the_gastropod

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by the_gastropod 3mo ago
There was that famous 2009 case of Amazon remote deleting George Orwell's 1984 and Animal Farm from Kindles.
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by the_gastropod 3mo ago
Don't confuse Julia's humility / accessible writing style for "less informed". She's a deeply knowledgeable programmer who's been doing this for a long time. She works hard to make tech topics feel less in
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by the_gastropod 3mo ago
You use GPS?
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by the_gastropod 3mo ago
1. “Reunification” is straight Chinese propaganda. Taiwan has never been part of the PRC. Japan has a stronger claim for “reunification” than the PRC does (and that’d also be very dumb) 2. Taiwan and Taiwanese allies also have agency. China
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by the_gastropod 4mo ago
You’re doing the “we should improve society somewhat” meme guy thing. People are allowed to do better without being perfect.
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by the_gastropod 4mo ago
Of course not! But both-sides guys need to make outrageous reaches like this to prove that both sides are equally bad, and that they are enlightened beyond such petty partisanship.
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by the_gastropod 4mo ago
The “greedheads” are the ones wanting people to pay their fair share of taxes, and not the people who’ve hoarded billions in wealth, and are using some of that wealth to fight to continue tax avoidance?
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by the_gastropod 4mo ago
Mind sharing these good economic reasons?
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by the_gastropod 4mo ago
lol. Yes. You couldn’t possibly be blind! You’re a both-sides guy. And, as everyone knows, both-sides guys are rational and grounded in reality.
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by the_gastropod 4mo ago
Ah, so those weren’t mostly 6-3 decisions along partisan lines?
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by the_gastropod 4mo ago
+1 this request! I'd been dreaming about trying to make something almost exactly like this app, but have absolutely no clue how to even begin going about it. You've nailed it! I've been manually cropping out audio clips from
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by the_gastropod 4mo ago
Yeeep. It feels like one of those “holding a wolf by the ears” situations. I don’t know how we get out of this mess. One especially frustrating part of it is that it really benefits nobody. Your home goes up in value, cool. You owe more pro
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by the_gastropod 4mo ago
This “Apple customers are brainwashed cultists incapable of examining reality” schtick was tired a decade ago. No option’s perfect. But Apple’s current tradeoffs vs other options’ trade offs continue to feel worthwhile to many.
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
If it were a reliable predictor, it’d be trivial to become a billionaire by levering up, and riding the next “cycle” up, no? You doing it? I suspect not, because you know it’s not actually a reliable predictor of anything.
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
Technical analysis is just astrology for finance bros.
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
The ELIZA effect has been around since 1966. I think lots of folks feel “AI” has advanced much more quickly that it really has because of the nature of its many past boom / bust cycles.
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
> …says a lot about what it is Doesn’t it say that it’s a retirement fund, intended to be saved until retirement age? The 10% penalty is little more than a wrist slap level deterrent, too. It’s usually like ~1 year of returns. Not a huge
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
Lol. I don't know why I'm responding to an account with "I like Elon and Trump, and don't feel ashamed for it." in it, but what the hell.. Let's do it: 1. That Xi quote is, as best I can tell, not real. Want to
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
You'll find that Americans tend to vastly overestimate how much people in Taiwan actually think about the threat of China. Is there a threat? Yea. But its likelihood is very much still unknown. In the meantime, Taiwan offers a pretty e
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
My Canadian girlfriend, who’s totally real, by the way, believes you.
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
That question pops into my mind from time to time, too. Hope he's well, and I hope he knows the lasting positive impact he had on so many people. I weirdly got my first programming job / made a good friend because of him (he tweet
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
Dude, what? Is it the MINASWAN acronym that's the problem or? If that's "trumpeting moral virtue", I can think of lots of programming languages that trumpet their moral virtue: Let's check out the Rust Code of Condu
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
Having literal billionaire best buds backing the project probably helps one gain traction, no? Toss in a dash of weird culture war bullshit, and… well. Distro popularity isn’t exactly a meritocratic system.
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
“Open borders” was pretty much standard across the world prior to World War 1. These tightly controlled immigration policies are, historically speaking, incredibly new. I think it’s self evident that the U.S. benefited greatly from its mass
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
Sounds like you might live in a sensible place where you probably don’t need a car at all. That’s the ideal! Unfortunately, much of, e.g., the U.S. (outside of ~4 cities), “cities” are built around individual car ownership. There, where a c
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
In other words, it’s a thought terminating cliche. Why say it? The Juicero is here to stay! There’s no putting the genie back in the bottle.
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
Crypto bros said the same thing about NFT’s and ICO’s and whatever other nonsense they were pushing. And to some extent, they were right, I guess, in that these things still exist. But they’re practically irrelevant.
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
Your 150 mile daily commute seems like a much bigger factor in this dilemma than the cold temperature range reduction. That’s over 3x the average American daily commute distance! For the huge majority of Americans, the cold weather thing ju
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
These problems are (imo) vastly overblown for the way most people drive. The only time the cold temperature reduced range / reduced charge speed are relevant is for long road trips where you’re driving > ~200mi at once. Otherwise, y
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by the_gastropod 5mo ago
... Did you just suggest gp is "worse than Hitler" for suggesting Elon Musk, a man who's very publicly called empathy a "fundamental weakness" and "threat to Western Civilization", a sociopath? And you wen

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