swamp_cypress

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Dictator Game(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by swamp_cypress 2y ago|0 comments
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America's Retirement Timebomb [video](youtube.com)
1 points by swamp_cypress 2y ago|0 comments
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List of Conspiracy Theories(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by swamp_cypress 3y ago|2 comments
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by swamp_cypress 3y ago
Middle of last year I got laid off. I just hit up a few friends and got job offers immediately. I was able to delay going back to work for 6 months (the last job paid me out ~20 weeks redundancy, I saved a lot) and just chilled out. Having
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First direct evidence of adult European eels migrating to Sargasso Sea (2022)(nature.com)
2 points by swamp_cypress 3y ago|0 comments
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Million yen per child to leave Tokyo – Japan’s offer to families(theguardian.com)
6 points by swamp_cypress 4y ago|2 comments
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by swamp_cypress 4y ago
Because someone else will come along and create an exchange that offers ponzi-like interest rates and run you of out of business. Also promising never to gamble with the depositors' funds etc
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Exodus continues at Twitter as Elon Musk hints at possible bankruptcy(theguardian.com)
15 points by swamp_cypress 4y ago|2 comments
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How a knock on Neil Armstrong’s door in 1969 is still reverberating(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by swamp_cypress 4y ago|0 comments
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Somerton Man riddled with Russian spy speculation, but is it a red herring?(abc.net.au)
2 points by swamp_cypress 4y ago|0 comments
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by swamp_cypress 4y ago
First picture in the article show a scene from Brisbane, where I live. And there are a lot of these suburbs. Brisbane is built on a flood-plain. But the house prices in the low-lying suburbs that were hit hardest are still very strong. And
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by swamp_cypress 4y ago
"There's no need for a proxy like nginx; redbean is vertically integrated." Anyone have suggestions for caching? router? Something small and lightweight in the spirit of readbean itself.
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by swamp_cypress 5y ago
If this group can bribe insiders so easily, imagine what a state-level actor can do.
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by swamp_cypress 5y ago
Whenever I come across risky stuff like this I make a song and dance about it at meetings so when someone (incl. me) trips over it, well, I warned everyone including management. And whenever I am tasked to do it I send message on Teams to m
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Lots of fatal build system bugs (groff mailing list)(lists.gnu.org)
3 points by swamp_cypress 5y ago|0 comments
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Afghanistan’s last finance minister, now a D.C. Uber driver(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by swamp_cypress 5y ago|0 comments
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by swamp_cypress 5y ago
Reminds me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWU6dJ8tub4 (Milton Friedman's 4 Ways to Spend Money)
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by swamp_cypress 5y ago
I would have thought it was easier to electrify the yard and use pure electric powered prime movers instead.
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by swamp_cypress 5y ago
He can say and do and present himself as this and that all he likes and everyone will run around hanging off his every word defending this and impugning that. He has money. Money is power. Power is money.
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by swamp_cypress 5y ago
Reminds me of the stock beat from the Roland TR-909 as used in Siouxsie and the Banshee's Kiss them for me ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpcNaqkrPm8 )
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Simple numbers every government should use to fight anti-vaccine misinformation(theguardian.com)
8 points by swamp_cypress 5y ago|2 comments
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by swamp_cypress 5y ago
An exercise machine... contacting different ad networks many times per minute 24/7 ... probing my network ... recording our conversations ... adblocker firewall Throw that trash out
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by swamp_cypress 5y ago
From the Slackbook ( http://www.slackbook.org/html/book.html#PACKAGE-MANAGEMENT ): "The truth about pkgtool is not that it doesn't exist, but that it doesn't do any dependency checking." So, how onero
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by swamp_cypress 5y ago
I use Envy on VA Smalltalk professionally. Coming from Mercurial and SVN, when I first encountered it, I thought "WTF". Now I regard it as the greatest version control tool I have ever used. (It is also a package manager as well a