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by monadic2 7y ago
FWIW I just ordered a bunch of shit from home depot, it arrived faster than amazon could deliver it and everything I was looking for was in stock. I've also never had any major complaints in person with unhelpful staff—just the opposit
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by monadic2 7y ago
> If that seems tautological, you're already bought in. ...bought in to what?
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by monadic2 7y ago
Well damn I've been living a minimalist lifestyle my whole life without meaning to. > Token gifts that have been gifts for the sake of gifting something. There is utility value in sentimental gifts, too, but it's obviously subj
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by monadic2 7y ago
I'd estimate they were commenting on the quality of the results, not critiquing the personal efforts of the researchers.
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by monadic2 7y ago
Sure, but toki pona is also designed to work with a small subset of ascii, so the question remains.
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by monadic2 7y ago
The mistake is thinking in terms of linear social progress, which is trivially perverted for rhetoric. People are certainly more civil and aware of acute racism and racial discrimination. But in material terms, being black makes you acute
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by monadic2 7y ago
> If your possessions all have practical utility, This seems tautological or uselessly subjective. What is a possession without practical value? You seem to have talked yourself out of seeing the value in possessions you own. Perhaps you
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by monadic2 7y ago
Apple will always make the right choice—until it messes with their business model. There are uncountable examples of ways in which they have intentionally crippled their own hardware and software to prevent users from using their own purcha
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by monadic2 7y ago
Sure, I was commenting on the HN title being inappropriate out of context.
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by monadic2 7y ago
This is the first time I have heard a kerberos/ldap setup referred to as “easy”.
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by monadic2 7y ago
Does it work as well as the built in tracker?
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by monadic2 7y ago
I can't wait for how much they charge in the US for it. Hundreds of dollars? Thousands?!
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by monadic2 7y ago
Apple opened up its API tracking wasted time?
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by monadic2 7y ago
What is objective competence? The rich reward what they recognize; incompetence is universal. Unrelated, I have heard from my friends that your homelessness resource site for san diego is still extremely useful, even outside of san diego. T
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by monadic2 7y ago
There are many ways to refrigerate with snow around—everything from burying to immersing in animal fat to curing. I’d guess this was intended at least in part for regular human interaction, e.g. a reliable hunting camp.
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by monadic2 7y ago
Malice or stupidity makes no effect, and shared incentives are far stronger forces than conspiracies anyway.
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by monadic2 7y ago
I suppose it's a matter of perspective.
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by monadic2 7y ago
Very unrelated—SpicyPass looks quite attractive—one feature that is missing from some of these managers—possibly because the host OS does not allow it—is typing of the passwords as if from a keyboard rather than using the clipboard, which i
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by monadic2 7y ago
> Because a competitor business will instead use that cash to offer a better product and customers will flock to them. Then how come competition doesn’t produce better products?
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by monadic2 7y ago
Why don’t they have enough cash on hand to weather a few months of no sales? Why are american businesses so vulnerable to a downturn after two decades of discussing “black swan” events and “antifragility”? I am honestly bewildered.
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by monadic2 7y ago
Coal makes Chernobyl look downright mild.
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by monadic2 7y ago
Why was the company (and many like it) so vulnerable? Many of my friends wear everlane.
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by monadic2 7y ago
> This is much better than tracking people via facial and video recognition captured with near-omnipresent camera feeds. Yea, but it's much worse than non-shitty suggestions. Obviously if you pick the shittiest option anything will
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by monadic2 7y ago
> Would you suggest that we not have public health departments engage in contact tracing at all to combat the pandemic? Why does this imply such invasive measures?
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by monadic2 7y ago
> The only data that we collect is your mobile number, That's the definition of PII and will eventually be abused for purposes other than emergency contact.
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by monadic2 7y ago
Markets for RSS app developers^
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by monadic2 7y ago
I don't see a linux-style effort producing any usable software anyway.
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by monadic2 7y ago
Too little, too late. Corporations cannot be trusted with software.
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by monadic2 7y ago
The implication is that they would have more if they were not open source, not that open source software is bug free. How could you interpret it like that in good faith? You can’t.
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by monadic2 7y ago
??? you don’t need to commit software upstream to use it, audit it, or publish obvious vulnerabilities and improvements. Right now consumers have a feudal arrangement with Apple: accept the software at any conditions or not have land on whi

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