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by octopoc 2y ago
I think that's partly a generational thing. The younger generations tend to be willing to spend more to ensure a "clean" supply chain--where clean means things like no slavery, family owned business, etc. The older generation
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by octopoc 2y ago
...the Sun (also wouldn't the appropriate word be "goddess"? Interestingly in ancient German tradition the sun is female and the moon is male)
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by octopoc 2y ago
Your comment got me wondering if it's possible to stay in earth's shadow continuously without constant fuel expenditure, but apparently that's not possible: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/55271
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by octopoc 2y ago
The only reliable way that I finish my side projects is by using them for something I need to do anyway. If I can use something I made by going slightly out of my way, I get to improve it to completion (at least for the use case I'm
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by octopoc 2y ago
Have you ever heard the phrase "tortured logic"?
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by octopoc 2y ago
I've tried Suno and it was nice. Haven't tried this, but it looks it also is missing what I care about. What is missing IMO is the ability to control the tune. If I could record me humming the tune to produce a cappella music or m
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by octopoc 2y ago
Actually I hardly ever spend time on Twitter. I prefer reading original sources and trying to decipher biases that are less subtle than the biases on Wikipedia, and therefore more easily read between the lines. But most importantly I’m neit
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by octopoc 2y ago
Would you also be someone else if you were born in the same family, country, and decade but with different DNA? Or would you be the same person?
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by octopoc 2y ago
TBH it comes across like you're being contrary, not curious. Yes, there's been lots of war. But there are also examples like Switzerland where French- and German- and Italian-speaking people coexist. No, it's not THE SAME EVE
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by octopoc 2y ago
I think you guys might be talking past each other. Obviously everyone agrees that many Europeans have coexisted within the same political structures for many generations. The difference between historical diversity and the woke kind is that
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by octopoc 2y ago
Oops, thanks. I guess Marx was being referenced? I had thought Marx was English but apparently he was German-Jewish[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Marx
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by octopoc 2y ago
- What are some ways in which your company is not using the latest new hotness, but ways in which your company is doing good enough? What I'm getting at with this one is we see a lot of talk about whatever the latest tech fad is, but I
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by octopoc 2y ago
Yes, Hitler was socialist but he taught that hierarchies were inevitable since they are found everywhere in nature. It was called natural law.
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by octopoc 2y ago
It's not just the quality and craft of works. Worker's pay didn't increase but productivity did, the wealthy have become ever wealthier, the bottom 90% of earners stopped doing better off, etc. etc. It's kind of crazy ho
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by octopoc 2y ago
I think there are two ways to think about stories like this: that they are Wisdom, or that they are tools for those who are wise. I prefer to think of them in the second way. The stereotypical Bible-thumping Christian thinks of the Bible as
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by octopoc 2y ago
Speaking of that, there ought to be a streaming service that uses bittorrent and has only old, public domain movies on it. Like popcorntime, but with only legal stuff on it. Internet archive just isn't the same.
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by octopoc 2y ago
Yeah, this is definitely the case IME. It's easy to read these stories and go away thinking "WTF." But it's important to remember that these stories come from oral societies, which means 90% of the communication is lost
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by octopoc 2y ago
> But Helberg also said that Karp’s strong language against anti-Israel protests — a somewhat riskier stance to take in Washington, particularly when compared to Palantir’s tough anti-China stance — is “kind of part of the DNA of the com
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by octopoc 2y ago
I've moved on to Uno Platform. It runs on more platforms. such as Linux and WebAssembly, and it actually supports pure C# markup, which is what I always wanted. I know XAML by heart but I love, love the simplicity of using C#.
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by octopoc 2y ago
> And by the standards of the Nuremberg trials, the heads of every allied airforce, and all of their immediate subordinates and sub-subordinates should have been dancing the hemp fandango. That's a very good point, although the Nure
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by octopoc 2y ago
Ford also wanted to lower consumer prices and raise salaries to help people have easier lives. But that was ruled illegal by our "justice" system, because his primary duty is apparently to shareholders[1]: > The Michigan Suprem
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by octopoc 2y ago
There are Germans, Slavs (although Slavs might be a Germanic subpeople?), Celts, the pre-Roman peoples in the Iberian Peninsula (they still exist in Spain IIRC), the Romans and the Greeks. Possibly the Finnish and the Hungarians as well? Al
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by octopoc 2y ago
That decline is most likely inaccurate due to people not reporting crime because they know the police will do nothing, or due to changing definitions of crime. I remember some news stories on HN about a California city where a man filmed la
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by octopoc 2y ago
UuidExtensions[1], a C# library, has a way of generating / encoding IDs that has several useful properties: 1. IDs can be generated anywhere (client-side, server-side, etc.) and are still unique 2. IDs are ordered by time 3. IDs don&#x
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by octopoc 2y ago
Has FileMaker Pro changed / improved / worsened significantly since then? The latest release is FileMaker Pro 2023.
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by octopoc 2y ago
Eh I get it. TBH I think this is a generational divide and we’ll have to agree to disagree.
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Their nationality is relevant because they are Israeli and Israel and Gaza are at war.
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by octopoc 2y ago
In my (limited) experience, COBRA is far, far more expensive than buying on healthcare.gov.
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by octopoc 2y ago
This would definitely affect me, but I guess I should wait until it goes into effect and then someone else tests the law? I can't afford to get sued by my former employer.
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by octopoc 2y ago
I think what aaomidi was saying was that their Israeli coworkers conflated mourning murdered Palestinian civilians with supporting terrorists.

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