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by toyg 5mo ago
They should just have a "suspend account" option. You file a nil return once, suspend, never come back unless you have to. Seems easy enough.
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by toyg 5mo ago
Or, someone decided they wanted to redirect the flow of black money through someone else, but couldn't do it internally for some reason; so they called in their FBI friends to make a ruckus. While the guy is busy defending himself, the
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by toyg 5mo ago
the Cold War started before MAD became a thing. Had the USSR and NATO started a conflict in 1949, nukes would still have to be delivered by (slow, fragile, at heavy risk of interception) plane. ICBMs arrived in the late '50s, and subma
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by toyg 5mo ago
> that is a reason the catholic Church still uses it for things like papal encyclicals. Nah, it's just because that particular institution tries very hard to be internally consistent, for historical reasons. They immediately publ
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by toyg 5mo ago
The macaronic approach was pretty common everywhere, it's a natural stage of evolution - the old language 'holding on' with specialized terminology that would be pointless to replace with more inefficient expressions. Which i
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by toyg 5mo ago
Heavy-industry sites are also extremely discouraged across Europe, outside of very specific zones. If anything, the current shift is about bringing datacentres in that same category.
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by toyg 5mo ago
> the main purpose of the thing It is not. But France was very good at ring-fencing their interests very early on, resulting in a somewhat-outsized weight of agricultural policy over the Union budget (since it was, back then, almost no
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by toyg 5mo ago
But it's not electric.
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by toyg 5mo ago
> It's a five seat nearly SUV I think that's the key. This is meant to go up against the Lamborghini SUV and its ilk: a vehicle for the very wealthy who don't really like cars but have to mark their status in everyday in
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by toyg 5mo ago
England in the '80s didn't give a shit about little people. Had it been really profitable, Concorde would have continued operations. It just did not make sense economically, particularly once they stopped making new airframes.
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by toyg 5mo ago
Yeah, this is something that changed from Concorde times (and possibly even sped up its very demise): the market for reliable, high-quality private planes has grown massively. It's now pretty easy to shuttle between the big cities in a
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by toyg 5mo ago
Yes but it could not be legally used by anything.
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by toyg 5mo ago
Just went through Orlando airport and saw something called "power rod" that is basically that for small power banks: you drop your depleted bank and pick up a fully charged one. If I were a US-only traveller, I can see myself usin
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by toyg 5mo ago
That penstroke is just generating a black market.
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by toyg 5mo ago
Centralization is not a small problem to solve, and this looks like it might have done just that. More than censorship, I think the worst problem with github is long-term viability / reliability: they could pull the plug tomorrow and m
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by toyg 5mo ago
I don't understand why Nate doesn't just start SixFortyNine and does it all over again. In the end, what ABC owns is just a name - which was always kinda stupid and even hard to spell - and a bunch of obsolete content.
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by toyg 5mo ago
Would this apply to non-Linux builds too, i.e. FreeBSD / OpenBSD...?
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by toyg 5mo ago
His point is that those laws were basically ignored, until now. The conversation started all the way back, with the Patriot Act, but until now the dynamic was roughly: politicians write lofty laws that pay lip service to data sovereignty, t
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by toyg 5mo ago
I got the V2 and same - no fuss, especially if I stick to Elegoo filament. Multicolour worked out of the box, to the point where it's difficult to think it was a Big Thing until recently.
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by toyg 5mo ago
> half of the actors have hideous aesthetic interventions, wigs, makeup, and so on I mean, I understand and somewhat share some of the criticism, but it has to be said that Hollywood used "wigs, makeup, and so on" from its v
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by toyg 5mo ago
> The Church - the institution - wasn't deciding policy in the Papal States Airight, I see that for you white is black if you look at it the right way. Goodbye.
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by toyg 5mo ago
It's not entirely correct that the government "chose Tuscan" as the language to push. The literary tradition was already rooted into a vulgata that happened to be mostly similar to the languages spoken in the areas between
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by toyg 5mo ago
> This sounds like a whiggish progressive distortion of history. Proceeds to argue that the Catholic Church is not in the business of policy, when it ran an actual, sizeable _nation state_ all the way to 1870 and in fact was extremely
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by toyg 5mo ago
It should be said that, as in many other fields, it was effectively forced on the church by external development. Marx published The Communist Manifesto in 1848 and Das Kapital in 1867; it took more than a generation for the church to accep
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by toyg 5mo ago
Without knowing anything about the current state of NZ politics, some general political strategies could be the source: 1. since they are in a lame-duck state (as you mentioned, everyone expects there will be an overhaul), they are trying t
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by toyg 5mo ago
How hard would have been to add a simple message, warning people about it and offering to opt out? Most would have clicked OK without reading anyway, and Google could pretend they give a shit about users. Unless they expected blowback, and
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by toyg 5mo ago
that's a willing act - you are actively asking npm to download something, and accepting it might be terrible for you. Here chrome is just installing things behind your back, whether you really want it or not.
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by toyg 6mo ago
Who cares? Are you similarly triggered by The Rock or Alemao? Banksy is Banksy.
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by toyg 6mo ago
Supposedly as a sort of extremely expensive but basically tireless mule.
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by toyg 6mo ago
They optimized for ad impressions. There was no technical reason not to keep around a Boolean mode - some competitors effectively exist because of that single feature.

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