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by konjin 6y ago
> Correlation doesn't imply causation. And it doesn't not imply it. And did you not pay any attention in the 00s? Bush was a white supremacists and made racism federal policy in airports.
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by konjin 6y ago
When we didn't ban these people in the 00s and early 10s we didn't get people attacking the Capitol. Within 3 years of starting serious censorship in most major platforms we have had a near coup. Sounds like the new system is less
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by konjin 6y ago
Welcome to the political sidelines. We enjoy bread, circuses and the inevitable collapse of industrial civilization,
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by konjin 6y ago
>(Also because apparently I have to state this explicitly in every comment related to Trump: I do not support Trump, his supporters, the recent events that occurred at the capitol, etc etc) The manichaean thinking from both sides is what
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by konjin 6y ago
Germany, Australia and California say otherwise.
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by konjin 6y ago
So on the one hand we have a technology that works, on the other we have a pipe dream. I sure know which one I want to bet the future of the planet on.
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by konjin 6y ago
I don't want everything to be better. I want nuclear warheads. Nuclear reactors really, you can't imagine what you can do with a piece of derelict land when you throw enough power at it.
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by konjin 6y ago
And without grid scale storage, which doesn't exist, solar at noon is about as useful as coal in the middle of Australia. Renewable only is a pipe dream and is distracting from the fact that we need to build nuclear plants if we want t
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by konjin 6y ago
There's a huge trough in what you can do with what you can buy when you earn between $80k a year and ~$8m. It's the same shit just better. Your shitty commuter house 3 hours out of town is now a mansion 20 min outside of town. You
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by konjin 6y ago
Money is not how you count if you made it. I made as much as OP at that age (and am now a few years older) and I'm very far from making it. Millions don't go as far as they used to when everyone around you is even richer.
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by konjin 6y ago
Not sure what end of the scale of PM OP is on. It goes from "I make PowerPoints" to "I write unit tests and debug code before I start the deployment." $250 an hour is great for the bottom 75% of the market though and bet
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by konjin 6y ago
s/not because it easy/not beucase it's easy/g s/that ISO want 198/that ISO wants 198/g Other than that 10/10. As readable as hacker news on my setup. The only way that can be better if i
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by konjin 6y ago
>Second, putting out unaccessible PDF content is 100% certain to be problematic for people with accessibility needs. That's where you're wrong. A plain PDF/A is the simplest thing to scrape for text. You know what is a nig
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by konjin 6y ago
Interesting take but it's missing the other part of feudalism: the Catholic Church. Today we don't have one monolithic church but we do have a very large number of priests who can excommunicate you over nothing at all. The larger
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by konjin 6y ago
A discussion is impossible when one side assumes the other is arguing in bad faith. You started from the assumption I need sight to navigate and when I pointed out I don't you doubled down on sanctimoniousness. Again: why should the ne
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by konjin 6y ago
>If we believe in the FOSS ethos I don't. So what now?
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by konjin 6y ago
IP laws are bad because they have been taken past any sane limit. However the original terms would are not too onerous, with provisions and updates there is no reason not to give the people who invent things short and clear monopolies on th
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by konjin 6y ago
>Do you also think we should make a policy banning sex because it will be "good policy"? Just use in vitro fertilization to procreate. It will certainly eliminate STDs. Makes as much sense as closing down the economy over a vir
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by konjin 6y ago
No, what I'm talking about is the decriminalization of homosexuality. They would have been arrested and been harassed by the police for the rest of their lives. The Turkish bath orgies would have never happened reducing the r0 of hiv.
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by konjin 6y ago
What's the difference between a math phd and a large pizza? A large pizza feeds a family of four^H^H^H^H two. I need to make adjustments for pizza inflation too, even though it still beats out the phd. How depressing.
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by konjin 6y ago
>Everyone else is looking for that too. And since it’s easier to find those places (or was) they get bid up as all things do with lots of demand and relatively low supply. These people want the benefits of insanity with none of the drawb
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by konjin 6y ago
>Her bedroom was exactly the size of her mattress since the partition walls had been installed for maximum efficiency. The bedroom door opened outward toward the corridor and she would just fall in on the bed and hang her possessions on
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by konjin 6y ago
Calling out logical fallacies is a logical fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_fallacy It comes from not understanding the difference between logical entailment and logical equivalence when given a set
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by konjin 6y ago
In the 00s it would take me a month to hunt down an obscure reference in a book from 1930. Today I can find it in 99% of cases under 30 seconds on libgen. It's not that I don't want to pay, I don't want to pay for an inferior
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by konjin 6y ago
From memory version 2 is the one that moved to gpl and this happened before 2001. So this is reheating a 20 year old talking point.
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by konjin 6y ago
Given that this was the 50s and they the majority were over 20 I'd guess pretty much all of them.
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by konjin 6y ago
>Prevent fires from cigarettes using asbestos upholstery. The past is an interesting place.
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by konjin 6y ago
>On the other hand, I've worked for companies that are in the press and sometimes the external viewpoint helps counteract the kool-aid. The idea that the drones in a company know more about the company than the public is laughable.
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by konjin 6y ago
Government forks bitcoin, adds the ability for a trusted address to add more coins. Kills anyone who doesn't switch. Welcome to China, you just lost the majority of your mining pool.
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by konjin 6y ago
Because you could easily tweak the algorithms to make it act like stockpiling cheese. If you use a value time pair adding inflation that reduces the value of old coins is trivial.

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