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by thrance 5d ago
Garbage like this is why I'm never going back to a proprietary OS. I remember being unable to kill Cortana on Windows (it would automatically restart itself) being the last straw.
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by thrance 5d ago
And it should be noted that "déluge" is more often than not used to refere to the biblical flood, not just any flood.
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by thrance 5d ago
There's this idea in leftist thought, that in the end capital only ends up growing its relative power over labourers. Trump's policies, Climate Change, they all make everyone worse off in the absolute, but they end up giving cap
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by thrance 5d ago
His oldest repository was updated in 2011. Looks like he's been there a long time.
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by thrance 5d ago
That's just not true. Distressed and turnaround investing represent less than 20% of PE acquisitions [0]. [0] https://www.ey.com/en_us/insights/private-equity/pulse
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by thrance 5d ago
Nothing a few bills slipped to republican and "moderate" democratic senators won't fix!
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by thrance 6d ago
It's like everything else, natural languages have some redundancy so you can understand the other party even when you failed to catch ~10% of they were saying. A binary gender, like in French, is one more bit of information. German als
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by thrance 6d ago
I don't care how much you were or were not involved with the README, no one is reading through all that. If you can't be arsed to, at the very least, write the prose around your project, why should we devote any time engaging with
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by thrance 7d ago
I'm no expert in geopolitics, but to me the relation between a nuclearized Iran and Saudi Arabia could become like that of North and South Koreas: tense but ultimately passive.
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by thrance 7d ago
Yeah, and surely they also wrote the 131KB unreadable-wall-of-text README themselves. That's like 1/9th Moby Dick, to put into perspective.
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by thrance 7d ago
As someone that has no stakes in the oil industry, I would describe fracking as deeply anti-social. NK possessing nukes is the reason there hasn't been a war in the region for so long. Which gives a "good" model for Iran to f
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by thrance 8d ago
That's the rule the old geezers at the Academy insist on. But then you have idiotic situations where everyone is using "le" for e.g. the COVID virus, while Academicians cry about the D meaning "Disease", which is fe
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by thrance 9d ago
Similar sketch by the Onion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPfVkuPmpc8
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by thrance 9d ago
You were correct to dismiss pizza gate, as it was completely unfounded and pure right wing fantasy about satanist democrats eating babies in a basement. Now that we have an actual conspiracy involving the elites of the world in a child sex
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by thrance 9d ago
> The sort of people who make these threats are invariably very left wing, and they have a long history of using violence against anyone they view to be doing harm to their protected classes. The overwhelming majority of political violen
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by thrance 9d ago
It's not cancel culture to bad-mouth a business and refuse them your patronage. People are vocal about what they feel passionate about, and a world where they weren't or couldn't sounds hellish to me. How would society ever p
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by thrance 9d ago
Full original conversation: > Guy: Unfortunately if you won't change it I will be sharing it with the community > Guy: I've love to support you in getting it remade ethically for cheap but if you're not willing to I&#x
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by thrance 9d ago
> Seems to me it's an indicator that the owner cares more about making and serving food or drink than they do about advertising it. Why? When you see a derelict pizzeria, you don't think "they must be devoting all their en
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by thrance 10d ago
> make ads more useful for people I don't understand why they still insist on inserting this line in every talk about advertising. Just be honest and address your piece to advertisers, no need to keep doing this pathetic and laughab
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by thrance 11d ago
Radioactive, toxic, dry, low-gravity and anoxic land isn't exactly prime real estate. Even the North Pole is a better environment for humans to live in than the Moon or Mars are.
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by thrance 11d ago
Only relevant part is this: > Cost estimates for the Golden Dome program range from $175 billion (White House), to $1.2 trillion (Congressional Budget Office), to $3.6 trillion (American Enterprise Institute) depending on the architectur
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by thrance 12d ago
> I don't see how any government or business (especially the former) can justify using X It makes me so mad. The Paris public transportation company (RATP) owns not one but two whole apps. Yet, whenever there's an incident th
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by thrance 14d ago
It's at Maison Poincaré, in a kind of theater room with a looping movie. There's some neat stuff, but it's mostly targeted at children.
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by thrance 14d ago
And he also gave up his trophy, which is displayed in a random corridor of a random math museum in Paris, where visitors pass by without looking, lacking most, if not all, of the context. Only because I knew the story and the man did I reco
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by thrance 15d ago
Yeah, and 9/11 happened for no reason either. Same with October 7th. We are always downstream of a past violence. Let's stop with the simplistic "they started it, so we are allowed to kill thousands of them", and maybe t
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by thrance 16d ago
It's a fun project, start here: https://chessprogramming.org
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by thrance 16d ago
> deadly mistakes like the Disney+ incident Well, that led me down a wild rabbithole.
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by thrance 16d ago
The warehouse manager has quotas very hard to meet without using illegal tactics like this, and the suits above picked someone psychopathic enough to fill that role, to ensure they would actually break the law to meet said quotas.
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by thrance 16d ago
Why reflexively side with Amazon on this? They've been known to engage in such anti-workers practice, and have spent millions on union-busting and other illegal stuff like this.
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by thrance 17d ago
Healthcare prices are not dictated by labor costs, but by how much the leeches who own everything are willing to charge people for it. For example, insulin is dirt cheap to make, yet billed at exorbitant amounts.

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