darigo

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by darigo 3y ago
Hmm, On the other hand. >Antisemitism (also spelled anti-semitism or anti-Semitism)[a] is hostility to, prejudice towards, or discrimination against Jews. I'm a fellow fan of looking into words' etymologies, but it would seem t
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by darigo 3y ago
Assembly 2023 had a fantastic presentation[1] from @BackTheBunny (from X) about precisely this. When the US really wants to do something, the constitution is a parchment guarantee and the media runs cover for them. Many US gov agencies are
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by darigo 3y ago
ha, your comment reminds of that quote from the mentor: "We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals"
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by darigo 3y ago
Makes me think of something totally different, which is how Urbit converts randomly generated numerical IDs into sorta memorable names. For example, the number 5,702,400 becomes ~sorreg-namtyv. And 1,742,733,824 becomes ~master-morzod. I en
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by darigo 3y ago
Oh yeah, I understand, last year I was indeed making boatloads of money. Right now I'm focused on something other than making tons of money tbh. There's a job I covet, so I've been just focusing on maxxing relevant skills so
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by darigo 3y ago
>The job market is not great right now, but sounds like you could have moved up last year. What do you mean by moved up? I have more work than I can even do - but I may have a different idea of what a coveted job is. >That might be th
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by darigo 3y ago
I agree with the point you're making but I think this is a less than ideal example: >Did an early investor in Facebook do more work than an early investor in Pets.com? It's quite possible that an investor who does more research
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by darigo 3y ago
I feel this so hard. Whenever I read HN people are like "obviously we SWE's are economic elites who will never struggle financially, unlike everyone else" Bro I have over ten years of dev experience, dozens of significant bug
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by darigo 3y ago
With all these studies, we're going to be very well prepared to address any future mental health epidemics among mice
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by darigo 3y ago
I mean, this cuts both ways. One of the most consistent predictors of success in public school is parental involvement. The only school I ever went to that was good for socialization was community college. Tbh, for learning too. I basically
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by darigo 3y ago
>it is possible to have plenty of "socialization" with other kids. I agree. Public school is not a great place for socialization, and it's not hard to create something better. Nothing socializes kids like sitting next to e
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by darigo 3y ago
Alex Kaschuta discussed this with Rob Henderson on her Subversive podcast: https://www.alexkaschuta.com/p/subversive-podcast-rob-hender... Her point is that this effect is way bigger in 3rd world countries, where these
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by darigo 3y ago
>But if we're going to have a single commons a democratic government may be preferable to a company that at best wants to keep it advertiser friendly. I'm also a big fan of the fediverse. However, I'm skeptical in the qual
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by darigo 3y ago
That depends, who are you proposing the alternative caretaker? I don't want my government to force video apps to host violent content, nor do I want my government making their own digital commons.
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by darigo 3y ago
With the traffic between this world and the afterlife, using exceptions like this is really inefficient. Furthermore, a lot of souls with net bad behavior might be in a state of Grace, rescuing them from Hell. An improvement might look like
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by darigo 3y ago
Oh man. Dissident right Twitter (sorry, 𝕏) is probably gonna go nuts. I myself don't have strong political opinions, but I listen to a lot of historically Thiel-adjacent media (redscare pod, Urbit) and I'm looking forward to the w
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by darigo 3y ago
During home school my daughter was learning about how data structures are represented in memory, which gave us the opportunity to explore how to represent strings as arrays, and thus: Pascal strings vs C strings
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by darigo 3y ago
Not strictly related by I really enjoy using SQL as a general-purpose programming language for coding challenges. Here's my n queens solution in SQL, for example: https://gist.github.com/seisvelas/952185983a625cd16
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by darigo 3y ago
>So how do you square that sentence with what actually happened? One way to square that with what happened: The left continued accruing power throughout Trump's presidency. I don't think the model of power relations presented i
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by darigo 3y ago
I crossed into Mexico via Eagle Pass. I was hitchhiking throughout the US and then throughout Mexico with my wife. Nothing seemed so dramatic then, but maybe it's blown up in recent years. When I got to the bottom of Mexico I stayed a