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by nwah1 4y ago
Why do you assume to know best about what should be everywhere? This thread gives examples of how this is the only level of density that is even being allowed, but why cheer that? People, when left to their own devices, have generally prefe
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by nwah1 4y ago
Same.
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This is why a Land Value Tax is so essential.
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Maximum Overdrive, starring Bing Sydney
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Jevons Paradox, though
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The labs in China were infamous for actually selling their animals to wet markets.
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by nwah1 4y ago
There is work being done to address desktop linux, but I agree that is one of the deficiencies. https://github.com/jsuarezruiz/maui-linux/pull/37 The lack of a WASM target is another, although UNO project in
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by nwah1 4y ago
.NET MAUI is cross-platform and very easy to get started with, but would sacrifice a lot of performance to gain the convenience and simplicity of the development experience.
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He also gave attack helicopters to Suharto's regime while they were committing genocide.
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Auto is now Tech, apparently.
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They are both a bad look for virology. And thus virologists would have a bias towards defending their profession.
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If I steal your bicycle, but you still have it, then is it really stolen?
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It is trying to make up for the efficiency problems of scaling a trustless network by adding extra points of trust and failure, which ends up with something that is neither efficient nor trustless.
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Media Temple was acquired by GoDaddy long ago. Looks like they are just retiring the brand.
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He didn't have power over the Fed, but he did nominate a wise man to lead it. He would've come out looking tarnished under any circumstance, regardless of what the Fed did. Either inflation or high interest rates eventually result
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by nwah1 4y ago
Perhaps there is reason to suspect that Iran held the hostages longer because of a deal. But Reagan didn't make the helicopters go down, or are you suggesting otherwise? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surpri
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by nwah1 4y ago
He was definitely unlucky as a president. He presided over the bad part of the business cycle, and his attempt (Operation Eagle Claw) to rescue the American hostages in Iran via helicopter completely failed leading to a disastrous PR nightm
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by nwah1 4y ago
My understanding as a non-lawyer is that legal personhood is not predicated on membership in the human species. It is predicated on whatever precedent has established. And that there are important distinctions made in law between legal pers
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by nwah1 4y ago
Auto accidents are extremely serious. Wasn't that originally one of the arguments for why you should invest in Tesla? Because they will supposedly, one day, have cars that drive themselves safely? But now that you completely punctured
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by nwah1 4y ago
And the reply to that explains well how it is a transfer payment. And of course it is. A sizable number of people don't earn any income at all. You do have a point about inflation, but supply in most cases will respond accordingly. The
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by nwah1 4y ago
Would be interested to hear it, if you can dig it up.
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It is still a transfer payment, and it isn't free. That much is obvious enough. But it still provides a superior alternative to needs-based welfare from the perspective of eliminating perverse incentives. And since that is the point, i
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The well-known numbers that have been known since the Moynihan Report.
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There are strings. You need to qualify for it. Which means it isn't a guaranteed income program. It is a normal needs-based welfare program. The entire concept of a basic income guarantee, originally, was to remove the perverse incenti
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by nwah1 4y ago
Yes, this one is in the same top tier along with Fira, Hack, JetBrains, and Inconsolata.
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by nwah1 4y ago
Would argue that avoiding the cloud is cutting off your ears to spite your face, but you are free to make your own choices. If you are distributing code, will you share it via tarballs and zip files, or will you share it via a hosted servic
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by nwah1 4y ago
Good point, although that is a click-to-install thing rather than actually installed. And Windows 11 is currently more subtle with click to install options than Windows 10. I don't remember any game recommendations except maybe solitai
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Cloud documents allow sending out read-only links, and revision history can be preserved. Even for such things as contracts, something like PandaDoc or DocuSign is way better than PDF. I mainly see PDFs used for sending documentation, HR on
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by nwah1 4y ago
I dont think so. Microsoft has a more sophisticated view now, and understands that users are more savvy these days. Rather, they already were shipping a PDF reader, as most browsers already do. But were likely inundated with bug reports abo
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To me, cloud documents are better for most cases. They allow exporting to multiple file types, and allow you to edit after sending it out. While also often preserving revision history, and enabling collaboration. The next best options would

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