kneebonian

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by kneebonian 3y ago
The Trans-Siberian railway is about being able to move things from the Asian ports in the far east to the population centers in the far west. It has everything to do with a strategic defense decision by Russia, and was commissioned in an ef
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Wow so the entire Rocky Mtn. west is just left out in the cold. What about Denver and SLC? Guess no one needs to go to AZ either? Further I don't think you understand the cost, lot's of people out east think throwing a rail line t
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by kneebonian 3y ago
So is the point of clarification around the baby formula thing there was actually an article oh few months ago a while back anyway that pointed out that most of this baby formula that was being stolen wasn't actually by needing mothers
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by kneebonian 3y ago
This reminds me of a quote from James Mickens regarding computer security. "Unfortunately, large swaths of the security community are fixated on avant garde horrors such as the fact that, during solar eclipses, pacemakers can be remote
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> The richest people and biggest corporations own such an unimaginably large amount of wealth that taxing them would fix just about anything. They don't have wealth though, they have capital or money but not wealth. Wealth is actual
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> Also, it's (highly) likely that state-based food security is needed, but the US just does it wrong. I don't know about that the US is one of the few food independent nations out there.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Can I just say I know it's really dumb, but I loved that they published the explanation as a simple txt file, instead of setting up some whizbang website for it, or embedding it in their company blog. https://www.qualys.com&
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> Ideally, high quality education would be democratized and made accessible to anyone who want it regardless of their means to pay. We already have that for the most part, I can find courses from half a dozen of the worlds best universit
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by kneebonian 3y ago
So why don't we focus on socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals instead of focusing on racial metrics?
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> I believe the whole concept of “meritocracy” for purpose of admissions is a lie— choosing the criteria to measure against is itself a subjective act. Let me ask you. Do you also believe that requiring a display of proficiency in mathem
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> Blizzard says it will bring “a selection” of its games to Steam, but did not specify which titles beyond Overwatch 2 will make the jump from Battle.net. Listen unless you allow me to buy the original WC3 or SC1 I really don't care
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by kneebonian 3y ago
So my school did block schedule of 90 minutes classes on alternating days. But I am wondering if 30 minutes of instruction is about right? I mean a lot of evidence point to people having difficulty focusing on a single thing or learning for
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by kneebonian 3y ago
My mothers been an educator for many many years now. She says the single biggest factor is parental involvement. But hey convincing both parents to be gone all day and slave away for the corporate masters was smashing the patriarchy and bre
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by kneebonian 3y ago
SF was a one trick town, software, that software wealth in the later stages was built on low interest rates and cheap money. That is no longer the case, and SF will end up going the way of Detroit.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Dupe from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36764389
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by kneebonian 3y ago
I'll add, a family member has celiac which makes it so they can't eat gluten. Becoming certified "Gluten Free" requires a certification process that can be expensive and difficult. However many companies have realized th
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by kneebonian 3y ago
EDIT: On a second readthrough I realize I was misunderstanding the focus of the article, but can't seem to delete the comment yet. So ignore my inane ranting. PS Can't figure out stirkethrough so I'm just nuking the comment.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
You're forgetting 5. An AI that generates porn.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Exactly we must have a workers revolution, where the buregious is overthrown and the streets run red with the blood of capitalists. Then when we have no more of those parasitic capitalists sucking out the blood of the working man we will es
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by kneebonian 3y ago
That was originally what Trump was trying to do but for some reason it ran into judicial challenges. I think Oracle was the frontrunner to acquire it.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> Please explain how my free speech is taken away by a TikTok ban. I don't understand. The executive is unilaterally deciding users cannot have an app on their phone, and that as a US citizen I cannot access APIs in another country
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Can't let the masses have a tool as powerful as this, no siree.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
3 Rules on the internet 1. Never give out real personal info 2. Don't believe anything you see on the internet 3. Everyone woman on the internet is a dude and every teenager is an FBI agent. Everything went to hell when we stopped livi
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by kneebonian 3y ago
The way many people remember it is millions lost their homes and livelihood while the bankers who had made billions in bad loans got golden parachutes and bailed out, at the same time most people were wondering how they were going to eat. H
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by kneebonian 3y ago
Many people feel the opposite of you that the Silicon Valley first republic fiasco ended up with those who chose to risk more than the rules said they would (FDIC insured amount) got bailed out for their poor decisions and risk taking, whil
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by kneebonian 3y ago
It costs $3 bucks to make a basketball. It takes thousands to produce the simplest video games.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
This law specifically states that you cannot be held legally liable for rendering aid. Not that it is against the law to help people.
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by kneebonian 3y ago
For those curious > Meta and Red Hat, called off 2024 conferences that were set to be held at San Francisco's Moscone Center
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by kneebonian 3y ago
The best answer I can give you is that if you guys get it fully implemented next year you'll be able to have the first screen load, and if you're lucky run a query to completion the year after that. Not because you need to impleme
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by kneebonian 3y ago
> fancy text editors like EMACS. Them fighting words my friend.

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