Prophasi

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by Prophasi 4y ago
Shogun's a milestone in my reading history - it's so extraordinarily engrossing. It deflated me more than any other book as I turned each of the final, waning pages because I didn't want to leave its world behind. I was brief
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by Prophasi 5y ago
Sure, and I'm positive you knew which three I meant when I said it: the three that together probably comprise 4 nines of overall desktop use, and which are compared all over this thread. UX does differ somewhat between, Linux distros &
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by Prophasi 5y ago
I use all 3 OSes ~daily and have nits w/ all of them. This one's minor even as it stands, but if I can make it "click" - at least for MacOS-specific workflows - I'd love to. Each OS shines the best if I adapt to its
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by Prophasi 5y ago
Same here, mostly. My laptop since 2015 has been a MBP, so I've had plenty of MacOS experience, but day to day has always been 90/10 Windows. Now that I have the M1 I'm trying to use it daily, so the little grievances are mor
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by Prophasi 5y ago
To your third point, is this a setting somewhere? I tested before I posted w/ 4 Brave windows, but they stay in the same order. Makes sense, since cmd+~ immediately switches on key down to the next window; cmd+tab (like alt+tab in Win)
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by Prophasi 5y ago
I don't love it (yet). It's probably a combo of my Windows background, my ignorance of MacOS tricks, and actual limitations/flaws. * Cmd+~ from a fullscreen window does nothing, and non-full windows of the app cycle only amon
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by Prophasi 5y ago
It seems clear that a dev team could whip up a product that tested well (using folks in office, family members, friends, etc.); was trained with datasets that - for whatever reasons - weren't sufficiently varied; and hit some mark of s
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by Prophasi 7y ago
Thanks for the links - that's interesting to consider when weighing the tradeoffs of an FDA-less country. Of course, the FDA is only one part of the story, and conceding a need for its general existence in no way means that its current
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by Prophasi 7y ago
This perception of the US as having a free-market economy, particularly in the area of healthcare, is curiously persistent. Vast sums of money are spent lobbying to distort the market in favor of particular companies and industries. The FDA
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by Prophasi 8y ago
I think his point about podcasts and other audio is on the money, but it undercuts his argument for VR: > They have this Bluetooth thing in their ear, and they’ve got a hat, and that’s 10 hours on the forklift and that’s 10 hours of Joe
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by Prophasi 9y ago
Agreed there's some hyperbole as to the current state of things, but the ability for new entrants to pressure the old guard in an industry and in some cases put them out of business or relegate them to the margins is paramount. It&#x27
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by Prophasi 10y ago
There's obviously no objective truth to whether pronouns apply retroactively; it's just social convention. Clearly, it's polite to respect someone's wishes when talking to or about them, whether it's pronouns, nickn
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by Prophasi 11y ago
I disagree with both GP and the immigration laws affecting these people, but the term "illegals" to describe them strikes me as an innocuous shorthand for "people of illegal immigration status." It carries no implicit ju
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by Prophasi 11y ago
This can only be accurate for people who want literally $0 to be taken for taxes, in any form, by any level of government... and yet still expect services to be rendered. I don't know anyone like that, and I suspect they're in a t
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by Prophasi 12y ago
The libertarian view is that pretty much everything is fine as long as everyone involved is participating willingly. Consider the ramifications: with voluntarism as nearly the only requirement, libertarianism is a substrate for communities
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by Prophasi 12y ago
I won't say what you should or shouldn't do, but I can give you a few reasons to care: First, to clarify, it's not innguest's moral problem; it's a quandary at the intersection of ethics and politics. If you care ab
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by Prophasi 13y ago
"The worst part is the thesis of [...] media; that while you do everything right, some nebulous [...] agenda is taking away everything that you hold dear, and are entitled to as a working person" That's not particular to cons
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by Prophasi 13y ago
The question that arises for me is how the changes affected the performance of the department, however that's measured (e.g. entrepreneurs, investment, placement, grants, average graduate salaries, etc.). The outcome, good or bad, woul
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by Prophasi 13y ago
I can see it. I've never talked to the Mormons (although I see them biking in pairs near my office most days), but I've had a number of pleasantly spirited debates with some Jehovah's Witnesses. We don't see eye-to-eye o
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by Prophasi 13y ago
The government delivers citizens into the hands of private management all the time: required insurance policies, training programs, licensure, etc. Mandating that every obligatory service be not only funded, but implemented , by government
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by Prophasi 13y ago
Those incentives are often there when a private company and the government make a deal. It's certainly not a problem with for-profit entities in general, though: Apple and Ford and IKEA and every other private manufacturer has those sa
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by Prophasi 13y ago
Agreed that that's the basic idea behind government-run anything -- its ostensible adherence to the benefit of society. But that's the naivete I was referring to: in the end there is no "government" per se, just a bunc
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by Prophasi 13y ago
That's fair, and unquestionably a conflict of interest. However, it's not an irrevocable quality of a prison run by a private company (and therefore evil "by definition"). OTOH, purchase of shares is at least an above-bo
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by Prophasi 13y ago
By definition? That requires some justification. The justice system still sets the parameters and manages the procedures by which sentences are handed down. If a court determines you're going to prison for 10 years, you're going -
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by Prophasi 13y ago
Most gun stats blithely show aggregate rates of gun ownership and gun-related homicides, and the public reacts in fear; who wants to live in a country like that? But criminal-on-criminal violence is a disproportionate share. Are we supposed
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by Prophasi 13y ago
I'd argue this is up to the folks commenting rather than the OP, which is a link to some polling that produced a bunch of data points. It can be strictly analytical without blowing up into petty arguments. Not that it will.
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David Mamet: Gun Laws and the Fools of Chelm(thedailybeast.com)
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by Prophasi 14y ago
"A few gems in the credibility department from CEO Steve Ballmer: 'We don’t have a monopoly. We have market share. There’s a difference.'" For a financial magazine, lampooning this comment shows a surprising ignorance of economics. Even 100
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by Prophasi 14y ago
Strategic conduct on the part of businesses isn't the same thing as smart (or ethical, or legal) conduct when it's done by governments. Everything has a context.
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by Prophasi 14y ago
The very first word in the instructions, "cryptograms" -- coincidentally the entire subject of the exercise -- is misspelled. Pretty sure that will fall on them. It's not very reassuring in an agency where attention to detail is of paramoun

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