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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> It's not a conspiracy or anti-Semitic it is if you think the reason is something that's not benign, or if you are keeping track of it and spreading it hoping to foment anger. A hugely disproportionate number of Nobel Prizes
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
in what you quoted, nothing says "U.S. officials believed..." as the headline states
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> my whole life, it was sold to me as an incentive-boosting measure which in turn would lead to said outcomes at the time patents were debated, a key part of the proposal was to encourage the transfer "trade secret knowledge"
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I don't see how that solves this problem. there is a string in memory that gets saved on suspend. that string when read by the CPU has the same properties it had before. if the CPU is using rot-13, the string is still rot-13 and the at
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marginal effects are small, but it's where the integration and feedback add up or even multiply. the claim here is that the mitchondria are paying attention to their own marginal quantities which are quite small; the outsized effects i
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
Our mitochondria process the total of our energy needs every day, while exercise adds, percentagewise, only fractional additional energy need. do you think mitochondria notice the difference? I don't. If I cut my caloric intake, I drop
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
you want to try Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough, sorry, you need to accept cookies!
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it is Lawrence Watt-Evans, he has a page there https://escapepod.org/people/lawrence-watt-evans/
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
the logo looks vaguely HP and the layout and logo matches this one https://hpmuseum.net/images/2645A-35.jpg (while i was typing that in, somebody else answered same)
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
the conceit of leftists is that they are godd and pure... but they never are and it NEVER works out, just makes them insufferaby sanctimonious along the way. I was raised completely leftist btw, by good people, but I saw the craven insides
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
there is no such thing as "labor share of income". It's a measurement you can calculate, but it means nothing tells nothing. in caveman times, labor's share of income was 100%. Do you want to live like that?
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> No reason to keep it on. any reason not to simply let it sleep?
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
But that's not a rule, it should be Stroustrop's Observation: For new features, people insist on LOUD explicit syntax. For established features, people want terse notation.
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
You say the boomers are a problem simply because they are old and the young hate the old (ageism), and because they have money and you want it, now. Boomers created everything you like about this world, including youth culture itself, &quot
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> The poor need the rich to start a company as banks are prevented (by the rich) from lending to them. no. the banks hold the poor's money, and it needs to do so without risk because the poor need their money. lending money to star
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Posting this in the hope that someone will feel triggered to backport Eliza, it was done in the 1960s but it's been lost :-) you can run eliza in emacs, just " M-X doctor " enter
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at dim sum, you stack up the little empty plates.
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Original statements that led to this discussion >> Polish is the second most-used Slavic language, right after Russian and just before Ukrainian > This is not exactly right regarding Ukrainian. While it is the official language of
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
i'm not favoring any part of the spectrum, they all contribute, that's why they all exist in every society. Ideologies is where structured ideas come from, but they're usually embraced with religious fervor to the exclusion o
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> These issues are really complicated because they aren’t left versus right. Conservatives and progressives both tend to be ideologically skeptical of enhancements/sharing of ID. It's complicated within each party, but not ove
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> This is not exactly right regarding Ukrainian. While it is the official language of Ukraine, in reality... let's say that not all Ukrainian people are actually speaking it. your "adjustment" didn't propose what oth
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> How is preventing a Chinese brand from selling here not meddling in the free market? because trade balances are established by free markets, but China doesn't allow many of our goods and does not allow free market competition. Al
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
the ANSI escape sequences for screen erasing start with ESC and end in J. When you display a string on a screen including a newline at the end of it, you need to erase to the end of the line on the screen so you don't leave predecess
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Factual statements about bad employers and how is this hypothetical website you're hyping supposed to uncover the factuality of statements random people from the internet are posting?
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
> Polestar is done in the U.S. market. Its sister brand Volvo, owned by the same Chinese parent company, was spared. No one has explained why. The U.S. Federal Government is meddling with the automotive industry, the free market, and cap
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
i want a sleep app that reads me things that will put me to sleep, but i need it to track when i may have gone to sleep, or more importantly when I have not, so i can restart the next night past the point i've listened to. but it needs
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by fsckboy 3mo ago
what was that item from just a day or so ago where an opensource project had said they developed using AI, and a developer said "take it down, you copied it from us" I thought of it because this project said they used AI ( https:
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> The political compass always felt like the wrong tool to convey something as nuanced as personal politics the (I'm going to call it so-called) political compass is a very crude instrument, really it's just "are you libe
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plagiarism, with heavy sanctions, of self is of course ridiculous, but having as a standard that you should cite yourself when doing it is not a bad standard. As a reader, it might trigger a "where have I read this before" reactio
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companies spend money on things, but those things need to be classified as expenses or assets. Items that are not expected to have a value in the future (box of post-it notes, pencils, electricity...) are expensed in the present. Assets are

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