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by ralusek 6y ago
Get rid of all other social safety nets. No social security, no affordable housing, welfare, food stamps, etc. Enormous amount of bureaucratic overhead removed from that. Everyone just gets a flat rate every pay period, virtually no bureauc
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by ralusek 6y ago
I assume they're not just talking about all of their colleagues, but specifically the ones that don't pull their own weight. If you don't pull your own weight, then I would love working with you.
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by ralusek 6y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted, I understand you perfectly well. To clarify for others: random gene mutation within an organism is not the same a random gene introduction from external source. Take something like an Orchid Praying
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by ralusek 6y ago
Does Fauna support inner joins yet? I understand that companies with enormous data sets can't afford to use joins at all, but I've yet to work somewhere where a properly indexed RDS/Aurora db wasn't able to make use of t
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by ralusek 6y ago
I find your sentiment to be better rephrased as: > I dislike the degree to which people are fascinated by serial killers/criminals in general People seek this stuff out ravenously. Most of the supply of information, at least to me,
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by ralusek 6y ago
Open source phone with polish? So, Android?
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by ralusek 6y ago
A difference in magnitude is a difference in kind. 2-5 people is a conversation 5-15 is a dinner party 15 - 200 is a party 200+ is an event You aren't guaranteed to be able to scale things and maintain fundamental dynamics.
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by ralusek 6y ago
> Here's to decentralized, encrypted, community based communication for everybody! Here's to decentralized, encrypted, community based communication for [people who are interested in decentralized, encrypted, community based co
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by ralusek 6y ago
Interestingly enough, a side effect of CO2 emissions IS reforestation. Earth is getting greener because of increased CO2 in the air. What is not obvious though, is if this is going to make the problem worse. For one, the green albedo is oft
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by ralusek 6y ago
Yes, critical theories are philosophies often meant to be executed on behalf of "ends by whatever means." They're antithetical to liberalism. Liberalism has no ends, it's effectively JUST a description of means. If anyth
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by ralusek 6y ago
Which is in turn less fun to eat than SpongeBob macaroni.
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by ralusek 6y ago
If I said "I don't want bears to be able to maul me in my sleep," and someone said "here's an option you can check which prevents that from ever happening," please explain to me how that failed to solve my prob
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by ralusek 6y ago
Postmodernism turns structures into soup. Some corrupted structures need to be deconstructed into soup, and skepticism, cynicism, and criticism are good tools for the job. However, you can't build with soup. And postmodernists are typi
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by ralusek 6y ago
Exactly, yup. Whatever it returns is automatically cached at the key.
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by ralusek 6y ago
At the moment this is currently handled with lambda @ edge with Cloudfront. The benefit with Cloudfront over S3 lambda is that the image is automatically cached after the resize is computed.
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by ralusek 6y ago
I don't think a single person who objects to the current parallels to communism would take issue with "holding people in power to account," they just wouldn't characterize the current problem as such. The objection seems
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by ralusek 6y ago
The problem is that there is no mainstream institution even attempting to be journalistic anymore. There will obviously always be selection bias in the sense that nobody can report on everything, but there is a version of the media which ca
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by ralusek 6y ago
Are you a principal engineer or the principal engineer? If you are a principal engineer, they might've just used the title to try to recruit someone who isn't a novice. Either way, if you want to assume a leadership position
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by ralusek 6y ago
Freedom of speech is the most notable. In general, lower taxes, fewer regulations regarding building, starting businesses, more checks and balances to government. Again, I'm not saying it's better or worse, the United States gover
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by ralusek 6y ago
> bureaucracies in East Asia and Continental Europe tend to be better-staffed and more empowered to make professional decisions The key word here is "more empowered." If the state could just say "okay we're transplant
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by ralusek 6y ago
The modder actually had an encounter with the Rockstar developer who initially implemented the loading process. https://youtu.be/X5ZpiTGI7D4?t=59
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by ralusek 6y ago
Yes, I think Thomas Sowell and most people on that list use "race" synonymously with "populations with certain phenotypes or ethnicities who are going to be bucketed together as such." Culture isn't the only thing b
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by ralusek 6y ago
Thomas Sowell is a titan. As was his recently deceased best friend and intellectual colleague Walter E. Williams. The leading public intellectual regarding race in America today is undoubtedly Ibram X. Kendi. His central thesis, that any di
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by ralusek 6y ago
Or perhaps more importantly, did the terrain navigation software correctly choose an optimal landing location? It seems like it chose one of the rockiest places.
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by ralusek 6y ago
What monster would hack Blender?
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by ralusek 6y ago
This is sort of like the thing where Biology is applied Chemistry Chemistry is applied Physics Physics is applied Mathematics Not a perfect train of thought, but correct enough. If that is the hierarchy of the scientific world, I would argu
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by ralusek 6y ago
Just to be clear, almost every species that has ever existed has gone extinct. And almost all of that has happened before humans existed. That being said, it's almost definitely due to humans, I just wanted to be pedantic.
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Brother Iz knew the whole time.
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by ralusek 6y ago
People legally buy guns and then distribute them illegally.
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by ralusek 6y ago
You should probably oppose or support restrictions in accordance with whether or not they make sense, irrespective of the debatable motives of their inception. In regards to the motives of their inception, it seems like a bit of leap to go

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