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by zeruch 5y ago
"While I appreciate that there is an inherent trade off between environmental consideration and speed, I think the author makes it clear that it's reached comic proportions in the US." The quote I think that encapsulated it b
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by zeruch 5y ago
"Now Google tries even harder to figure out what you "want" and filters you results invisibly for you. You can't turn this feature off, and are are unable to easily or obviously avoid it." This. So much this. And it
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by zeruch 5y ago
I use UMatrix for this (and NoScript) for the granularity
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by zeruch 5y ago
As close to none as possible.
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by zeruch 5y ago
"Christians in politics have done more good than bad" Feel free to provide some actual substantive backing of that (correlation v causation is so much fun), otherwise you sound like another Xtian carnie with a very dull ax to grin
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by zeruch 5y ago
No one is stopping Christians from preserving their lifestyle. No one. None. Zero. What they are doing is not being held hostage to same said Christians from force-feeding it to everyone else. If you like it, fine. Have a biblically awesom
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by zeruch 5y ago
This is probably the most pithy distillation of what the actual cause is.
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by zeruch 5y ago
It didn't "require prodding" because it was assumed from the get go that there was more money (and/or less scrutiny) to be made 'playing it safe' than much else.
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by zeruch 5y ago
I was amused by the name (beyond the obvious reference to the ancient library, it also gender-switches on a heteronym of Fernado Pessoa, Alexander Search) https://www.brown.edu/Departments/Portuguese_Brazilian_Studi...
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by zeruch 5y ago
""The Arts" are doing just fine. " No, you are doing fine. You are not the entirety of the space, but thanks for playing.
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by zeruch 5y ago
And you don't seem to have understood my point. Thanks for covering the delta of any irony deficiency in my diet this week.
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by zeruch 5y ago
As a long time hiring manager, I would never use an IQ test to determine feasibility. They simply (for the most part) confirm an aptitude for test taking, and for tech jobs I've never seen that as an intrinsic good. People usually can
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by zeruch 5y ago
...is the VC firm willing to publish the scores of the partners themselves?
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by zeruch 5y ago
"You don't have to agree with the particulars in order to agree with something in principle." Now that is a fantastic distillation of public goods as a concept. Well goddamn done.
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by zeruch 5y ago
High culture vs low culture has always been at least partly arbitrary. I'm not an Opera fan in general, but used to love that there was a cafe in town that once a month hosted 'opera' night, where amateur and pro opera singer
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by zeruch 5y ago
It isn't, and only someone who mostly consumes art but doesn't create it says otherwise. The possible exceptions being artists already regally compensated and upset they aren't making more (e.g. Don Henley) Take any city of c
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by zeruch 5y ago
Because the Kennedy Center isn't just an Opera House, but a venue used for any number of events, both public and private. I'm with you on "Cats" though.
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by zeruch 5y ago
"I regret that the computing experience in 2022 has to be so atrocious." The industry builds what the industry wants.
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by zeruch 5y ago
Ah, puns. I dig it.
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by zeruch 5y ago
I agree with you on the former, not the latter. I find the "mumbling" more realistic dialogue (often in scenes where the script is supposed to be cramped and confusing) and feels more like natural human interaction. But the imbala
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by zeruch 5y ago
Brings new meaning to "self-preservation"
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by zeruch 5y ago
It is a very unorthodox move by Poland, but possibly born of its own conservative, tough-guy leadership that wants to send its own message to its neighborhood that if Russia is feeling expansionist, Poland isn't going to sit idle. Sinc
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by zeruch 5y ago
I'm not being disingenuous, and "the reality of the content business" is mostly arbitrary in many ways (I worked in anti-piracy for years in an irony to trump all ironies, and the industry is on a good day, a bad sub-plot fro
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by zeruch 5y ago
"resist the urge to do a hybrid slide, and if at all possible make presentation slides at front, reference/supplementary slides at back." This has been my SOP for years, but its amazing how resistant some folks are to it (lik
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by zeruch 5y ago
I already torrent some Netflix content for fear of them removing it after some set date arbitrarily (e.g. Gloria, Umbrella Academy) Netflix as far as I'm concerned, is just the newest member of "Big Content" with essentially
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by zeruch 5y ago
Once the old guard left or were jettisoned from VA, the fall was inevitable. The desperation crept in to survive and it rapidly became a race to the bottom. I knew once folks like the Thinkgeek founders and the last of the core SF team bolt
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by zeruch 5y ago
All of those guys were great, but oddly I interacted the most with Hemos, probably due to mutual interests in things like Frank Herbert and weird ambient music (e.g. Eno, Laswell). They were never bad people to be around.
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by zeruch 5y ago
Same, fam. Same. I was at VA then, and it was an utterly bonkers rollercoaster through the breach of pre "disruption-obsessed SV. I don't see that era ever returning, as we've now made "disruption" a programmatic e
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by zeruch 5y ago
the former can take any number of forms, the latter is a very specific set of political arrangements that leverage the former, but aren't bound by it either (hence why so many Russian oligarchs were putting their money in various other
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by zeruch 5y ago
I recall meeting Illiad and his coterie at one of the LinuxWorlds early on. A pretty affable lot they all were, and funny as hell.

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