hungmung

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by hungmung 1y ago
WTF I just posted this quote in another thread like half an hour ago.
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by hungmung 1y ago
The state is a lecher.
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by hungmung 1y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite stories, from Phaedrus : > Now the king of all Egypt at that time was the god Thamus, who lived in the great city of the upper region, which the Greeks call the Egyptian Thebes, and they call the god him
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by hungmung 1y ago
The inspections. Actually, I think it would be legal to do so, but if the builder sells the home and they don't disclose problems with the house they'd likely be opening themselves up to a civil suit, and having a contract which
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by hungmung 1y ago
WTF. I'm fairly certain that would be illegal in my state.
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by hungmung 1y ago
I had this on an old brick phone, but I forgot which brand. You'd triple click the power button and it'd start ringing a few seconds later so you had time to move your hands away from it and not look like you triggered it. You cou
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by hungmung 1y ago
Yeah she was so popular they had to rig caucuses in her favor, and superdelegates had to defy their constituents.
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by hungmung 1y ago
Relevant: https://news.utexas.edu/2017/06/26/the-mere-presence-of-your...
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by hungmung 1y ago
Still bitter we never got the chainsaw emoji a few years back.
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by hungmung 1y ago
I thought the issue was duty cycle, and that low refresh rates kept the screen working longer. Has e-ink tech gotten around this?
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by hungmung 1y ago
Yes, and the superdelegates, whose job was to make sure people didn't pick the wrong candidate (how democratic of them), picked probably the least popular politician in America at the time. Trump likely would have lost against almost a
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by hungmung 1y ago
Superdelegates hamstrung the process. Kate Brown for instance, the governor of Oregon at the time (who btw was an unelected governer during that term, as her predecessor had stepped down) voted against the will of her constituents for Hilld
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by hungmung 1y ago
This goes back to 2016, when Dems decided it was better to nominate one of the least popular American politicians in living memory than the alternative candidate who had broad working class appeal. Not to mention they juiced up Trump's
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by hungmung 1y ago
The generation raised by iPads are in HS now and American IQ tests scores are in decline, especially in the last 10-15 years.
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by hungmung 1y ago
I've been happy with the One, but two Ethernet ports is definitely not ideal for even casual home use.
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by hungmung 1y ago
Funny because I met quite a few Japanese that liked Trump leading up to his first term. They thought he was really going to fuck with China.
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by hungmung 1y ago
> I hope their experiments with the "OpenWRT One" keep going. OpenWRT Two is scheduled for late 2025 from GL.iNet and should go for ~$250. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43512495
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by hungmung 1y ago
Forth would be neat on an RPN calculator. /random
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by hungmung 1y ago
Seconding this. I'm looking for a fanless industrial mini PC with out of band ECC and I'm having a hell of a time.
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by hungmung 1y ago
America is in love with privatized surveillance, it helps get around that pesky Constitution that prohibits unwarranted search and seizure. "Wipeth thine ass with what is written" should be engraved above the doorway of the Nation
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Ne Supra Crepidam(en.wikipedia.org)
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by hungmung 1y ago
We've always been at war with Eurasia. Not all threats are external.
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by hungmung 1y ago
National security doesn't just refer to USA...? France has national security considerations, just like the UK, Uruguay and Uganda. They'd all benefit from having open access to verifiable information.
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by hungmung 1y ago
They never existed if nobody ever gets to collect on them.
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by hungmung 1y ago
In America we like to fire anyone right before they get a chance to collect on any retirement benefits.
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by hungmung 1y ago
I strongly suspect that the net zero thing is at least half bullshit anyway, and probably more like 90%. We have forests on paper that have no basis in reality, either because of wildfires or because they just planted seedlings in summer an
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by hungmung 1y ago
Honestly Wikipedia+Archive.org remaining online have national security implications (not just USA, but any democracy). Though I'd wager the current administration would take a different view.
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by hungmung 1y ago
> Just look at Afghanistan.
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by hungmung 1y ago
Apples and elephants. I'm talking about a double digit percentage of the population fighting a guerilla resistance against a rogue state and you link me to like 50 guys in a house that's surrounded.
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by hungmung 1y ago
Hard disagree. Guerilla resistance has proven itself surprisingly effective against modern militaries. Multiply that by a military which would be going to war against its own citizens and you have a very uncertain situation. Yes, if the mil

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