notthemessiah

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by notthemessiah 5y ago
I'm sure shoplifting is to blame, and not the price of rent and lack of new construction.
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
You couldn't be more wrong. The plea bargain was offered early in the case, Aaron thought he could fight it, but the case went on too long, and he ran out of money to fight it. Only after he had absolutely nothing left for the fight di
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
Rosa Parks was involved with stubbornly giving up her seat in the front of the colored section for a white woman, which "spun out of control when the feds got involved" but like Swartz she pushed her way through the Justice system
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
We get that the justice system threatens people larger penalties to see what charges they can get to stick, but they also use it to force a plea bargain. In Aaron's case, the prosecutors were adamant that Aaron should get at least 6 mo
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
It doesn't as get much attention, but Aaron was working a lot on a lot of pro-democracy anti-corruption money-out-of-politics activism in his latter years, founding "Change Congress" with Lessig, which later became "Root
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
Honestly, I find it better than naming a chat protocol "Matrix", which either brings to mind the movie or the mathematical structure (it also makes it a pain to search for and distinguish from linear algebra libraries). I'm m
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
Imagine what Reddit could have been if they went with tags instead of subcommunities. Posts could have different communities interacting instead of having mutually exclusive circlejerks.
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
Getting with the program? You seem to have the idea this happened spontaneously, but it was nothing but: Japan and Germany's reconstruction and re-industrialization was by design, as part of the Bretton Woods system, Marshall Plan, and
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
Sounds like neovim-gtk has 2/3 (you can resize splits with the mouse, but you can't move them), but unfortunately, it's infrequently updated, sometimes I experience glitches, and it sometimes fails to build. https:/&#x2
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
I like NixOS, but I think the redundancy in the /nix/store could possibly take up a lot of space on a system with as little storage as the 64GB Steam Decks. Plus the tooling has a weird interface.
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
Some Minecraft mods like TerraFirmaCraft and new games such as Vintage Story opt for a more realistic portrayal, and include the use of realistic ore and flux in smelting.
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
It also flows back in terms of political contributions, lobbying, and political appointments. Right now a former ShotSpotter VP is being nominated to lead the ATF.
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by notthemessiah 5y ago
I honestly haven't thought much about Jupyter since I moved to Pluto.jl (Observable-style reactive notebook): https://github.com/fonsp/Pluto.jl
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
Sounds similar to https://agaric.coop/ which is a web-dev co-op. They do most of their work in Drupal.
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
10Mbps is 5 times the upload speed of NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars. Currently, 3Mbps upload qualifies as broadband in the US.
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
Corey Doctorow writes about the "turning humans into robots", or more specifically systems that "the machine uses the human for support" and describes them as "Reverse Centaurs": https://pluralistic.
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
"Support" implies that the it's a good idea to be be pursued, contrasted with "once thought outlandish" (it's still outlandish, but possibly less worse than the alternative) in the clickbait headline. The conte
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
This needn't have been the case. If the vaccine was freely-licensed instead of proprietary, we wouldn't have the production/distribution issues we're currently seeing: https://theconversation.com/covid-va
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
It is parasitic, but I think in the bigger scheme of things, Valve is a lesser evil than Epic, which is in itself a lesser evil than Apple. Valve is investing in its own capital as well as the infrastructure for the PC gaming industry at la
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
The author of this piece calls Dynamic Programming "one of the top three achievements of Computer Science", however, it doesn't have much to do with computer science, as it's just a synonym for mathematical optimization,
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
It's pretty telling that "64 percent of people who joined an extremist group on Facebook only did so because the company’s algorithm recommended it to them" according to facebook's own research into divisiveness. https
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
Reminds me of another bombing incident, where the FBI was warned by the Russian FSB that the Boston Bombers, the Tsarnaevs, had associated with Islamist militant extremists: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-explos
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
Ain't a theory, it's by design: Robert Moses was the architect of this suburban vision of America. Not only did they pave the way out of the city, the highways also paved over the homes of millions of existing residents in the cit
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
He also lucked out on inheriting fortunes from his parents diamond mines. But, there are lots of people who inherit fortunes and do nothing with it. There are lots of people with drive and intelligence comparable to Elon Musk who don't
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
Arecibo was steerable, that's what the receiver array was for.
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
Sure you can reduce power production, just insert control rods, but that comes at a severe cost to efficiency, costs that at large scale become far more of a concern, especially when nuclear is already nearly prohibitively expensive.
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
This problem is way overstated, as most fossil fuel and nuclear power can't be easily or efficiently ramped down either. We also have energy storage technologies other than batteries: the most common being pumped-storage hydroelectrici
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
You can make a mirror flip something vertically, just put the mirror on the ground.
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
PDFs can get massive when they're from scans. An e-Ink device should support better formats such as DJVU.
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by notthemessiah 6y ago
It misses a bigger point: Uber/Lyft drivers don't set their own prices, and can't be considered independent contractors. Nothing stops me from putting up an ad on Craiglist and putting up a price for a gig, and taking more ti

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