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by dwhit 2y ago
for a less misanthropic take on the same idea, I recommend Ted Chiang’s “The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling”
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by dwhit 3y ago
I do think it’s bad that almost everyone will die before any work that influenced them enters the public domain
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by dwhit 3y ago
> I have a few qualms with this app: > 1. For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesyste
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by dwhit 4y ago
Should you get a ticket for accidentally driving over the speed limit because your speedometer was broken? Should the company who made the speedometer get the ticket? What if the speedometer was broken due to a bug software the speedometer
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by dwhit 5y ago
They voted to become a state in 2020 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Puerto_Rican_status_ref...
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by dwhit 5y ago
Ironically, if enough people gave them a penny they wouldn’t have to run those quack informercials.
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by dwhit 5y ago
Pol Pot did want to teach history, after all.
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by dwhit 5y ago
Because the toxo doesn’t want us to sound the alarm
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by dwhit 5y ago
Taking degenerates makes you a psychedelic?
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by dwhit 5y ago
It’s just Hacker News confirmation bias. San Francisco has roughly the same level of property crime per capita as Toronto, Canada.
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by dwhit 6y ago
I don’t want to starve
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by dwhit 6y ago
I would think the margin comes from their cut of software sales. Seems to work well for Apple.
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by dwhit 6y ago
https://lmgtfy.app/?q=tf+idf
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by dwhit 6y ago
Do not ever allow an election for who gets to control the nukes be decided by an e-vote. I don’t want Boaty McBoatface to be the president.
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by dwhit 6y ago
Wow what a fair and balanced headline.
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by dwhit 6y ago
Baltimore police are not exactly inactive, they are more like an organized gang ( https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/b... ).
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by dwhit 6y ago
If you don’t need to be near Manhattan you don’t need to live there. Or maybe your loud neighbors won’t need to live there. Ceteris paribus working from home kinda sucks, but if you think about how many systems will change, I think it’s gon
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by dwhit 7y ago
Current non-foldable phones have gorilla glass on top of their display.
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by dwhit 7y ago
A toilet that monitored urine and stool samples would be a major lifesaver.