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by ndespres 6y ago
The first sentence of the linked post addresses this: "The Scots language version of Wikipedia is legendarily bad. People embroiled in linguistic debates about Scots often use it as evidence that Scots isn’t a language"
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by ndespres 6y ago
I don't understand why that's relevant. You should know that your comment reads as an excuse or an acceptance for the deeply creepy and awful things that Epstein said and did, not sure if you meant it that way so I'll give yo
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>> If I am a shoe maker and I make one shoe per day, and you invent a new process that makes 10 shoes per day, and my customers start buying shoes from you instead of me, have you "taken" my money? No. But if you are a shoe-
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by ndespres 6y ago
Doesn't medical school in the US cost something like $350,000? That might have something to do with high doctor salary. Doctors and nurses, heck let's include hospital janitors too, are not "extracting wealth" from the h
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by ndespres 6y ago
That's a strange claim to make even if it is factually correct (of course the majority of costs in the industry go to the thousands of front-line workers, and not the few executives) and not even really what I'm saying. It's
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>> Think of it like this if I'm in an industry and polluting the river. Do you want to raise taxes on me so that I stop polluting, or do you want to just make that illegal? Well, I think that it mostly is illegal right now, but t
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by ndespres 6y ago
Some people and corporations are getting obscenely, criminally wealthy by profiting from education, healthcare, and housing. I'm theorizing that if taxes were high enough such that it was impossible to accumulate obscene amounts of wea
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by ndespres 6y ago
Putting a very high tax on wealth would have the benefits of a one-time infusion of tax revenues, AND a future disincentive for the ultrawealthy to seek to enrich themselves infinitely using business practices that take money from everyone
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by ndespres 6y ago
What? He says he remembers fields full of fireflies. Why imply that it's memory distortion? I'm surrounded by fields and in the high point or July there are breathtaking displays of fireflies at night, and it's not my imagina
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by ndespres 6y ago
Good luck doing that when it was automatically enabled and deployed, so now users have data on it already.
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by ndespres 6y ago
One funny thing about it is that it's not bundled with the Office suite the way Word, Excel, Powerpoint and sometimes Access are. Teams is part of your "Microsoft 365" subscription, which could include your rights to the Offi
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by ndespres 6y ago
Yes it is auto-installed and auto starts and is very annoying to get rid of, as a sysadmin. It also installs itself per-user, so non-admins get prompted constantly to install it themselves and can do so even with limited privileges. It is p
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by ndespres 6y ago
It's about time. I don't know exactly what Prince means by "gateways vs gatekeepers" in this context as Slack is itself a pretty closed system, isn't it? It's not using open protocols or interpretable with comp
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by ndespres 6y ago
One of their books that provided endless entertainment to me as a child came with a working stopwatch and provided prompts for random things to do against a timer (how fast can you re-lace your shoelaces, do 10 jumping jacks and say the ple
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by ndespres 6y ago
As he says, behavior like this, in his part of the world, is highly unusual. I've never seen anything like it. I'm glad he takes the time to show what a typical hive is like (at the 20:00 mark in the original video). Beekeeping is
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by ndespres 6y ago
Yes, the queen dictates the mood of the hive but it happens in 2 ways- her genetics, and her pheromones. It can take over a month before the mood of the hive would change after a re-queening. Even with a queen replacement, there are thousan
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by ndespres 6y ago
They are describing a fruit known in parts of the US as pawpaw and custard apple both. Never heard it called "sugar apple" but there are 2 different fruits known as custard apple so maybe you are thinking of a different one.
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by ndespres 6y ago
I also ran Windows Server 2003 as my regular desktop OS for a few years. I got an evaluation copy in the mail at some point and just kept using it. Even with the extra overhead of running network services on it for my household, it was stil
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by ndespres 6y ago
I find the way Explorer in Windows 10 handles this behavior to be annoying and inconvenient. It finds ways to change paths into new canonical locations, for example browse to C:\Users\Yourname and instead of giving you breadcrumbs like Loc
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by ndespres 6y ago
By calling for the military to shoot protesting citizens? Come on.
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by ndespres 6y ago
The enterprise hardware RAID controllers have battery backed memory that is heavily utilized during a rebuild. Operations that would take days without it are reduced to hours. I'm not sure what a typical NAS does though.
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by ndespres 6y ago
They are cleaning up parks for kids to play in, including fixing playground equipment. This isn't about lawns.
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by ndespres 6y ago
I'm in upstate New York where even the cars I drive regularly are rusting out constantly, to say nothing of the rusted junk that doesn't get used. When I bought my house and talked to the homeowner insurance agent about risks on t
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by ndespres 6y ago
I like the flexibility, but you have to be conscious to still set boundaries. Having to leave the office to catch my train on time is a great motivator to make sure everything is wrapped up and I don't linger at the office. When work i
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The most sad part of Terry's death is that he became the object of fascination and obsession of a forum of internet trolls who actively worked to make his life worse. I think he was off his medication and homeless at the end of his lif
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by ndespres 6y ago
Food service, maintenance, landscaping, small tetail.. plenty of possible examples come to mind.
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I agree! But these aren't people who are going to spend days in the woods. They are people who work in offices, who are nervous about toilet paper shortages and are unprepared for the possibility of food shortages. Good for them for t
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I think a lot of these folks underestimate what it takes to hunt an elk, field dress it, bring it back to their vehicle, and put away 300 lbs of meat. Even if you borrow a gun as one person interviewed here would, you need a truck, knives,
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by ndespres 6y ago
That's a satirical news segment from The Onion. Not a real anti-smoking campaign.
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by ndespres 6y ago
This is fun survey. I'd never heard of anything like this before on a larger scale, but a friend in small city in New York has some ramps set up to let his cat out the window and down a story from the roof to let his cat roam. I'd

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