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by krapp 6mo ago
I absolutely do think more people need to use Lua, especially for config. The language does have some rough edges (what language doesn't) but I always suggest Lua tables whenever a thread about JSON and its discontents comes around. It
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by krapp 6mo ago
Just remember that if you publish them to the web, you give up "first publication rights" that might prevent you from being able to publish them elsewhere later. The web does count as "publishing" regardless of whether y
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by krapp 6mo ago
The problem with green alt accounts trolling threads like this has been getting worse for a while. I don't know what can be done about it other than to just flag them, but that doesn't stop them.
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by krapp 6mo ago
This entire thread has swiftly descended upon by bots, shills and sockpuppets. It'll be flagged before any hope of finding good faith conversation in the morass. It's wild how efficient they are, sometimes.
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by krapp 6mo ago
It's only allowed in one direction, but it's effective in many. Violence is the reason slavery ended in the US. Violence brought us civil rights laws. Gay rights. Women's rights. Labor laws. Environmental protection laws. E
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by krapp 6mo ago
UBI will never happen in the US so it's a pointless argument. Americans will have plenty of pawn shops and short-term loan services to help them, though.
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by krapp 6mo ago
But white people did do colonialism, and a lot of people were "sad." Genocide and slavery do tend to make people sad. That the Egyptians were willing participants in the mummy trade doesn't somehow cancel out the nature or ef
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by krapp 6mo ago
There is at least one good thing about Texas. We aren't Oklahoma.
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by krapp 6mo ago
One can go to /r/UFOs and see plenty of "interesting thought experiments" happening in that area, and while that might be entertaining, it isn't compelling. I think closing one's mind off 99.999% to "it&#x
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by krapp 6mo ago
The Secretary of War, a Christian nationalist and white supremacist, has framed the war in Iran as a holy war to bring about the End Times. Many people in the government have said they consider America's military support of Israel to b
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by krapp 6mo ago
>It is hard to understand why the U.S. cares about a random Middle Eastern country called Israel this much. Study the links between the American military industrial complex and Evangelical Christianity, in particularly the latter's
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by krapp 6mo ago
We're specifically talking about the British Empire and its attitude towards colonized people and cultures. I'm sure that Muslim Egyptians had their own prejudice, but Muslim Egyptian prejudice didn't inform British people&#x
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by krapp 6mo ago
>White replacement theory and expressing support for an alt-right ideologue who manipulated people with bad faith, dishonest and downright monstrous arguments is not "standard right-wing". It is now. That's what the shifti
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by krapp 6mo ago
True, but sometimes something like the complaint tablet to Ea-Nasir[0] reaches meme status. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complaint_tablet_to_Ea-n%C4%81...
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by krapp 6mo ago
That makes sense for the first term but not the current one. Unless he plans a coup he can't run for a third term, he has nothing to lose.
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by krapp 6mo ago
There is already plenty of evidence and people have already made their minds up one way or the other. Video would have some impact but only in the sense of throwing more kindling on the fire.
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by krapp 6mo ago
As far as I know the vast majority of cuneiform we have is essentially administrative records, tax record and receipts. And homework. That's the stuff that tells us how societies and cultures really worked.
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by krapp 6mo ago
>Really? Trump's best friend was a pedophile. That was known before he ran in 2016, it didn't matter. Trump admitted that his wealth and celebrity made it easy to sexually assault women on tape and it only made him more popul
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by krapp 6mo ago
SDL is a cross-platform multimedia library, and DOS is a platform.
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by krapp 6mo ago
We dither on the shoulders of giants.
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by krapp 6mo ago
These aren't the problem, the systems of power and capitalism using them to exploit people are the problem. AI is useful in niche circumstances but we could absolutely stand to get rid of 99% of its "use cases." Social media
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by krapp 6mo ago
I literally remember watching images load line by line. I know nostalgia for the old days is de rigueur especially on HN but I definitely do not want to go back to that.
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by krapp 6mo ago
Tons of people still use the internet as a source of entertainment and recreation. Just because you're too jaded to care doesn't mean the rest of the world is.
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by krapp 6mo ago
Peter, the apologist is here.
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by krapp 6mo ago
Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by krapp 6mo ago
>All the more reason why we need workplace democracy. The elites clearly do not know how to run a business and the economy is the final frontier for democracy to expand into. One might almost say workers should... own the means of produc
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by krapp 6mo ago
The president isn't empowered to declare war, but as Commander in Chief he is empowered to send the military anywhere he wants and start whatever "conflict" he wants, for whatever reason he wants, including no reason whatsoev
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by krapp 6mo ago
tbh, that seems less like "rapid secularization" and more like "a slight drop from absolute to merely near-absolute power" to me. Percentage of reported practice doesn't allow for the cultural and legal effects of r
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by krapp 6mo ago
Yes. Our democracy did actually function better before AI, social media and smartphones than it does now. Everything was not always as bad as it is now. I know that's heresy and thoughtcrime to suggest, but it is true. Things weren&#x2
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by krapp 6mo ago
"If you ignore reality, reality is awesome!"

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