mellow2020

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by mellow2020 6y ago
Fully fledged totalitarianism isn't overthrown by revolution, a worldwide totalitarianism isn't some kind of necessary stage before universal peace -- it would rather make peaceful, dignified relations of people to themselves and
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by mellow2020 6y ago
It's not synonymous with it, it does entail it. Why would you think resistance against sleepwalking into the collapse of human civilization as something deserving of such a title, which would entail incredible suffering, is synonymous
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Standing up is the opposite of collapse. Failure to stand up is required for the collapse to go ahead.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
It's simply that some people engage in and encourage censorship, others call it out. That's the division.
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by mellow2020 6y ago
Any object I could name seems ultimately arbitrarily defined at some point, it's "object-ness" simply a thought in my mind.. and even that only as long as I actively uphold it, since a thought isn't an object either, but
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by mellow2020 7y ago
Why not? Maybe I have a lot of monitors and want to dedicate a small one to a taskbar where I see the full pathname of each editor that has a file open. People who just randomly click things without even realizing they're clicking may
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> It’s true that the first time they realized you could completely remap the keyboard in Word, they changed everything around to be more to their liking, but as soon as they upgraded to Windows 95 those settings got lost, and they weren’
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> the majority of gamer market prefers a 'power fantasy' emotional experience, so many games are intentionally targeting that Sure, but after a while, after seeing that in 100000 permutations, some people kinda move on from tha
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> Nobody would even read your post. Is there anything factual in the post you take issue with?
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> The CNBC article does compare the flu to the coronavirus and does note the flu has already killed more across the US on an absolute basis, but also notes that the coronavirus is significantly deadlier than the flu on a relative basis.
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by mellow2020 7y ago
There is Enemy Territory, the multiplayer successor to Return to Castle Wolfenstein: https://www.etlegacy.com/ ETF (Enemy Team Fortress) also has a discord and people who seem to be developing/porting things, but I can
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> How can you say that? The Netherlands still has people going to cafes. Because vast majority isn't, certainly not in Germany. I can say that because I have been experiencing it for weeks now. > Even if you can point to a figu
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> Everybody is not acting like that. The vast majority does. > I meant help in any way that would benefit everyone. And I'm asking how that would help. So far, every single proponent of "surveillance because covid" I as
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by mellow2020 7y ago
When everybody acts as if they're already infected, and so is everyone else, how is this helping?
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> If this is how you're going to behave in these situations at work, I'll have you off the team/company in a heartbeat. You're describing sanctions without even being clear about the offense. What is the behaviour? Sa
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by mellow2020 7y ago
I just meant copying and pasting long function and variable names out of my own code elsewhere, should autocomplete somehow not apply.
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by mellow2020 7y ago
Knowing that jQuery ends up calling those very same functions, only often after jumping through a bunch of hoops, doesnt make me consider it a shortcut. Between auto-complete and copy and paste, I prefer slightly more "work" up fr
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by mellow2020 7y ago
And this is a quote from Howard Rheingold: > You have to remember that in democratic societies citizens talking with each other is very important. We've lost a lot of that with the mass media. Now we have an opportunity for citizens
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> Certainly the environment is doing better, I wouldn't be so sure (yet) about the overall outcome. For example, the EPA just suspends enforcement of all environmental laws "because corona". https://thehill.co
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> while clicking away all their most intimate shit to check out some stupid Facebook game. That doesn't describe me, that describes the straw man your require to be at ease with your own choices, which in turn is the only signal in
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> The point of contact tracing is to find out who to quarantine, so you don’t have to lock down the entire population. But "stay at home" has been a mantra for weeks anyway, with everybody acting as if they and everyone else is
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by mellow2020 7y ago
So the goal would be that everybody is an "investor", but nobody works and produces any actual value? That doesn't even pass the smell test, and is just an excuse for people to not seek justice, as is calling that "moani
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> If a serial killer murders your father, we're going to react differently than if your father dies of a heart attack. What matters, to me, is that I can no longer speak to a person. How that came about is very, very minor compared
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by mellow2020 7y ago
> A virus isn't comparable to people hijacking planes and flying them into buildings. Being dead is absolutely comparable with being dead though, no matter what lead there. It's the absence of a person that matters, to the peop
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by mellow2020 7y ago
I agree. I like CSS, and I don't like anything the frameworks offer, they're just the worst of all possible worlds: a LOT of CSS (it's not just the "custom CSS" that counts, from the perspective of the browser eve
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by mellow2020 7y ago
This is purely about stealing. > agreed to plead guilty on Thursday to taking sensitive documents > Prosecutors accused Levandowski of stealing materials in late 2015 and early 2016 after deciding to leave Google and form his own co