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by viridian 6y ago
Last I checked apple was forth in manufacture reliability, behind Asus, Toshiba, and Sony. They are better than average, but people really overestimate the build quality of the macbook.
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by viridian 6y ago
Minor quibble, but I think it's "hole" not "whole", so it's even closer. As in "Watch out for " "hole" "!". The funny thing is that the game has incredibly sensitive username filte
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by viridian 6y ago
Not only is streetwear missing, but so are preppy styles. I really can't think of many women's "genres" which lack a male counterpart.
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by viridian 6y ago
The hedge maze needn't be planar though, that's a faulty assumption. See Honey Pot Hill Orchard's hedge maze for a counterexample: https://www.honeypothill.com/ The trick used in the github issue cited by the
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by viridian 6y ago
This post feels 100% like it's about Chapo.
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by viridian 6y ago
But the modern meaning is basically either just "someone I disagree with", "someone I don't like", "someone acting in bad faith", or "someone in the out group". It's a word that means practi
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by viridian 6y ago
>HN downvotes me because Claire Lehmann is a Paul Graham darling I don't speak for HN, but I can speak to why I personally downvoted you. I downvoted you because of the hostility and passive-aggressiveness, the scare quotes and bro
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by viridian 6y ago
I don't think even your basic desires are possible, because no way in hell you'd get the majority of states to buy in to point four, which might as well read: "Establish a Californian political hegemony and erode away a signi
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by viridian 6y ago
Forgive me for the repetition you are about to see, I'm attempting to apply a bit of formality to the reasoning in question: The Scott who posts at slatestarcodex.com is the Scott who is scott@slatestarcodex.com. Therefore, the materia
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by viridian 6y ago
I don't follow your logic, maybe I'm missing something. Let's say I publicly claim to be Scott Alexander. The owner of slatestarcodex with the email address scott@slatestarcodex.com also claims to be scott alexander? Doesn&#x
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by viridian 6y ago
In my experience, the rhetorical behavior you describe is far more common of the deep swollen center mass of the in group, than those on the peripheral edge. Those are the idea-carriers who have every incentive to preserve the ideological h
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by viridian 6y ago
The federal trade commission disagrees with you, and if this is the crux of Apple's defense they are in a bad spot.
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by viridian 6y ago
Hey Dan, do you have a link to register on tildes? Seems to be invite only for me.
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by viridian 6y ago
Serverless? K8s is explicitly not operating in the same space as triggers and code not bound to any real instances.
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by viridian 6y ago
About 1/6th these days. Pedantic I know, but it's super common for people to not realize that China's population growth is nearly zero. India will likely have more people than China by 2025.
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by viridian 6y ago
I can't speak to websites, but I can speak to community discords that have 10,000+ users where hate speech prevention is the reason that you have to provide proof of identity.
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by viridian 7y ago
please see the top comment in this thread, or the fourth top comment in this thread. I'm not sure why I was downvoted for making the same point as the top comments.
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by viridian 7y ago
I used android phones up until like two years ago when I got the SE. You have to understand that a huge chunk of SE owners are in the same boat for the same reason. The Android market let small phones die, and so a 6 year old apple product
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by viridian 7y ago
There's some irony in you refusing to engage with thought terminating cliches when your original post that kicked this sub-thread off was "Yes. But liars, cranks and con artists should be oppressed."
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by viridian 7y ago
Your link doesn't say what you imply it does, only that promiscuity is not the ONLY cause. Which is true, anal sex (vs. vaginal) and role switching are also huge factors, as evidenced by the study they reference.
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by viridian 7y ago
The fact that they are backing WHO here as a means of curation and censorship instead of a less political org like the CDC, is pretty concerning. We already know WHO has stated objective falsehoods multiple times that impact the health of t
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by viridian 7y ago
Best comment in this whole thread. While people war over the morality of Facebook Inc. banning speech is disfavors from it's own platform, most people aren't addressing the fact that Facebook shouldn't hold such a market posi
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by viridian 7y ago
Could you explain the border-line-born bit? I don't get it.
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by viridian 7y ago
I don't see how you equate serverless with another person's computer. Cloud computing is another person's computer, sure, but there's not really a local equivalent for something like AWS Lambda as far as I know. Having a
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by viridian 7y ago
There was a reddit /r/unpopularopinion thread about 'looking through people's profiles for something to attack them with' recently, but I missed the boat by a few hours, so this seems like a good place to ask folks
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by viridian 7y ago
I hope this is a joke. Safari is easily the worst of the big four, and view web standards as suggestions that are to be ignored at any time. My company doesn't support IE anymore, but safari, not edge, is the new hated browser for web
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by viridian 7y ago
Dig down to just above bedrock, and dig a long, level, 2x1 strip. You'll find diamonds within a few minutes. Each block destroyed this way exposes three potential diamond blocks. Finding diamonds is far more of a knowledge problem than
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by viridian 7y ago
Citing whataboutism is often used as an intellectually soft way to avoid responding to claims of hypocrisy. It's pretty much always used like you are using it nabla, to sidestep a challenge of hypocritical behavior. On balance I think
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by viridian 7y ago
Strange, the first result for me is the one I linked. Same if I search the name of the article. Google doesn't show me yours at all. Happy to admit I was wrong about this though. I only remember this article because it came up in a thr
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by viridian 7y ago
You cite the Wall Street Journal as a respected institution, but I know I've seen them do this. Part of the problem with this type of thing is that publications often go out of their way to erase the existence of an aritcle if they int

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