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by cicero 3y ago
I use cash to do my part to slow down its disappearance. I like the fact that it is difficult for central powers to control, and its existence means that people can more easily live off the grid. I like the ability to hand someone a tip wit
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by cicero 5y ago
Now he can move onto the next phase of his plan for world domination.
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by cicero 5y ago
I would guess the anti-globalist sentiment of MAGA is shared by people throughout the world who prefer local control.
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by cicero 5y ago
I've always thought of nano as simplistic, but reading the discussion here, I see there is more to it than I thought. I learned vi (precursor of vim) in the 1980s and the commands became second nature to me. However, as window-based sy
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by cicero 5y ago
Upvote for mentioning WordStar. I only used it some in the Texas A&M computer lab. I went from my dad's Apple II, to a Commodore 64 I bought in college, to a Macintosh after I graduated. None of them were WordStar platforms, but I
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by cicero 5y ago
I used to use ed when all I had was a single terminal screen/window and a compiler error message. Ed doesn't clear the screen, so you can still see the message. Vi or emacs would clear the error message away. Of course, in a multi
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by cicero 5y ago
An alternative hypothesis does not rule out the other possibilities, even if it provides a better explanation. What matters is what actually happened, not what provides the neatest explanation.
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by cicero 5y ago
So they appear to have mutually agreed to remove content to conform to the prevailing pressure to restrict public discourse to only politically correct content. While it is certainly their right to make any business arrangement they want, i
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by cicero 6y ago
Modern people often portray the Middle Ages as a time of dullness, ignorance, and misery, such as depicted in the movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I think this makes us feel better about how superior we are today. The truth is that me
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by cicero 6y ago
Does it work in Hypercard?
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by cicero 6y ago
Humans understand these things because they are persons. Where did their personhood come from if not another person? How personhood can arise out of non-personhood is unexplained.
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by cicero 6y ago
When shame is used as a weapon and tool of manipulation, a measure of shamelessness becomes a useful defense. As the demands of popular morality increase and change on a daily basis, at some point, some of us will give up trying to conform.
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by cicero 6y ago
Clinton is quoted in the second line: “I was the candidate that they basically stole an election from,” Clinton said Monday on the New York Times podcast “Sway.”
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by cicero 6y ago
Trump did win 4 years ago, and Hilary Clinton claimed the election was stolen from her and that there is a specter of illegitimacy over his presidency. This is the exact kind of talk that people are now saying is dangerous and must be suppr
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by cicero 6y ago
If both of the candidates are crooked liars, how do you choose? I picked the party that I think is closer to being right.
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by cicero 6y ago
When I was a kid, my dad connected a Model 19 teletype to our Apple II computer for amateur radio teletype (RTTY). He used an opto-isolator to protect the Apple II from the 60 ma loop that the Model 19 used.
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by cicero 6y ago
When I was a kid, any stories of the CIA doing bad things were labeled "conspiracy theories." How could they possibly be true?
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by cicero 6y ago
This site exposes too many complexities of history that do not fit the simplistic narratives that are popular today. Nothing to see here. /s
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by cicero 6y ago
I remember being very excited about this announcement. I had been learning about Java, but I only had an HP workstation, which ran HP-UX Unix at work, and a Macintosh at home. Neither of them had a Java implementation yet, but I could run N
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by cicero 6y ago
PDF is ultimately for paper when you care about how the content fits on each page. A reflowable format will have to at some point be rendered to pages if one is to go to paper, and I can't think of anything better than PDF for storing
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by cicero 6y ago
He didn't say objective science is political, but banning is. Science promotes the free exchange of ideas with the hope that the truth will be established and falsehood will be disproved.
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by cicero 6y ago
In January 2018, when a lot of people at the school where I teach were getting flu and colds, I got a "stuffiness" in my left ear that I figured would just go away. I talked to other people, including my dad, who had similar sympt
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by cicero 6y ago
It's the same reason why those concerned about climate change inform the public rather than just tell Congress. If our food supply is in danger, that is as concerning as climate change, is it not? Or is this different because it is a c
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by cicero 6y ago
I became a teacher, so now I get to share the joy of programming with kids. I also manage the technology at my school, so I do some programming to enable that, which is enjoyable because I am pretty independent. I work at a great school wit
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by cicero 7y ago
I support 4 different individual content creators through Patreon or their own platform at levels between $5 and $10 per month. What they produce is informative, unique, and much more important to me than anything on Netflix, which is just
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by cicero 7y ago
Enclosed patios provide some protection from the weather, but they are not the same as the insulated interior of a modern house. I've been to a house in Texas that had an enclosed patio that was unusable in the heat of summer. It acted
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by cicero 7y ago
I think it likely implies ASCII Cinema. For best results, start by assuming more positive intentions.
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by cicero 7y ago
I remember OKI Data printers from the 1970s and 1980s. They weren't the cheapest or most popular, but they were fast. I got a brochure from OKI today and saw that they still make dot-matrix impact printers that use a ribbon. They will
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OKI still makes dot-matrix impact printers(oki.com)
3 points by cicero 7y ago|4 comments
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by cicero 7y ago
Free will exists, but as spiritual masters going back at least to Jesus have observed, the free will can become enslaved.

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