teterphiel

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by teterphiel 5mo ago
not enough people are emotionally prepared for if it’s not going wrong even in the slightest
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by teterphiel 6y ago
> But it is just insufficiently sophisticated people that would conclude from that [getting shot for the crime of border crossing] they were lacking freedom. Translation: East germans getting shot at the border were just too dumb to real
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by teterphiel 6y ago
The problem is that journalism doesn't pay much anymore and confers less status and prospect than a coal miner. To make up the difference, they pick up arms against imgainary foes (secret, undetectable yet very dangerous orientalism) t
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by teterphiel 6y ago
The ancients took it for granted that civilisations would rise, reach a peak, and then gradually decline, similar to other living things. It's a distinctly western/modern idea that there could be unceasing progress. While both the
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by teterphiel 6y ago
and these applications give people a fuzzy warm feeling that lasts for about a month before it recedes and attention shifts elsewhere. I have it on good authority that owning bitcoin gives people a very similar kind of feeling and there is
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by teterphiel 6y ago
The environmental issues with crypto need no more solving than the environmental issues associated mining gold (much worse), producing aluminum, and in a wider sense humans doing things on earth need solving --- which is not to say that the
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by teterphiel 6y ago
I'd rather have a Europe-wide application of the French approach of forcing manufacturers to disclose repairability scores at the point of sale (and let consumers decide who important repairability is to them) rather than bureaucrats g
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by teterphiel 6y ago
Except that software developers mostly create problems for future developers to solve, increasing -- not decreasing -- demand. The barrier of entry has always been low, yet salaries have only gone up.
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by teterphiel 6y ago
I don't have any as far as I can tell, but some 3rd party tool that interacts with Finder in some way could be the culprit..
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by teterphiel 6y ago
Haven't seen this mentioned: I wake up to a double digit GB Finder process every other day. I leave it plugged in during the night. Wear is 3% or 48TB of writes.
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by teterphiel 6y ago
i‘ve been watching interviews with homeless people on the Invisible People youtube channel (highly recommend), and one thing that struck me is how skin deep most support networks are. having friends and family vanish the second they could c
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by teterphiel 6y ago
If they in turn add it to their app for payed users, that would be much apprecited