only works that I have seen that comes close is the Modernist Cuisine, a lot of effort went into the why and how of cooking and the culinary arts.
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by kls 6y ago
Restoring old vehicles (trucks / cars) and spearfishing.
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by kls 6y ago
I actually think your Perl and specifically regex example where spot on, in my career I have only worked with probably 4 programmers who really understood and could think in regex, which gave them the tools to solve extremely complicated pa
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by kls 6y ago
I have a cousin that does the same, travels 6 months of the year and works over time, and then take 6 months off, and just surfs and spearfishes. He makes more in 6 months that most do in a year, granted he is working 60-80 hrs a week, but
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by kls 6y ago
For those that live around Tampa, they can always join a Pirate Krewe https://interkrewe.com/ They started out of the Gasparilla Festival http://gasparillapiratefest.com/ but have become more like the Rotar
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by kls 6y ago
I was with a fortune 10 company as a tech executive, we had an effort to move all of the call center technology over to web based technologies in a modernization effort. The call center lost over 15 million dollars in revenue in the first w
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by kls 6y ago
On top of this, the NT kernel is actually pretty decent A lot of people that where not in computing back then do not realize that Microsoft picked up a lot of great people due to market forces, they picked up a lot of talent from DEC incl
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by kls 6y ago
I actually like the VS code tooling better than Cursive. Not knocking it, but have never felt lacking doing Clojure in VS Code.
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by kls 6y ago
Vim is meh for Lisp & Scheme, and I'm a Vim fan. Emacs is great. If you're a Vim user check out Doom Emacs. There is always spacemacs: https://www.spacemacs.org/
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by kls 6y ago
Then he left his house in Jamaica to three men who hated one another, on the condition that they own it together. I really like this guy. Humor is a slow play and if you can play your hand even after death then you have mastered humor. I
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by kls 6y ago
I think it depends on the developers style of how they reason. I use recursion a lot when dealing with loose data, to clean it up. Recursion is one of my go to's for deduplicating list.
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by kls 6y ago
Fortunately in my line of work it's not that uncommon to have anything other than a burner phone and even then a lot of people don't even have that. I went completely without one for about 2 years and then decided to get a burner
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by kls 6y ago
I gave up a phone, 4 years ago due to the fact that I am involved in anti-child trafficking and while it is not a grave risk, the reality is there are bad people that traffic in children and the less trackable I am, the more that risk profi
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by kls 6y ago
Undue can be fairly trivial if your data structure and controls are implemented correctly, for example a common undo redo pattern is to have an immutable structure in a vector, new operations clone the last good object, add an entry on top
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by kls 6y ago
To me it does not seem all too hard of a problem to solve. I don't know about other state but in FL you can get your driver licence, tags, and most other FL DOT related functions at the local tax collector's office. There is no do
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by kls 6y ago
Who exactly are they intended to disenfranchise, I know the common trope is that black people are unable or unwilling to get an ID, but that in and of itself is a pretty racist implication. Any US citizen can go to their local DMV and get a
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by kls 6y ago
A funny story I tell from time to time, is that I was with a company as the CTO that was acquired by a huge conglomerate with headquarters in Spain, so we had a lot of Spaniards that would come over to work for 6 month to several years. Any

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