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by rackjack 5y ago
interparence in·ter·parence an intervening branch of a larger branch or group "the interparence between the private and public sectors" I feel like this could be a real word, though maybe not with this exact definition.
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Tomacco? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx1ztJROpyU
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation
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Ah, the eternal cycle of: Microsoft does something bad, then people move to Linux, then they get dragged by Linux's rough new user experience, then they leave Linux, then things are fine for a while, then people mock Linux users for be
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by rackjack 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_discord
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This is very clever! You don't need to make your own fame if you ride the coattails of something already famous.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Public sector unions are different from private sector unions for reasons I don't know but I can sense. Just empirically, Finland/Sweden/Norway are famously pleasant places to live while also having very strong private sector
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by rackjack 5y ago
The dead salmon study showed the need to correct fMRI readings, if I recall correctly. I think they showed the dead salmon some pictures instead of playing music.
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by rackjack 5y ago
People in competition for college admissions, etc. naturally stratify themselves. With an official means of stratification, you at least can control some level of ethics and quality. When you eliminate these means, people increasingly rely
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by rackjack 5y ago
Do they have an escape key? (This is not a joke question.)
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Hence the "apparently"...
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by rackjack 5y ago
> You and I can spend hours trying to hunt down a worthy well cited resource on a topic, whereas a good Librarian can find it in minutes. This is kind of a silly question, but do just say to a librarian something like, "I'm loo
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by rackjack 5y ago
Decentralized DNS, apparently: https://handshake.org/
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by rackjack 5y ago
If you have a website (jgirvin.com ?) I'll just keep tabs on that. Thanks for the recipe outlines.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Any recipe in particular you'd be willing to share? I'm interested in expanding my palate.
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by rackjack 5y ago
If we interpret "ever increasing number of mouths to feed" as "more people", we can imagine the following: I sell a product. The more people buy my product, the more money I make. The more people there are, the more peop
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by rackjack 5y ago
... and "Blue" voters are actually "not-Red" voters! Interesting perspective, thank you for sharing.
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Lighters let you use cigarettes, heroin, weed, etc. If you become psychologically dependent on these substances, is your lighter the problem? What do we mean by "the problem" anyways? Depending on how you define "the problem&
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by rackjack 5y ago
This is not specific to you, but in general people saying some social media site is "actually useful (TM)" is usually a cope to justify the staggering amount of life they've burned sucking dopamine from the website's tea
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by rackjack 5y ago
A better title would be "Mythbusting the idea that C++ is faster than Rust" or something like that.
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by rackjack 5y ago
I just wish Pony would reach 1.0 already. I'm very hesitant to spend my time on a language that might change under me.
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by rackjack 5y ago
I support the vaccine, but this feels like a dangerous play.
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There can only be the state. Anything that threatens the state's dominance in people's minds and lives must be subjugated to the state. That's the point of a totalitarian regime.
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by rackjack 5y ago
NixOS is abnormal, though I don't know if it's hobbyist. But at some level OSes built on the Linux kernel will all have the same "flavor", since the kernel is THE abstraction between hardware and software. So if you want
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by rackjack 5y ago
Diversity win! Gay man smashes effeminate stereotypes by being one of the most ruthless investors in Silicon Valley /s I'll note also that I thought the article was pretty good. I had never heard of him before this. He seems to be
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by rackjack 5y ago
Interesting. Just intuitively I bet the cons of smoking outweigh any benefits, but now I'm curious as to the outcome of the nicotine trial. Thanks for sharing the smoking-COVID rumor, I'd never heard that one before.
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by rackjack 5y ago
Can you provide some links to the data? edit: Oh, I see the link you posted below. edit: That's a link to an ongoing clinical study, no published data yet. Can you provide some links to the data?
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by rackjack 5y ago
Are there any introductions to category theory you would recommend in particular? A cursory glance gives me this: http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/cat.html Which seems to avoid being very "mathy" right out of
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by rackjack 5y ago
> Let's just assume for a moment that the US will fight off attacks by China to take Taiwan. And that US successfully ward off an attack. What next? What is there to prevent China from trying again and again and again? Will the US b
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