halffaday

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by halffaday 4y ago
Yes. I think the opinion NYT is programming into their readers is that normal people owning the means of private transportation is bad. The particular facts or coherence of the argument is immaterial. Just believe the opposite of whatever P
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by halffaday 4y ago
There is a significant effort put in by the FBI and others to arrest people who do that.
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by halffaday 4y ago
I’m suspicious that most of the value in these systems comes from a small fraction of the effort and many technology jobs boil down to knowing you’re a huge cost center and putting on a performance to hide that.
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by halffaday 4y ago
Some of those who checked out never re-entered the productive economy. There seems to be a change in morale and motivation as well. The young professionals are paid way beyond their value just to get them on board.
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by halffaday 4y ago
To your point, you should probably not do anything the NSA tells you to do. A spy agency’s endorsement of Rust is not to its credit.
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by halffaday 4y ago
I think credit deserves some blame. Schools charge the maximum they expect students to be able to pay, and when students have significant leverage through the bank, those costs rise with it. Very similar conditions in housing. I think admin
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by halffaday 4y ago
I have to applaud the subtle elegance of the sarcasm here
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by halffaday 4y ago
> the Python and Linux programming languages are all open-source. Yikes
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by halffaday 4y ago
I don’t think private investors can rake in fat subsidies off of hydropower.
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by halffaday 4y ago
Some of the larger ones are Armin Ronacher’s own projects…
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by halffaday 4y ago
I wouldn’t be shocked if it were actually just be a reboot of the same Google service proxied through Mozilla to recapture some lost market share.
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by halffaday 4y ago
Every time I get cajoled into visiting my wife’s family out there my experience is just a long stream of internal “how do you live like this?” moments. >Why is there a carcinogen warning on the rental car? >Am I the only one bothered
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by halffaday 4y ago
Monolithic Dome has been doing this for years. Precast concrete vaults are made very efficiently and can be used for this purpose with much better quality control. Neither are popular solutions. Housing construction is pretty cheap. The ma
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by halffaday 4y ago
Just have your mates bring you a few gallons of wind turbine.
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by halffaday 4y ago
Get out of my mind, Kwisatz Haderach
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by halffaday 4y ago
Employers will just create superfluous titles so they don’t have to price-match. My own opinion is that wages are completely unfair and never can be. Some people produce value several times their wage but it isn’t socially acceptable to pay
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by halffaday 4y ago
I like how a city engineer at little rock put it to me one time. “Having a license does not mean you have all the answers, but you are kind of responsible for them.“
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by halffaday 4y ago
If thou workest at that which is before thee... expecting nothing, fearing nothing, but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature, and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest, thou wilt live happy. And th
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by halffaday 4y ago
This can only be said bluntly: carbon trade schemes are and always have been about creating trillion-dollar money laundering opportunities. The problem is unspecified. Results are unmeasurable. The usual suspects are conspicuously present.
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by halffaday 4y ago
Comically negative? It’s hardly negative enough. I’d change the link title to “Miserable, childless misanthrope and establishment propagandist chides you for concerns over your childrens’ safety and affirms that to be fashionable you must p
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by halffaday 4y ago
I don’t see any concerns not addressed by markets. If iron becomes expensive to extract, it becomes expensive to buy, and people use it carefully. At one point unused cabins were burned down to salvage the nails. I just don’t understand the
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by halffaday 4y ago
I think net domestic migration is negative for California, so it’s already happening. For perspective, I live in Arkansas and my family and I live in a 2000sf single-family home on 0.5 acres. Our mortgage is <$800/mo. My income isn’
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by halffaday 4y ago
I agree. The purpose of plans is to transfer information about design intent for specific construction outcomes. Years ago, this was done by paper because there was not another efficient option. For the last few decades, this hasn’t been ne
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by halffaday 4y ago
If you ever find yourself in a scenario where clean water isn’t available. Beer might be one of the few things you can drink that won’t kill you.
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by halffaday 4y ago
Blackouts were an attempt to get enough thump in a room-clearing range where 5.56mm is a little lacking. Long-term, 6.8mm seems to be the direction small arms are going: https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/202
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by halffaday 4y ago
What is your estimation of the odds that the US security complex is funding the means to subvert its own domestic surveillance efforts? https://www.rt.com/usa/420219-tor-us-government-funded-bbg/ Back in the late
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by halffaday 4y ago
I don’t know if writing software as an incidental expense to efficiently allocate capital is actually worse than writing software as an incidental expense to conduct mass surveillance to trick old and poor people into clicking ads.
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by halffaday 4y ago
I would entertain the possibility that improving or maintaining the existing standards of living is not a policy objective of most representative governments or their key donors.
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by halffaday 4y ago
Elite universities are shameless credential laundering operations. I wouldn’t hire anybody with a degree from Harvard or Yale for anything other than sales. A poor kid who wants to be successful is much more valuable than some legacy admiss
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by halffaday 4y ago
There wasn’t much of a coverup. The tastemakers happened to have some convenient video to work with and used the opportunity to fabricate a myth that a petty criminal was a hero. It’s a testament to the power of media and gullible minds in

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