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by toyg 9mo ago
It means it was at a Swatch marketing event that featured Negroponte in person, in the room as they started the system. It's like saying the Amiga 1000 was launched in the presence of Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol. Maybe because I'
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by toyg 9mo ago
Ownership doesn't imply FULL ownership. You get handed ownership of a slice, and expected to be responsible for that bit of land; but you'll never own the farm, and will likely never be consulted on whether that land should become
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by toyg 9mo ago
Russia is desperate for leverage. Apart from China, they are severely isolated from rich markets. Targeted violence is an attempt at generating leverage, in the same way some racketeers would hit shops that refuse to pay "protection&qu
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by toyg 9mo ago
That has been the case for a very long time at this point, the Salesforce acquisition was a death knell. The only stuff i have left on Heroku are zombie projects I don't care about.
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by toyg 9mo ago
> eventually reality catches up with the propaganda Actually, I don't think that's necessarily the case. Look at the Chagos deal: that's the new reality created by international organizations catching up with the nak
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by toyg 9mo ago
Sure, but assigning value to other things allows us to temper those brutal instincts. Otherwise we might as well live under military dictatorship.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Looking like you are trying to pursue the general interest is how we all get things like international tribunals, supranational organizations where conflicts are discussed and sometimes resolved, coordination to raise health standards and a
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by toyg 9mo ago
This is a good joke, but it's also true that the whole charade of trying to look "institutional" and "fact-based" was a pretty decent way to go about pursuing the US agenda. "Hey we are the good guys, we show y
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by toyg 9mo ago
That's exactly how I used to work about 15 years ago, but I found that the Apple trackpad killed my wrists. These days I just have a regular mouse, and simply try to do as much as I can from the keyboard.
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by toyg 9mo ago
> Another chilling effect is caused by the tariffs Maybe that's why prices in Europe seem to have gone down significantly. It used to be very expensive to get anything over here (UK), but now we're almost spoilt for choice.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Because that's just how media works. It's like asking why sportsmen and scientists are invited to Big Brother VIP . > ou can understand that he was complaining about the risk of judge appointments drived by anti-mafia positio
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by toyg 9mo ago
> aren’t car bombs and public shootouts between different crime groups an unavoidable by product of existing organized crime? Check out the Japanese Yakuza. Yes, they are in decline, but even at the peak of their powers they didn'
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by toyg 9mo ago
This is an unrealistic argumentation, usually deployed to paint contemporaries in a bad light by comparing them to "saints" who are, conveniently, always dead. And it's particularly funny that Borsellino is now in the "s
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by toyg 9mo ago
There used to be, but afaik modern networks are largely led by Balkan groups across the whole of Europe.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Carabinieri have been involved with (and occasionally fighting) the mafia since late 1800s. That's got nothing to do with how we got to the current situation of relative tranquility. What happened between the end of the 1980s and the 1
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by toyg 9mo ago
And when you get to the top, you actually experience how the shoe is on the other foot. One should get out early, not waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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by toyg 9mo ago
> Y'all should take a break sometime We would gladly do if only you renounced your world-ending weapons, in the same way as we would be more than happy to stop bothering with Russia, China, Pakistan, India, Israel, France, and Ira
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by toyg 9mo ago
> but of course any problems stateside will be handled and voted on by Americans rather than Brits Sure. That doesn't mean that an external viewpoint is any less valid. It's like saying "of course any problems in Teheran
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by toyg 9mo ago
Your guy has armed goons with "absolute immunity" literally executing people in the streets, after threatening to invade neighbours and allies, appointing shockingly-unqualified loyalists at the very top of national institutions,
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by toyg 9mo ago
One of the joys of poetry is that it can contain multiple hard-to-describe facets of the same concept. * The revolution won't be televised because they won't show it to you. * The revolution won't be televised because it&#x27
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by toyg 9mo ago
NY State vs NYC mismatch here. I expect nobody in NYC goes to Ithaca for groceries... :)
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by toyg 9mo ago
I don't disagree, and I would add that the court system is so clogged up that one might not even end up behind bars at all - because by the time the hearing is finally scheduled, the perp might well be on another continent. Still, the
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by toyg 9mo ago
Tbf, it's not the case that they are more worried about wrongthink because they're just not worried at all by petty theft - or almost any other instance of micro-criminality.
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by toyg 9mo ago
As opposed to the UK police, who can't do anything once it's... anywhere.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Sounds like a more modern cvs/Subversion
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by toyg 9mo ago
The whole Middle East has been battered ever since the end of WWII, in one region or the other, and the wave of conflict is nowhere near the end.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Also, they know the alternative is that they will be dragged in the streets and killed. Iran is long past the point where a revolution can be peaceful and conciliatory; if the regime falls, there will be a redde rationem where most pe
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by toyg 9mo ago
To me it's generally pretty quick outside of File Explorer . The reskinned File Explorer is an absolute car crash - it's like they've taken everything that made 2005 KDE awkward and bolted it on top of Windows.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Kubuntu has always been mostly a one-man effort, and that one man very publicly burnt out after getting somewhat shafted by his work colleagues. I believe one should use "KDE Linux" as the reference implementation, nowadays.
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by toyg 9mo ago
Selling that amount of gold would crash the price, devaluing their other reserves too. What they have to do is move, but quietly, without announcing it.

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