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by xbar 4y ago
I sat around with a group of farmers for years, listening to them tell me that they knew what was best to produce on their land profitably. Much of their formerly-arable land became un-arable and is today made entirely of sprawling tract ho
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by xbar 4y ago
Classic paid prop piece-style review. It would be a failure to read The Verge, or other Vox Media properties, as journalism.
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by xbar 4y ago
Is human thought only at the outset of a piece of art?
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by xbar 4y ago
I strongly agree. As someone who is aging, and who lost an adult child during covid, I can say that I face these last decades (I hope) with a wary eye toward loneliness. Such introspection leads me to want to invest more deeply in the relat
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by xbar 4y ago
Fair enough. I feel like I got decent value out of my Athlon. At the time, it sure seemed like a gross power hog. I suspect I would be shocked by its modest TDP if I went and looked back at specs.
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by xbar 4y ago
I'm so ashamed to have owned a Cyrix, a P4, and an AMD Bulldozer. They were all awful.
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by xbar 4y ago
This smacks of rhetoric, not an explanation.
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by xbar 4y ago
I see why you're saying that, but I'd love a reference that supports the per-dollar argument. Is it possible to just spend infinite dollars today and solve the climate crisis by tomorrow?
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by xbar 4y ago
This is going to poison my minestrone.
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by xbar 4y ago
I thought ID.me was a government program.
881.
by xbar 4y ago
And so it is time to relegate my Gmail account to an auto-forwarder.
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by xbar 4y ago
Many have died since pledging to Star Citizen, waiting for its release. But that does not make Derek Smart right—space sims are within humanity’s grasp.
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by xbar 4y ago
dnsviz.net is awesome.
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by xbar 4y ago
Algorithmic trading against other cryptocurrencies turned out to be less stable than backing UST with a fiat currency. The veritable tautology in that statement would be amusing except for the sad fact that a great many ignorant investors w
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by xbar 4y ago
Seeing Taffy on initial load is pretty much perfect.
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by xbar 4y ago
How about this example: For r=1 A two-dimensional n-ball is a circle. If you extend it into 3 dimensions, by default it is a cylinder, of h=1 and r=1. That’s not a 3-dimensional n-ball however. If you increase the dimensions of that 2-dime
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by xbar 4y ago
Security research viewed exclusively as coercion is passe.
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by xbar 4y ago
Definitely. There are no coincidences in Nvidia strategy.
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by xbar 4y ago
“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.” – Samuel Adams, Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788 Later in life, even: “The Constitution o
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by xbar 4y ago
My comment was an attempt to undermine the practice of selectively applying intentional fallacies to different amendments in the Bill of Rights.
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by xbar 4y ago
No. I think the 1st amendment might be the most important and precious policy in the history of the world. I would disconnect framers from policy in such discussions--it is fallacy to do otherwise.
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by xbar 4y ago
Thanks. I keep looking for Bubble Tea alternatives in rust. I am glad to have some handles to a few. After seeing some recent posts on HN, I've been fantasizing about a Turbo Rust project.
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by xbar 4y ago
I am sad about this set of facts about the ACLUs position. Longer than the ACLU has held its opinion, the Constitution and the writings of the Founders, both before and after its ratification, ascribe all of the rights in the Bill of Rights
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by xbar 4y ago
This. I can identify a variety of purity spirals in non-North American cultures. It does seem, however, that US-based social media companies set up systems that foster and fuel them, like warm a Gulf of Mexico (am I a racist for using that
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by xbar 4y ago
Agreed. The author discounts a great deal of flexibility in the existing systems.
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by xbar 4y ago
Captcha is effective at stopping a lot more fraud than $1B worth. Is it perfectly effective? No, but it stops a massive chunk of otherwise easy-to-execute fraud.
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by xbar 4y ago
It is possible. It is also possible that it was you. Or me. And in this case, equally likely. That is significantly different from the Yale case where someone with purse strings management was committing fraud.
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by xbar 4y ago
Because there is insufficient art in tech.
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by xbar 5y ago
So is "vindication' in the "hipster's credo" alignment conclusion. Don't get me wrong, I eat Coconut Cult yogurt. It's yummy and good for my tummy. But I am not going to adopt a human-head-shaped-food diet
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by xbar 5y ago
"For 40 years, corporations benefited from the Reagan-era doctrine of "consumer welfare," an antitrust theory that embraces monopoly as "efficient" and explicitly excludes the effect of monopoly on worker pay from c

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