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811.
by t-3 2y ago
Funny you bring them up, I was going to use them as an example but didn't want to Godwin. The Nazis had a black-and-white ideological viewpoint and seemed to believe themselves to be heroes fighting to save their people from evil Jews
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by t-3 2y ago
> To someone living in Ukraine, it probably feels like a much closer fit. You may be right, but is it a better fit? Is there any hope left when you face overwhelming hordes of evil orcs that cannot be negotiated or reasoned with, espec
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by t-3 2y ago
> (except the Tiffany Aching ones) Those are actually some of the better ones among the later books though! If you're going to skip, skip the Moist von Lipwig books. They're substantially worse than the other books in the serie
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by t-3 2y ago
Low-margin, high volume products for low income people don't sell on advertisement, they sell on price. You need the economies of scale, and that requires tons of upfront capital investment.
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by t-3 2y ago
"Profitable" is just a calculation of inputs and outputs, what it actually looks like varies wildly. Manufacturing and tech/service industry and infrastructure are totally different types of business, often with radically dif
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by t-3 2y ago
The whip on your back, the ability to choose your work to some degree, the part where you get paid, the part where you don't get food housing and medical care from the owner but from your own money, the expectation of basic social resp
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by t-3 2y ago
I just don't wear my glasses when using backlit screens, and use eink whenever possible. It's waaay better than wearing glasses, and doesn't really reduce my ability to read as the screen isn't on the other side of the r
818.
by t-3 2y ago
What are people using these OCR programs for? Are there really that many PDFs being made without embedded text these days?
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by t-3 2y ago
I don't think the egotistical notion that the viewer would succeed where others failed is even a thing, or that it takes a "certain type of person". It's just that violence is stimulating and fun to the perpetrators and
820.
by t-3 2y ago
The horrors of war can be used an excuse for fighting wars. WMDs in Iraq, anyone?
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by t-3 2y ago
perl-rename - rename is also good, but much more annoying to use for me as it doesn't use standard regex notation like perl-rename. printf - shell is natively great at interpolation already, but having C-style printf formatting is ofte
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by t-3 2y ago
Technically I only read (as in completed) 2 books last year. My average pages per day was ~466 though (e-reader pages, which are not quite 1:1 with real book pages but pretty close, I think).
823.
by t-3 2y ago
Because books come in different sizes, but the number of different sizes is relatively small. So, if the number of books is more than can be fit on one shelf, it most likely makes the most sense to organize by size.
824.
by t-3 2y ago
So what? Hypocrisy is part of the human condition. We can only rid ourselves of it by actually expressing and exploring our true beliefs and reflecting on them in the context of our actions. Carefully curating a public image to match what t
825.
by t-3 2y ago
Any word used to describe intellectual disability would be just as hurtful, at least when given enough time to enter the vernacular. That's just how language and society works. Children especially can call each other anything and make
826.
by t-3 2y ago
It doesn't matter much to the anti-immigrant people if the Constitution applies to non-citizens or not... the deported will have a lot of trouble filing lawsuits to overturn any rulings due to being locked up or in another country, and
827.
by t-3 2y ago
Choosing to distribute your secret sauce using tools that require source to be transmitted is kind of silly if you want to keep the source secret.
828.
by t-3 2y ago
Calling Haruhi classic isn't that bad - I've seen people on this site referring to 2010s-era hardware as "retro".
829.
by t-3 2y ago
Is this why they've started requiring javascript lately? That little bit of annoyance finally pushed me to change default search engines in my "dirty" browser that touches sites I don't trust.
830.
by t-3 2y ago
This is pretty cool. I probably don't have much real use case for it because this is basically how I already do things when I use nfs or sshfs to bring the work to my local machine while keeping the files remote, but with more work inv
831.
by t-3 2y ago
They want my phone number and email address just to look at a forum I don't plan to participate in yet which information I would like to access is siloed in.
832.
by t-3 2y ago
Other way around. The British wanted to differentiate themselves from colonial hillbillies so they tried to assume the appearance of culture by making the words look more French.
833.
by t-3 2y ago
I'll just say that I sometimes use defense because the Firefox spellchecker seems to prefer UK spellings even when US English is set in the language settings and the red squiggly lines bother me.
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by t-3 2y ago
It's important to note that AMD is an IP company, Meta is a data company. AMD would be shooting itself in the foot if it normalized flagrantly violating the IP of others. Meta doesn't care about IP, they just want to sell ads and
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by t-3 2y ago
I like to use my devices without needing to be tethered to an outlet. I don't like having to deal with wires creating trip/pull hazards because my laptop needs charging. Sitting on the porch without needing to run extension cords
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by t-3 2y ago
I speak out loud or write on paper, or just do it a tiny bit slower and sometimes have to redo steps when I forget a result.
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by t-3 2y ago
I'm not claiming the US is not democratic - by most definitions of democracy, it is. I'm claiming the US has never promoted or protected democracy. I'm not judging the US in comparison to anyone else. I'm judging it in c
838.
by t-3 2y ago
> Could a 3 year old who is not even clear on all the rules defeat Magnus Carlsen in chess?! Sure. When the board gets thrown to the floor, game is over and baby is happy. Magnus now has to clean up.
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by t-3 2y ago
Why is AI better at killing humans than humans? What exactly is the threat introduced by "intelligence on silicon" rather than "intelligence on meat"? Why would an AI be better at attacking computers than humans using au
840.
by t-3 2y ago
Most of Europe doesn't fit in with your idea of "developed countries" though. Printing currency in order to have more money is as old as currency itself, what does that have to do with MMT? Give me a citation or quote where s

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