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by sdsd 3y ago
Or as Alex Kaschuta put it, "the fruitful shall inherit the earth". Is your demographic having kids? More kids than your opponents? Does your ideology depend entirely on converting the children of your enemies in order to continue
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The birthrate in most of the third world is also declining, fwiw, and most of these countries are becoming richer. Immigration is a good solution if you have a low-context, high-income country, that poor or chaotic neighbors want to live in
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I think therapy works, but I think other things (like exercise, friendship, and having a good reason to expect good things in the future) usually are much more important, and it's hard for a therapist to help with any of those proble
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The person I'm replying to said "every day", which is a far cry from "one day of the year". I'm not saying Austin isn't hot! I'm sure it's awful.
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>it's 110F every day This is just ridiculous (unless intentional hyperbole that I misunderstood, in which case sorry!). Wiki Austin climate reality check: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austin,_Texas#Climate
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Hi! I'm a web application security engineer. I've been in appsec for a few years, before that I was a fullstack web developer. I can defend myself in React, Flask, Next.js, and other typical web dev type stuff. But I'm at my
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I spend a lot of time on Urbit and there are plenty of blogs and nothing is commercial. They're even working on an Urbit search engine now. Not trying to promote Urbit, just saying that whether the internet is like this depends on how
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Ironically, the data points in the exact opposite direction. Homeschool students perform better in almost every metric compared to public schools. >replace formal education with the nonsense that is homeschool. I don't count public
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If it makes you feel better, I was public schooled, and a lot of the kids seemed to have really awful social skills. This kind of numb mindlessness. Not everyone, but it was too widespread. Something about sitting still doing nothing for 7
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You've misunderstood the person you're replying to. He's not saying that dollar tree is for poor. He's intentionally making a logical fallacy - 'no one needs to go to the grocery store [in this case, dollar tree] si
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According to Dennis Ritchie from the Jargon File: "Some people are confused over whether this word is appropriately ‘UNIX’ or ‘Unix’; both forms are common, and used interchangeably. Dennis Ritchie says that the ‘UNIX’ spelling origina
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Idk why but even highly knowledgeable people capitalize random tech words. In the Tanenbaum–Torvalds debate, Tanenbaum regularly calls it LINUX (maybe a habit because UNIX is smallcaps'd per the trademark?). Lisp is often called LISP (
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This is not true. It's a requirement in many states' probations that probationers undergo regular polygraphy. If they fail the polygraph enough times, they get kicked out of state-mandated therapy and are violated. Thousands of pe
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>the vast majority of your donation does go to maintaining wikipedia. Who knows? Is there any good investigative breakdown of exactly what Wikimedia Foundation spends most of its income on? Does it have a huge admin parasitical attachmen
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Pentesting the Trill App (Urbit's Twitter)(darigo.substack.com)
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It was nonfiction! In fact, it was in that library 15 years ago, and I think they have a website... However, after a brief search it seems they have a lot of books on Cicero. I was obsessed with Rome (thanks to my high school Latin class) a
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When I was 16 I lived with my sister for a few months, which were among the best of my life. She was in university and I'd moved in to help her take care of her infant so she wouldn't have to drop out. Anyway, at her university li
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Aha, I didn't know that. Looks like the marketing worked too well on me! In any case, the lie of drop-in compatibility at least I think led some people to look for alternatives that wouldn't be hampered by Oracle-era MySQL.
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When MySQL was purchased by Oracle. For a time, MariaDB was the new option, but its commitment to binary compatibility with MySQL made it feel bogged down. Fun fact: Julian Assange contributed code to PostgreSQL a long time ago: https:&#x2
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>don't go to Y they don't like Americans As an American, this has been my experience with French people. Everyone tells me how rude they are, and how they dislike Americans. Meanwhile, I've met a ton of French people and t
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From childhood to adolescence I used to go on calls with my dad to fix air conditioners with my dad and we met a Polish couple. By this time I was 14 and communist, having read the motorcycle diaries. Anyway, I asked them about their experi
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People are downvoting you because you're saying "Twitter okay" and the hivemind says "Twitter bad". Fwiw I had the same experience, I never cared about Twitter (had tried it a few times and just lost interest) and I
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I'm Jes, a web application developer specialized in security. I've been doing this for several years, and a few more years as a backend engineer. Currently, I freelance, but hopefully a permanent position is out there that I can t
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I live in a small town in Guatemala and the mormon church here is growing very rapidly. According to Google, they're growing at 1.5% annually, which means 255,036 new Mormons every year. However, a church with even a hundred people can
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It's funny that you say this because that's exactly how the word "emo" was used circa 2008. The same way anything really uncool and disliked and uncannily edgy is just reflexively called "incel", everything eff
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I mean, their main product started out as a cooler MySpace. So I think you're right, this is their core competency
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I agree, but I wonder how people feel about Racket in this context, where the "language oriented programming" approach is common and the idea that you solve problems by creating a DSL is the norm.
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>Britain isn’t a developing country, it’s a regressing one. There's so much research on developing countries, but I find deteriorating countries more interesting. There are many countries that used to be first world, and simply are
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>Panem et circenses has been around a long time, it's not a new concept that you're implying. He doesn't seem to be implying that this is new. Rather, that this is something that happens to any decadent society society whe
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Agree. Recently, my favorite childhood imageboard (711chan.net) came back online, and I was pleasantly surprised to see they offer the site via Tor, including using the Onion-Location header to make the browser aware of this fact. Interesti

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