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by praptak 4y ago
Unlike these countries US is supposedly a part of the democratic and free where rule of law and human rights are a thing. Also, apples and oranges. Cartel violence is a failure of the state but at least not a systemic cruelty by the state i
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by praptak 4y ago
My intuition for Lisp syntax is "The opening parenthesis moves one position to the left. Drop commas, keep whitespace.". So: f (x, y, z) becomes (f x y z)
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by praptak 4y ago
This does not counter OPs point. The invention caused the increased demand for slave labor. It wasn't slavery which caused the invention.
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by praptak 4y ago
There's a story (not confirmed) about a Black Team member using resonance to crash (physically) a tape cabinet: http://www.penzba.co.uk/GreybeardStories/TheBlackTeam.html
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by praptak 4y ago
Hotel stays do cost something but much of this is just the daily carbon emission of the traveller, just done elsewhere. The delta exists but how big it is actually? Wash the towels and bedsheets, vacuum the room?
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by praptak 4y ago
Here's a first hand report from an activist: https://adamkoscielak.medium.com/how-greed-and-incompetence-...
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by praptak 4y ago
You properly saw that as asymmetric. Most Poles are not aware of (some) Lithuanians holding a grudge. The way we're taught history is pretty one-sided.
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by praptak 4y ago
Lithuanians have much more recent reasons to hate Poland. The Polish annexation of Vilnius in 1919 was a dick move. It gives Lithuanians strong reasons to colour their view of past events.
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by praptak 4y ago
No, because then they'd get easily undercut by competition without such ethical scruples. This is a tragedy of the commons problem, you need central enforcement.
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by praptak 4y ago
I admit this is not central to the article but I take issue with the authors statement that the incentives of our digital world "might *even* lead to radicalization". Put this way it suggests that radicalization is unquestionably
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by praptak 4y ago
Plugging in a new display doesn't immediately work on gLinux. It may be me, because I'm on i3wm which is not the official wm. I have a manually crafted autorandr config but it's kind of hit and miss.
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by praptak 4y ago
> by winning at evolution You may roll down a hill but it doesn't mean you win at gravity theory.
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by praptak 4y ago
I don't believe black midi can be played on normal instruments, it's mostly computer-based (barring the punchcard pianos). In fact even standard pre-black-midi software would probably crash when trying to open such files.
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by praptak 4y ago
Some (most?) of the black midi scores do cheat a bit. They have bajillions of notes but most of the notes are not audible. Their presence gives cool visual effects (either static if you decide to print it out as classic music notation or dy
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by praptak 4y ago
Gods are notoriously stupid though when "helping" you. C'mon Thoth, uncursing of the stupid boots? I'm dying of hunger here!
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by praptak 4y ago
Well if the counteroffer is significantly higher than a match then we can talk (the point about buying time is still a concern tho).
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by praptak 4y ago
Accepting a match is bad, it rewards underpaying. Also, the employer might have just offered you the match to buy themselves time to look for someone cheaper.
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by praptak 4y ago
Some companies do that. Some actually do huge, heavily customized deployments where it is hard to tell the price upfront. For some others it's just to jack up the price if they smell a sucker.
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by praptak 4y ago
I don't like having to ask.
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by praptak 4y ago
2. is true or untrue depending on how deeply you interpret it. A branch is named, points to a commit and under normal circumstances will track the sequence of commits made via itself (i.e. when you commit and HEAD points to branch b, b st
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by praptak 4y ago
I love this quote from Part I: "Git has an elegant and powerful underlying model based on a few simple concepts: 1. Commits are immutable snapshots of the repository 2. Branches are named sequences of commits 3. Every object h
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by praptak 4y ago
This is textbook alienation of work. Unfortunately Marx only describes it and does not really provide a solution that could work for us (unless you believe his view that history will naturally progress to something better).
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by praptak 4y ago
This seems a bit similar to how oxygen concentrators work. Zeolites absorb nitrogen under pressure, oxygen-rich mixture is pumped out, zeolites release the nitrogen, which is then pumped out, repeat cycle.
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by praptak 4y ago
Inadvertent mass synchronization is a known pattern and it has a solution: jitter everything, even things triggered by events which you don't think about as synchronized. Your widget needs to fetch data periodically and the network con
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by praptak 4y ago
There was this idiotic rule that a portal is considered reachable if more than one family can reach it. So gated communities were officially fair game.
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by praptak 4y ago
High level play is not about levels, it's about having multiple hours per day to drive around, gather resources and create links. Access to portals in closed areas is a bonus. A group of determined players can keep a town permanently c
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by praptak 4y ago
It must be "in their DNA" or something. You could replace "Pokemon Go" with "Ingress", their earlier game, and get to almost exactly the same conclusions. Also, with Ingress the most innovative area was also th
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by praptak 4y ago
Any physical device that you sold me I can use whenever and however I want. Offering this as a paid option is not enough.
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by praptak 4y ago
It's done in wasm, so we have a much bigger problem if it does.
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by praptak 4y ago
Of course not then! "Curiously, it doesn't activate when I'm actually wasting time."

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