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by 80386 5y ago
> I get that everybody is tired of it, I am too, but it feels like we wasted two years of everybody's life just the take the bullet anyway. One year, not two. There was never any hope of containing COVID. It was endemic by the end o
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by 80386 5y ago
The year is 2027. Power grids still go dark for ransom, but at least the internet has been turned back into TV. If you know how to use Linux, you might be able to pick up a fourth podcast!
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by 80386 6y ago
What's the merit in distinguishing between bias and factual misinformation? The Westboro Baptist Church could start a news outlet and report on every single time a gay man did something wrong or immoral. They wouldn't need to make
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by 80386 6y ago
> the underclasses who are routinely beaten, robbed, and killed, with no consequences for the attackers Most of the people I know have been beaten or robbed at least once, or narrowly escaped being beaten or robbed. In almost all cases,
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by 80386 6y ago
Is it a symptom of that, or is it a symptom of the fact that it's much easier for the sorts of people who'd go to protests and do things that get them arrested anyway to call themselves journalists?
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by 80386 6y ago
If you don't rule out hobbyists, freelancers, and the self-employed, I can declare myself a journalist, start a blog or a Twitter, and start throwing Molotov cocktails, and if I get arrested for it, that's another arrest of a jour
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by 80386 6y ago
> If you wouldn't be granted press credentials for something, you're probably not a journalist. But if you would, you might still not be. I once got press credentials (and a steep press discount to an event) because I wrote for
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by 80386 6y ago
It's also how you get a list at all. I don't like EA's "Jeremy Bentham solved philosophy forever" worldview, but at least it gets them thinking big, you know? Is anyone else making these lists?
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by 80386 6y ago
AI safety isn't an EA "preoccupation"; it's just weird enough and noticeable enough that it's easy to mistake existence and prevalence. It's also not even their weirdest position. The first question on their li
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by 80386 6y ago
Brave was a good browser. Now it's... what, a Chromium extension? I liked pre-rewrite Brave much more than post-rewrite. The tab contexts (or whatever they were called, it's been so long that I've forgotten) were great -
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by 80386 6y ago
SAT IIs are pretty obscure, and I don't think there's any benefit to taking them over AP tests, since APs can sometimes be translated into college credits and have much more support in public schools. One of the points of metrics
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by 80386 7y ago
As other people have said, they're different sorts of thing; but the sort of thing React is wasn't as big a deal in 2010. Backbone and AngularJS, two frameworks that are practically Precambrian at this point, both had their first
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by 80386 7y ago
Do none of these designers travel? If you go to Amsterdam, you notice motifs from the flag of Amsterdam everywhere. They're everywhere because they're the sort of thing you can put everywhere. If you go to Bremen, you notice the S
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by 80386 7y ago
> Because the fact that China has not engaged in non-local applications of violence Yet. The PRC has been internationally relevant for a few decades. The US has been internationally relevant practically since its founding. And for whatev
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by 80386 7y ago
And large-scale automated farming is less productive per acre than small-scale labor-intensive farming.
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by 80386 7y ago
Looks like it's mostly Bing. First five results for 'big chungus': Google: - dictionary.com - knowyourmeme - artsatmichigan.umich.edu - urbandictionary - thetab Bing: - knowyourmeme - silvergames - wikipedia - urbandictionary
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by 80386 7y ago
> I agree that Twitter using this to get people to give them PII those don't want Twitter to have, especially when Twitter aren't a good custodian of that PII is terrible, but it's not as though Twitter's other option
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by 80386 7y ago
The same thing happened to me. But I was somehow able to create a new account on Microsoft Edge. It hasn't been disabled, but I don't plan to use it. If they want to kill their own business, I say let them.
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by 80386 7y ago
What about a spreadsheet program that can be scripted with Javascript? JS is nice because all you need to write it is a text editor and a web browser, both of which just about all computers have. I had an entry-level job that involved a com
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by 80386 7y ago
Major gay cities aren't necessarily major lesbian cities. The Castro happened because the military discharged gay men from the Pacific theater and a lot of them ended up there - was there a comparable dynamic for lesbians? I don't
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by 80386 7y ago
Fraktur ß is a ligature of s and z; the current form came into use in Latin-script German because the Latin script already had ß, for the ligature of s and s. Some sort of orthographic device is needed - s between two vowels means the fir
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by 80386 7y ago
Chlorination cycles are part of the regulation. You're supposed to leave pitchers of water out overnight to evaporate the chlorine. But some fast food places hook their water supply straight to the tap.
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by 80386 7y ago
Drinking fountains aren't all there is to drinking water infrastructure. If your tap water has never come out yellow, reeking of chlorine, tasting like dirt, etc., consider yourself lucky. But drinking fountains add some funny flavors
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by 80386 7y ago
The last time I had to go through Union Station in DC, I tried to get water and it tasted like it had come from a pool. An unusually chlorinated pool. I almost threw up. I also don't have reliably potable tap water where I live now. If
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by 80386 7y ago
On HN, everyone sees the same things - the same front page, the same comments, and so on. On sites like Twitter and Facebook, this is not the case. What's good for a site like HN isn't necessarily what's good for a site like
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by 80386 7y ago
Lessening regulatory pressure benefits everyone who doesn't want those regulators stepping in on behalf of politicians and causes they support.
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by 80386 7y ago
What's the problem with existing ones? And why do social networks draw so much attention relative to other social platform patterns, like forums? I've been thinking for a while that there should be something like a decentralized o
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by 80386 7y ago
A single folder is good enough. This looks useful - thanks!
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by 80386 7y ago
Thanks for the information! Qt is fine. I might switch back to Linux in the future, and want to be able to carry over anything I write if I do. I have a working prototype in Python using PySide already (which handles the system tray well),
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by 80386 7y ago
Maybe a stupid question: if I want to write cross-platform desktop GUI apps and be able to take full advantage of the desktop GUI (menus, status icons in the system tray, etc.), and I'm mostly developing on Windows, what should I learn

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