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by rhizome 6y ago
The Cold War was a sham, nobody was ever going to fire missiles except by mistake. It was just a way to maintain military budgets (and contracts) when peace broke out after WWII. Any instability in the main was only ever by design. Look at
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by rhizome 6y ago
He's being pedantic, it's a "what are the odds of Lou Gehrig contracting Lou Gehrig's disease?" joke, except without a punchline.
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by rhizome 6y ago
I imagine all that is pretty easy to tolerate if Facebook is paying you a $ton to do so, and even more to invent it.
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by rhizome 6y ago
What's that old joke? Something like in the 1980s a Media Lab teacher gives the class a computer vision assignment where they're supposed to be able to tell whether or not an image contains a bird, and 40 years later they're
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by rhizome 6y ago
Getting really old kinda sucks, healthy people die slowly, dying of old age takes a long time, and I wouldn't be surprised if 99%+ of centenarians are in nursing homes for their nth decade. So...y'know...good luck with your plan.
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Some elderly are able to keep their freedom and the dignity and quality of life that go with it by using tech to stay connected, provide reminders and alarms and so forth to mitigate some of the issues that cause us to think they would
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by rhizome 6y ago
> for at least a year, a prominently displayed donate button. Just to be sure, are you referring to the "BuyMeCoffee" button on the GitHub page for the extension ( https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim )?
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by rhizome 6y ago
Perhaps interestingly, I had a frustration in the other direction just last night: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Soria https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provincia_de_Soria Notice that the
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by rhizome 6y ago
You could have cached the entire API response in a field for a given record (or their own table) from the beginning. Then you could reprocess it if you had to change the schema, assuming Apple didn't change the response on their end in
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Is it 'trash' to be upset that Hunter Biden made 600k/yr from a no-show job that looks super crooked? Yes, and it outs you as a blinkered rube. To be upset about Hunter Biden is 110% turnip truck. It doesn't look s
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by rhizome 6y ago
Then prior to that you'll have to encourage users to subscribe to non-cable internet connections that have some amount of upstream bandwidth so that they can publish via machines they control.
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by rhizome 6y ago
I bet a good butler is much harder to find than a patsy.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Neither the NYT nor WaPo publish UGC, which is a nuance ( the nuance, perhaps) that necessitates a middle ground and a recognition that the dish in play is not cake at all. I didn't like 230 at the time, and frankly we wouldn't b
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by rhizome 6y ago
Because the (US) right wing and libertarians are the forces first to raise a hue and cry of socialism and central planning in response to any suggestion of government oversight of corporate activities.
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by rhizome 6y ago
At least they could give the top hero the same left-right gutters as the rest of the page instead of slamming it hard right without lube.
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Programmers notoriously use easy as a synonym for familiar and given how long Java has been around by now we'd have some evidence showing a major productivity advantage Have you ever heard the phrase "the dog that didn'
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by rhizome 6y ago
> They are acting differently for Biden. The difference is that right-wing trash usually comes directly from Trump, then republished in the tabloids. We've seen that get reined in a little in annotating his worst tweets and FB post
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by rhizome 6y ago
> That should be illegal with few exceptions. And thus the right wing comes around to centralized government control of companies.
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Basically the social media company argument is... we think people are too dumb to figure out what is "real" or not so we are going to censor Why can't "we don't want this trash on our site" be the reason?
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by rhizome 6y ago
> If the social platforms were just imposing costs on being wrong that would almost be a service, but I get the impression from all the ban stories that they're staffed mostly by people who aren't equipped to be that judicious
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by rhizome 6y ago
I tell you what: if that comes to pass and I'm working remote, I'm looking forward to getting a sweet lease on a 150-200 sqft solo office with a nice view.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Nobody's forcing Uber/Lyft/DoorDash to close up shop, despite their cries of poormouth. There are also lots of free and discounted disability shuttles out there, but that probably depends a lot on location (though so does the
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by rhizome 6y ago
My assumption is some or all of those more than people thinking it's "fine," that it's deficiencies more than complacencies.
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Because they've been cowed away from imposing enough taxes and/or budget discipline to run the cities.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Which is why RIAA is trying to kill the code itself.
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by rhizome 6y ago
I think it might be even worse than that, that everything they did rolled back pain care. Law enforcement was already on a moralizing crackdown on pain doctors in the 90s and 2000s, and any ground that was gained in justifying pain care in
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by rhizome 6y ago
"Disgorgement" is the word I think you're looking for.
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by rhizome 6y ago
They need California much more than California needs them. I wouldn't be surprised if strong-arming their employees is the only leverage they have.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Site/app producers with investors , and really, investors of a certain breed. Investors that "encourage" certain business models that depend on prohibiting anonymity.
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by rhizome 6y ago
I believe the conventional wisdom is for one process per container.

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