labster

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by labster 1y ago
Were used to it in Malibu. The publicly owned shoreline can be reached through the legally mandated passageways, if you can make it through the locked gates and avoid being seen by security.
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by labster 1y ago
You should have bought in when Prop 13 went into effect, you’d only be paying $3k in property taxes today instead of $40k.
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by labster 1y ago
Another statement that I would have simply accepted as fact a year ago, but now I believe is false. The US government is now primarily one person, and occasionally a small set of people, making cost-benefit decisions on what will benefit th
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by labster 1y ago
But tires are black, and black carbon has additional climate effects — even once the aerosol lands, it can still have effects like black carbon on snow.
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by labster 1y ago
Yeah but no matter what, you gotta pay for the bear necessities.
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by labster 1y ago
I often wonder if it would be best for English to lose grammatical gender entirely. Encoding assumptions about gender is leading to endless debates about pronouns which other languages avoid entirely.
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by labster 1y ago
Or in other words, educators in red states are more effective in suppressing sinister tendencies in children.
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by labster 1y ago
Did you miss the day they taught ethical calculus in maths class?
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by labster 1y ago
Lighthouses fulfill roughly the same purpose as hazard signs on freeways — everyone makes more money when ordered goods actually arrive. Rocks on the sea are more dangerous than falling rocks on the roads. Monument lighthouses have an extra
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by labster 1y ago
Running a browser without an adblock extension is an even worse cybersecurity issue, since tracking online is so extensive. I live in a country where the government routinely buys surveillance data from data collection companies to spy on u
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by labster 1y ago
> black holes are essentially perfectly sticky Black Hole brand adhesive: when you absolutely, positively need something stuck down for eternity.
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by labster 1y ago
Sir, are you aware that this very website is run by VCs as an advertisement for hustle culture? You are, in fact, “anywhere near” this particular vast wasteland.
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by labster 1y ago
In America, a skilled tradesman is middle class. There would be no reason to treat a member of the group any differently. (Incidentally my grandpa was a plumber.) A teacher is lower upper class though. Teaching is used by some as an early s
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by labster 1y ago
Wealth is not the same as class, either. Even in America. A teacher with an annual salary of $60k is higher class than a plumber making $100k annually. Unless the teacher is black, of course, then racial elements of class come into play.
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by labster 1y ago
See, it builds character! Kids get really dull scissors, shared with other kids. Of course they’re difficult to use.
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by labster 1y ago
Of course not. AGI has advanced to the point it can topple governments with a single embarrassing meme.
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by labster 1y ago
I think they were referring to metals like carbon and oxygen, but I’m sure Led Zeppelin is important too.
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by labster 1y ago
We are getting back to the original meaning of hacker from a millennium ago, one who chops, cuts, and hews apart, especially hacking apart our fellow man.
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by labster 1y ago
The damaged interpret internet censorship and route around it.
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by labster 1y ago
It’s exactly that. In fact, information propagates along with the winds. If you don’t observe upstream, you instead propagate an information hole. Each new model run incorporates the output of the previous run to preserve sparse weather inf
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by labster 1y ago
It was already pretty likely, considering Pope Formosus was put on trial months after his death, and he was in attendance.
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by labster 1y ago
If you’re looking for the original reference, it’s moved from 1d4chan (dead) to 1d6chan: https://1d6chan.miraheze.org/wiki/Peasant_Railgun
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by labster 1y ago
The idea must have had some currency in the middle of last century, since Tolkien decided to place Hildórien, the birthplace of the Edain, in the Far East. https://tolkiengateway.net/wiki/Hild%C3%B3rien
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by labster 1y ago
Honestly I’d just walk downhill. Most human settlements are on rivers, most roads take the lowest passes. At night, I’d just walk in the direction of the sky that’s glowing the most.
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by labster 1y ago
Yeah, that many pennies would be really heavy. Similarly, I always love it when small women smuggle suitcases full of gold in movies, when it would be heavy enough to break the handle off if it weren’t painted styrofoam.
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by labster 1y ago
In uni, my friends used the phrase “simple solutions for complex times” as an insult for political ideas. Cutting the Gordian Knot only works well if your father spent half his life perfecting a new military doctrine for you. Still, it’s am
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by labster 1y ago
I don’t know man, I would have believed this wholeheartedly ten years ago. But people are choosing true authoritarianism in droves. People just keep voting for Trump, Orban, Erdogan, and Le Pen. Trump is extremely transactional. All of whic
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by labster 1y ago
Nah, not from the very beginning. Before the News Feed, The Facebook was great to find people and keep in contact. Following someone’s page too often was called Facebook stalking and was socially discouraged. Unfortunately parasocial behav
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by labster 1y ago
Four simultaneous days in one 24 hour day really does help increase productivity. That’s where we get 4x programmers from. (10x programmers are a myth, as cubes only have 4 sides)
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by labster 1y ago
Believe it or not, people who read newspapers get a lot of background information on lots of topics. One such topic was that US corporations, en masse, started dropping DEI policies around the beginning of Trump’s term in acts of anticipato

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