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by pnathan 5y ago
There are also allegations that the parents malnourish via the NG tube to ensure they don't get deported. What is most interesting is that it only seems to happen in Sweden, and to specific cultural groups.
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by pnathan 5y ago
Honestly, both times I wanted to see what was there. It provided no material benefit over, say, tilde.town, with added (1) legal risk (CSAM) and (2) ethical risk (providing some hosting to CSAM). There's this thing where a certain leve
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by pnathan 5y ago
I've run Freenet twice in the last twenty years. Maybe 2006, 2012? Each time CSAM was surprisingly visible. Maybe these days it's kicked off to a corner but back then it was pretty much a click away. I'm going to have to say
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by pnathan 5y ago
I avoid certain categories of goods on Amazon. Small home goods are usually a _disaster_. Toasters. French presses. Lamps. I know there are extremely competent Chinese manufacturers. I just wish that the crappy ones wouldn't be so good
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by pnathan 5y ago
I had a choice a few years ago. I could have 5-8 NUCs/RPis, install a slew of conventional services I was curious about, and consider things like power, cooling, cables, storage. _or_ I could pay GKE for a k8s cluster, install most of
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by pnathan 5y ago
Then the grift is to be a party hack and have the party arrange for a nice dacha for you, good schools for the kids. of course, you don't hardly make anything, the party provides, in its benevolence! edit: my point is that grifters sho
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by pnathan 5y ago
DID is real enough. But my take is that conventionally clinical DID presenters will not be particularly public about it, because it stems from the most brutal trauma in childhood- not something to showcase to get upvotes or likes. I don&#x2
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by pnathan 5y ago
It is hardware that just works with Linux. I like that. A modern Dell with Linux, fex, has had a number of driver/hw issues. The system76 didn't have those issues. Sturdiness is a bit lacking tho. Could stand to have more weight a
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by pnathan 5y ago
Having driven many rural roads, that is something I would be much more comfortable with an automatic system on: staring around for deer at night is the classic attention task where humans tend to fail. What I wouldn't be as comfortab
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by pnathan 5y ago
> forbid any use of Github co-pilot for our codebase, I have recommended as such to the CTO and other senior engineers at the startup I work at, pending some clear legal guidance about the specific licensing. My casual read of Copilot su
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by pnathan 5y ago
Good for them. I wish it was available when I was taking classes in college. I wish they went deeper in the grammar and explanatory material - the boring things that make a language work. :-}
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by pnathan 5y ago
If I was doing things from the ground up, I'd pulumi it, I believe. Terraform is, however, optimized for everyone under the bell curve.
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by pnathan 5y ago
> Nonetheless, I don't necessarily see it as a strict negative There are meaningful advantages. But on balance - again, it's been some twenty years since I was homeschooled - I've found that being an Other to be painful, r
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by pnathan 5y ago
Those are great questions. The simplest way I can say is that homeschooling alienates from society, and you become an Other, in your own eyes and the eyes of others. The child become adult must reassimilate (with all the nuances and weight
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by pnathan 5y ago
There are times when homeschooling is absolutely the right choice. For example: I would homeschool my child if the right circuits close and he turns into a prodigy aiming at a PhD by 18. Similarly, I can imagine its the right choice for chi
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by pnathan 5y ago
I was homeschooled k-11, then GED'd, went to college, came out with a Master's. My sibling did the same route, but ended up with a PhD from an Ivy. Neither of us recommend it; my sib is more antagonistic than I am. There are a num
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by pnathan 5y ago
I think Deep Work is a much better discussion of this problem; without the shame/disgust/morality play that's being enacted here.
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by pnathan 5y ago
You're a bit young then. I'm a decade older, and see very clear similarities in my age cohort to what he's describing, particularly when I was in my early 20s and teens. Which is interesting, because a good theory of behavi
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by pnathan 6y ago
I would concur. The bonus system at prior fine employers usually looks like Company_perf_scaling * Bonus_pool * Group_political_pie_slice * Personal_perf; I usually assess it as "magic money". Yearly bonuses IMO should be rolled i
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by pnathan 6y ago
This is a fascinating spin: a pure language, designed for libraries , not for complete programs. A tip of the hat to whoever was able to break out of the "a language has to do x y and z" thinking and perceive that this is a possi
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by pnathan 6y ago
``` Facebook account ID First name: P** Last name: N*** Gender Relationship status Location ``` :: squints :: I'll grant you, this is much more problematic for some than me. But for me, this is, roughly, analogous to my actual LinkedIn
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by pnathan 6y ago
I started off professionally writing Perl 5. A few comments. Perl 5 fails in separate areas. * no standard OO system * no standard exception system * no standard module system * context-driven polymorphism * the standard library didn'
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by pnathan 6y ago
So this is something that I am personally very confused about as well. My wife and I both grew up poor (how poor depends on who's asking, we had food, we had clothes, we had housing, but not per se that very much more); both our sets o
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by pnathan 6y ago
You've accepted a literalist & inerrantist frame of the Bible, which is a very new way of reading the Bible. There are more sophisticated atheisms out there. :)
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by pnathan 6y ago
Quick note: your sister's story was also common enough in the 1880-1950 timeframe. She'd also have been considered a loose woman, immoral, etc, and come under vicious religious censure. Now, statistically, would that have improved
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by pnathan 6y ago
This is a really great success story for Annie! She's an incredibly successful founder in my eyes. We have a subscription to a 12-pack of mac n cheese; it is a reliable meal for our kid, who would subsist soley on them if we let him. I
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by pnathan 6y ago
> we aren't talking about that house. My ability to pressure the Chinese government is remarkably limited compared to my ability to pressure my Senator, which is also not large - on a good day. China isn't a transparent societ
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by pnathan 6y ago
I have three perspectives here I want to share. (1) Let's address the glass windows in our own house first and tighten the US policies and culture. Secrecy is not a good idea here. Without even reflecting on Covid, it is clear the auth
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by pnathan 6y ago
Unfortunately I don't have access to that paper, and the timeline isn't in the abstract. The abstract mentions it took a long time to be accepted. Also. For clarity (you may know this, but others may not) I want to distinguish ver
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by pnathan 6y ago
I run GKE for some small apps. I also use AWS S3 hosting for my personal blog. The cost differences are... non trivial to the point of a bad joke, if we were comparing ability to reliably ship plaintext over the wire. But I'm not. I ho

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