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by user249 5y ago
This podcast "The Peter Thiel Paradox" [1] explained a lot about the mystery of Peter Thiel to me. Turns out that there is less than meets the eye but he does have a specific talent for manipulating the political systems and gover
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by user249 5y ago
Bari Weiss is a conservative. Michael Shellenberger in 2021 published "San Fransicko: Why Progressives Ruin Cities, a criticism of progressive social policies." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Shellenber
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by user249 5y ago
Slaves were the first labor strike organizers
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by user249 5y ago
Sure they are but they are willing dupes who don't understand what an NFT is - hence my statement that Paris Hilton and Jimmy Fallon are morons. I mean, even before NFTs, no one accused either of being smart
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by user249 5y ago
> is a half hearted attempt to roll some of that back That's just assumed and is normal politics so I didn't see it worth mentioning. You didn't refute my other point that President Biden does not see Musk as a political
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by user249 5y ago
Seems like a long way of saying civilization was a mistake, which Yuval Noah Harari does in Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Alternately, it could be read as a description of how mental illness in large groups engendered by civilzatio
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by user249 5y ago
Why not .NET? Surely Microsoft is better than Oracle
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by user249 5y ago
I guess he wouldn't give his right arm for a ride in rocket to space
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by user249 5y ago
Musk made it clear he didn't like the way Democrats governed California so he went to Texas, where he tacitly supports draconian abortion restrictions. So he shouldn't be shocked when President Biden gives him the cold shoulder. I
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by user249 5y ago
I had the same idea but even if I spoke fluent Indian-Spanish dialect, which I don't, there was no chance of it happening. They have a system that works well for growers, 2nd and 3rd generation Mexican-Americans and recent Mexican immi
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by user249 5y ago
That's hilarious that you actually thought they were serious. No, they've got Mexican-American field managers in California who are second or third generation running crews of recent immigrant Mexicans with green cards. The last t
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by user249 5y ago
NFTs are actually quite useful for outing your friends as either morons or con artists. MAGA hats serve a similar function. I knew P Hilton and J Fallon were morons before this, but now I have the evidence. If I were a young person on the m
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by user249 5y ago
No, this has been studied. Americans think bending over in artichoke fields in California or working in chicken and pig slaughtering plants are jobs suitbale for immigrants, not them. They seemingly can't put two and two together that&
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by user249 5y ago
I've been puzzled by people blaming "open borders" (Mexico vs United States) on President Biden. What changed? Did he fire the 20,000 border guards? If there is one thing that's driving this charge it's Mexican neig
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by user249 5y ago
I've watched it now. What a disaster!
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by user249 5y ago
https://archive.is/KZRBK
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We Might Be in a Simulation. How Much Should That Worry Us?(nytimes.com)
2 points by user249 5y ago|2 comments
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by user249 5y ago
I'm trying to catch up on some reddit drama. Apparently the mod of r/antiwork did an interview on Fox News that didn't go so well. I can only imagine Fox is spinning it as "young people are lazy" https://
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by user249 5y ago
> The US government was just absolutely not going to let Facebook do a private currency, backed by a basket mostly of foreign currencies, at worldwide scale. How does this affect the rest of Crypto, because I suspect that governments aro
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by user249 5y ago
People are misunderstanding decentralization. Sure we can talk about decentralized technology like IFPS, but we should also talk about moving away from centralized governments, banks and legal systems. Decentralization in this context means
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by user249 5y ago
I'm not sure why it's so surprising that college enrollment is down when 30% of the country thinks colleges teach cultural marxism and want to turn their daughters into lesbians and their boys into girls
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by user249 5y ago
A lot of guys have a wife and don't know it yet, but she does and is waiting for the ring
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by user249 5y ago
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29857409
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by user249 5y ago
Webview uses Skia but it uses HTML5/JS/CSS to draw on it. Flutter uses Skia in a different way, using a declarative component language and Dart in place of HTML and JavaScript
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by user249 5y ago
The cool thing about Flutter is that it draws components to the Skia canvas. I wasn't even aware it had a WebView. I'm not sure why you would use Flutter if your app consists mostly of a WebView. The bugs that were found are proba
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by user249 6y ago
this is a test of code blocs
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by user249 12y ago
I logged in here with a throwaway account just to caution people that for a small percentage of users it is highly addictive. Some call it 'hippie crack' with good reason. After using it off and on for years and becoming more addi
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I am a successful software dev but I have a serious drinking problem
334 points by user249 13y ago|227 comments
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by user249 13y ago
In my case it started to become obviously serious when I woke up with the shakes and needed some to feel right and stop shaking. I didn't really take it that seriously before then.
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by user249 13y ago
As someone who recently went through DT's (been sober a year and a half) I can tell you for certain they are no laughing matter. I've done hallucinogenics like LSD and mushrooms before, but nothing prepared me for the nightmare of

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