lemmiwinks

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by lemmiwinks 3y ago
1920's Prohibition was also quite supported by the local population, it was voted in... Anyhow OP's point is regarding the efficiency of prohibition, not about support.
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by lemmiwinks 3y ago
Keep thinking that way if you wish, but do not complain when your power users leave and your website turns to shit. (related: not sure "impact" was the word you were searching for there)
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by lemmiwinks 3y ago
> while testing showed it produced more power and better emissions, people beta testing for me reported it felt 'too smooth How hard would it be to made that user-selectable? Because I would guess that some would prefer it that way
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by lemmiwinks 3y ago
> If you had a multi-day electric or gas outage in New York in mid-January, you'd see exactly the same thing happen. No: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_1998_North_American_... Multiple weeks without el
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by lemmiwinks 3y ago
Talking about bad faith... you know you're replying in a thread about GitHub incidents where someone is blaming capitalism for that right?
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by lemmiwinks 3y ago
...the first rule of Fight Club / Usenet is you do not talk about Fight Club / Usenet?
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
You know how many minutes I "spend molding [my] previous cover letter to the job description"? 15 minutes. If you spend more than that, you are clearly doing it wrong.
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
No? Madrid is about the same latitude as NYC. Paris is significally to the north of Montreal. London is about the same latitude as Calgary.
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050107-00/?p=36...
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
If you think gender is confusing, maybe you should consider that the problem is *you*?
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
Everyone knows that Manhattan and London's City are wretched hives of scum and villainy, of course.
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
I wonder who you think are those "globalist elites" and why are you against them? (that's a rhetorical question, don't answer please)
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
> "Human behavior is economic behavior. The particulars may vary, but competition for limited resources remains a constant. " That quote is discussed a length on this wonderful blog (like others said, it's from SMAC): ht
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
From my comprehension of Mad Men? You hire a PR firm to convince those investors and decision people, to sell them an idea instead of KPIs. It can go both ways, of course: Mad Men is full of examples of stupid business ideas that went spect
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
So the only solution to climate change is anti-capitalism. Got it.
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
> Quebec is in the process of making it difficult for anyone to attend English-language schools, Not true > and causing another round of people and companies to leave Quebec as they did because of René Lévesque and the PQ. How to te
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
> People started a huge fight over whether the word "they" can refer to a single individual the other week. Link please?
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
Why are you trying to fight over what is the best for your kids? Both have obvious benefits: Grimm Brothers tales are still culturally relevant for a reason, even if you can probably find useless brain fodder on Disney+; and video games can
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by lemmiwinks 4y ago
TIL https://www.zophar.net/ still exists
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by lemmiwinks 5y ago
Why woudn't studying philosophy not a passion project?
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by lemmiwinks 5y ago
> There’s no more financial incentive to push these than to push Aspirin or Advil. lol https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ivermectin-demand-dri... > The website advertises consultations for $90 and fills
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by lemmiwinks 5y ago
The irony being that 20 (more like 25?) years Yahoo search was ripe for disruption... by Google :) Halt and Catch Fire [1] (As a nerd, I can say it's one of the few TV series that got the hackers spirit correctly) had a few episodes ab