alexb_

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by alexb_ 3mo ago
Personally, I hope that nothing Elon Musk ever does for the rest of his life succeeds. Maybe that's just me though.
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by alexb_ 3mo ago
The truck is cool. The blank slate looks good. Every other "suggested" design looks insanely corny, in the Cybertruck sort of way.
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by alexb_ 3mo ago
Doesn't work at all for me. I keep jumping around and clipping through objects, can't even leave the first room without being stuck in the doorway to the elevator.
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by alexb_ 3mo ago
As someone living in Omaha, this has just a little bit of a conflict lmao.....
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by alexb_ 5mo ago
Wow! This guy knew a lot about working in an environmental/social/governance framework, AND he knows enough about money to have been an international central banker? I knew Carney was great, but I didn't know he was so well-q
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by alexb_ 5mo ago
Yes. "Other people do it" does not make it any less anti-foreigner.
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by alexb_ 5mo ago
https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/agency Click down into a federal account and then change the drop down over the chart to "Recipient".
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by alexb_ 5mo ago
https://www.usaspending.gov/ is another great website for this stuff. I suggest using the Budget explorer. Here's the map by function (e.g. national defense, healthcare): https://www.usaspending.gov/exp
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by alexb_ 6mo ago
Yeah, it's kind of annoying. But middle click scroll is something I use literally every single second of every single day on my web browser. It's a deal-breaker.
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by alexb_ 6mo ago
Even skipping the first step (which requires a second readme ) the next step involves opening a terminal. Instant fail. The entire point of an operating system is to make computers usable without knowing how they work, what a file is, what
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by alexb_ 6mo ago
Company? Most of the time this stuff is years (sometimes DECADES) old. That's why it doesn't work on Linux in the first place.
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by alexb_ 6mo ago
The last time I tried to use Linux, I said "fuck this" when I had to open up a text editor for something so basic as making a shortcut with command line arguments. This is the easiest menu in the world on Windows, but it took me l
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by alexb_ 6mo ago
Most people want a computer that works with their software. No, "learn the FOSS version" is not a solution. Especially because nearly everyone has some niche thing they like, some 5% that isn't covered by the FOSS solutions
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by alexb_ 6mo ago
He actually died years ago. It just took until today for the Grim Reaper to work up the nerve.
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by alexb_ 6mo ago
This isn't what this is about, but I wonder if anyone has created a fully mechanized version of Conway's Game of Life. The fact that you only have to follow 4 rules, and each cell only needs to observe its neighbors to follow thos
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by alexb_ 7mo ago
Are you serious? This is Apple, the same company that purposefully made their messaging service less compatible so that children would get bullied into buying their products. You really think they would allow anything that isn't MacOS
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by alexb_ 7mo ago
Disappointed to see that this is solitaire and not Riichi :( would love to see more implementations of actual mahjong
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by alexb_ 7mo ago
Riichi is the most fun one, in my opinion, but I would not go so far as to say "skill weights over luck". The absolute best Riichi players win less than 25% of hands.
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by alexb_ 7mo ago
The H-1B system is obviously flawed. For some reason, we've decided to tie the ability to live where you want and take advantage of your pursuit of happiness to having an employer. This creates massive power imbalances that are avoided
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by alexb_ 8mo ago
Unfortunately, their common sense has been rewarded by the stock tanking 15% in the past month including 4% just today alone. Dell shows why companies don't dare talk poorly of AI, or even talk about AI in a negative way at all. It doe
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by alexb_ 10mo ago
To clarify, these are percentages for the sample of students taking the remedial Math 2 class, not generally. Two percent is still crazy low though, that's practically nothing.
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by alexb_ 1y ago
By this logic, should we put east Asia on the top and have the less populated western hemisphere on the bottom? Why not have East be up?
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by alexb_ 1y ago
The point of the rigidity and uniformity of school is not that it is the best way to get everyone to understand everything if they try. The point is that it forces all the kids to try. School is not just for the most interested, it is for
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by alexb_ 1y ago
Land tax fixes this
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by alexb_ 1y ago
I work on an air-gapped network. The most important thing that the words "air gap" communicate is that there is no connection, nothing at all, to anything outside the network. The only way to move anything on or off are using di
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by alexb_ 1y ago
What? Strong Towns is not just their "content creation", they ARE local organizations. You might have a chapter in your city. This criticism tells me that you don't know what Strong Towns is, what they do, the actual specific
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by alexb_ 1y ago
Ah, the good ol' "Epstein Strategy"
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by alexb_ 1y ago
I'd love to hear your reasons as to why.
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by alexb_ 1y ago
Why on earth would we ever do that? That's a nonsensical proposal that would immediately make an immense amount of people poor (while also being hostile to so-called foreigners for no reason)
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by alexb_ 1y ago
Big correction: we want the value of land to go up. Under our current systems, this corresponds with the price of land going up, but that does not necessarily have to be the case. Taxation of land values causes the value of land to go u

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