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by phs318u 4mo ago
> What do electric cars and rockets have in common? A majority shareholder.
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by phs318u 4mo ago
> throwaway66775 If you can only express the conviction of your ideas behind a throwaway account then they’re not really convictions are they?
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by phs318u 4mo ago
Back in the day, pkgsrc was a thing (cross-platform; originally from NetBSD). Source based package distribution, it explicitly allowed for unprivileged installation to a prefix of your choice. I became very familiar with it as an ordinary S
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by phs318u 4mo ago
As someone who was an original invitee to Gmail it was the clarity of function that was the differentiator. They were “grown up” and acknowledged user agency vs their competitors. But as others have mentioned, they operating model of Google
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by phs318u 4mo ago
By any definition of good usability, Gmail is not good and Google Docs are not far behind. It’s not that they are functionally bad, just really poor UX.
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by phs318u 4mo ago
> Yes the bus probably existed “Probably”. Wow. Talk about self delusion and historical revisionism. You can’t bring yourself to admit the obvious reality that the Brexiteers were - to a man - self-serving, mendacious, con artists.
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by phs318u 4mo ago
While it is true that a broken clock is right twice a day, the inverse is not.
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by phs318u 4mo ago
Ok. A permanent settlement on Mars. Given the personal control structure at play in his companies giving him autocratic control there, why would anyone believe he wouldn’t be anything but a Martian autocrat, and who in their right mind woul
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by phs318u 4mo ago
Truly, in the face of this, caveat emptor has never been truer. If/when Musk’s misadventures turn his companies to shit, I may spare a thought for the collaterally damaged, but not a single tear will I shed for the shareholders.
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by phs318u 4mo ago
Probably. https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Doom_(5e_Campaign_Setting)
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by phs318u 4mo ago
Would social media be the bane it is, if: 1. There was no algorithm tweaking your feed. Promoting something and suppressing something else. 2. Creators were not paid. 3. Advertisements were randomly allocated irrespective of the content. 4.
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by phs318u 4mo ago
I’ll second this. Back in the 90s when my addict brain was in full flight, I had a street bike for a year. There was not a single ride when I didn’t massively exceed the speed limit and ride recklessly. I loved it! Lucky to be alive. Lucky
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by phs318u 4mo ago
Or abortion, or the right of people to be taught the truth about their own country's history, or the right to support clean technologies, or the right to have public spaces and schools free of religious dogma, and ...
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by phs318u 4mo ago
So, when it comes to the quantum physics of dark matter, would this property be dark magic? I’m so sorry. Couldn’t help myself.
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by phs318u 4mo ago
Is that really where the name came from? I remember being struck by how dumb that was and thought “a journalist must have come up with that”.
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by phs318u 4mo ago
The USA meddling in South American politics? Say it ain’t so! It’s so bizarre to me that in the US heartland, Latinos are demonised, yet beyond US borders they care so much about the democratic welfare of their South American amigos.
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by phs318u 5mo ago
The Russians must be having a grand old time according to this theory.
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by phs318u 5mo ago
What a cheap shot. “gender reassignment surgeries for prisoners” - cos there are soooo many of those happening we can’t fix a single bridge. How about another explanation. Your government is totally opposed to helping citizens for “free” (l
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by phs318u 5mo ago
Sounds like a case for GNU Autoconf and ./configure.
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by phs318u 5mo ago
Spirit of the law? lol. My sweet summer child. 1. No one is foregoing the revenue from even minor infractions. 2. There won’t be a human in the loop. You thought Judge Judy was bad? Try Judge AImy. How do I know this? Having copped three sp
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by phs318u 5mo ago
That last sentence was unnecessary.
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by phs318u 5mo ago
Someone should’ve told these guys: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48337328
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by phs318u 5mo ago
Thanks for this. You unintentionally gave me some acute Douglas Adams deja-vu. It sounds exactly like something he would’ve written.
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by phs318u 5mo ago
We’ll find out when the first law suits against autonomous “AI” guns take place.
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by phs318u 5mo ago
Very similar story here. Went through two Caldigit TB hubs most recently a TB4. Soooo many issues. The same Ethernet issue described above, a failure to provide the rated PD power, and the TB linked monitor connection was dodgy af. A very
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by phs318u 5mo ago
The part where he’s chosen to ignore all the physical developmental factors that contribute to how sexuality is expressed in the body and focus solely on gametes in order to fit the world into a preconceived notion of “male” and “female”. I
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by phs318u 5mo ago
Are humans as simple as cars though? And why does sexuality get represented by the energy source n your analogy? Why doesn’t sexuality get represented by other characteristics? Perhaps because “there’s only two kinds - sedans and pickups” s
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by phs318u 5mo ago
If you’re legitimately comparing the probability of sexual non-dimorphism in the population to the chance of a thrown baseball passing through a wall, then there’s not much likelihood the of an objective discussion here. For the record, var
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by phs318u 5mo ago
You sir, are no biologist.
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by phs318u 5mo ago
You didn’t read my linked article. And you are still trying to shoehorn an entire spectrum of biological expression which is a function of chromosomes, genes, hormones, fully or partially developed sex organs and secondary sexual characteri

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