xanthor

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by xanthor 2y ago
CEO loses the tip of his pinky
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by xanthor 2y ago
The candidates are chosen by donors.
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by xanthor 2y ago
The Internet as we think of it is already a military project. Why do you think so much emphasis is put on countries that assert sovereignty over their own information space?
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by xanthor 2y ago
Tornados are better
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by xanthor 2y ago
What if they're lying about getting things wrong versus lying?
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by xanthor 2y ago
What are the massive NSA datacenters for in the very very real world?
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by xanthor 2y ago
https://apnews.com/article/fisa-foreign-surveillance-fbi-3f7... One does not have to be “important enough” if they are conducting mass surveillance and storing it in a database indefinitely.
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by xanthor 2y ago
It's difficult to ascertain whether the Nestlé milks exceed the 7% carbohydrate content of breast milk that study establishes since the linked report only describes grams of sugar per serving, without defining the size of a serving. I&
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by xanthor 2y ago
How much sugar is in an equivalent amount of breast milk?
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by xanthor 2y ago
Compare the comments when people imagined a similar event might happen 18 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33491215
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by xanthor 2y ago
So you appeal to other extraordinary claims to buttress this one.
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by xanthor 2y ago
I don’t really care. It has nothing to do with me in America. The social phenomenon I mentioned does, however.
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by xanthor 2y ago
What happened to people to make them take extraordinary claims by governments at face value? PR is an observable phenomenon.
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by xanthor 2y ago
The late-night phone calls would be about the US government losing the ability to spy on its own citizens.
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by xanthor 2y ago
Nah that would be crazy.
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by xanthor 2y ago
So you believe in protectionist socialism, not free-market capitalism.
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by xanthor 2y ago
> Not only are they dumping their high tech goods on the international markets Are you against capitalism? You think some world government should determine what countries are allowed to sell on the international market?
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by xanthor 3y ago
And in China: https://www.wordforest.org/2024/03/08/chinas-reforestation-j...
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by xanthor 3y ago
Go check the annual opium poppy production in Afghanistan in the years leading up to and following the US invasion if you're interested in a more coherent justification.
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by xanthor 3y ago
I don’t really care about the conditions of tech workers since the lion’s share of the industry is just a speculative outlet for finance which produces no ‘technology’ whatsoever. But I’m also beyond believing that the goal of media outlets
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by xanthor 3y ago
That doesn’t surprise me, but the purpose of New Yorker articles like this is primarily geopolitical in nature, not humanitarian. You can reference what they published in the lead up to the Iraq War as proof.
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by xanthor 3y ago
That would generally be the goal of pieces like this.
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by xanthor 3y ago
If that's the behavior desired, experienced Elixir devs would use the match operator since it's more conventional, requires fewer characters, and eliminates multiple unnecessary function calls. The thread was about monadic transfo
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by xanthor 3y ago
What do you think about the conclusions of this piece published by a former UN official, a former NATO military official, and an academic? https://braveneweurope.com/michael-von-der-schulenburg-hajo-...
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by xanthor 3y ago
This approach is not equivalent since it uses a strict match in the function head inside `then`. It will raise a `FunctionClauseError` if a value not matching `{:ok, _}` is passed in.
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by xanthor 10y ago
You're a fucking idiot.
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by xanthor 11y ago
That's incredible!
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by xanthor 11y ago
You should check it out and decide for yourself. I have no context to comment on the team's actual technical competence, but it has become clear to me that their M.O. is talking big and delivering fluff.
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by xanthor 11y ago
Curious to hear how NoFlo imparts any amount of credibility to the team.
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by xanthor 14y ago
Yes, that's when.

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