throwawayknecht

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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> Spain has chosen to be governed by the current government. I mean, sort of yes, but also Catalonia was annexed within living memory.
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Self-determination for some, miniature Spanish flags for others!
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
The word "referendum" is vague in English, but it's the only term for the least-binding question a government can ask of its citizens. I am not familiar with the Spanish system of autonomies, but in federal systems like the U
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
The last political detox week occurred at the height of first evidence of social media's influence on the election, and the same week as YC partner Peter Thiel built out his influence on Donald Trump's transition team. It would be
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Hocevar was a member of Auernheimer's trolling organization, the GNAA, during that time and after.
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> In no way did any capitalist figurehead advocate any of his violence. You should really do some research before you make claims like this. One place to start would be Marvin Liebman and the American-Chilean Council, which planted pro-C
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
That is not how slavery as practiced in North America, including Cuba, worked. You didn't get things "provided", you got absolute subsistence (or less) during your most productive years.
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
The causality is not obvious. For example, throughout the 70s and 80s, organizations shipping medicine and other supplies to Cuba were regularly bombed or attacked (e.g. Hispania Interamericana). Anti-Castro terrorist organizations (e.g. h
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
The number of plumbers - more precisely the amount of plumbing work - is essentially constrained by the number of sinks. There's no limit to how much marketing can be done. Thus, late capitalism. (Also the "genius" of softwar
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Yeah, according to the article: > The World Health Organization, a United Nations agency, helped broker the deal. Under it, Brazil pays Cuba... nearly four times what Cuban doctors earn through the arrangement. Google makes $1,200,000 pe
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
This feels like an awfully insensitive metaphor given Afrocuban history and its role in Castro's revolution. You might be getting an awfully short end of a stick, but if you're getting free education and free health care at that l
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
(I'm not a lawyer, this is not legal advice. God help you if you're a naturalized citizen in America today.) AIUI, no, CBP cannot deny American citizens entry. They can confiscate your phone (and probably never have to return it
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
You might be thinking of the debate over whether CBP can search your cloud data (vs. only the data present on your phone) at a border crossing. This is in the same vein thematically but substantially different both legally and technically.
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> But if a company was formed, as most companies are, intending to use a proven business model, then it's not in his definition of a startup. This would seem to exclude virtually all delivery service, cleaning service, car service,
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
It's really very unacceptable.
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Everything I'm writing is in the context of the original article - "Org-Mode Is One of the Most Reasonable Markup Language to Use for Text" - which I think is totally false. Org-mode is an amazing tool and I use that tool
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Further balkanization of the export behavior isn't an advantage! Comparisons to the minor incompatibilities of Markdown parsers is laughable when the solution to concerns about the format is "customize your local Emacs."
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> usually one should be using an en/em dash (which would be `--`/`---` in Org-mode This is something I've never liked about org-mode. Markdown was designed to be authored in existing tools, so its conversion of ASCII to Un
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> M-x comment-dwim works though. This is because org overrides massive amounts of Emacs default functions - in this case, in org-setup-comments-handling. org-mode doesn't really use syntax tables normally. Similar problems occur wit
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> Markdown doesn't have comment syntax! Sure it does, . This is also what Emacs will automatically use if you add-file-local-variable in a Markdown file, so I don't know why you're using that weird format
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> Surely this is true of all markup languages. How you would represent this visually in a document? An extra newline between the end of the inner part and the return to the outer part, which is what I do naturally. This can get unwieldy
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> Any tool that interprets Org-mode accepts this simple and easy to remember syntax. Sorry but this just isn't true. org-mode doesn't have the standardization problems Markdown does only because it's not as popular. As f
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> Should we enact laws that force tournaments to hand top results to female players? What about racial minorities? I think there's a lot that can be done that will be more effective than that. https://kotaku.com/5889
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
"“There was no control over women hiring women... No eyebrows are going to rise if a woman heads up fashion,” Mr. Parsons said. “But we’re talking about women staffing positions — things like autos — where it cannot be explained other
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
So first, this retort is vacuous because the whole point of Thiel's supposition is that the dimensions are not orthogonal. The meaning of the quote is that he is willing to move right on others (political structure, social issues, surv
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Wow this comment is confusing a lot of stuff. - "Free-market anti-capitalist" is a term used by people who want to call themselves "mutualists" but lost the rhetorical shell game trying to compare themselves to Proudhon,
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> That's how it works. Since the 18th century, with little change. How in the world do you consider the 12th and 13th Amendments and the Apportionment Act of 1911 "little change"?
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
There's no real sense in which this is the only electoral system we've had. The electoral college is an order of magnitude smaller than the original constitution would call for. The method by which many states apportion electors h
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
Individuals undergoing chemotherapy also don't have their treatment constantly second-guessed by message board trolls.
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by throwawayknecht 9y ago
> Same when philosophers use and abuse Gödel's incompleteness theorems... Except the most popular abuser of Gödel's conclusions by far is a physicist and mathematician.

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