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by stonogo 3y ago
There's a whole chain of novels by Larry Niven about what might happen when human organs enter a market economy. It assumes it works like any other closely-regulated market, producing a robust black market quickly dominated by organiz
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by stonogo 3y ago
Why not bigger? Why not a full-size ITX mainboard? There's no pleasing everyone.
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by stonogo 3y ago
What is minimalistic about this? It seems like a really nice interface but I don't understand that bit of its description.
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by stonogo 3y ago
It's trivial to remove yourself from Google search results if you have a Google account . People who don't want to do business with Google don't regard that as trivial, since Google asks for a ton of personal information du
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by stonogo 3y ago
My friend runs an activity pub instance, but the software he uses is called snac2. One of it's stated features is that is does not report follower counts. It also only reports likes or boosts on the home instance (not on federated fe
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by stonogo 3y ago
If AWS goes down, and it does, you're still left holding the bag, because no one customer is important enough for them to actually support. You can leave sad voicemails for your customer account representative, and pretty much nothing
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by stonogo 3y ago
Why would anyone believe that legal remedies are not more accessible to the rich? That's the foundation of the cash bail system, among many, many other differences.
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by stonogo 3y ago
Ok, this will be my last try: "The libc headers across all the different weird Unix variants are 99% identical." This is both true and not applicable. The headers are nearly identical. The behaviors of the systems are not.
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by stonogo 3y ago
This is why I put "to a right-wing listener." It doesn't matter what happens in your country. In the US, for decades, Medicare has been known as a miserable nightmare of cost-driven inefficiency and denied service. Nobody
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by stonogo 3y ago
The one where the Tesla's battery system is miscalibrated and you run out of power three miles from the charging station it was routing you to. I'm a happy EV owner, but I'll never rent one again. Meanwhile, to be fair, you
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by stonogo 3y ago
I didn't say Autotools and CMake weren't awful, I said that approach exists for a reason. You seem not to understand; maybe it's my poor communication skills. And I don't appreciate being called "Linux people,&quo
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by stonogo 3y ago
"Universal health care" is a phrase that basically means "everyone is on medicare" by now and to a right-wing listener is synonymous with losing control of your health care decisions. "Institutionalization" is
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by stonogo 3y ago
Congrats on the clean living, but it remains the norm regardless. Both CMake and Autotools use this approach. C and C++ aren't the only languages for which this is true, by the way. It is de rigueur these days to have versioned rel
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by stonogo 3y ago
It's literally the only way to be absolutely certain a specific feature is available. Version checks, shibboleth strings like __GLIBC__, documentation, all of these things can be subverted or lied to. In the end, verifying the desire
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by stonogo 3y ago
The difference is between inaccuracy of a weapon hitting a target and inaccuracy of target selection in the first place. Remember the scene in Men In Black where the recruita do target practice? They were all accurate at hitting what th
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by stonogo 3y ago
There have been at least three suicides. When this much money is being spent convincing people to buy into a bad idea, it's gonna work on someone .
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by stonogo 3y ago
All definitions of violence which extend past physical force are incorrect.
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by stonogo 3y ago
No, screaming at someone is not violence. The WHO definition you cite also restricts its definition to physical force. If screaming were violence, we'd have prisons full of sports fans after every football game. "Harming someone
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by stonogo 3y ago
Slavery as a punishment for crime is explicitly authorized in the United States Constitution.
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by stonogo 3y ago
"Violence" is physical. Without a physical component, there is no violence. It's the entire point of the word.
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by stonogo 3y ago
The whole point of emancipating a minor is to empower them with legal decision-making power, in particular the ability to earn and retain wages. Furthermore it's really hard to interpret your sentence with a meaning other than 'po
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by stonogo 3y ago
This is survivorship bias in action. They intended to build a bridge. That is all we can infer from the fact that a bridge exists. That they used available materials and the bridge was not abused by subsequent usage outside its design sp
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by stonogo 3y ago
The bridge has lasted a thousand years because nobody is driving 18-wheelers over it. It has nothing to do with the intentions of the builder.
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by stonogo 3y ago
And what if you arrive at the site not knowing it's about a font? How are you supposed to find out?
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by stonogo 3y ago
Was there a point involved here, or is this just a particularly vague public service announcement?
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by stonogo 3y ago
RStudio is thirteen years old so I'm not sure what changed that makes the search results different "now"
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by stonogo 3y ago
Microsoft effectively controlling the PC market as a platform to sell Excel is akin to Google controlling web standards as a platform to sell ads.
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by stonogo 3y ago
Power density is much lower. On a vehicle you have to pedal one the power is out, weight savings matters.
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by stonogo 3y ago
It took me a while to figure out what you mean by "real application launcher" but I think you mean that hitting the top left corner menu (or the Windows key) launches the fullscreen window overview plus launcher and that's no
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by stonogo 3y ago
How is one more closed off than the other? Do they come with built-in block lists? How does this difference manifest?

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