tycho-newman

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by tycho-newman 3y ago
It took me twenty-five minutes to finally stop laughing at this claim. How about you?
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
I remember it being named "The National Anthem".
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
> Can you name the specifics of Elon's dumb antics? Isn't there a rule about not being snarky?
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Episode 1 of Black Mirror is the best one. It is not a problem that needs solving. It later uncannily mirrored a later story about David Cameron, former UK prime minister, sticking his phallus inside a pig's mouth when he was in univer
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Pfft. Just make a GUI in HTML using Visual Basic.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
No. Why do we spend all this time avoiding the truth? We have antitrust laws to dismantle monopolies. This is because monopolies can be dismantled by two things: 1. The coercive power of the state. 2. A sudden realization among those who
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Or like too much air in a balloon.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
More people should be entrepreneurs. They may enjoy it more than their jobs, even if it pays less.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
This was a whole Simpsons episode.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human hand.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Roman times? It's even older. Cyrus the Great won over people by promising to honor their traditions. He did die in battle against women who would not submit to his will though.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
I think I am missing the metaphor. Gatsby made his money as a bootlegger, and presented himself as a cultured guy. Yet he owned a library of unopened books. And so do many academics make their careers fronting, or using faked or fraudulent
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
There's Judas Horses you know. And also: Bad Hooorse Bad Horse Bad Horse! Bad Hooorse!
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Maybe the region would have more women in the field if the companies were transparent about pay and benefits?
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Why not a leatherman attachment?
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
I will not be strong-armed into silence!
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Does it come with attachments?
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
> What took us out of lockdown in the end was not the vaccines or the billions spent on them. Not even the dumb masks and the draconian asinine distancing rules. It was Omicron. Plain and simple. The Nobel Prize in vaccine disinformation
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
EBITDA.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
I, too, saw through Dan Ariely's dog and pony show. I just didn't want to bring it up because people would think I was just showing off my clearly superior intellect.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
You mostly take VC money when you can’t get credit from ordinary lenders, and your product hasn’t generated a profit.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
And we are back to the cable model! We did it everyone! We cut the cable and chained ourselves to the tech companies!
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Y'all will do anything to avoid some mouthwash.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Nations today are little more than the elite's formalized control over capital and labor. We are better off without nations.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
This critique of mine is abstract, and maybe even wrong. I feel like this is a way of disguising the reality of power, and how at least in western society, power is really focused on conformity. The average workplace rehashes the same drama
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
It is routine for government agencies to audit medical claims records for waste, fraud,and abuse. These uses are well-defined in existing American medical privacy laws.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
Perfectly competent pilots have killed more people than depressed ones since the beginning of flight. Empirically, non-depressed pilots are more of a risk to the public. But they don't get this kind of stigma.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
If you don't want to use drugs, then don't use them. Leave the rest of us alone.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
What's wrong with openpyxl? Heck the .xslx file format is fancy XML.
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by tycho-newman 3y ago
More people should read Disability Visibility.

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