denom

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by denom 5mo ago
What's the going rate for pardons these days?
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by denom 5mo ago
Seems stable enough, they patched a bunch of things.
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by denom 8mo ago
The shooter’s final comment in that video I think accurately sums up his mental state: completely disconnected his actions.
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by denom 1y ago
With our consumption humans are drawing down on the ‘reserve’ that ecological services have built up. Human activities lack the sophistication of an ecosystem that is in balance and cannot recreate the network of benefits thereof.
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by denom 1y ago
I think your judgement here sets aside the value of ecosystems in balance.
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by denom 1y ago
Tropical forest ecosystems with introduced species thrive in a way others (e.g. boreal and oak savannas) do not. Not all ecosystems are resilient enough to handle invasive species, and can be destroyed with the introduction of a single aggr
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by denom 1y ago
The post war scientific edifice is being shattered in a monumental act of vandalism. It’s not just defunding childhood cancer research, but also dismantling the very idea of agency in the broader society. Science and basic research are wort
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by denom 2y ago
> Moreover what kind of habit of thought are you in that being called out for that is read as vitriol? That’s as much a matter of personal identity as a ‘habit of thought’, friend. Otherwise, we could we comment on the basis of _your_ pe
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by denom 3y ago
Awesome news! I'm glad for the workers and their families. That is a great wage and one that will pay dividends in terms of their health and the health of their communities.
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by denom 4y ago
Exactly this. Tbh, i would expect some developer working on this feature to have an ‘a-ha’ moment: ‘I’m a homebrew user … hey wait a minute’
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by denom 4y ago
Alternatively, they could extract the compression code and maintain it for repo tags created before the git algo update release date. Isn’t that the only humane course given all that depends on this?
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by denom 4y ago
In my particular use-case, I'm using a set of local dev tools hosted as a homebrew tap. The build looks up the github tar.gz release for each tag and commits the sha256sum of that file to the formula What's odd is that all the _hi
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by denom 4y ago
I think of it as a fitness measure: Are you active enough at moving towards food gathering sites, preparing and surveying the landscape, creating and fine tuning your tools? If it is an approval of sorts on behalf of the child, then it also
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by denom 6y ago
Physical votes, people’s lives, including leaderships, were at stake.
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by denom 7y ago
It also means that dynamic of political polarization become more prevalent. Imagine being accountable to only one side of the electorate and how that shapes media and institutions. It will only make the divisive, angry rhetoric worse.
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by denom 7y ago
Maybe we should use wood instead of plastic.
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by denom 7y ago
If we expose people to the most sophisticated system of disinformation ever created in the history of mankind, with no restrictions or supervision of any kind, and then watch democracy collapse, it's not enough to to say "Welp! De
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by denom 7y ago
How thin is the barrier between lawful collection and "accidentally" sucking up all the communication in the USA? Seems like a major screwup like this is pretty normal for the NSA. Or at least they execute it with aplomb.
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by denom 8y ago
Your phrasing is really unfortunate in the sense that it limits our conception of how to deal with other humans. Yes, if we are trying to keep the malignant hoards at bay, then 'incentivize' with a whip. It's a fundamentally
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by denom 8y ago
For a phenomenological treatment, see The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram. The idea that consciousness exists throughout the world as a gradient is not new. The modern industrial conception of mind (newly transformed by the technologic
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by denom 8y ago
It shows how much emotion and frustration is directed at Facebook these days. Unfortunately, there's not a clear outlet for that frustration, politically or otherwise.
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by denom 8y ago
I sort of get the appeal of a '.dev' TLD, but I wish that google donated the whole thing to those who were using it informally for local development. That would have been a good gift to all the devs out there.
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by denom 8y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/08/opinion/sunday/lu-guang-p... “For five weeks, the world has had no idea where Lu Guang is.”
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by denom 8y ago
Did the OS keep the data or use it in any way beyond what the OS needed for display etc?
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by denom 8y ago
The reason that we need a right to be forgotten is encoded in this 'UI-forced' remembering. Forgetting the awkward moments is one thing, but it is natural to be born, grow, and change. In those earlier centuries, it was only the
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by denom 8y ago
There was an explosion at a refinery in Superior Wi last week. The blast and resulting fire was within 200 feet of a tank that can hold 76,000 pounds of hydrogen fluoride ( only 15,000 lbs were in the tank at the time). Needless to say, of
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by denom 8y ago
Also, ethics provides specific practices and actions that we can take in order to ‘do the right thing’. The fact that some corporations act ruthlessly and mercenary with regards to human rights and individual suffering (like Facebook in the
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by denom 8y ago
It’s still possible to completely blow up the world with nuclear weapons.
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by denom 8y ago
That’s right. The numbers I’ve seen have been 10 million for the Mercer’s initial investment. This is a pathetic amount of money to bankroll an operation with such large scale effects. Assuming the Mercer’s eventual expenditure reached 10
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by denom 8y ago
Perhaps a simpler definition of populism is to acquire power outside of traditional state institutions. What makes this a bit frightening is that those institutions cannot regulate the worse excesses of that leader.

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