deathcakes

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Rockstar had a mole in the union worker discord server(rockpapershotgun.com)
103 points by deathcakes 3d ago|46 comments
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by deathcakes 3y ago
Yes and when was the last time a reigning monarch exercised those powers? The answer is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_Militia_Bill
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by deathcakes 4y ago
Wikipedia disagrees: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuke As do I, I personally have never heard someone refer to a nuclear fission power plant as a nuke, but I guess I don't hang around with the same people as you.
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by deathcakes 4y ago
I agree with this - I was making the point that austerity, by the terms of its own argument, hasn't worked. Reducing public spending has demonstrably not reduced our debt burden even before the pandemic, and so therefore I would sugges
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by deathcakes 4y ago
I'm genuinely curious to the reasoning behind austerity - I confess to not having any academic qualifications in economics but it does seem to me that deliberately removing services from the poorer sections of society is going to intro
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by deathcakes 4y ago
No indeed, let us continue to double down on austerity, given its truly astonishing success so far
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by deathcakes 5y ago
They actually have already - PyTorch works straight up with ROCm, and so does Tensorflow. There is a little faffing to do to get it to work but they've made great progress in the last six months.
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by deathcakes 5y ago
No sure, just you have strongly dismissive opinions of someone you mockingly refer to as a mere blog author, and I felt I had to weigh in. I confess I definitely don't know nearly as much as I'd like about the ancient world, espec
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by deathcakes 5y ago
To this particular point, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spartiate would seem to suggest (admittedly poorly cited) that there was in fact a distinction made within Spartan society between free and enslaved Spartans. The
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by deathcakes 5y ago
Herodotus made a hell of a lot up, relied on oral reports and explicitly states that none of what he writes is intended to be relied on - it is merely what people told him. I think you actually need to read the linked blog that you seem so
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by deathcakes 5y ago
They aren't synonyms, though they are related concepts: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10459/what-is-th... I admit the distinction got me at first as it is quite a subtle one but the point made b
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by deathcakes 5y ago
Which I recall being touted as one of the major advantages of systemd - specifically that binary log files would make for much easier log aggregation as it would be more efficient to send over the wire. Fast forward to today and the best wa
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by deathcakes 6y ago
M62 Song by Doves is a good one
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by deathcakes 6y ago
"In the long term this will lead to novel types of assets, and make ownership extremely liquid. Imagine using your phone to buy shares in a recording artist you just discovered, and selling those shares when they win a grammy." I&
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Microwave-initiated catalytic deconstruction of plastic waste into hydrogen(nature.com)
1 points by deathcakes 6y ago|0 comments
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by deathcakes 6y ago
Voynich Manuscript as Lorem Ipsum is my favourite theory so far!
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by deathcakes 6y ago
Oh no, I fully agree with you - in a normal organisation that respects operating according to the burden of responsibility placed on it, reporting these things would be a duty. As things stand, it is seen as betrayal of the 'brotherhoo
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by deathcakes 6y ago
I would report someone in my company who attacked someone else with no provocation. Or murdered someone. I don't think this comparison is as good as you think it is.
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by deathcakes 6y ago
"University-educated people in my social circle are often woefully unaware of economic trends that have swept the US, be it the gig economy, X-as-a-service, the nature of Venture Capital, the idea of scaling a company aggressively, the
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by deathcakes 6y ago
This, exactly this - I remember one of the most bandied about reasons for the binary log format was that it made replication over the network easier, or something. Fast forward 10 years and I still cannot find a reliable way to do this with
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by deathcakes 6y ago
I would refer you to New Zealand which has, last time I checked, had one infection and zero fatalities. Sure this is not "preventing any infections" but I would argue that the rounding error on this is sufficient to make the claim
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by deathcakes 8y ago
s/probably//
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by deathcakes 9y ago
I've recently made the switch to VimFX as a result of this and I have to say I couldn't be happier - it may not have some of the more powerful features (that I'm unaware of) but it definitely gets the job done.
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2016 a Liberal Odyssey(thebaffler.com)
1 points by deathcakes 10y ago|0 comments
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by deathcakes 10y ago
And of course tax law has been the same since the dawn of time, there can be no argument to brook with the idea that it currently does not work. Morals musn't enter this argument, it would muddy the waters too much.
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by deathcakes 10y ago
You're quite right, my apologies, I saw a thing and wrote a response to something you hadn't said. I suppose I mean to say that this is the thing really - income tax on its own is not working, evidently, given that it is so easily
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by deathcakes 10y ago
I would have to disagree almost entirely - their ability to pay is why they are being asked to. This much is basic economics, I should have thought. Someone who has no more to give cannot, and there is little point asking. Most of the wealt
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by deathcakes 10y ago
Nor does the book as a matter of fact. Having recently rewatched the film with my girlfriend who had not seen it I felt compelled to explain, in far less eloquent fashion than Sevrene has in this very thread, that well, what the fuck else w
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by deathcakes 10y ago
"To add an example for clarity, think of the field of typography — until the Digital Age, typography was a specialized occupation. But with new programs like Microsoft Word coming into existence, typography (e.g. formatting a document,
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by deathcakes 10y ago
Jumping off a cliff != certain death, but I guess thats splitting hairs. You seem very confident in the face of expert opinion and evidence in front of you. Does the fact that the people who have masterminded this spectacle seem to have no

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