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by stanferder 7y ago
You're assuming the 60 years after Country X's starship is launched is going to be a period of progress. If it's a period of collapse, perhaps complete collapse, humanity will have lost an opportunity by delaying the launch.
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by stanferder 7y ago
That's a good question, and I'm ashamed to say I don't know whether it's possible or not. "Grassroots organizing", or bottom-up pressure on the government, is a thing in the US, but I don't know the mechan
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by stanferder 7y ago
It might not be just reddit though. The author's summary points to a volatile combination of elements in Rust itself: 1) [T]he Rust project saw Rust as more than just the language... 2) unsafe... is a really important part of Rust,
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by stanferder 7y ago
> ...forces unleashed by Silicon Valley—rising housing costs, choked infrastructure. Housing costs and choked infrastructure were unleashed by policies designed to deter population growth. What wasn't anticipated is that the incumbe
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by stanferder 7y ago
I'm not an architect, but my understanding is that the foundation has to be far enough down that the ground does not freeze under it, which is why houses in the Northeast US and Canada have basements.
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by stanferder 7y ago
It seems faster than average. There are aspects to their service that are horrible; their website, a la carte pricing and "buy your bags" terminology are incomprehensible if you aren't already accustomed to it. But they&#x2
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by stanferder 7y ago
Spirit Airlines actually has the right idea on this - you pay to bring an overhead bag aboard, and they mean business about it being the proper size. I'm able to get away with not checking a bag on the vast majority of my flights. I&
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by stanferder 7y ago
Why not? But after the third time, Tesla should require in-person confirmation of the purchase.
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by stanferder 7y ago
If your goal is to maintain your privacy as you travel around town, uber/lyft/whatever aren't a suitable solution.
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by stanferder 7y ago
It's a shibboleth. The joy experienced by someone who's already "in the circle" for 1195725856 justifies the vagueness. For those who aren't, the post brings them in on the joke.
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by stanferder 7y ago
> ...limiting overall liability to the property value alone LLCs don't limit liability resulting from negligence, malpractice, or other personal wrongdoing, which may be germane in a lawsuit over something besides unpaid debts. htt
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by stanferder 7y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to simply fine the LLCs for their misdeeds, and confiscate the properties if the fines go unpaid? It is already kinda deranged that one's name and other details become public records in many states as s
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by stanferder 7y ago
I did learn something new though. I would have assumed that either zero or tens of thousands of people would buy a technical ebook, in the same way that any random musician's album usually makes $0 or becomes a hit. Small consistent
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by stanferder 7y ago
This is why Facebook's policy against multiple accounts is bad. People need separate (and possibly pseudonymous) accounts for their professional, personal, and unattributed work.
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by stanferder 7y ago
> Bet he can barely rotate a tire. According to Wikipedia, Bezos "once rigged an electric alarm to keep his younger siblings out of his room" and "worked at McDonald's as a short-order line cook during the breakfast s
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by stanferder 7y ago
It's hard to argue with what the author describes as a hunch, but his threshold for "end of the world" is pretty low. I was working in an adjacent milieu at the time, and I wasn't happy when S&P tanked, but really, n
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by stanferder 7y ago
> What is so special in using other providers? Is it just... normal? It's probably not normal. I've heard of Google, but not Fastmail, Matomo, Nextcloud, Collabra, Plex, Jellyfin, F-Droid, Aurora, Lineage, PinePhone, Simple Mo
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by stanferder 7y ago
What stops Google from suspending a paid account, assuming they issue a pro-rated refund for anything paid in advance?
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by stanferder 7y ago
Does it actually work though? It seems like there is a significant difference between the expectation that semantic versioning should result in no disruption, and the experience of the parent to your comment. I'd be interested to kno
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by stanferder 7y ago
I don't think it makes sense to include as unknowable as a hater's internal motivation as a defining characteristic. Moreover even when there is "no good reason" initially, good reason might be found eventually. Scrutin
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by stanferder 7y ago
> I hate this fraud because why good on him/her and not me? > Carreyou didn’t want Holmes to fail because “why her and not me” Why is envy assumed to be the motivation of the "hater"? If I recall correctly, Markopolous
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by stanferder 7y ago
It's actually kind of brilliant. Mercuriadis et al are getting some of the rights to well-known intellectual property through the presumably underpaid, behind-the-scenes contributors. His competitors say he's paying too much, bu