sethrin

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by sethrin 9y ago
What exactly does it mean to set up a "tech hub" of two people, in a town of 4000, in rural Alaska? I'm not sure I get the core concept there. Full disclosure: I was born and raised in Valdez.
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by sethrin 9y ago
America has internalized Disney-esque values about certain animals. I'm from rural Alaska and you'll pardon my not having any illusions about whether nature is in fact red in tooth and claw. Pets are no more important than any oth
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by sethrin 9y ago
It still exists if you have the original discussion system enabled. I never moved on to the javascript-based one.
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by sethrin 9y ago
I'm in the same boat, working from home to no one else's schedule, but probably with a worse habit of body. I have no idea when I might last have slept for more than seven hours, and I very rarely nap. I'm considering acquiri
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by sethrin 9y ago
> They do, in a way, by paying higher salaries for the graduates they really want. Seriously? > "The government pays your tuition" is unlikely to find much support outside of a certain age bracket. "I've got mine,
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by sethrin 9y ago
About six hours per night. Never more than seven. I've been working from home on my own schedule for years, so productivity is probably not impacted either way. I seem to be consistently waking up at 0425 in the mornings. I'm 31,
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by sethrin 9y ago
Why are we considering universities in terms of the earning potential of their graduates? University is not job training. If anthropology students are being encouraged to continue in academia, it's because that's the purpose of th
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by sethrin 9y ago
The game's popularity is sort of ironic. It was designed to be unfair, in order to demonstrate the harmful power that monopolists accrue. That it results in the situations you describe could also be said to be by design.
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by sethrin 9y ago
My longer Civ games are usually 40 hours long. XCOM: The Long War is something like ten times longer. It's also brutally difficult. If you enjoyed Civ, I would strongly suggest checking it out. There's also a playthrough on YouTub
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by sethrin 9y ago
Rights can be said to have a real existence only to the degree that society dictates, and only in a social context. Your will is not inviolate simply because you choose to frame it as a right. So the first answer to that question is that it
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by sethrin 9y ago
I was thinking that we need a stronger term than idiot, but it occurs to me that this behavior is actually criminal. It causes grievous harm to one's society, which is the criterion for criminal behavior. Therefore if social pressure i
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by sethrin 9y ago
Using a broad definition of theft merely serves to raise the noise floor. Your definition of " completely private" seems like "free markets" or "perfect competition": that is, things which are free from govern
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by sethrin 9y ago
Generally, it redistributes funding in a way that will disproportionally affect California, resulting in less funding. It results in less funding increases overall over the next few years. It also allows some measure of price discrimination
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by sethrin 9y ago
Steps for installing GalliumOS would involve replacing the firmware and bootloader, so the behavior you describe would not be an issue. Overwriting the firmware is of course something to undertake with great care.
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by sethrin 9y ago
This article provides an interesting overview of gender identity development: http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/appsych/opus/issues/2011/spring/ge...
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by sethrin 9y ago
Many cities in the US formerly had light rail systems, but these were purchased and dismantled by companies involved in the automotive industry[0]. These companies also created a "car culture" which may rival Sam Colt's creat
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by sethrin 9y ago
Crouton[0] is one option for that, but I would recommend GalliumOS[1] to anyone interested in a Chromebook. My current laptop is an Acer C720, purchased for $110 and running GalliumOS. It's not shiny or new, but it gets the job done, a
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by sethrin 9y ago
There are a number of accounts of that sort of situation floating around the Internet; it's not necessary to acquire the scars personally. As to how we get into those situations, I suspect that the universal path would be an erroneous
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by sethrin 9y ago
> And since I regularly browse via a Digital Ocean VM If you don't mind my asking, why? And by which method do you usually accomplish this? Edit: Thanks for explaining the CAPTCHA issue.
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by sethrin 9y ago
The current generation is "coddled", and they should be. I grew up in rural Alaska, in one of the snowiest spots on the globe. If other people had somewhat less hellish school commutes I would consider that civilized . If on th
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by sethrin 9y ago
It is hard to measure, but yes, people did try, both at the time and in more recent eras. To some degree the end of the first World War was a confounding factor, but the bulk of the sources I've seen support the parent's claims. T
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by sethrin 9y ago
Cannabis is already completely legal in a number of US States. In Portland, Oregon there is practically an embarrassment of retailers. Further, one can buy a pen-sized vaporizer which contains concentrated cannabis resins in a variety of fr
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by sethrin 9y ago
You may be interested to know that the 1975 Alaska Supreme Court ruling which legalized cannabis in that state used more or less your exact reasoning. The court found that as long as cannabis use was not a public health issue, the State had
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by sethrin 9y ago
China bans drugs because the US exported their drug laws via the UN. Perhaps you could find a better example.
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by sethrin 9y ago
Well, I tend to assume that I'm not the only one who continually forgets to add 'sudo' in front of 'apt-get', or similarly that journalctl usually requires elevated privileges, or that I don't own the files I&#
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by sethrin 9y ago
That's technically incorrect. !$ is a shortcut for !!:$, which is the last word of the previous command in history. A filename is treated as a single word, as you say. This is however distinct from the last argument , which is accessi
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by sethrin 9y ago
Everyone should probably have $ sudo !! ingrained in muscle memory. The other even more useful one is !$ to get the last word of the previous line. It's probably the terminal feature I use most.
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by sethrin 9y ago
The ones I get a lot of use out of are: curly brace substitution: $ mkdir -p new_project/{img,js,css} mkdir -p new_project/img new_project/js new_project/css $ mv some_file.txt{,.old} mv some_file.txt some_file
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by sethrin 9y ago
Using find to do that is a much better idea. The author shows this as the first examples in #9.
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by sethrin 9y ago
If we are to measure science by its technological results, then we would judge Arrhenius' paper on global warming to be a failure because it didn't result in any iPhones being sold. The author illustrates a difference in value sys

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