rdiddly

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by rdiddly 5y ago
The cops themselves park in the bike lanes near precincts all over town, too.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Supposedly we can understand anything through science, and change or control the world any way we want using technology. The thing nobody wants to accept is that we (our technology, our science, our institutions) aren't in control afte
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Anyone your work makes look good will be on your side. Anyone who looks bad as a result of your work will be against you. Simple. Making yourself look good has limited effect, since you're already presumably on your own side.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Seems like if you get a copy of the song yourself, stripping it out of a video ought to be an easyish technical problem, no? Maybe even solved already? Edit: A-ha, YouTube already offers this: https://support.google.com/yout
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Doing a bit of sea lioning at the beginning there buddy. Who specifically won a football game? And when? And who came up with the idea? The outcome is the result of all the actions of all the members, coaches and owners of the winning team,
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by rdiddly 5y ago
The "debate" is hilarious, overblown and infantile, like always, but yeah the facts are pretty simple: Great for worm problems (river blindness being a worm problem). No reason thus far, other than wishful thinking, to believe it&
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Most Americans are pro-choice and like being able to vote. This is an aberration, a bit of theater, which means it gets a lot of attention. There will be political blowback in response to this.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Are we even sure what the final page is going to look like? "We're deprecating the old one" doesn't necessarily mean "We're finished building the new one."
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by rdiddly 5y ago
I'm still waiting for my Librem 5, ordered in early 2019. Although to be fair, I chose to be in a later release group, in order to benefit from design iterations, bugs being worked-out etc.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Yeah "Zeta is a letter of the Greek alphabet" actually happens to be the main argument for its NOT being somebody's property.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
I was, not quite saddened, but surprised, to see JSON in the registry recently. I forget where it was though or what I was doing.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
That was important, thanks.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
It's worse than just stringing together library calls: Life seems to be 98% just CRUD apps. What new thoughts do I need for that, and who even has the time? An analogy: There seem to be a lot of smart Russian writers, and there's
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Of course larger-scale changes are larger. One problem is that when you argue for a large-scale change, people generally expect you to be not-a-hypocrite on the small personal level. Small-scale actions give authority to large-scale ideas&#
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by rdiddly 5y ago
The announcement reads like they're in a frigging war zone. Calm down, you're a TV company.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
I mean, sure, but that's one tweet. 40 tweets in a row that you're supposed to read in order, comprise one large whole, nothing "micro" about it. I actually respect when someone follows the rules as it were, and spends
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Ah, no wonder!
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Yup they could turn state's witness or blackmail you. Plus they'll want a cut of the spoils if there are any. Better to establish a pattern of leaving your phone untouched at home. Assuming you're planning it ahead of time th
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by rdiddly 5y ago
An accomplice is a liability though. Also it's harder to make it rhyme. "If you're doing a felony, give your phone to Melanie."
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Who said anything about fault? But now that you mention it, news media did provide crucial care and feeding for his campaign in the first place, perhaps thinking it was all a joke, but in any case correctly guessing it would be good for rat
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by rdiddly 5y ago
The past president is usually just that, not news. But Trump was good for ratings and they don't want to let it go.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
I always wondered why the hell Netflix was even on the list, so thanks.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Someone tells you "the server crashed" and that's confusing? The list of things that happened after the connection attempt is one item: The server crashed. Unless you think the writer is actively trying to trick you, I think
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by rdiddly 5y ago
This reads like a food-processing industry pamphlet. Suspiciously so.
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by rdiddly 5y ago
I can't seem to find a solid statistical study on the lottery-winner murder rate. "That Reddit post" says it's 20X higher than within the general population, and elsewhere I've read that it's more than 30X. I k
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Yep, transparency leads to illumination, so in that way those two analogies work together like sunlight and window panes. But you can lie with data, was my singular point. More data is harder to fake, seems to be yours, and I suppose I woul
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by rdiddly 5y ago
If the politician is holding the camera and editing the footage, it's a valid question. Anyway you wouldn't need to fake a whole data set; you just need to employ a little bias in what data you choose to collect, how you collect i
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by rdiddly 5y ago
The "optics" here might be the opposite: United's leadership is craven and terrified of bad press. Anyway I guess when flying United I'll have to bring my own duct tape!
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by rdiddly 5y ago
The biggest impediment to your breaking out of circular thinking, might be thinking automatically that any other job would entail a big pay cut. Because first of all, maybe not. Your skills are in high demand. If anything it's the oppo
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by rdiddly 5y ago
Apparently they have way too many customers. Business would be so great if it weren't for all the darn customers!

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