ABoldGambit

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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
You'll be downvoted because HN etiquette not because people necessarily disagree with your sentiment
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
Or take worker control of a business run by vampires. Your vision of a better world is miopic.
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
If anyone's interested in an in depth dive into the "Florida Man" meme, the podcast Citations Needed did a great (imo) episode on it: https://soundcloud.com/citationsneeded/episode-75-florida-ma...
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
Just write it out normally, the code added nothing to the conversation either.
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
Yes https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/09/cambridge-analyticas-paren...
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
Lots of anecdotal experiences with no empirical data. I’m gonna chalk this one up to clickbait.
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
You can write good php in 2020. But this ain't it.
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
Cut-throat business practices couched in the language of “freedom to choose”. Let me retire on a good pension at 60 like my grandparents all did. The world is supposed to be getting better not worse. If i want something “to do with my time”
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
I'm saying that the US State Department-funded ASPI report and a rehashed column from a Hindu nationalist newspaper that barely qualifies as journalism are poor sources on this subject: neither provide any credible information on this
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
ASPI is literally a US State Department-funded front group to publish anti-China propaganda. The report it put out contains very little evidence of anything not widely reported elsewhere. This second hand account from the Sunday Guardian (b
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
Reminds me of fish shell's tagline: _Finally, a command line shell for the 90s _
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
Great proposal, but Temporal is a poor name. Why not, in the age of the import keyword, finally just have a standard library, and import Date from std like a proper programming language?
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
Lemmy looks great. The codebase is really nicely done. They really need serverside rendering though. I started working on a PR a few weeks back but it's a huge undertaking. Also it needs non-websocket support. I really hope it takes of
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
Proper deep-dives into things with long-form content are great. I'll happily watch a 50 minute documentary by History Time, or a 2 hour deconstruction of tropes in 90s crpgs by Chris Davis. For me (and I know I speak entirely subjectiv
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by ABoldGambit 6y ago
So would I, at this point.
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by ABoldGambit 10y ago
Can you elaborate on what you mean by being an "'enemy of the people' due to his ethnicity"? I've studied a fair bit of Soviet law and never heard of someone being targeted for their ethnicity specifically.