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by seneca 5y ago
FYI rclone is a great cli tool that can let you easily pull all content out of a Google drive and push it to several different easily configured backends, or store locally. It can also be used to encrypt all content on your drive, presumabl
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by seneca 5y ago
> Yes and a monarchy is a representative democracy because the king represents the people and has the sole vote on things. If the king were elected, yes that could be true. I'm not aware of any system that does that though, and I&#x
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by seneca 5y ago
> I always thought that Replublic and Democracy are orthogonal concepts. Yes, you're correct. I should have been more accurate and said a Republic CAN be a Democracy, or specifically said Democratic Republic. I'll edit my post
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by seneca 5y ago
A Republic can be a form of Democracy. There are types of Democracy other than direct.
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by seneca 5y ago
Valve has a pretty bad track record with hardware, do they not? I'm not very aware of this industry, but the vague impress I have is that they've tried this a couple of different ways and it hasn't gone well for them. I'
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by seneca 5y ago
You're the main character in 1 life, a side character in hundreds, and irrelevant in billions.
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by seneca 5y ago
Indeed, I agree. By no means am I advocating the removal of their ability to post, simply using my own to point out that perhaps they ought to think a bit more about their content.
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by seneca 5y ago
> Your comments are the perfect example of the short term positive news wave they can generate. Thank you for validating. This kind of lazy snark comment degrades this community.
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by seneca 5y ago
> because many of the functions that used to be performed by the family and community are now performed by businesses. I could see that being true. Do you mean businesses like Facebook and Twitter with their substitution for socializing?
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by seneca 5y ago
It seems this may have been posted on the wrong article, as it's completely unrelated to the topic.
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by seneca 5y ago
> If there is no conclusive evidence towards either side, then why not choose the side more likely to protect humanity from further harm? Yes, completely agreed! Now we just have to figure out which side that is. Put another way, you&#x2
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by seneca 5y ago
It's self-evident, and the research backs up, that our communities have all but died in the time frame you specified. However, it's not really clear, and the research I've read does not agree, that it is because of free marke
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by seneca 5y ago
Completely agreed. I like working from home, but more to the point I can't work in an open office plan.
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by seneca 5y ago
Meta-response, but what is with the carriage return after every sentence, (and sometimes in the middle)? It's a jarring way to write.
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by seneca 5y ago
I, for one, would be quite sad to see Linux on Github. An open source alternative, and preferably one without the political baggage and MS-backing of Github, would be a better fit.
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by seneca 5y ago
> No one has successfully beaten and killed a woman while calling her a TERF and then got away with it in court like the gay panic defense and the trans panic defense has. No one was lynched for being a TERF like black people have been.
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by seneca 5y ago
> Marxism has nothing to do with Critical Race Theory This is just incorrect. Critical Theory is a product of the Frankfurt School. They were explicitly applying Marxist thought to twentieth century politics, and wanted to understand why
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by seneca 5y ago
NPR has really squandered their credibility in the last 5 years or so.
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by seneca 5y ago
That's a feature, not a bug. No one cares about Juneteenth just like no one cares about Kwanza, so there's no disagreement, so it sails through. When people care, there's disagreement and deadlock. Change to things that actua
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by seneca 5y ago
> Google, FB, Twitter are bound to US norms They're actually bound to (for the US) extreme views popular in a small part of California. Much of the rest of the US is dealing with the same cultural imperialism, and resents it quite a
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by seneca 5y ago
Because regulation, even when well-meaning, acts as a barrier to entry and keeps competitors from even getting off the ground. Stifling small companies stagnates the industry and smothers innovation. You can play whack a mole with their bad
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by seneca 5y ago
Agriculture is an area still ripe for technological innovation. It looks less and less like it did a generation ago, but there are still many dangerous tasks, like this one, involved and, I believe, many that could be made much more efficie
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by seneca 5y ago
For my part, I generally search through O'Reilly Online (formerly Safari books. No association other that being a long time customer) for phrases around the subject until I find something that looks approximately right. I then read a b
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by seneca 5y ago
> "losing track of what behavior is publicly acceptable in the ever changing Overton window" The largest benefit of abandoning social media is probably the realization that the "very online" type don't actually d
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by seneca 5y ago
Agreed. I can't only imagine what would happen to these people if they had to face any actual adversity, given what had happened to them in the face of staying at home in the most comfortable civilization that had ever existed. In real
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by seneca 5y ago
> assholes like you Less of this, please.
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by seneca 5y ago
This always strikes me as one of those "too busy thinking about whether they can to ask if they should" scenarios. The earth is already packed with billions of people, most of whom live rather miserable existences. It seems like t
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by seneca 5y ago
> Isn't it kinda weird that every single large company moves aggressively to crush labor unions if they are so bad for the individual worker? It's entirely possible for unions to be bad for both the company and the workers. A l
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by seneca 5y ago
> You don’t think conservatives do exactly the same thing? Cancelling isn’t unique to the left nor something that just recently started. Yes, conservatives did the same thing during Mccarthyism, and it's widely accepted to have been
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by seneca 5y ago
It rose along with the recent rise in popularity of socialism.

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