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by nvy 2y ago
I'm not attempting to refute it. I'm suggesting that the idea that only the Liberals appoint partisan judges is absurd, because they're all corrupt.
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by nvy 2y ago
All parties appoint partisan judges. If you think your party of choice doesn't then you need to give your head a shake.
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by nvy 2y ago
Billionaires are not a protected class subject to undue discrimination. >How do you tell me you have no empathy for people higher up the status latter than you without telling me you have no empathy for people higher up the status ladder
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by nvy 2y ago
Considering tech billionaires got rich by destroying our privacy, why do only they deserve a law protecting their privacy?
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by nvy 2y ago
>They're not hoarding wealth. They don't have any Scrooge McDuck cash faults. Their money is all invested, i.e. put to work creating things that people want. The Panama Papers showed this to be a myth. The ultra rich are in fa
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by nvy 2y ago
IR as well.
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by nvy 2y ago
>Nobody cares that we were oppressed for millennia. Lots of people care, but both sides of the Israel-Palestine situation have done some pretty reprehensible shit going back decades. >So no, that line of reasoning is wrong. You can no
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by nvy 2y ago
The sun is decidedly unsafe for eyes.
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by nvy 2y ago
LOL did you miss the discourse around any prominent woman in any tech-adjacent space? It gets really odious around here when women are discussed. HN is very very far from whatever spectre the right currently is labeling "woke"
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by nvy 2y ago
>but not when the women are portrayed in a more negative fashion? Could it be because for centuries we ran the world and told women they were inferior, didn't let them vote, didn't let them drive, didn't let them have fina
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by nvy 2y ago
The risk-reward calculation for women is dramatically different than for men. For men, risk: not get laid, deal with rejection. reward: get laid, possibly meet soul mate For women, risk: person you matched with rapes and murders you. r
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by nvy 2y ago
I thought it was pretty catchy, actually.
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You can scrape the filings from EDGAR, which presents the statements in standardized format.
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Emacs has a built-in rudimentary drawing mode (ASCII-art only, obviously) that can be invoked with `M-x picture-mode`. Also of note, artist-mode: http://www.lysator.liu.se/~tab/artist/
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by nvy 2y ago
>Twitter's good! It's really not. It was good for a short while, way before the Muskquisition but the quality both of the service and of discourse have declined.
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>You can’t buy options on a $1000 stock Yes you can.
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One of the primary reasons companies split their stock is to keep the price in a more natural trading range where there's likely to be more liquidity. An n-way stock split in theory should reduce the price by a factor of n (that is, a
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by nvy 2y ago
Indeed, though with lock wire there's usually another anchor point you wire it to, so that the nut can't back off.
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by nvy 2y ago
I doubt they have the same fault. It's common practice in NATO air forces to use lock wire or another type of anti-backoff mechanism on screws and bolts subject to vibration. If the original design lacks this it would likely have been
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by nvy 2y ago
It's not possible for me to express the full measure of my disdain for Sam Altman without violating the HN guidelines.
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by nvy 2y ago
The fact that you cannot perceive the harms, or that they are not yet apparent, does not mean they do not exist. Look at Facebook and other social media: at first we all thought it was great and then we realized it's a giant depression
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by nvy 2y ago
>It’s fashionable, for reasons I am unaware, to hate on Sam Altman and OpenAI Perhaps because he's a slimy used-car salesman who got rich doing things that are illegal for you and me (ripping off copyrighted works en masse) and he p
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by nvy 2y ago
<lobbing hand grenade> Modal editing is fundamentally-insane UX.
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My brother plays rollyball^W tagpro and it's amazing how much people get into it. I'm terrible at it.
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by nvy 2y ago
Only for spammers trying to get their marketing into my inbox. For personal use cases email is great.
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Gosh what a terrible language.
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>You give the location of your missing property to the Police when stolen. They will do nothing.
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It's not mental illness, just capture by a figurehead they won't remove who's so detached from how modern computing works that he doesn't even know how to update his own website.
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by nvy 2y ago
Searching for "readme" turned up only two hits with dates on the files from the 1990s, not sure what's going on but not working as advertised.
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Laypeople have known what MP3s are since Napster was making headlines. Laypeople have mostly never heard of MP4.

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