regentbowerbird

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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
Couldn't this be implemented on top of IP? It seems to me this is already kind of how mail exchanges work, they hold mail until the recipient (or next relay in the chain) downloads it.
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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
> As for Japan, the US occupation was advised by leftist professors, who deemed that big business was bad and small business was good What are your sources on this? The US occupation was led by Douglas MacArthur, who was about as far fro
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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
> No need to bring diversity politics in IT. Politics is just "how people think things should be". Therefore politics are everywhere not because people _bring_ them everywhere but because they arise from everything. Your commen
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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
The jab at mask-wearing during the pandemic is off-putting and senseless. The author even mentions "side effects" which aren't in the linked article at all. (if you're having side effects from wearing a mask, you're
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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
It's interesting but what's the source beyond saying "this is well established"?
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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
That's a very much weaker claim than "women have no respect for men who earn less than themselves." Still though, where's the data?
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by regentbowerbird 2y ago
Could you point us to the very clear data you mention about women having no respect for men earning less than themselves?
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
Not a US corporation but when it came to light that French defense contractor Thomson-CSF (now Thales) had bribed Taiwan official to award them a defense contract, no less than six whistleblowers died, three of them defenestrated; most famo
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
But people _do_ die when exposing corruption of the rich. Such as Daphne Caruana Galizia and Ján Kuciak for the Panama papers. Would you call their deaths "hollywood films"? And it'd be natural to think killers would try to h
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
> injecting money into the economy, which always results in inflation This can be disproven by simply plotting the quantity of money in circulation compared to the inflation rate. For instance from 2005 to 2020 the US went from 6.5 to 15
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
Very interesting read, thank you.
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
An issue with your reasoning is it can be liberally applied, including to your very own message. You provide no basis for discounting the opinion piece you disagree with other than projecting stuff you don't like onto it.. But anyone c
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
That's besides your point but Tinder and Hinge are not competitors, they are both owned by Match Group.
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
This is an interesting read but at the same time I'm puzzled at the length this is going to in order to avoid engaging with ideas the author disagrees with. This seems similar to the "virtue signaling" attack. But instead of
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
You make very good points and I personally agree with you fundamentally, however your example is a bit exaggerated: there are very few jobs where just "working harder" will lead to a 10× jump in compensation. Making 600K$pa would
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
> Ads are no more psychological manipulation at scale than words in general. "no more" in your sentence implies the impact is roughly the same (not that I agree with your premise that all communication is manipulation, unless y
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
When you say Inferno led to WASM, is it just conceptual or is there a concrete link?
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
What questions should one ask to suss out the good team leads?
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
And also accountability to the citizens who are financing all this. A 773$B black hole in the budget would be undemocratic and rife for embezzlement.
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by regentbowerbird 3y ago
> My only health care needs in the past 30 years have been a couple of dental cleanings per year. I hate to be disagreeable but that might be an example of past observations not necessarily predicting future ones.
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by regentbowerbird 4y ago
> Incessant war is considered to be one of the drivers of the industrial revolution How so? By whom?
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by regentbowerbird 4y ago
> He had one short story in particular where one citizen would be called in front of Multivac and, based on their answers to Multivac's questions, Multivac would (accurately) infer who the winner of the presidential election should
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by regentbowerbird 4y ago
It might depend on bracelet material and fit. For instance BluShark makes a "Pajama strap" which is very extensible.
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by regentbowerbird 4y ago
The way we perceive the past informs our perception of the present. Of course there are elements of fantasy in fiction, but the conceit is that outside of what is clearly fictional everything is real. In the case of Assassin's Creed, t
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by regentbowerbird 4y ago
I'm curious, what do you mean by this?
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by regentbowerbird 4y ago
And if you are in Paris and can't visit Notre-Dame because it is under renovation, maybe go see some other gothic cathedrals that are less than an hour away by train, such as Beauvais' or Chartres'. For what my opinion is wor
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by regentbowerbird 4y ago
Did the speaker have a source for that claim beyond their own word? Surely there would be issues with such a scheme.
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by regentbowerbird 4y ago
> Games are far more products like movies than they are "art" Says whom? You demonstrate your points by showing that blockbusters make money, which says nothing about whether they are art. They're entirely different dimens
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by regentbowerbird 4y ago
Brutalism‽ Won't somebody think of the children‽
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by regentbowerbird 4y ago
This is called functionalism. There was a joke about it on existential comics some time ago: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/357

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