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by secstate 6y ago
Not quite. Apple has done a very aggressive marketing campaign to encourage us to perceive them as privacy-forward. They've also done an admirable job marketing the specifics of what they do. What's left is all the places where th
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China’s Chang’e 5 mission lands on the Moon(theverge.com)
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iPython for Web Devs(ipythonbook.com)
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Europa’s Mysterious Glow(theatlantic.com)
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Giant virus genomes discovered lurking in DNA of common algae(sciencemag.org)
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by secstate 6y ago
I think the quotes are meant to suggest that while paper is not really indestructible, it's failure mode in poor weather is much more graceful than an electronic device. Put the paper in a plastic bag and I know from experience that it
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by secstate 6y ago
I think Vioxx is a great case study in why people are growing skeptical of not just vaccines, but pharma solutions to daily problems in general. I find it hard to be too critical with people who are skeptical of modern medical science, give
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by secstate 6y ago
Apples and oranges my friend. Being elite and overtraining are orthogonal. By definition, overtraining is pushing your body too far too fast. No one can train for a 100 mile race by doing 3 50 mile training runs in a week. That's not h
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by secstate 6y ago
Is it just me, or is it a little silly to compare the 1919 world economy pre-mass production/consumerism with today? The irony to most of this shutdown is that "essential" businesses are still open. What the Great Pause has e
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by secstate 6y ago
In a strange way your statement "accept that their influence must be curbed ..." sounded an awful lot like how pro athletes don't really get a choice about being role models for young kids. The difference in the two groups is
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by secstate 6y ago
I'm in the same boat as OP. The entire childhood vaccination schedule is insane because it lacks longitudinal studies demonstrating effectiveness and safety. Why is varicella in the schedule? The plague upon our house that is chicken p
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by secstate 6y ago
Thank you for bringing attention this. In a language many software engineers would understand, I would call this an antipattern that encourages non-theological religious belief.
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by secstate 6y ago
I don't know the best forum for suggesting something like this without sounding like a monster, but to play devil's advocate for a moment: What do the SE Asian countries that responded well to Covid-19 have in common? A: They were
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More early Starlink satellites likely being deorbited(rocketrundown.com)
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by secstate 6y ago
Best part of the whole story was Piotr Grabowski's comment at the bottom. Seems the most illuminating aspect of this story is how disconnected American's are from European history. I don't mean this in a dismissive way. I mys
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by secstate 7y ago
Not sure if you meant this sarcastically, but if that happens, fuck it. This is the world we made. To pretend we have free-market capitalism while propping up shitty business practices with tax-payer sponsored bailouts is not free-market ca
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by secstate 7y ago
For sure! So if I'm reading an article about the fall of the Roman Empire, and I learn about how modern scholarship does not talk in terms like "fall" much anymore, but rather civilization transformation, I might make a new s
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by secstate 7y ago
Bald eagles are everywhere in Maine now. Near a tidal estuary near us we counted 25 sitting in trees watching the smelt run.
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by secstate 7y ago
I'll say that I've been using org-mode and it's agenda to manage todos and take notes for a long time, and Roam is whole other animal. The problem I've had with Rifle is that words can mean different things in different
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by secstate 7y ago
As a public official in a small town, I have thought about doing this before. The legal issues always come up. But I also think that the people upset with the exposure after emailing public officials maybe don't fully understand that a
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by secstate 7y ago
Pretty sure the ban on microwaves was an electrical fire risk, not them being predatory about students eating at the dining hall. Can you imagine if even every other room had an appliance pulling 1000W whenever the hell a student felt like
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by secstate 7y ago
Define "came back from the collapse of the Roman Empire". We only have a few thousand years of recorded human history as a benchmark, but the "Dark Ages" weren't as dark as people think they were. They simply lacked
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by secstate 7y ago
Except that as my sister discovered after moving to the Loop in Chicago, public transportation is great until you need to depend on it. Work doesn't care if you're chronically late because of chronically late trains. Maybe other c
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by secstate 7y ago
Oh my. This does appear to be a path towards Marxism. You also missed the call for 10-page "solutions" to municipal and regional government problems.
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by secstate 7y ago
Docsy doesn't break keyboard scrolling in Qutebrowser. Tract does not work for me at all. Also, while I'm sure it's configurable, the neon pink is burning my eyes in a dark room and constrasts terribly with bright white.
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by secstate 7y ago
Good luck getting most of the crowd here to understand this perspective. I applaud your attempt at encouraging people to stop and think about things, but most people here seem to have grown up well protected from difficult things and think
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by secstate 7y ago
That's fair. But, they also haven't said anything publicly about the keyboard being shit, despite two attempts now to make it not (with middling results). All this means is that the Mac Pro was a complete failure, while the MBP k
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by secstate 7y ago
I think I might just be done with Apple. That culture of saying nothing and the surprising customers with things is like betting in Vegas. And unfortunately for Apple, the house always wins. They can repair the damage of the Mac Pro debac
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The case against E-Verify for illegal immigrants to the US(econlib.org)
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Video Submission for Nasa's Mars 3D-Printed Habitat Challenge(aeon.co)
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