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by pc2g4d 9y ago
To speak English "correctly" you have to be able to pluralize the Latin, Greek, French, and Germanic way: * octopi * phenomena * tableaux * oxen Mostly this is just used for people to show off their erudition, since it would be ea
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
If one's understanding of _part_ of a system increases to enable manipulation of that part of the system, but one's ignorance of the effects of that change in the broader system remains, meaning that the increase in understanding
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Thanks to Pocket Operators and Jeremy Blake's OP-1 performances on YouTube, I've become very interested in synthesizers lately. I'd love to learn to make sounds like what he gets on the OP-1 and it looks like Rack might be a
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Search Altavista/Hotbot/Dogpile/Lycos, wind up somewhere on Geocities or a million independent sites, jump around on a webring that it was part of. That was one way. Webring.org is even still running. The webring my site was
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Another illustration of how the security gaps that enable domestic law enforcement to catch bad guys also enable foreign governments to spy on us. You either have a secure mobile phone system, or you don't.
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Spotify already is a label. Right? A bunch of artists have done "Spotify Sessions".
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
"Libertarian" is a big umbrella. Most are not social darwinists, and anarchists are a different category altogether. Most libertarians acknowledge a legitimate role for the state in those few things the state can do best (e.g. nat
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
The disposition of the president toward your company/industry is, unfortunately, an important market input. A symptom of executive overreach though it may be.
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
I can't tell if this was meant as a joke or not
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
The two parties are striving to use the power of the state to ram their ideologies down the throats of their fellow Americans. So no, there's not a lot of room for libertarians right now. On the other hand, the heavy-handedness may cau
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Using older kernels opens you to security vulnerabilities. I think this was mainly justified because nobody was using the current kernel on those architectures anyway.
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
I watched a whole movie about garbage pickers in a Brazilian waste dump: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1268204/
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Moving in that direction: https://www.w3.org/TR/webauthn/
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Making goods more expensive for Americans seems like short-sighted protectionism. But the desire to protect sensitive industries from Chinese takeover and IP exfiltration is a valid national security concern. So I'm both for and agains
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Do you mean state-sponsored social media activity? The commenter's account was created within the last hour....
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
This theory goes against the grain of the "fast casual" movement where people are willing to pay more than bottom dollar for food... if they're convinced they're getting something a little better than Taco Bell. Chipotle
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
I literally lived in Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. As a Mormon missionary I lived in Latrobe, PA in a house just neighboring a house Fred Rogers had lived in growing up. Latrobe was a quaint town with the sort of mailman and library and cu
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Zoning is currently being used to squeeze single people out of my town. It should be illegal, but it isn't.
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
"not everybody in jail deserves humane treatment" Maybe this attitude is part of why they're in jail in the first place.
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
I'm using B2 with duplicity under Linux. I ran into an issue where the tool couldn't upload its own index files to the backend, but there was a fork that fixed the problem and I expect it will be resolved in the official fork soon
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
This isn't actually discussing abolition of time zones---it's discussing going from ~24 time zones to having only 1 time zone. It essentially maximizes the errors inherent in having a finite number of time zones for an infinite nu
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
"Correct me if I'm wrong" Exactly the function of ECC. I love me an unintentional pun :-)
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Seems clear to me that Scala's decline is exactly due to the rise of Kotlin. Whatever interest I once had in Scala has evaporated now that Kotlin has arrived.
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Of course they do. This is exactly the path Google took. Once you achieve enough power in the market, you can throw open protocols overboard. It's a symptom of the centralized world the internet has become.
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
A new pesticide is like a new antibiotic: it's useful for now, but evolution will catch up with it soon enough. There are non-chemical means of eliminating bedbugs that should be preferred for this reason. Though I guess bedbugs could
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
From the article it seems the map represents places fishing vessels _were_, not necessarily where fishing occurred. So a vessel en route to fishing "grounds" (what's the right term?) would be counted as fishing all along the
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
So maybe colleges need a cost-of-living adjustment?
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I thought taxes for education stayed within the school district locally.
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
Somehow I feel like I'm on a Terraria discussion board right now.....
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by pc2g4d 9y ago
What about the possibility of "self-gerrymandering" at the national scale? By this I mean people's tendency to congregate with people who are politically likeminded. So for every liberal Democrat who moves to Oregon, their vo

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