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by octopoc 2y ago
My take is that we should leave them alone and try to keep others from meddling. They have to figure this out on their own. The idea that European enlightenment values are the only path to success is part of the problem though: they have a
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by octopoc 2y ago
Hi! What planet are you from?
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> In other words, the fundamental issue here is not really whether big tech platforms should be regulated as speakers, as that’s a misconception of what they do. They don’t speak, they are middlemen. And hopefully, we will follow the log
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How is it efficient to make design choices that increase the strain on the structure, forcing you to add extra strength that would not otherwise be necessary?
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Practicality aside, another major controversial opinion of the Nazis was that buildings should be beautiful. There's a lot of ugly communist architecture in Europe that shows which side won the war.
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by octopoc 2y ago
The other day I saw a bug in it, when editing a Note that another person was also editing. We were editing separate paragraphs. My cursor kept resetting to the beginning of a word after each letter I typed (and the Swype-style keyboard had
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by octopoc 2y ago
You can't outlaw the exercise of power, so the extreme power imbalance itself is the core problem for humanity; and the only way to fix that is to take some of their power away. > donating large amounts to political groups, and lobb
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by octopoc 2y ago
For bonus points if the shower becomes unsafe while in use, you can optimize the shower by turning off hot water using this gadget: https://faucetlist.com/collections/thermostatic-shower-fauce...
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by octopoc 2y ago
I know a family of flat earthers and for them they'll just appeal to the Bible as an authority on the subject. Apparently there are some verses that imply the earth is flat. I found this out when the 10-year-old son attempted to lectur
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Ugh yeah that would be another prime candidate. I guess what I'm getting at though is how to help people want to have families. Whether they a family is even possible is the question you're bringing up, which is a good one as we
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What is needed is a shared identity with a vision for the future. Subsidies are good but not enough. It’s like the people who think America is a proposition nation: they never understood what made America great. A proposition can’t inspire
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Historical European martial arts
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Seasonal employment is tracked separately and can be accounted for[1]. [1] https://www.bls.gov/sae/seasonal-adjustment/ > Seasonal adjustment eliminates the part of the change attributable to the normal seasona
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by octopoc 2y ago
Everyone agrees on that but nobody agrees on which party that is though
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The world is full of people with an agenda and plenty of time on their hands. They are the elephant in the room, not random trolls who do it only because it's so easy.
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by octopoc 2y ago
At what scale do I need to worry about this? If I make an app and don’t want to comply but I live in the US, do I open myself up to extradition if I have users in the EU?
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What happens if you set your name servers to e.g. Digital Ocean then go to Digital Ocean and try to add your domain name there but you find that an attacker has already created that domain name under their account? They were watching the na
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by octopoc 2y ago
Their point was that YouTube has influence, not that they’ve always used their influence for bad things. They’re doing bad things now though, and with their level of influence those bad things might spread all over the web.
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by octopoc 2y ago
They're not very widespread though. I don't think they had a presence at my prison. I don't think there were any other white gangs there. The mix was about 50% white / 50% black. Didn't see many Hispanics.
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I was involved in an organization that helped inmates. It was an eye-opening experience. A lot of the younger blacks are there because they want to be there: it's where all the cool people are. So they deliberately try to get into pris
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by octopoc 2y ago
But, who sent the attack is the news. Sure we’re always bombarded with attacks by random cyber gangs, but when you’re targeted by an organization with official credentials that tends to raise some eyebrows.
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by octopoc 2y ago
YMMV -- I was a little creeped out by a blog that required my name, so I put a fake name. It was an extra level of indirection I could have done without.
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by octopoc 2y ago
Thank you for your service. I think it’s popular to be dismissive and say that all politicians are sociopaths, which sounds very similar to saying they’re all power seeking individuals. The reason they sound similar is because there’s this
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This is true for most cases. However in my family we have special circumstances: because my grandfather is a veteran, my father is paid to take care of him. It is an absolutely phenomenal experience for our family and has brought us all tog
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by octopoc 2y ago
Yeah the problem with these handouts is that the kind of people who become billionaires tend to be: 1) a bit disconnected from the real problems in society 2) convinced that their success in one field translates well to fixing society 3) ve
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by octopoc 2y ago
Really? I'm skeptical, unless you categorize someone stealing to fuel their drug addiction, as "due to poverty." What about people who steal because it's fun or exciting and not boring, like an actual job? I had a Hispan
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These woke activists go by the term "community organizers," which is especially ironic considering how dysfunctional they make communities. Multicultural societies are easy prey for them.
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That is incorrect. Zoom would have to modify the browser source code to enable the API on their domain.
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> Not by Western European enlightenment values. Interesting that you bring that up in this context, because Enlightenment thought advocated fewer checks and balances on centralized power. Enlightenment thinkers admired Socrates' phi
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by octopoc 2y ago
This hits close to home. I have something similar, except it's not as featureful and it's ridiculously purpose-built for me. E.g. I have one page in this app for generating PDFs of a very specific type that I need. I have another

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