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by sdwr 3y ago
There's a big grey area in the middle. How you want to label it is influenced by the outcome and whether you think it's a good idea. Quitting your job and flying to Central America is risky. If his life improves from there, then i
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by sdwr 3y ago
Death knell is the killing blow (or harbinger of?) Death rattle refers to a rattling noise produced in the lungs with one's dying breaths. Both applicable, death rattle is a little bit more appropriate though, because it's an acti
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by sdwr 3y ago
I read a lot of hate online about how executives are evil, greedy, exploitative leeches. Here's a story looking at the other angle - this is a person responsible for the livelihoods of lots of people, and maintaining an American instit
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by sdwr 3y ago
Situations like this might be the best time to make meaningful change. The "outcome to avoid" is front and center in everyone's mind, but no decision makers were at fault. If this was a bridge collapse that could have been pr
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by sdwr 3y ago
I love the scapegoat concept, it solves problems in at least 3 ways: - resolves pressure that builds up due to social paradoxes (don't like you but have to pretend to, have desires but can't admit to them) - reminds everyone that
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by sdwr 3y ago
Learning a musical instrument is: - embodied - self-directed - open-ended and includes things like playing in a band, performing for others Doing crossword puzzles is: - all in the brain - exclusively solitary - closed-off (just looking for
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by sdwr 3y ago
I started on a similar link gatherer at http://sdwr.ca #1 use right now is making looping clips from youtube videos, but I want it to function as a semi-shared way to organize bookmarks
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by sdwr 3y ago
There's a perverse beauty to it - we've collectively beaten the biosphere into submission. Explored the unknowns, commodified everything. And then, out of our ultimate triumph of order, safety, and control of the natural world com
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by sdwr 3y ago
If the credit card companies take a dollar from every transaction, then the store raises prices by 80 cents to keep margins the same (because some people pay by cash). Your 80 cents in cash goes to the store, and subsidizes 4 other customer
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by sdwr 3y ago
I'm no lawyer, but the 2 angles I see are failure to provide agreed services (that were paid for!), and double billing. Not having recourse for being deplatformed sucks, but for the rest, take the Internet out of the equation and it&#x
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by sdwr 3y ago
The article gets to a good point (that the probability of winning doesn't depend on player order), but it's a total mess!
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by sdwr 3y ago
Yeah, that's the common sense interpretation.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Really fascinating, I love the implication that domestication is tied to juvenile characteristics (getting along in a group means acting more like a kid than an adult protecting your territory / breeding rights). > "Are we dome
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by sdwr 3y ago
If you read the article, it looks like he got punished pretty lightly - had to pay back some of the gains, got to keep others, and had no further repercussions.
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by sdwr 3y ago
That's the honesty and directness shining through!
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by sdwr 3y ago
Aw, I loved that site, and have checked it occasionally through the years, hoping for a new comic.
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by sdwr 3y ago
The other half is that the canary is broad, and doesn't specify which government or agency made the request / gag order. The "I didn't really talk about it, I just didn't NOT say I WASN'T talking about it"
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by sdwr 3y ago
I'm working in vue, and get lost at the transition between my code and the framework stuff, when an error "falls through the cracks", and the call stack comes from the framework. What do you do for that, even?
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by sdwr 3y ago
I believe the interaction with asbestos is material, not chemical. It breaks into tiny shards that are light enough to breathe, and sharp enough to cut up your lungs. Which is why a single exposure will damage your lungs, but it takes lots
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by sdwr 3y ago
How is this not science? He has a hypothesis - modern sleep devices are not as good for the spine as the bare ground. He suggested a reason why - pressing against the ground during sleep acts as therapy. He has data - life experience, pict
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by sdwr 3y ago
A big attraction of the chain for me is that the servers don't have a personal stake in the success of the restaurant. At smaller or more local places, the owners are working, and they really care. I just want to eat without dancing ar
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by sdwr 3y ago
What does the Sanctuary part mean? Are there increased light restrictions, or is it mostly a "put a name on what's already happening"-type thing?
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by sdwr 3y ago
Yeah, sorry for the late reply. It was this article with ptitdrogo https://www.christian-staedter.com/guest-newsletter-theo-pti...
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by sdwr 3y ago
Yeah, it's a formulaic, juvenile approach, hard to watch more than a little without feeling empty and exhausted. The research seems very solid, but the tone is shallow and teeters on the edge of Fox News-style partisan ragebaiting.
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by sdwr 3y ago
I just read an interview with an esports pro transitioning to a normal job, he said the exact same thing. That the game environment is very "coddled" - you are always on a track, getting pulled towards the next milestone. Real lif
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by sdwr 3y ago
Nice, never heard an (attempted) explanation for that one before.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Probably never, the point is that they aren't getting around paywalls, it's users that they aren't necessarily aware of or responsible for. Plausible deniability goes a long way.
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by sdwr 3y ago
Foxes aren't considered tricksters, they are . Those are weasel words used by history writers to avoid having to say anything. They are solitary, can't take any other predator in a fight, and have a cry that sounds like a child i
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by sdwr 3y ago
On the cloud product listing they make it pretty clear that "in use" means "allocated" and not "consuming electricity". Pretty sure their fees are staying the same, and we are still paying for every hour a serv
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by sdwr 3y ago
Read it a few times, think they meant an ice cream sandwich or chocolate popsicle. The employee was drowning in free ice cream, to the point of wasting a full bar (melting and throwing away) just to eat the coating.

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