jbboehr

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by jbboehr 3mo ago
A slightly more charitable interpretation might be: sharing useful information creates the possibility of reciprocity.
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by jbboehr 3mo ago
For starters, they named themselves after a murderous left-wing terrorist organization: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobins > the most influential political club during the French Revolution of 1789. The per
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Liable Humans for AI Deployments(liablehuman.com)
2 points by jbboehr 4mo ago|0 comments
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by jbboehr 5mo ago
This is a pretty terrible misrepresentation of original sin. I see you managed to copy it straight out of the Wikipedia page and completely ignore the sentence before it: > In Christian theology, original sin is the condition of sinfulne
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by jbboehr 7mo ago
> Green Revolution techniques also heavily rely on agricultural machinery and chemical fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, and defoliants; which, as of 2014, are derived from crude oil, making agriculture increasingly reliant on crude o
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by jbboehr 7mo ago
I don't think you are using standard definitions. > A world war is an international conflict that involves most or all of the world's major powers. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_war > Total w
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by jbboehr 8mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laffer_curve
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by jbboehr 1y ago
I bought a knife a while back and, unfortunately, found out that it is really sharp. It could probably cut through flesh like butter.
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by jbboehr 1y ago
Or run over by a van.
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by jbboehr 1y ago
IDK, man, the '70s sounded pretty wild: https://status451.com/2017/01/20/days-of-rage/
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Hundreds charged with online 'speech crimes' under 'Orwellian' crackdown(telegraph.co.uk)
11 points by jbboehr 2y ago|5 comments
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by jbboehr 2y ago
Supposedly: https://books.google.com/books/about/?id=s1pLvAEACAAJ
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Civil War Comes to the West (2023)(militarystrategymagazine.com)
15 points by jbboehr 2y ago|13 comments
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Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri Quotes(generationterrorists.com)
1 points by jbboehr 2y ago|0 comments
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The truth about house prices and immigration(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by jbboehr 2y ago|0 comments
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The Frivolity of Evil (2004)(city-journal.org)
3 points by jbboehr 2y ago|0 comments
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Gulf of America Day, 2025(whitehouse.gov)
8 points by jbboehr 2y ago|8 comments
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It's time for the church to go green(unherd.com)
1 points by jbboehr 2y ago|0 comments
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The Cross and the Machine(firstthings.com)
3 points by jbboehr 2y ago|0 comments
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by jbboehr 2y ago
A better primer: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/03/03/reactionary-philosophy...
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by jbboehr 2y ago
Reminds me of this classic: https://x.com/pickover/status/1536108795901972480
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by jbboehr 2y ago
I assume you're thinking of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device
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by jbboehr 2y ago
I am extremely out of the loop, but I believe until somewhat recently it still used nix-daemon and the corresponding drv format, but it may have since been rewritten.
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by jbboehr 2y ago
> imagine we create some sort of virtual device that one plugs in and it just basically gives you endless pleasure. There is a term for this concept: wireheading[0][1]. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirehead_(sc
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by jbboehr 2y ago
I'm sorry, but I don't consider in the bottom half of deaths per capita "objectively atrocious," merely "fairly bad." Have you considered improving the precision of your vocabulary?
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by jbboehr 2y ago
> the objectively atrocious driving record of Americans Well, ackshually, the US doesn't look that bad, according to this chart [0]. The US is #107 of 191 for deaths per capita and #5 of 25 for deaths per mile driven. However, the
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by jbboehr 2y ago
Sounds like it's probably the Consumer Assistance Program Vehicle Retirement [0] . [0]: https://www.bar.ca.gov/consumer/consumer-assistance-program/...
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by jbboehr 2y ago
> "what I have is so valuable that other people want to take it!" While I do agree this may apply somewhat to the original topic, your dig at suburbanites seems like a mischaracterization. Perhaps the upper/upper-middle cl
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by jbboehr 2y ago
> FWIW JS does not have a similar capability so I can't add a note there This example on MDN seems to indicate that you can, am I misunderstanding it? const bigJSON = '{"gross_gdp": 12345678901234567890}';
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by jbboehr 2y ago
Don't worry, we will send them a bill.

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