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by labster 2y ago
Classic whataboutism. Whether or not someone else lies doesn’t mean that this particular lie isn’t very concerning.
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by labster 2y ago
Of course all of the billionaires are rooting for Trump, because they want to be in business next year. Harris will understand voting for other parties, but Trump punishes disloyalty.
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by labster 2y ago
China was a one-party state where party elections actually mattered.
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by labster 2y ago
That makes sense, a blind man only uses half of the signal.
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by labster 2y ago
Indeed. To err is human. No one wants to talk about what WP Engine does, because Matt is making own-goals twice a week.
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by labster 2y ago
It’s only technically a supply chain attack. Pretty much all they did was apply a security patch and remove the other company’s IP. It doesn’t really attack a user or put anyone at risk, which is what you normally mean with an attack, so it
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by labster 2y ago
I wonder how easy it would be to avoid that letter when programming. It would certainly be easier in Perl, since you can use unless conditionals and while loops, and subroutines are simply called sub. In the case you absolutely need a modul
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by labster 2y ago
That, and also adding that naive reformist attitudes are incredibly common. Chesterton’s fence is a cognitive tool a lot of people don’t have, or that they only manage to apply in one narrow field of expertise. “I don’t know how anyone coul
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by labster 2y ago
All of the banks and state regulation keep getting in the way. It’s like there’s a fence in the middle of a path — all we need to do is get rid of the fence and everything will obviously improve.
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by labster 2y ago
Sure, but WP Engine will need to hire people to work on ForkPress. Or people can start a ForkPress foundation that actually includes stakeholders and get grants to work there. Someone will need to maintain the fork which is definitely comin
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by labster 2y ago
Thanks for the report. It’s a wiki farm so most of us go directly to the RecentChanges page instead of the landing page. I will change the link to point here instead: https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/FAQ
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by labster 2y ago
I’m the president of an internet nonprofit (miraheze.org) and we have five active directors with an annual budget of ~$10k. We have elections for community appointed directors as well. This stuff is not hard. By comparison, the WordPress Fo
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by labster 2y ago
Yep, I’m browsing this topic with popcorn right now, with no skin in the game. It’s great fun! Sorry if this is your livelihood, folks, but I can’t do anything to actually help. So I’ll just enjoy the fireworks and try to apply any lessons
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by labster 2y ago
As a meteorologist, I agree. Fear-mongering endangers people’s lives, because they are less likely to believe a real warning and just “ride it out”.
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by labster 2y ago
UTC is awful with its arbitrary, unpredictable leap seconds which basically no one cares about unless doing astronomy or navigation. Let’s just switch to TAI and be done with it! Until we colonize Mars obviously… actually even the Moon has
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by labster 2y ago
On one side is a big corporation that doesn’t give back very much to the open source community on which it profits. On the other side is an executive who will do everything in his power end the aforementioned abuse, including his nonprofit
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by labster 2y ago
But those car companies are just riding on the coattails of Exxon, Chevron and the like with their improvements in oil discovery and hydraulic fracking.
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by labster 2y ago
Everything old is new again. Had Sears gone back to focus on mail order instead of spending their waning years trying to save retail, they could have got Amazon's business before it was started. But instead they killed the catalog in
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by labster 2y ago
One of Automattic’s statements was issued by Neal Katyal, who was Acting Solicitor General of the United States. I would tend towards thinking the client himself may be the problem.
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by labster 2y ago
My advice would be to make plans to move away from WordPress entirely. While I think that the “supply chain attack” is hyperbolic, if technically true, it’s indicative of an organization that cares about winning more than ensuring any form
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by labster 2y ago
Some people have better things to do with their life than win internet arguments, man.
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by labster 2y ago
People and officials have been talking about healthy eating for generations. Hard to get more mainstream than every doctor talking about diet and exercise.
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by labster 2y ago
Thanks ChatGPT, I’ll keep that in mind.
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by labster 2y ago
At least it worked as a ToS canary. The repo goes down, and you know shenanigans are incoming.
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by labster 2y ago
No, equality of opportunity is specifically not needed for a meritocracy. It wasn’t in the original book[1], it didn’t happen in the old Chinese examination system, and it sure doesn’t happen now. Merits are measurements, and society adapts
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by labster 2y ago
Your description is exactly meritocracy under the original definition. The second kid has earned all of the merits, and the ones possessing the most documents of merit get ahead.
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by labster 2y ago
Are those two facts supposed to be related? I doubt the same uncharged war criminals were still running things 40 years later.
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by labster 2y ago
It’s a good thing we only have two sides in America. Can you imagine if companies had to contribute to as many parties as Europeans have? No wonder we’re more competitive here.
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by labster 2y ago
Certainly, streaming services have ruined broadcast television for me. I don’t know how I used to spend over $100 a month on cable TV to be advertised to. Spending four and a half days a year (44 minutes out of every two hours) watching ads
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by labster 2y ago
I don’t know the answer, but I doubt it was an engineering decision. If she was always a touring boat, paddle wheels are more interesting to experience for the tourist, and might be an edge against your competition. Tourists aren’t taking a

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