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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
Uh, how are you creative when you make a copy of Mondrian's work? I can understand some of the arguments for a time limit on copyright, but are you really claiming that you're being "creative" when you cut and paste?
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
It's more complicated. At many of these top universities, woke means don't hire whites. And Jews are often lumped in with whites. The Jewish percentage at top schools has dropped dramatically as wokeism appeared. At Princeton, one
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
Yup. This is why it failed. I think it was fairly common for plantations to loan, rent, or trade slaves just as they treated any other asset.
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
Capital was actually a big part of it. The plantation owner didn't just need to capitalize the cost of the land, but the labor as well. When someone purchased a slave, they were paying up front for the remaining labor that could come f
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
I liked the Newseum too, if only for the daily newspaper front pages available out front each day. Those were amazing. But it had the same problem. They spent a fortune on the physical plant and never had the foot traffic to justify it.
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
I think it's a bad trend. It's kind of a meta version of an ad hominem attack. The headline contained no information about why Discord is making the decision, only that there's a bad name associated with the company. The name
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
If every AST is isomorphic, why bother? Don't you miss getting some of the advantages of Rust?
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
Exactly. Elsevier is a dominant company. Of course it's going to have a huge share of anything that goes into journals. They probably also have a huge share of the Nobel prize winning papers too. That being said, I'm happy to enco
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
Perhaps I'm being cynical, but could they be leaving out some detail? Perhaps they're replacing even more older workers with entry level workers than before? Maybe the AI makes the entry level workers just as good-- and much cheap
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by xhkkffbf 8mo ago
I kind of agree. I find that almost everyone I meet has a firm grasp on tech topics affect their lives. From social media to privacy, they seem to understand the fundamental questions even though they aren't programmers or CISOs or wha
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
The moon landing was cool, but all we got were some neat imagery and some rocks. And we've even managed to lose some of the rocks because they were that special. At least with the AIs, we're getting something. https://e
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
The Quakers in New England in the 1800s were known for (1) being abolitionists and (2) whalers. They often bragged about employing freed and escaped slaves on their ships. It all sounds great when viewed through a narrow lens, but the whale
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
Very little daily benefit? I think they have to agree that the magic of applications like Waze or Google Docs or OpenAI don't magically happen without some data center somewhere. It's like people complaining about the smell of hog
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
Let me guess. You're the kind of guy who looks at the videos of unoccupied daycare centers and then trundles out words like 'bad faith" to rationalize ignoring it. Because no one in my tribe would ever do something wrong.
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
So is "find evidence of voter fraud" the same as "overturning elections"? Or we all so partisan now that we don't care about the evidence or the reality of the fraud?
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
Even hard drives? I've been watching prices tick up on https://diskprices.com/ for months. It's been the first time in my life it's trended up for the long time.
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
Doesn't the old metaphor claim that someone writes open source code to "scratch an itch?" That makes these cows open source developers!
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
It don't mean to diminish Warhammer's success, but part of the reason why it's one of the "biggest companies" is because many of the other big companies have slowly disappeared. Britain used to have a viable ship bu
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
Nothing gets rid of capitalism. In the socialist world, various forms of status just replace basic currency. When goods are limited, there has to be some way to ration them. In the former Soviet Union, it was just high party officials who w
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
There's a thing called "copyright" and it's kind of like a union, but for people who write or create art. It gives them the right to decide who gets to make a copy. Many of the best sources of news put up a paywall becau
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by xhkkffbf 9mo ago
Large downsides? How about the news sources going bankrupt? Someone has to pay for reporters.
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
Actually, you're the one being obtuse. The point isn't that they use Instacart to avoid the lines. The point is that everyone can use Instacart or the USPS mobile app and everyone pretty much pays the same price. The point is that
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
What is this concentrated power you speak about? In many areas, they have exactly the same power as everyone else. They get only one vote each election day. They have to queue up at the Post Office, grocery store, etc just like everyone els
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
https://fortune.com/europe/2024/04/19/wealthy-norwegians-fle...
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/10/super-rich-aba...
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
The conductor bent our ears for a while as we waited. He said it was common.
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
Pretty, yes, but geopolitical issues slow the service. We were at least two hours late thanks to various issues with crossing the border and fitting in with the cargo trains.
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
Bigger lenses tend to gather more light and that means better images in darker moments.
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
Cute gambit to talk about ferries, the one mode of transport that doesn't have insane land-use debates. (Although they do need waterfront property on both ends.) I'll give you a point for that one. But let's be serious. Ferri
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by xhkkffbf 10mo ago
I don't think the lack of talent is preventing us from having good public transportation. Diverting smart folks from yacht building will not eliminate the problems with unions, zoning, or crime to name a few of the issues. These are di

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