emilamlom

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by emilamlom 1y ago
It's like people took the idiom "throwing the baby out with the bathwater" as a thing to aspire to.
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by emilamlom 1y ago
Just wondering, why does that not worry you? Requiring people to play the favoritism game seems like a terrible way to govern. Unless I just misunderstood, in which case I apologize.
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by emilamlom 1y ago
It's much easier to convince a family member not to share DNA with a data broker than it is to stop government corruption. Is it ideal, no, but it's realistic.
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by emilamlom 2y ago
Just offering alternatives seems to solve most of that issue. I've got some friends who are vegetarian, so whenever they come over, I just grab some vegan sausages or some vegetarian alternative to what I'm making. It's not a
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by emilamlom 2y ago
Sure, but there's a clear difference between a man who dresses feminine sometimes but otherwise still prefers being referred to as a man and Marsha Johnson. She moved to a new town, changed her name, went by feminine pronouns, and pret
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by emilamlom 2y ago
In that case, yes there were. They were generally worded as anti-crossdressing laws, but that is what they were. Here's a quick excerpt from the wikipedia article on cross-dressing that sums it up well: > The birth of anti-cross-dre
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by emilamlom 2y ago
Alright, sure, some of the flag designs are not well done, but I doubt you're talking about vexillology. Queer just refers to "not straight". It's a general term. Bisexual people have made up their minds, they like more
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by emilamlom 2y ago
Wording has changed throughout history as has our understanding of gender and sexuality. While the specific word "transgender" may not have existed, it's still true that she lived as a woman at the time. At the very least, yo
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by emilamlom 2y ago
There were laws in many places in the states that banned "crossdressing" which was applied to trans and gay people alike. While the specific term "transgender" hasn't been around very long, the gay community has alw
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by emilamlom 2y ago
> Maybe very small local cells to improve connectivity in difficult landscapes (mountains, skyscrapers, underground) Something like this would've been useful in a couple remote networks that I worked on. Internet was easy to get wit
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by emilamlom 2y ago
Looks cool. It might be helpful to mention somewhere that it's for Emacs. I have never used Emacs before and had no idea what note-taking app this was for till I googled "org mode".
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by emilamlom 2y ago
I'm not an ecologist, so no, I don't have a particular technical solution in mind. I'm going off of memory from living there at the time. That said, I would expect any oil company operating so close to shore to have a proper
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by emilamlom 2y ago
I don't know the actual statistics, so I can't say for sure. From what I remember, it did hurt tourism but people quickly forgot about it. The fishing/shrimping industry locally took a major hit though as far as I know. Even
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by emilamlom 2y ago
Florida is such a weird state. Their main income is tourism by a lot, yet the government keeps hurting their main money-maker by not taking care of their beaches and environment and, I guess, trying to be more like Texas. When the deepwater
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by emilamlom 2y ago
DMCA is for user generated content on platforms, so microsoft wouldn't have a lot of surface-area to target. That said, youtube gives preferential treatment to the largest creators and companies. Apple and Disney could easily call up t
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by emilamlom 2y ago
When the penalty for frivolous and fake dmca takedowns is basically non-existent, it practically is.
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by emilamlom 2y ago
What a fun project! I think if I ever get around to opening my own makerspace/cafe, I'd like to have something like this running in the lobby for people to see how early computers looked and worked while still being somewhat usefu
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by emilamlom 2y ago
They can be used to decrease orbit as well. Since you just need to bleed off the speed from Earth's orbit, you could angle the sail diagonally so the the reflected light is pushing against your direction of orbit (sort of like how the
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by emilamlom 2y ago
They can eventually decrease orbit toward the sun. They just need to be angled in such a way that the thrust is retrograde (not the sail itself). It would be incredibly slow though.
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by emilamlom 2y ago
They're $5 spatulas that melt and shed bits of plastic over time. Wood, silicon, or stainless steel are all better and not too much more expensive. Even if this was a hoax (which it's not), there's plenty of reason to upgrade
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by emilamlom 2y ago
> We must rise above our animal selfishness and will to competition, and embrace humanity and humanitarianism. In other words, we must resist our common enemy, who works on all our beings, and it has obviously been very successful. I gen
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by emilamlom 2y ago
No matter your beliefs on the supernatural, it should be clear that the story of Wiggo was an actual "fairy tale" made up by Einhard as a proxy for airing his disdain for the current state of the empire.
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by emilamlom 2y ago
Kinda, yeah. It's open source in the "intelligence" sense of the phrase because it's openly available information (like OSINT), but it's not freely usable.
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by emilamlom 2y ago
HN seems to be doing it too (though they're just hidden, not deleted). None of the UHC posts are on the frontpage and I checked all the way to 200 posts down. I had to google just to find this one.
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by emilamlom 2y ago
Interestingly, I can't find any of the threads about the UHC CEO on the HN frontpage either. I've gone back 200 posts (around 3-4 days old) and only one loosely related post up. I had to google with "site:ycombinator.com&quot
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by emilamlom 2y ago
Well, they are the best at security theater, so it makes sense their headquarters is too.
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by emilamlom 2y ago
Every source I've seen has explicitly stated that GARM was voluntary, not required of members.
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by emilamlom 2y ago
That's interesting. I didn't have access to the paper, just the abstract, so didn't know it was different.
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by emilamlom 2y ago
For those that are out of the loop on all this, here's a Reuters article about the formation of the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) from 2019: https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/advertiser
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by emilamlom 2y ago
What the other commenter is alluding to is that, if this comes into widespread use, it won't just be a moderate amount. We produce mind-boggling amounts of plastic waste and a lot of it would concentrate in rivers and estuaries.

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