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by perardi 6y ago
I don’t think you’re missing anything. It’s perhaps folly to quantify “democracy”, but looking past that folly, the US doesn’t rank all that highly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index Mind you, it’s weird to
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by perardi 6y ago
And for those downvoting me: I grew up in a town called Farmington. My family gets these big fat subsidies. Which I sure do appreciate! Doesn’t mean it’s not a tremendous distortion of the market and the environment.
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by perardi 6y ago
Yes, but that is a “simple”* majority vote, and not the 2/3 majority needed in the House, Senate, and the states. *not that any majority is simple these days, but you get what I mean.
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by perardi 6y ago
The red states feed the blue states, so better keep them happy - electoral college is one of the checks that performs that function. You’d think the giant bribes—oops, I mean, farm subsidies would help with that. https://www.
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by perardi 6y ago
The Electoral College is not going away via an amendment. No small state Senator would vote for that, nor would any small state legislature. The National Popular Vote Interstate Compact? Maybe. https://www.brookings.edu/blog
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by perardi 6y ago
Really? What if I have a blog with comments? That is a website that involves social interaction. If I remove a comment on there, that is “removing content”.
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by perardi 6y ago
They know the smell of tyranny all too well. Yeah, because they’ve been the ones cooking it up. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/world/europe/eu-poland-la...
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by perardi 6y ago
Who is managing to do work on a properly old machine? I’m most familiar with old Mac OS machines. Like, before it was called Mac OS. And they are extremely difficult to connect to anything on the contemporary internet, because none of the a
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by perardi 6y ago
2 random, unconnected thoughts: 1. I’d kill for a good SE/30. I wonder if I could get it booting off a CF card for better speed/latency… 2. What fails hardest in this old hardware? Hard drives seem the most obvious, but are there
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by perardi 6y ago
I would greatly appreciate if the Trumpists would go form their own nation.
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by perardi 6y ago
Freedom of speech, you cry. Well, OK, this is freedom of speech…for Stripe. They don’t like what Trump has done. They are a private company. It’s their ball. They can take it home whenever they want to. Speech has consequences, and if you f
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by perardi 6y ago
I don’t know a lot about bank economics, but it’s not clear to me how they would have made much money. Interest rates are basically 0%, and they didn’t charge much in the way of fees. I bank with Charles Schwab, which is very low cost in te
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by perardi 6y ago
Trump can and has called in for long interviews on various cable news shows. He obviously has media outlets.
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by perardi 6y ago
If only the President had some sort of way to get a message out…perhaps something like a conference…with the press…I don’t know, it’s obviously an idea ripe for disruption. (Or he could post a message to the White House website.)
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Wolfram on Chromebooks(wolfram.com)
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by perardi 6y ago
I’d love to be able to block a domain from showing up in my search results. Pinterest being an obvious offender, but I can imagine people wanting to block certain news sites, or Fandom/Wikia sites, or all sorts of link farm spam sites.
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by perardi 6y ago
“Design has changed a lot in the last 9 years to the point where I don’t know if a lot of this still applies.” I think it still applies. In my experience, as we’ve gone far away from skeuomorphic design (hey, it’s 2011 in the title, we c
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by perardi 6y ago
Despite the potential security issues, I still use Telegram. Where possible, I prefer to type on my proper desktop keyboard, because I am a stubborn old man and you kids with your phones, and Telegram is just so nice in that context. It use
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by perardi 6y ago
Define a “pit bull”. Go right ahead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull
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by perardi 6y ago
Define a “pit bull”. Go right ahead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull
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by perardi 6y ago
Define a “pit bull”. Go right ahead. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull
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by perardi 6y ago
Ha, 40 pounds? My dad ended up in the hospital because of an antibiotic-resistant infection from…our 12-pound cat named Mittens.
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by perardi 6y ago
“Pit bull” isn’t even a coherent concept; it a loose term for a constellation of terrier and bulldog breeds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pit_bull
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by perardi 6y ago
“What an odd legacy to have.” If by “odd” you mean “he saved millions and millions of unwanted cats and dogs from ending up in kill shelters or being abandoned in fields”, well, I’d take that on my tombstone.
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by perardi 6y ago
It’s still used extensively by breeders, including what amounts to the highest authority, the American Kennel Club. https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/dog-breeding/choosing-a-br...
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by perardi 6y ago
The real limitation: Fuji’s software for Mac is not amazing. It works, but it’s not entirely reliable.
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by perardi 6y ago
I actually did run my Fuji camera as a webcam for a Q&A at work. 35mm f/1.4 with a ring light left me looking downright pretty if I do say so myself. https://imgur.com/7CxnRLK
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by perardi 6y ago
I’d love to have a pro camera that has a high-speed connection to an iOS device, with an extensive API for programmability. But I don’t think Apple would do it, because it’s such an ecosystem to build out. Lenses, flashes, adapters, it’s al
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by perardi 6y ago
Yup, I totally forgot about that. Though that still gets to my point that they make optics, and pretty much just optics. Makes it hard to pivot (ugh, sorry) to anything else, from a corporate mentality standpoint.
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by perardi 6y ago
Oh I am fully aware of “Leica as jewelry”, I just didn’t want to immediately wallop that straw man.

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