alacombe

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by alacombe 5y ago
> There's zero reason to defend Stallman As much as I hate the man, I do.
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by alacombe 5y ago
> ... and has been since the French revolution Even before. > ... his directly ties into the idea of the state as an institution in French culture in a lot of subtle ways aswell. Especially in the parisian elites disdain toward pretty
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by alacombe 5y ago
Calgary/Edmonton seem to get about 2x as much snow as Bergen (~48" vs ~24"). Also, temperature fall much lower in Alberta than in Norway...
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by alacombe 5y ago
> Is this really true and known empirically? Could the body be better at accessing calories in some foods and not others? Of course, 2000cal worth of HFCS is gonna have a different biological impact than 2000 cal worth of kale. CICO is a
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by alacombe 5y ago
> Goes to show that no one really wants "free speech". Especially not on HN, where the SV/SJW group think prevail. Argument I often get is "you are free to voice your opinions and we are free to massively downvote you
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by alacombe 5y ago
> My employer can fire me for severe misconduct that occurs away from the office. I'm certain it would be considered wrongful dismissal in many jurisdiction.
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by alacombe 5y ago
> They are still subject to regulation Not according to Section 230.
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by alacombe 5y ago
> Your 2nd source links to Hasan saying "America deserved 9/11". Maybe it did.
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by alacombe 5y ago
Be careful, it's almost as if Twitch was to qualify as a "common carrier"...
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by alacombe 5y ago
Did you hear of the concept of "due process" ?
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by alacombe 5y ago
Amen, bro. I will also state that there isn't much difference between Mafia/Organised crime/Goverments, and Sects/Religions.
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by alacombe 5y ago
Taxation is theft, coerced by the threat of violence.
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by alacombe 5y ago
Argument can be made she never had to work and never actually made any money, other than inheriting the work of her grandfather Roy O. Disney. She is as privileged and self-entitled as can be.
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by alacombe 5y ago
Budgets can't be planned at all when there is no more "{m,b,t}illionaires" to steal from either.
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by alacombe 5y ago
Or this is just virtue signalling.
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by alacombe 5y ago
The beauty is that they can give their millions WILLINGLY and LEGALLY to the IRS. No need from coercion... unless this is all virtue signalling.
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by alacombe 5y ago
According to https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/flu... , there has been pretty much no flu season this year compared to ~any other year (which in itself is highly suspect). Last week
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by alacombe 5y ago
This is DHS being paranoid and inventing scenario to justify their paycheck.
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by alacombe 5y ago
If that's so easy, why hasn't been done yet.
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by alacombe 5y ago
This is standard behavior. When someone publish a +10kloc patch in an area maybe 1 or 2 other developers are competent in, nobody's gonna read it in details. Heck, I probably couldn't even review my code from 1 year ago without lo
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by alacombe 5y ago
> If you could remove the inflammatory tone from your posts and just state the facts there might be an interesting discussion to have. One comes with the other, not my fault if you can't deal with it ;-)
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by alacombe 5y ago
> Why the binary approach? It has nothing to do with a binary approach. The anti-masks arguments were very much a red-herring argument really being all about on anti-hoarding and anti-panic arguments from unprepared institutions (despite
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by alacombe 5y ago
No it wouldn't, especially if energy to convert it skyrocket.
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by alacombe 5y ago
Which is not necessarily untrue.
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by alacombe 5y ago
Those with wealth and power will never be on cctv camera, only their minions will be.
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by alacombe 5y ago
> I think payment of road tax according to road usage is eminently sensible That's what fuel taxes were for
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by alacombe 5y ago
The only problem to get there is the lack of "I". Right now, AI is mostly "fugazzi".
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by alacombe 5y ago
> Good, let's try to convince anti-vaxxers, Q people, Covid-deniers and what not of that, it will surely work! You don't seem to understand. Don't tell them on Day 1 that mask are useless, and on Day 2 that mask are mandat
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by alacombe 5y ago
Texas was 5 minutes away from a total grid failsafe collapse if the grid frequency had continued to drop, and it just happened that pretty much all of North America was undergoing high usage. Uncontrolled energy are not sustainable at scale
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by alacombe 5y ago
> Terrorists are not known to be the most logical people, to be honest Terrorists want blood and guts on national TV, not a statistical raise in cancer over 30 years.

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