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811.
by riffraff 1y ago
What about SpaceX deciding to raise the price 30 times because they no longer have any potential competition? I don't believe that likely, but it does seem like something similar is a good reason to keep options open.
812.
A Master of Surrealist Fiction and a Bard for Anxious Times(nytimes.com)
2 points by riffraff 1y ago|0 comments
813.
by riffraff 1y ago
Yesterday, I showed my kids the original Planet of the Apes. It literally ends with the main character going "oh no humanity you killed yourself may you be cursed for eternity". It's a fantastic movie, and it's as litera
814.
by riffraff 1y ago
Pascal's wager does not seem a solid investment strategy tho.
815.
America's largest power grid is struggling to meet demand from AI(reuters.com)
76 points by riffraff 1y ago|38 comments
816.
by riffraff 1y ago
5 years? I think it was last week.
817.
by riffraff 1y ago
Mutable strings were part of the perl heritage, which was one of the direct ancestors for ruby.
818.
by riffraff 1y ago
Are you sure it's in Maastricht? I think the automatic requirements met -> has to join were added in the Lisbon treaty, Maastricht just established the requirements but didn't force joining, which is why some older eu countries
819.
by riffraff 1y ago
Countless people see replicas everyday, don't know they're replicas, and are happy about it. Sometimes the replicas themselves are so old they become a monument on their own right, like some "Egyptian" obelisks in Rome,
820.
The 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet(theguardian.com)
8 points by riffraff 1y ago|4 comments
821.
by riffraff 1y ago
Isn't the figure of retail losing money on daily trading similar in other markets? I think eToro disclosed that on their app, people using CFDs were losing money 76% of the time.
822.
by riffraff 1y ago
As someone living in a country with very weakened democracy, getting emails from the government was the point I realized things were really messed up. If this is now happening in the USA, well, good luck.
823.
Game publishers respond to Stop Killing Games claim it curtails developer choice(pcgamer.com)
122 points by riffraff 1y ago|432 comments
824.
by riffraff 1y ago
When clacks got introduced, the description of people who just enjoyed being there and spending time on coding messages and talking to unknown remote people.. well, it felt like early internet, fidonet, perhaps AM radio amateurs. It really
825.
by riffraff 1y ago
There isn't, it's just the people in the loop who can make it self propagating. But then, so did they in the original clacks.
826.
Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean(icm.csic.es)
483 points by riffraff 1y ago|316 comments
827.
by riffraff 1y ago
Text-only stand-ups also have a tendency to devolve into just posting text into the void than nobody reads, so you may as well move to the even simpler "I need to discuss" flags which reduces communication even more. But then some
828.
by riffraff 1y ago
It does not apply if regulation allows it, but this does not need to be the case, and has been debated for decades > [the New Deal architect, A. A. Berle] argued that corporations should "serve ... all society" through legally
829.
by riffraff 1y ago
But this goes back to the original argument: maybe if you can't avoid causing harm then you shouldn't be allowed to operate? E.g. if you produce eggs and you can't avoid salmonella at some point your operation should be shut
830.
by riffraff 1y ago
I think lawmakers gravitate towards "required identification" because 1) it's easier to put blame on a single website than on whatever browser + the websites 2) it matches th experience of age restriction for movies and magaz
831.
by riffraff 1y ago
thank you for saying this, I feel less bad about not knowing anything about fixing cars now.
832.
by riffraff 1y ago
You jest, but there's a ton of people convinced they can use rock alum which is natural and so is better than industrial deodorants which contain aluminium.
833.
by riffraff 1y ago
> Even though the consulate has my biometric data, I need to visit them in person. don't they need to re-record them after X years? I thought that was the whole point of renewing an identity document/passport.
834.
by riffraff 1y ago
I bet you a beer nobody will go to jail for not captioning an onlyfans video, because that is not how regulations work. There is a range of fines, and a minor non-repeat infringement will obviously not get you the maximum penalty. But consi
835.
by riffraff 1y ago
That is how every law works. There's people specialized in handling collisions and conflicts. It's also why the idea that "code is law" popular in certain circles was always misguided.
836.
by riffraff 1y ago
Lenticoidal, I guess? I.e. remove the outer face of the cilinder by making the faces curved
837.
by riffraff 1y ago
I was under the impression many gifs these days are actually served as soundless videos, as those basically compress better. Can animated PNG beat av1 or whatever?
838.
by riffraff 1y ago
thanks for saying this, that is how I play this game usually, and I was confused by TFA going with backtracking/guessing a next attempt, when constraint propagation seems easier, I thought I was missing something.
839.
by riffraff 1y ago
I would argue when you're passing around stringy JSON-like thingies is when typing is most useful :) You're not going to misuse an API that takes a Person or Cart, but mixing up two hashes cause you used two different strings as k
840.
by riffraff 1y ago
The Ayatollah wasn't killed, but Gaddafi and Hussein were, while the Kim family is still fine. So from a regime leader point of view, it's better to have a nuclear weapon than not have it. For a member of the population it's

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