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by monadic2 6y ago
Ahh, so i take it russia, Brazil, and China are all first world countries now? Economically, american citizens have much lower access to basic social services and we let people die on the street with vacant housing in the neighborhood. Does
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by monadic2 6y ago
In my memory the quality of google searches peaked around 2009 or so I'm not sure I'd refer to it as a "present" effect....
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by monadic2 6y ago
In practical terms, biometrics are almost always introduced as a convenient way to authenticate, certainly not as a MORE secure method of authentication. Just look at how protestors have disabled it to avoid giving cops an easy way of acces
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by monadic2 6y ago
Yea but that was fixed with introducing pin numbers on debit cards. We haven't relied on manual authentication of transactions for decades, thank god.
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by monadic2 6y ago
It's still not clear what basis you're bounding that risk on—it seems like optimism that one of the investments would pay off. I would strongly prefer pessimism in this case!
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by monadic2 6y ago
I'm actually not sure I see the difference here when your information and access to you are the only things a website can secure at all. If you're selling my information, or access to me, that's by definition terrible privacy
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by monadic2 6y ago
Christ even judges believe in "platforms" now.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Sure, but the stakes are human existence on the planet. I don't know why you would turn away from solutions we already have with boundable risk.
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by monadic2 6y ago
You're largely correct, but I am not so sure you can separate "best law students in the country" from access. Attending an elite law school is one of the most straightforward ways to advance through access in the country. In
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by monadic2 6y ago
How do you know that the storage investment will produce something viable? Investments still have risk and nuclear can fill that hole.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Massive compared to what, though? Chernobyl was a catastrophe, but it's also like just a month of driving deaths here in america, or a couple coal plants just doing their thing. None of these are even on the same amount of destruction
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by monadic2 6y ago
Courts are not built to determine the truth, though, they're built to come to a verdict. In practice there are many countries that restrict the speech against the rich, including here in the US (ie the whole Peter Thiel/gawker deb
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by monadic2 6y ago
Ruby's `open` accepts urls. I can't say I've ever used this functionality.
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by monadic2 6y ago
On on hand you're right that this is "real" cancellation but you're doing a terrible job at showing that this is some kind of undue, non-deserved pain. Being unemployed for part of two years with savings strikes me as so
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by monadic2 6y ago
Like, game consoles? That seems to be the way the average person games. It's also far cheaper than pimping out a PC.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Sure, but it rather pokes a hole in the concept of general computing, does it not? If windows were an acceptable general purpose OS people here would be mad they were wasting their time on this. Somehow I just don't see the same dema
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by monadic2 6y ago
Half the us geographically, not by population. You're really exaggerating the nation's dependency and how few people half the metro areas of the US can serve. That's a massive number.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Obviously not if they're having to shoehorn Linux in there just to attract developers!
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by monadic2 6y ago
Man I get why this is so exciting but I'd love some more unixes that are willing to move beyond PC GUI mechanics, like the use of ctrl as a GUI key binding that conflicts with read line bindings. The only real alternative are macs.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Isn't that exactly what android is—an alternative UI on top of Linux?
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by monadic2 6y ago
Why are you coding on a gaming/entertainment machine?
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by monadic2 6y ago
The term is so broad and vague you just need to pick a meaning. Of course it would be much more useful to directly have conversations about, say, at-will employment.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Map doesn't mutate, it returns the result of applying a function to the (possibly immutable) value. I believe you can also, say, `select icolumn * 2 from table`, where `icolumn * 2` provides precisely the same functionality as the func
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by monadic2 6y ago
I mean lack of protection for employment seems to be the essence of cancel culture. I suspect that this overprotection of children stems from the (often unrelated) fears of the parent, such as lack of social welfare and social services seen
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by monadic2 6y ago
Ruby is a really cool language but I'm dying for an update where features are removed .
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by monadic2 6y ago
Idiomatic libraries for a cross-platform UI, same as every language, system or non. If you're not targeting an apple UI the choice of swift is entirely confusing because it has even less of an ecosystem to build off of than where it&#x
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by monadic2 6y ago
They're trying hard, but the main draw of the language will always be their proprietary UI frameworks, same as objective-c.
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by monadic2 6y ago
No shit.
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by monadic2 6y ago
It would not be uncommon to have plastic surgery, for instance.
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by monadic2 6y ago
Yea building a pyramid is easy, you just need to invent the internal combustion engine first. That said, pyramids seem to have been built with hired labor so the point is pretty muddy regardless.

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