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by lolinder 2y ago
> A dedicated company should have a X-ray device that can determine if there is lead that has been painted over. Isn't the risk of lead paint only relevant if it's exposed? So you should test any visible layer and any layer tha
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by lolinder 2y ago
Thanks for saying so!
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by lolinder 2y ago
This isn't like most of the trite management tidbits you're comparing it to. All they're really observing is that there are no such things as "strengths" and "weaknesses" in the absence of context—there ar
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by lolinder 2y ago
> But, 1984 also features a great protagonist and an absolutely haunting language. While many of the other characters mainly serve to convey the broader ideas, it’s him who grounds the story emotionally. His suffering, his moral collapse
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by lolinder 2y ago
Every conversation about art runs into this problem: you can't criticize art without someone saying that the critic simply doesn't understand the art. Maybe in some cases this is true, but I don't think that's what'
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by lolinder 2y ago
You're shifting the goalposts from "they're ethnically the same people with a shared culture" to "by the standards of large landmasses China was more cohesive and united than India". Comparing Chinese unity fav
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by lolinder 2y ago
You're conflating racial and ethnic diversity in ways that are distinctly western or even really US-centric. Europe is extremely ethnically diverse, as is China, they just don't use skin color as the primary ethnic marker the way
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by lolinder 2y ago
India's population pyramid is about where China's was in 2000. Their bulge of working age people is just barely hitting the workforce, so it's way too early to say what the outcome will be by 2045 when they've ridden the
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by lolinder 2y ago
No, they're not. The Chinese have never been especially unified until very recently and they're internally quite diverse on all the key measures of ethnicity: their languages are mutually unintelligible, their religious belief sys
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by lolinder 2y ago
It's a lot more nuanced than that. China's internal diversity is much higher than Westerners typically understand, and their social cohesion and political stability are less well maintained than their external-facing image would l
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by lolinder 2y ago
I had a pair of knockoffs that were passable for limited purposes but certainly didn't pass muster as my primary shoe. I thought that the style just wasn't my thing. Then I got a pair of real Crocs and they very quickly became my
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by lolinder 2y ago
Be careful extrapolating based on China's current population and demographics. Too much of our armchair assessments of China's velocity is based on their meteoric rise on the backs of a historically large working-age population—a
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by lolinder 2y ago
> the conversation is supposed to be about cryptocurrency technology, > but you're talking about the gross financial companies that operate in cryptocurrency as if they ARE cryptocurrency. That's because the middlemen are in
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by lolinder 2y ago
Can you elaborate?
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by lolinder 2y ago
> a company that is figuring out how to run back the extinction process Are they, though? This isn't a dire wolf, it's a wolf with a few genes tweaked to make it look more like a dire wolf. I see no evidence that they have any
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by lolinder 2y ago
Collosal would face less pushback if they were upfront about the fact that they aren't a serious attempt at solving any ecological issues but that maybe they could push the tech forward enough that someone else could use it to solve re
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by lolinder 2y ago
Every project I've seen of theirs has been like this one: take an existing animal and tweak its genome very slightly to make it look kinda like the extinct one, then declare that they've brought back the extinct species. Never min
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by lolinder 2y ago
Oh, good, so when that happens they'll be making some flimsy claims about conservation and combating climate change to justify creating a poor imitation of Jurassic Park that wealthy and middle class people can visit.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Kill billboards and you move the Overton window. Billboards are a no-brainer, so if we can't control them then we have no hope for any ads of any sort. If we can eliminate them then we can start on the next thing.
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by lolinder 2y ago
The first amendment does not require allowing people to put up enormous structures along the highway that are designed with the express intention of coaxing drivers into focusing on your product instead of the road. That falls pretty cleanl
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by lolinder 2y ago
Billboards are targeted at a very specific demographic: drivers. They're designed to draw attention away from the road and to whatever it is that they're trying to sell. That reason alone is enough to ban billboards: we can't
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by lolinder 2y ago
A more precise conclusion would be: "This shows that US based companies will actively self-censor to avoid getting sued for copyright infringement. Russian-based companies don't have to respect US copyright law, so they have no le
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by lolinder 2y ago
This is the story: > The story is about DOGE, but it points out something curious: > > On March 25, tech staffers and contractors at the VA noticed an unfamiliar name trying to push changes that could impact VA.gov code. It was Sah
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by lolinder 2y ago
It's still only available on about 90% of global browser traffic. If you're going out of your way to support noscript smoothly, you probably care about supporting more than just 90% of web traffic. https://caniuse.com&#
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by lolinder 2y ago
If you followed this line of reasoning consistently you'd advocate for no additional regulations to ever be imposed by government and all existing regulations to be walked back. That is, to most of us, patently absurd. The answer to yo
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by lolinder 2y ago
FWIW, I agree totally, and I don't find JavaScript to be bad at all.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Honestly? I think the biggest cause of JavaScript hate is that a huge percentage of developers have very little choice but to use it. The web ate almost everything else for a host of reasons, and JavaScript is still the only language that t
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by lolinder 2y ago
Eh, OSD 3 just says that derived works must be possible, it doesn't say that you must be able to incorporate third party source code into the derived work. Meanwhile the FSF's definition explicitly calls out this freedom as an ess
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by lolinder 2y ago
Just as long as we don't start overusing the cocktail. Natural selection is a very powerful force, all it takes is one bacterium in a million that has resistance to all three methods to start an evolution.
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by lolinder 2y ago
Which point of the OSD would be violated by the NASA clause if read the same way that the FSF reads it?

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