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Trump administration sees a 7-degree rise in global temperatures by 2100(washingtonpost.com)
14 points by s_kilk 8y ago|2 comments
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> What's wrong with tracking raw downloads? This seems like a great way to measure a podcast's success since the number of downloads probably tracks pretty closely to the number of listeners As a podcast host... not really. We&
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Will this idiotic mind-virus never die?
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> Bye-bye awesome summer afternoons with the sun setting down at 8:30 For whatever it's worth, there are plenty of people who hate this. The sun is still up when they're going to bed, meaning summer is a season of lost sleep.
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Right, I guess my point is, where does the term originate, really? And I'm pretty sure it originates in slavery. (Glad to be wrong on that if there's any experts around)
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Where did the computer people get the term from?
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> Companies are just people though Eh, this is like saying that people are just collections of cells. It doesn't tell you much about the high-level behavior observed.
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It's also a minor background detail in Mass Effect. If I recall correctly, Turian chirality is opposite that of humans, their food is poison to humans and vice versa, etc.
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Turns out the Labour Theory of Value was correct.
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> If we can live on mars We can't live on Mars, nor can we live on a sterile Earth.
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>> reminds me of John Galt Except the John Galt thing is based on the fantastical notion that a "creative" withdrawing from society would bring everything to a grinding halt. The secessio plebis is the withdrawal of labour p
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Unironically, we can already solve the calculation problem with standard computing techniques right now.
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How is anyone supposed to type on something like that?
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It'll be interesting to see how Go handles a new major version. Will it be a Python 3 situation? Or more like, I dunno, Ruby 2 and onwards.
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> Each time a user follows someone from a new server, that server's "federated feed" is added to the homeserver of that user. Wait, is this a thing? I've been using Mastodon for months and have never seen this in the
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> But that doesn't necessarily and always mean that people couldn't have invented something without military funding and uses in mind. It's not so much about the Military specifically, but about public funding in general.
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Freedom Isn't Free(logicmag.io)
2 points by s_kilk 8y ago|1 comments
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> It doesn't matter one whit about the instance, except perhaps initially. Maybe. You choose who to read and follow and the instance doesn't matter. Not in my experience. Mastodon doesn't really have any (good) cross-insta
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How not to talk about climate change(jacobinmag.com)
2 points by s_kilk 8y ago|0 comments
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I disagree. When both the operator and the operand are people, the operation is political by definition. We could maybe argue about degrees, but I think the premise is beyond doubt.
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> Are there any suggestions, from a personal stand point i.e. excluding a completely new economic model and government structure? You've gone wrong at the very start. This isn't a problem that can be solved on an individual lev
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> That is a very unscientific law. And yours is an extraordinarily myopic view. It should be obvious that fatherhood is more about kinship bond, duty, and obligation than it is about genetics.
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Two thirds seems low
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>> It's fascinating to me a country can be invaded and occupied by their neighbor and the world does nothing about it. See also: Palestine
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I think that's kinda the point of the style. The bizarre stacks of features create a hallucinatory, or "dream-like" vibe, which snares the Chads and Jessicas looking for their, and I quote, "dream home".
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It looks like a video game level with shitty textures
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> You're suggesting I don't have adult intellectual capacity, right? You're certainly acting that way.
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Utterly wrong. The Internet wouldn't exist without gigantic state funding. The early Internet was completely free of commercial influence.
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The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work
1 points by s_kilk 8y ago|0 comments
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All three parts of Adam Curtis's "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace"

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