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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
No one is gonna come out and say "we're fascists who commit war crimes" but they spend a lot of time, money and effort fighting against antifascists and people who try to prevent war crimes. The purpose of a thing is what it
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
tobacco was rationed during wwii, so less for the general populace but it was also included as part of military service. sounds like it would be really difficult to measure the effects of limiting it for one subset, subsidizing it for anoth
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
maybe he just worked 40 hour days....
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
I'm also a day one NMS enthusiast. I thought I was the only one. I can definitely agree with your critique, and I think the difference was in how I played it. On release day it was basically a really pretty tech demo. You couldn't
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
counterpoint: unless it actively infringes on someone else's rights the entire basis of society should be accommodating people's delusions and mental illnesses.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
hard agree. the issue here is that it tries to implement user goals but based on something other than asking the user and then respecting their choice. that becomes guessing at the user's goal, never confirming, and then acting on that
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
this is wildly anti-user and turns a preference->behavior mapping of dark -> dark light -> light os preference -> os preference into dark -> impossible to know with just this info light -> impossible to know with just this
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
lemme go update my resume they say if you do something you love you'll never work a day in your life
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/general-dynamics/totals?id=... For those about to ask the obvious question, the company that built the plant that charged half a billion dollars in exchange for not much of anythin
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
I wasn't asked for my location, notifications, camera permissions or to log in. This is, regrettably, still better than most recipe websites I visit.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
this closely matches my experience graduating with a C average and getting accepted to a branch campus of a public university. I then crashed hard out of that school because, as you said, suddenly I actually had a lot more agency and a lot
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
I was at school from 6:45 AM to about 4:30 PM every day, and had extracurriculars and homework on top of that. This wasn't considered an extra stressful or difficult schedule, it was just what you did.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
is one generation suddenly unable to cope or did we just recognize that this has been a long-standing source of stress and maladaptive behavior and finally decide to do something about it?
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
They're not getting rid of grades, they're just moving everything to pass/fail rather than letter grades. Afaic this is really just a reflection of the reality on the ground. You either get a C or better and move on to the ne
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
One of my favorite parts of people wanting to hand power to AI is the way that it very obviously doesn't fucking work.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
I have an idea, but I also have conflicting idea that they couldn't find the source of this definition with both hands and a map.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
the problem with Poe's Law is that when someone else violates it by misreading your sarcasm you're the one who has to pay the fine in fake internet points.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
in fairness: the people we elected lie a lot and one of them has built a personal army that he uses to fill the concentration camps you allude to.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
piracy is a lot less charming than i imagined it to be. they weren't even singing...
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
i suspect that, much like the rest of the world, HN has had a sharp increase in people who "don't do politics"
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
we've reached the "yes, we're cheating, do something about it" stage of corruption
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
I was about to say something similar: OP talks about how in office days support their routine but adding the office to my day would do more to disrupt a routine than solidify it. As of right now my workdays, despite being WFH, are shockingl
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
I very much like the idea that tolerating discomfort and inconvenience is something we have to actively train ourselves to do.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
"We'd been floating on inner tubes on the river for 8 hours, drinking beer, and I realized that not once had any of my friends gotten out of the river to pee." ---ron white, upon experiencing a flash of enlightenment. quote f
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
the rising tide that's supposed to lift all boats? also piss.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
it really does trickle up, and the greater percentage of their income the beneficiaries spend on consumables the greater the upward benefits.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
this. the problem with HitL is that there are so many decisions to make that decision fatigue is inevitable. Beyond a certain number of approvals most people are going to switch to an approval process that goes from "carefully consider
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
> > not one dependent on "costly subsidies". > While paying out 1.2 billion dollars. for nothing. to literally replace some energy with no energy.
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
so as my energy bill is going up 50% we're giving people my tax dollars in exchange for them not making more energy to ease demand? winning winning winning winning winning winning winning winning
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by ratelimitsteve 2mo ago
one of my favorite youtubers but I feel like if you're linking directly to a reading list the title of your post should reflect that

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