nyolfen

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by nyolfen 6y ago
the social function of money far predates states: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/shelling-out/
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by nyolfen 6y ago
perhaps if you're israeli
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by nyolfen 6y ago
not sure if this is what was meant originally but it is a 'standard', and has many implementations, extensions and clients
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by nyolfen 6y ago
pass-tomb as well: https://github.com/roddhjav/pass-tomb
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by nyolfen 6y ago
honor means recognizing the divide between your self as you experience it or wish it to be, and the 'you' enacted upon the world, and working to align the latter with the former. this can be manipulated in bad ways, obviously, but
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by nyolfen 6y ago
this pulling rank thing might work better on reddit, but if you want to make an argument you should give your audience the courtesy of actually making one
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by nyolfen 6y ago
this is basically an ephiphenomenon of cross-platform game design frameworks, though (not to mention steam proton); not many game devs set out with the primary intention of supporting linux, and many fail to maintain it
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by nyolfen 6y ago
yes, but different scholars come to different conclusions, resulting in many islams
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by nyolfen 6y ago
you: "these are loopholes. these other people say so." them: "these are not loopholes. these other people say so." all divine authority is mediated by men.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
it is islamic, you just believe it is heterodox. just like any religion, there is not one true islam, but an intertwined cluster of sometimes contradictory cultural practices.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the US dollar is backed by the petrodollar arrangement: oil exporters accept dollars for oil in exchange for defense guarantees and other benefits. everyone needs oil, so everyone needs dollars. the dollar is inextricably tied to oil consum
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by nyolfen 6y ago
that they are going to be left in the dust if they don't adapt
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by nyolfen 6y ago
you realize that the situation you are describing is 'being handed a business card', right
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the sexual harassment was asking women at conferences on dates
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by nyolfen 6y ago
> propositioning people for sex in the halls of MIT you are going to need to cite that. the only accusations of 'sexual harassment' i have seen are asking women at conferences on dates.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
one of those criticisms as a i recall was 'he had a mattress in his office' as if this suggested something untoward rather than him sleeping in his office
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by nyolfen 6y ago
this may surprise you, but art precedes bureaucratic patronage networks, and continues to flourish in their absence
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by nyolfen 6y ago
none of the artists i know have made a living at it, and yet it has stopped precisely none of them. they are not wealthy people. do poor nations lack artists? this entire line of thinking is completely divorced from reality. just because th
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by nyolfen 6y ago
you are not paying attention if you think that the US has some kind of dearth of musicians and artists. the internet has made it easier than ever to create a profile and cultivate an audience.
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by nyolfen 6y ago
anatomically modern humans are thought to date to about 200kya, but early humans like h. erectus go back much further
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by nyolfen 6y ago
a few thousand years is not that long; humans have been in africa for millions of years and australia for at least 45k. interestingly the dingo looks very similar to many other breeds of feral dogs across the world, from the carolina dog on
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by nyolfen 6y ago
when i was 10 or so, an older friend introduced me to pirated software, and gave me a burned cd-r with some video games and 'warez' written on it in sharpie. i asked my dad what 'wahr-ehz' was, and he told me it was a ci
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by nyolfen 6y ago
ghidra https://ghidra-sre.org/
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by nyolfen 6y ago
this wasn't very hard https://www.wavy.com/news/local-news/local-libraries-begin-r... https://www.ctvnews.ca/entertainment/canadian-libraries-reas... https://www.indystar.com&
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by nyolfen 6y ago
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Thought-terminating_clich%C3%A9
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by nyolfen 6y ago
the petrodollar system is built on US military hegemony, with that military being the largest fossil fuel consuming entity in the largest fossil fuel consuming nation -- "the largest single institutional consumer of hydrocarbons in the
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by nyolfen 6y ago
this example is obviously reprehensible but does not seem like the same phenomenon
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by nyolfen 6y ago
maybe internally, but i haven't heard of conservatives getting random kids on twitter expelled from school lately
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by nyolfen 6y ago
are you thinking of libreoffice?
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by nyolfen 6y ago
what i am envisioning here is the content of a webpage compiled with ads therein. it would be desirable by the googles of the world for this very reason.

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