extortionist

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by extortionist 6mo ago
These kind of coordinated efforts come from think tanks, lobbyist groups, etc. If you look around you'll see a lot of nearly-identical bills introduced in several states more or less simultaneously, not just about this topic but about
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by extortionist 3y ago
America's Test Kitchen actually does suggest adding water to reduce the amount of time needed for caramelization--and not an equivalent amount of water, but much more than the amount of oil you'd use. The idea is that adding water
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by extortionist 3y ago
The game High On Life used Midjourney to create additional environmental art like posters and advertisements.[1] The twitter account for the remake of System Shock used Midjourney to create an advertisement, and said they'd be continui
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by extortionist 4y ago
It's a doable and fun project. I did it a few years ago, designing a small set of instruments in Fusion 360, 3d printing them, using stepper motors and an arduino to handle movement, and using Mobiflight[1] and FSUIPC[2] to handle the
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by extortionist 4y ago
I have one and use it probably a few times a week. It's become a necessity for flight sims for me, I no longer play them outside VR. Flight sims aren't terribly mainstream, sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if there's en
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by extortionist 5y ago
He leaves behind a complicated legacy. It's important to note that credible allegations of domestic abuse lead him to sell SA in the past year, and this can't be set aside. At the same time, SA's influence on the modern inter
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by extortionist 5y ago
My job is split between maintaining a giant legacy perl codebase and doing new dev work in python. I vastly prefer python overall, but perl's still the best when you need quick one-off scripts to tear through log files or do some quick
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by extortionist 5y ago
Rents are only a part of inflation measurements and can easily outpace the general rate. California's recent rent control laws caps rent increases at 10% or 5% + the yearly CPI increase (whichever is less) every year, for example, expl
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by extortionist 8y ago
One note that seems relevant to the grandparent comment, Ravel is now owned by LexisNexis.
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Introducing the Internet Bill of Rights(nytimes.com)
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by extortionist 9y ago
My office has at least a few hundred thousand lines of perl 5 (v 5.8.0) running on legacy systems, though we've switched to python for new development. We won't be using perl 6, and suggesting it in the office would get some good
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by extortionist 9y ago
I absolutely agree with you--there is no threat of anything resembling revolution in the US today. The issue is not the self-obsession or lack of engagement the ancestor comment describes, but that e.g. Occupy Wall Street was never going to
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by extortionist 9y ago
I'd argue that taking to the street and protesting is also just giving people the illusion that they're doing something useful. The Iraq War protests were some of the largest in history, and they accomplished exactly nothing (and
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by extortionist 9y ago
Many people have no choice in their broadband provider[1]--of those that do, their choices are often between corporations that also have significant interest in TV and cable TV (even moreso if the AT&T/Time Warner deal goes through
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by extortionist 10y ago
Agreed with this. I wouldn't take a 4-day weekend to do interviews and a homework assignment unless I was desperate or already out of a job.
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by extortionist 10y ago
It's a nebulous definition as far as I can tell. For what it's worth, I don't deal with these in any sort of legal capacity, but my day job does involve a lot of work with federal legislation and regulations--I'm just no
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by extortionist 10y ago
Can't speak for the author of this site, but all of the information I've seen on it is freely available on congress.gov or gpo.gov.
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by extortionist 10y ago
His work remains incredibly influential today in the current renaissance of modular synthesizers--a number of important eurorack designers (e.g., Make Noise) take a lot of inspiration from the West Coast style of synthesis. Sad news.
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by extortionist 10y ago
It's not at all clear that only individuals would go for the cheaper alternative. We also already have cheaper alternatives in e.g. studio apartments, and we currently have families living in those. I don't see how building downwa
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by extortionist 10y ago
The article has something of an issue in that its ever-escalating apartment prices are never bound to any material costs--i.e., it doesn't directly acknowledge that some significant amount of that $900 initial and $1400 ultimate cost e
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by extortionist 10y ago
I'm not sure it's right to conflate arguments about the possibility of new technology having other-than-positive effects with arguments about the moral decay of society. I'd argue it's plainly obvious that the end result
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by extortionist 10y ago
Russian names are generally given name then patronymic (i.e. 'son of' or 'daughter of') then family name. A person is formally addressed by their given and patronymic names. In this case Felix Edmundovich would refer to