wutbrodo

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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I tend to be pretty disdainful of HN's hysteria towards social media, mainly because it's fairly easy to use each platform in healthy ways. But I fully agree with this analogy. The average person isn't hyper-analytical about
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> With social media, I am in a sense subscribed to the stupidest, or most outrageous posts of tens or millions of people. Stupidity sells. Outrage sells. I don't follow. Do you pick your following list at random from all existing Tw
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I think your projecting your own feelings onto the parent comment by adding "you must be toxic" to the beginning of that sentence. The only thing the parent commenter said is that the pattern of one's use can feed into the to
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Fwiw, a more recent PBS/Marist poll puts Republican support for the attack at 18%. https://www.google.com/amp/s/thehill.com/homenews/news/53345... Full poll (pdf): http://maristpoll.
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> How can you not see that as an "existential threat to the republic"? I'm pretty high up the spectrum of taking the riot seriously rather than "a protest gone bad", but how would this extreme worst case be &quot
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> But it makes sense, right? Real corruption and crime isn't always about drugs and shotguns. I think the reaction is just that it's unexpected. Everyone expects there to be crime and corruption in unions, but they don't c
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
"Terrorist" has taken on a LOT of different meanings. What do you see as terroristic in Bundy's actions that is missing from the actions of these squatters?
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> If you're not naturally interested in Baltimore's police and drug gang subcultures, you may find the first season a bit slow and much of the dialogue full of seemingly unnecessary detail. I would recommend sticking with it th
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Thank you for the heads-up! The way extension stores work always made me a little uneasy about using smaller ones like this. Edit: haha, someone seems to have seen your comment and made a post that made it to the Frontpage of HN
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> When stocks go up, the narrative is 'look! all the rich are getting richer!' > When stocks fall it's 'Those greedy millionaires are short sighted, look at what happened to everyone's pension!' This hits
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> what we need is Democracy 2.0, where the people vote on individual packages, not parties. Switzerland may be the only country where that works out quite well. This works terribly in CA, FYI. I don't think there are any easy soluti
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I don't think he literally meant don't use debt as a vehicle; that's not really how government finances work IIUC. The suggestion is tying a funding source to new spending instead of taking on an unfunded liability. Carrying
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I will check out qutebrowser, thank you! I probably can't switch to exwm for ethical/religious reasons :p
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> people who order online have already accepted the absurd fees and taxes imposed by the app (19% fee on Doordash, 16% on Grubhub, + tips + taxes). Is this absurd? You have to balance it against the service you want, which is having some
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I'd imagine so; the biggest reason this isn't interesting is that I simply don't keep that much on my local filesystem, at least for personal use. I have a repos directory and a scripts directory, and then I pretty much just
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
The claim is not that you have to be dumb to want a suboptimal burger over optimal Chinese food. It's that it doesn't make sense to do so and then blame the restaurant for the burger not being as fresh as it would be if you got it
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
This all makes sense, thank you. The friction-free aspect of browser windows is still pretty critical to my workflow, but I'll look into whether it makes sense to grow the habit of "migrating" a task to Zotero when it gets he
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> I have to admit I feel some envy that you've been able to maintain a single coherent thread of evolution for so long What I find most interesting is how fundamentally it's changed over time while maintaining continuity over
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I don't think there's any indication that this issue is new to the pandemic, is there? I also don't have any strong opinions about this particular topic, and there could very well be some other explanation. I'm just gene
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Hm, I haven't found this to be the case. This is probably in part because of my WM/OS setup; I use a tiling window manager and different workspaces for different contexts, so my fan-out factor is never that high in cases where it
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> I’m incredibly perplexed why people do this. Even pre pandemic it was patently obvious to anyone who paid attention that certain foods just don’t deliver well. I don't say this with any malice, but a lot of people are just not tha
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Sure, I'm not sure I see the difference between Farmville and Animal Crossing in this respect (though I'm sure that they're not identical in all respects).
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> Like you I am an avaricious multi-tasker over extended periods of time and was heading towards the same state you appear to have reached. > I realised it was not optimal I will take a look, thank you! Would you mind briefly elaborat
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I currently use the Great Suspender on Chrome, which will suspend a tab that's been open for a while. The suspended tab just shows a Great Suspender icon, so it takes up ~0 RAM. I've whitelisted certain domains and sites (eg Messe
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I wrote a long response to this but accidentally refreshed my tab, so you're getting an abbreviated response = / I can give you one of my favorite examples. I have a pretty intense job, and I've struggled to some degree with
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Hm, I'm kind of confused by your perspective here. Do you only have a single thread of tasks you're doing at any given time on your machine, all of whose resources are torn down and rebuilt from scratch when needed? I use my curr
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Wow, this is awesome! My OS is heavily scripted and keybound, thanks to 15 years of cumulative incremental fixes and a kick-ass WM. The one thing that's frustrated me is the relative black box that my browser represents, and writing a
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
Got it, thanks for clarifying
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
> A key factor in US law is that a company can't use independent contractors for its primary business function Uber maintains that their business function is providing a marketplace for drivers and passengers to buy/sell "
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by wutbrodo 6y ago
I never understand why anyone wanted to do this. No judgment on those who find the "gameplay" of Farmville to be fun, but a game that you play on a schedule doesn't even sound like fun; it sounds like a job.

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