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601.
by xg15 6mo ago
> the people in the communities who continue to elect politicians who, time and time again, make decisions counter to the best interests of their community. I wonder where all the politicians are who would make decisions for their co
602.
by xg15 6mo ago
> We kind of need them, though arguably many of the ones being built now are motivated by foolish AI bubble incentives. I think the purpose is important. People understand the need for power stations or garbage dumps or waste treatment
603.
by xg15 6mo ago
Even if it were true, I don't understand how this argument makes sense: So assume the construction were entirely done by local businesses/hires. That gets a short-term employment boost while the facility is being built. And then w
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by xg15 6mo ago
SSH can do port forwards. Why does the conductor/iTerm2 interaction have to run over the normal shell at all?
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by xg15 6mo ago
> I read an article a while back about how, basically because labor unions became too much of a pain to deal with, they were just cut out of the conversation. > This isn’t like when stuff is made in China. Those are basically Amer
606.
by xg15 6mo ago
From what I understood, it was the beginning of user-adjustable design. Instead of mounting the seat in a fixed height with fixed distance to the pedals, etc, they designed the cockpit so the pilot could adjust everything himself. Basically
607.
by xg15 7mo ago
I think the author should be introduced to (or reminded of) the tale of the average from the US Air Force [1]. Social reality is high-dimensional and the "normal" thing is actually to be average in some dimensions, but strongly no
608.
by xg15 7mo ago
Ironically, this feels exactly like the various "semantic web" initiatives, only this time coming directly from the tech megacorps and not the starry-eyed "free web"/"open data" idealists. It will hit exac
609.
by xg15 7mo ago
I dunno, I find the thought kinda hilarious that people might start well-actuallying Pokémon lore with "it's really metamorphosis, not evolution"...
610.
by xg15 7mo ago
Yeah, agreeing here, and I think those are some good examples of more "complex" metamorphosis patterns in the real world. I also found his other argument why Pokémon "evolution" would not be metamorphosis not very conv
611.
by xg15 7mo ago
Waait a minute, that sounds familiar...
612.
by xg15 7mo ago
ai.ai is still free!
613.
by xg15 7mo ago
> Phaedrus: Yes, Socrates, you can easily invent tales of Egypt, or of any other country. Looks like even back then, they went "cool story bro" on that text...
614.
by xg15 7mo ago
> Okay sure, but what happens when a high CVE is discovered that requires immediate patching I'm pretty sure, once cooldowns are widely implemented, the first priority of attackers will become to convince people to make an excepti
615.
by xg15 7mo ago
This sound pretty insane on its own. If you don't care about the content of the degree at all, what does the degree even prove?
616.
by xg15 7mo ago
Almost sounds like the "walking ghost phase" during radiation poisoning... https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1975oj/whats_ha...
617.
by xg15 7mo ago
I wonder if that might be another reason to just completely disable this feature and not make it a permission: otherwise people could use it to build trainingsets for geoguesser models.
618.
by xg15 7mo ago
There are a LOT of stages between "resigning and doing nothing" and "deadly violence" that have some effect. Demonstrations are a start, though they seem to be more useful for networking inside a group and forcing the
619.
by xg15 7mo ago
Yeah, the bubble is well fortified in all directions. Maybe ask them if they hate themselves.
620.
by xg15 7mo ago
Interesting. Would be good to know if there are any other locations with the same condition.
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by xg15 7mo ago
This is gonna be interesting with all the anti-zionist Jews in the US or the religious zionist evangelical christians... But it's in line with the pro-Israel pattern of putting words into peoples' mouth or simply asserting that ce
622.
by xg15 7mo ago
And not letting themselves or anyone else feed them either, huh?
623.
by xg15 7mo ago
A very expensive and risky pier that still just delivered the aid to an IDF base inside Gaza and not to Gazans (or aid orgs) directly. Based on a plan from an Israeli think tank...
624.
by xg15 7mo ago
Israel is currently doing a ground offensive in southern Lebanon, with the stated aim of occupying the area and turning it into a depopulated "buffer zone" against Hezbollah. The Israeli army has announced that the Lebanese popula
625.
by xg15 7mo ago
> Is that what we're voting for now? A completely interchangeable figurehead that just covers for a bureaucratic group project? I mean, yes? Technically, you're not even electing a group, let alone a person, but a party. I kn
626.
by xg15 7mo ago
I'm somewhat with you on that one. I think a lot of the problems that mainstream Democrats are trying to address are real (climate change is real, as is racial and sexual discrimination, etc). However, they seem to try and solve all th
627.
by xg15 7mo ago
Yeah, it feels like "ha-HA! I bet you didn't think I'd do that !" - "No... we actually didn't..." Or is he attempting something similar like the British during Mossadegh? https://en.wikipedia.o
628.
by xg15 7mo ago
> Isn’t expecting American voters to worry about the consequences to Europe also an erosion of democracy. Once America denounces its superpower status and "leader of the free world" image, you will be right. Until then, it&#x
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by xg15 7mo ago
Or he just outsources them to some buddies of his: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrorism_Confinement_Center > CECOT does not engage in rehabilitation. Few inmates have been released from the facility and authorit
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by xg15 7mo ago
> The web has nothing. You gotta roll your own, and it'll be half-baked at best. And since building for modern desktop platforms is horrible, the framework-less web is being used there too. This feels like the root cause to me as

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