philipov

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by philipov 2mo ago
The mass is more than the sum of its parts, and if only a small minority exercise critical thinking they will be overwhelmed by the whole. As the great comic wrote - those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it, but those
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by philipov 2mo ago
Which company is capitalizing on GitHub's lack of leadership?
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by philipov 2mo ago
Will you have spent more time working a deadend job than with your family?
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by philipov 2mo ago
Definitely using codepen. I can manipulate the scaling and view the html and css windows and stuff. I'm not using the latest firefox version, but it's not like this is a new feature right?
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by philipov 2mo ago
yeah, I see the square jellyfish image inside the red square, but nothing changes when I hover.
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by philipov 2mo ago
> Here is a demo where you can hover the image to show/hide the overflow: Is something supposed to happen when I hover my mouse over the image? Because nothing happens. I'm using Firefox.
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by philipov 2mo ago
"- the spectre of communism. All the powers of old encoding have entered into a holy alliance to exorcise this spectre..."
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by philipov 2mo ago
If information is totally wrong then all you have to do is invert it to get the truth. What was it that Sherlock Holmes said? The problem ends up being that it often takes a tremendous number of counterexamples to eliminate everything that
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by philipov 2mo ago
it's been around for a while. That's what Eurojank is. Or stuff like Expedition 33 and BG3. Mid-sized studios that are too big to call indie, but are not on the scale of first-party studios.
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by philipov 2mo ago
We're not missing the point, we simply don't agree. You're putting him too much on a pedestal. He's an ordinary human bound by the same laws anyone else. If he's criminally insane and can't be held accountable
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by philipov 2mo ago
If there were such an army, let's call it a union, would you join it?
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by philipov 2mo ago
Rather than harmless, what the lawnmower analogy achieves is to make him seem blameless. "How can you assign blame to a thing that's just doing what it's built to do without any intent?" It's important to push back
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by philipov 2mo ago
It doesn't matter if the lawnmower is chopping off feat intentionally or not. If it's presenting a public hazard, it should be stopped. Even though the ocean couldn't care less it doesn't prevent us from building breakwa
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by philipov 2mo ago
They don't want to shake the support of moderates who are already part of their coalition and aren't paying that much attention. Those people won't notice the selectivity, even if they hear about it in passing, as long as the
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by philipov 2mo ago
They don't care what you think. You're not their target audience.
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by philipov 2mo ago
Parents and Grandparents might not be interested in starting families, but they're interested in their (grand)children starting families. Ideally, that's where their wealth would go, except that it's being completely oblitera
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by philipov 2mo ago
"View this post on Instagram" No thanks, put into the article.
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by philipov 2mo ago
What is bubblification?
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by philipov 3mo ago
"After you get back from the war, your reward will be a wife and household."
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by philipov 3mo ago
Controlling women means controlling men. The most basic way to do that is by controlling who is allowed to get married. Attacks against the reproductive rights of women are caused by a desire to avoid "side channels" by which a co
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by philipov 3mo ago
I don't think you need an analogy like that to explain why people want to control women. They want to control women for the same reason they want to control men. Is it any mystery why people seek power? Those with power can decide how
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by philipov 3mo ago
Call it "Roko's Modern Life"
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by philipov 3mo ago
It would be all fine and good if they kept it non-commercial, but when you start charging money for it that's when you're stepping out of bounds. If they want to benefit from fair use, they should contribute their results back to
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by philipov 3mo ago
Maybe you can't stop the car that way, but if you feel that kind of wind on your hand you should worry that your car is going fast.
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by philipov 3mo ago
Well, when was the last time you wrote machine code by hand? ... but then they went and changed what coding meant . We've always been layering abstractions on top of abstractions. If we get to an abstraction that works well enough tha
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by philipov 4mo ago
The lie is in calling it a labor shortage without qualification. There won't be a shortage of all labor, just a highly specific class of labor, and everyone else will be left out.
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by philipov 4mo ago
Why would Trump's previous associations with the Democratic party prevent him from spiting someone else's associations with the Democratic party? That would require he not be a complete hypocrite. On the other hand, associating SB
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by philipov 4mo ago
yeah, the useful thing about ublock isn't just that it stops ads from loading, but that it lets you remove unwanted divs. There are lots of unwanted divs that have nothing to do with ads, such as removing annoying Use Our AI buttons, o
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by philipov 4mo ago
Does it stand for Censorship Management System?
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by philipov 5mo ago
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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