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by rdiddly 6y ago
This seems as good a time/place as any to remind everyone that the sound an eagle makes isn't the screech Hollywood has made you believe it is (that's a red-tailed hawk). It's actually relatively non-macho (for a superpo
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Whoops, yes
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I will happily ignore NFTs, but look at money itself - it's a token too. It was supposed to represent and be coupled to real-world productive activity, but clearly there are many cases where the two have become decoupled. A price can b
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Well, all you need is an immutable write-only (edit: append-only) database. Which is the one thing a blockchain actually is.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
This is basically a "what about" argument but in this case it does illustrate something valid. There are lots of things that benefit a segment of people and harm everyone. One I happen to notice regularly because I don't have
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Wow, quite the display of projective hypocrisy between the pot and kettle.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
If chestnut trees were wiped out by 1940, that means Mel Tormé & Bob Wells, writing The Christmas Song in 1946 ("chestnuts roasting on an open fire"), were already being nostalgic.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
The one restriction I insist on is that they leave me off their mailing list! I get it, the odds are good that a previous donor will donate again, but especially for small donations it ends up feeling like all I accomplished was to purchase
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Culture war does permeate everything, including any time you see something that's perfectly balanced demographically, which is how you know it was contrived and is probably an ad or other obsequious sanitized corporate communication de
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I read the diff. No satire detected. First paragraph is literally true.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
That might be what happened. The reason it's unsound is, the numerator is in actual time spent at work and the denominator is in total elapsed time including non-work.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Yeah, it's wrong. 2 years out of let's say 40 would be 5%. 2/50 is 4%. Also 8 hrs is closer to half one's waking hours so that's either another math error, or a mistaken inclusion of the word "waking" (act
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by rdiddly 6y ago
My own comment deeper in the tree made me realize something, so I'm restating it at the top level. Basically the central misconception here, that Google is more than happy to leave unclear, is that Incognito Mode has ever been incognit
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Assuming someone forces Google to do that in Chrome (which is pretty much the only way it would happen), how about calling it "Forgetful Mode." Because by turning it on you're telling the browser not to remember where you&#x2
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Most people in America didn't know about the Venera program, including me who was at the peak of my adolescent interest in "space stuff" at the time. I don't know whether to blame it on Russia's tendency not to publ
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Has 'sideloading' taken on some other connotation that I'm not aware of? (It wouldn't be the first time.) I thought it was just a neutral term meaning you didn't download it, you didn't upload it, you sideload
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by rdiddly 6y ago
So that the ads you don't want, are also creepily specific to things you mentioned recently? :D
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Sure sure, everybody has heard all those arguments. What's new here is the idea, and it's hard to argue with, that living with waves upon waves of infectious disease, on purpose, for years, is itself an extreme position that undul
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by rdiddly 6y ago
"By contrast, in the EU, we have land borders without border checks." That's the thing you change.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
It can be spun. "We did it to ensure the stability and integrity of our platform."
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Taking out a loan, in itself, doesn't indicate insolvency. If it did, nobody would lend, ever. Now defaulting on a loan - that does indicate insolvency.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Interesting - who knows, could even be professional foreign trolls, only interested in encouraging volatility a.k.a. instability.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
In addition to all the other good points here, mentioning Zoom and the others also makes the story more vivid and "real" to people, which is important when you're competing for attention, clicks, and shares. You'll notic
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by rdiddly 6y ago
The contradiction if you want to call it that, is between the apparent importance of emphasizing (four times) the small number of infected systems, and the relative unimportance of that fact when talking about something that is self-copying
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by rdiddly 6y ago
I wonder if this is a reaction to Chromium-based Edge overtaking Internet Exploder as the most popular Microsoft browser. Edit: I guess maybe not.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
You can bet that anything happening on Vkontakte gets vacuumed up by the NSA and can be used as evidence too. The real reason blackouts don't happen is probably because it would be too disruptive to business.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
Funnily enough, at my last company they actively promoted/encouraged these "polite" openers as part of IM etiquette. The most popular was simply "IM?" i.e. are you ready/available/etc. to engage in &quot
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by rdiddly 6y ago
These are all quotes from the article. Compare the first four with the fifth and tell me if you see anything wrong with this picture: 1) a handful of schools 2) a small number of devices 3) not widespread 4) a very small number of de
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by rdiddly 6y ago
That's great news; finally he can stop preaching about decentralizing social media and start practicing it.
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by rdiddly 6y ago
In America they leave the internet connected through the protest, the better to gather evidence.

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