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by stirfish 5y ago
>And if we're being honest, climate change will get us before the government here can The future is FEMA
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by stirfish 5y ago
Vermont is one of my favorite states in the union. The state motto is "freedom and unity" and you get the feeling that everyone is on the same team there. New Hampshire's state motto is "live free or die." If you di
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by stirfish 5y ago
Do you have to stay in Nashville? Moving for better opportunities is just about the most American thing a person can do
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by stirfish 5y ago
Are you on Instagram? If so, do you find the fashion ads annoying? I just scrolled through Instagram and I think they changed the ads. I still want to shoot myself, but I'm not getting any ads for weapons anymore
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by stirfish 5y ago
Good question, but no. Obfuscation is an additional step you can take to make it harder to turn that executable back into code.
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by stirfish 5y ago
Get your devs a French press
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by stirfish 5y ago
>Instead of eagerly generating CSS classes whenever a styled component is defined, we wait until the component is rendered before injecting those styles into the page. The design department comes up with a fancy new "Leave Feedback&
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by stirfish 5y ago
Great question. This probably isn't the answer, but it feels to me that I've had the same desktop hardware since the earth cooled, but a new phone comes out every 2 weeks.
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by stirfish 5y ago
>The NRA supports the rights of all individuals to own gubs. Except for the Black Panthers. https://time.com/4431356/nra-gun-control-history/ https://www.history.com/news/black-panthers-gun
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by stirfish 5y ago
> Since it's apparently against federal law to leave whitespace in such a fundraising request, Oh nice, we are following federal fundraising laws now. This is an improvement.
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by stirfish 5y ago
> The term white supremacy is used in some academic studies of racial power to denote a system of structural or societal racism which privileges white people over others, regardless of the presence or the absence of racial hatred. Accord
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by stirfish 5y ago
> Or trying to argue with someone who believes in "systemic white supremacy" by pointing out that Asian-Americans earn more money than white Americans. White Supremacy is the belief that white people are inherently superior to
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by stirfish 5y ago
>If gender is a state of mind, then why not race, or even species? Why do you need gender and race to be objective? As for species, we've gotten that wrong too https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/019501958X
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by stirfish 5y ago
>The line of thinking that starts with COVID19 and ends with violence against grandmothers seems so preposterous that it should be tested objectively to see if it exists. Okay >There are reports of huge increases in hate crimes during
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by stirfish 5y ago
The hate crimes started accelerating in March of 2020, around the time #ChineseVirus was trending on twitter.
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by stirfish 5y ago
We went pretty quickly from "it started somewhere in China" to beating elderly asian people to death in the streets. I think the backlash was more against the justifications people use to be awful.
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by stirfish 5y ago
>It is scientifically proven that there are no differences between men and women. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_dimorphism
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by stirfish 5y ago
If it were to affect our perception of reality, what differences could we find? I'm guessing that it would affect our perception of reality in the same way eye color would.
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by stirfish 5y ago
Some cheap (or expensive but old) pickups rattle when you shake them. Here's a tutorial on "repotting" some pickups in wax to fix this. https://www.projectguitar.com/tutorials/electronics/repottin...
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by stirfish 5y ago
>sometimes market research is very valuable. I agree! I didn't intent to discount market research. >This risk you have for "solving problems you personally have" is that you can end up trying to build infra tooling like
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by stirfish 5y ago
Do you ever develop apps to solve problems you personally have?
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by stirfish 5y ago
That's a really great point, I hadn't considered that.
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by stirfish 5y ago
"Alexa, order a fire extinguisher."
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by stirfish 5y ago
I don't think it is any more plutocratic. It's about the same.
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by stirfish 6y ago
Do you know any furries? Where does the disgust come from?
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by stirfish 6y ago
Copyright, but not copyleft. This confirms YouTube's bias towards proprietary software.
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by stirfish 6y ago
>For all I've seen "non-white non-male" is generally given priority in all kinds of areas, certainly in start-up interest. It's considered "hip" to associate with these "non-white non-male" groups,
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by stirfish 6y ago
>That they implemented any software at all instead of full-time internal advocacy against PRISM? Yes.
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by stirfish 6y ago
Why not? As a developer, I can't think of any downsides.