PrinceKropotkin

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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
This can also swing the other way, shining a light on ways of living (certainly including societies much less violent than the Roman Empire, a civilization neurotically focused on domination) & experiences that have since been lost and
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
Mountaineering is literally a mountain cult (non-pejoratively) so this wouldn't even be inaccurate once you translate "religion" into anthropological terms.
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
Why does linux only support ELF? Other executable formats, for instance, support multiple architectures per file. Why does Linux not?
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
Who said anything about DNA? Regardless, it's heinous to justify a crime like this. It also leaves an extremely bitter taste to come across a museum in Europe with artifacts stolen during some more blatantly colonial period that they f
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
> are we up to dirty stuff like this too? Yes.
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
As a major believer in respecting pronoun usage it's ridiculous this is a crime.
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
I'm all for anti-trust action, and especially legislation, against Google and other large corporations with app stores and ads and other things perverting otherwise decent product interactions. But this just seems like a terrible way t
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
Ironically this link is only a few notches above "GitLab ceases operations in Iran". Sure, it's a different situation and arguably not a comparable form of censorship, but it's certainly a case of a state leaning on comp
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
Yes, it does.
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
There's nothing about javascript that makes it particularly suited for "web applications". This doesn't seem any more ridiculous than, say, using python or perl.
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
> The fact that copyrighted works were included in the readme shows it was intended for that use Just because copyrighted works are on youtube and are seen as an example of youtube content does not mean the software was built with the ex
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
I don't see C going away. That said, there does seem to be a cultural change afoot.
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
This isn't comparable at all. The territorial expansion was always difficult to sustain and grew from a ravenous, irrational ethnonationalist political culture and the need for oil and other industrializing resources. China's mode
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
Why did they do that? Presumably they're worried about pissing off the state/were leaned on but the linked article doesn't say.
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
Federal taxes have been going down my whole life (born 1990 in the US). What era/region are you referring to where taxes go up?
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
Regardless of whether or not "amplifying vox populi" is your preferred answer, it's the future of media. Why would I ever trust Wolf Blitzer over my favorite professor, or my favorite historian? Why would I look to the NyTime
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
> "Competition is only a click away" I must be crazy! The competition (bing, duckduckgo) is exactly the same service down to the same shitty interface minus the autoscraped crap on the side. If there's competition it&#x2
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
I'm a little taken aback by the title. Marie Antoinette is the very image of dislikable aristocracy. Have folks these days really forgotten why she was so hated? She clearly was unable to perform in the role of arguing for the french p
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by PrinceKropotkin 6y ago
What kind of static analysis is available for BEAM programs?