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by ajslater 1y ago
I have heard that Marvel & DC, don't care about comic piracy at all. Comics are a cheap loss leading funnel for what actually makes money: movies, tv, video games, & especially merchandise. However, smaller publishers like Tita
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by ajslater 6y ago
Existentialism's conclusion is often nihilism: Life has no meaning. Absurdism is an extension to that: Yes, but you may create your own.
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by ajslater 7y ago
This is approximately the correct breakdown. Its interesting that ⅔ of the combo could be lumped into different kinds of luck. You can't do much about your inherited or birth situation, but the extremely successful people I know usual
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by ajslater 7y ago
They personally are not great people, but the system that has enabled them to hoard personal wealth and leave the streets full of the destitute will be destroyed. The most important thing, of course, is to eliminate poverty and protect the
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by ajslater 7y ago
> It's much, much easier to live and work in a foreign country today. And it's only getting easier as technology improves. So let the current oligarchs exile themselves and we'll do what we can to make sure no more Bezos a
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by ajslater 7y ago
The existing ultra-wealthy are one problem, and tricky. Systemically preventing oligarchs and aristocrats from arising in the future is another.
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by ajslater 7y ago
Gwynne Shotwell runs SpaceX. He could use a Shotwell for Tesla and focus on his strength: being outrageous and running his useful cult of personality. I’m not sure his behavior helps fundraising anymore.
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by ajslater 8y ago
He's got Gwynne Shotwell running SpaceX he needs a Gwynne of Tesla.
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by ajslater 9y ago
Scottish is incorrectly labeled on the map. Source: have scottish friends. At least I think they're my friends, hard to tell exactly at times.
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by ajslater 9y ago
Former Bloglines dev here. I prefer https://www.inoreader.com/
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by ajslater 9y ago
The difference in educational levels is economic. If you correct for the income & wealth levels of the international district and match them to american districts with similar levels, you have similar academic results. There's no g
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by ajslater 9y ago
i probably charge mine every two weeks. amazing product.
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by ajslater 9y ago
The liking and hiding emphasis features are trivial. They hardly matter. If Facebook's post emphasis algorithm was entirely random, very nuanced or specifically malevolent it wouldn't matter. Only follow people whose posts you fin
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by ajslater 9y ago
You follow people if you want to see some of their posts. You unfollow people if you don't want to see any of their posts. If you like something, Facebook shows you more posts like that. If you hide something, Facebook shows you fewer
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by ajslater 9y ago
> Social media is all about making you feel bad. > Its a platform for people with low self esteem to dream about what their lives could have been. For older folks to remember the past. For the average guy/gal to keep tabs on old
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Cruise AV Episode Two: Dolores Park(youtube.com)
2 points by ajslater 10y ago|0 comments
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by ajslater 10y ago
That's not a flaw. One reason I prefer Approval Voting is that it makes this clear. Approval Voting works the same as RCV but without ranking. Vote for all candidates you approve of. The "bayesian regret" is almost as good as
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by ajslater 10y ago
"The Tyranny of Structurelessness" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...
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by ajslater 10y ago
afaik, this is how Facebook does it, but with regional sources of truth. If you signed up for FB in Paris and move to San Francisco, your master profile lives in Europe in perpetuity and you'll use your regional cache forever in the US
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by ajslater 10y ago
If I 'like' one of my gay cousin's posts on FB, I get the most interesting underwear ads for the next 3 days. I suspect it boils down to what the ad customers are willing to buy and what they're willing to buy isn't
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by ajslater 10y ago
In the SF Bay Area, MBPs are the standard. You're almost certainly correct about the wider world.
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by ajslater 10y ago
I discovered https://github.com/stonesam92/ChitChat A couple weeks ago. One thing it does better than the official app is that on Mac the red window button hides the window rather than terminating the process.
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by ajslater 10y ago
Q: How often am I editing a file that exists on a computer close enough to me that a GUI editor would be at all useful? A: Rarely.
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by ajslater 11y ago
I always take 6 or more weeks per year. Usually I have unlimited vacation. The few times I've been acquired by megacorps with ancient vacation policies I either "forget" to file for vacation and so does my boss, or I take unp
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by ajslater 11y ago
Sounds similar to Hampshire College in western Massachusetts. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hampshire_College The College is widely known for its alternative curriculum, socially liberal politics, focus on portfolios r
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by ajslater 11y ago
This looks like something from the 19A0's https://boingboing.net/2011/10/11/mixtape-of-the-lost-decade... > Finally, evidence is mounting that points to a "lost decade" > between
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by ajslater 11y ago
pango (jinja for go) exists, but no one (including me) has stepped up yet to write a plugin for it.
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by ajslater 11y ago
go templates are not nestable. Hugo lacks support for pongo nested templates, and refuses to include it.
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A Look at Sidecar’s On-Demand Logistics Infrastructure(blog.side.cr)
6 points by ajslater 11y ago|2 comments
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by ajslater 11y ago
At Sidecar we're doing white label 40 minute delivery for a wide variety of merchants with a mix of cars, bikers and walkers. https://www.side.cr/under-the-hood-a-look-at-sidecars-on-dem...

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