RaptorJ

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by RaptorJ 6mo ago
The US president is both Head of State and Head of Government. It turns out there's a bunch of countries that require the head of state to be a natural born citizen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidenti
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by RaptorJ 1y ago
Surely having human-resource backups will also help with disaster recovery
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by RaptorJ 1y ago
or directly in powershell, `Start-Process myproc.exe -Environment @{ FOO = 'bar' }`
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by RaptorJ 2y ago
These phish testing companies always stick a header (X-PHISH-TEST or some such) on the email so the email server can white-list -- easy to just Outlook blackhole filter anything with that header after you've seen one test.
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by RaptorJ 4y ago
"Our biochem corpus is far in advance of theirs, as is our electronic sentience, and their 'ethical inflexibility' has allowed us to make progress in areas they refuse to consider."
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by RaptorJ 4y ago
I'm gonna wait until after Matt Levine tells me to know what I think about this.
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by RaptorJ 5y ago
Any day now Equifax is going down. The real difference is that humans have some institutional power over political jurisdictions and how they are run and exactly none over how (large enough) businesses are.
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by RaptorJ 5y ago
If you want to hold a long-term personal boycott against Volkswagon for immoral business practice, I assure you there are better reasons than the diesel emissions testing scandal.
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
Who are the private organizations buying road salt/salting services to within even two orders of magnitude of municipalities/state govts?
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
This is an unfortunate analogy given how complicated and poorly understood the heat-affects-food chemical reactions are. And yet food gets cooked.
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
Why not? Money is a social contruct, but dollars to donuts, populations with less of it will have lower vaccine efficacy.
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
Oh yeah, if I knew that Frank's Red Hot was gonna give me a 1 in 4 chance of immortality, I would have been eating so much more rice and beans.
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
If MS wants to peel developers away from the apple store, why wouldn't they support apple being allowed to maintain their onerous percentage?
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
Ah well there isn't one, from any divergent series you can construct a more slowly growing (but still divergent) series.
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
putting aside the farce of judiciary-as-non-political-body, why wouldn't this also be a battle for the legislatures to consider?
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
Well maybe there was an annular region there in the 90s when the FBI's mission was still in-between 'try to assassinate black activists', and 'give fake bombs to muslim teenagers and then arrest them for it'.
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
seems unlikely while Epic Systems vs. Lewis remains US law
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
No, I'm very sorry report that there are exactly zero areas of human action, practice, or thought that aren't infested with ideology.
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
Well even cookie-cutter houses used to be pretty nice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Modern_Homes
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
This sort of thing exists! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Synchrotron_Light_Sou...
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
PC as in IBM PC compatible
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by RaptorJ 6y ago
Well, you're both right. In that the purpose of all this military spending is to make the world safe for Dow, Exxon, and US Fruit, and people who live in the imperial core get cheaper prices because of it.
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by RaptorJ 7y ago
Well I think you've identified the 'logic' exactly -- use UBI as a wedge to dismantle the welfare state.
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by RaptorJ 7y ago
From the video posted upthread, around 3:40 it looks like they're doing just that: https://youtu.be/gUnxzVOs3rk?t=220
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by RaptorJ 7y ago
Well maybe not exactly zero, more devs using FF tools --> more websites designed to be optimized for FF first.
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by RaptorJ 7y ago
this is entirely true. It's just the thing you leave out is that a sausage factory is built on suffering pigs and the American comfort (as provided by the CIA) is built on a suffering global south.
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by RaptorJ 7y ago
not exactly what your asking for, but you can check out which OS's users were using for Steam for the past decade https://web.archive.org/web/20160201000000*/http://store.ste...
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by RaptorJ 7y ago
I wonder if you guys all went on a field trip to watch The Wind Rises haha
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by RaptorJ 7y ago
"Please do not bother me with you trying to not get killed by the state anymore."
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by RaptorJ 7y ago
Rome, Paris, Kyoto, TPP, landmines, this pattern is not new

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