lambda_obrien

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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
> No one is denying these drugs are harmful Everything is harmful when used incorrectly, but useful when used correctly. I for one think these drugs are not inherently harmful, everything has a use. Why should doctors get to be a gatekee
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
It's defined as the racism inherent in the structure of the system, such as longer sentences for crack cocaine (preferred and used mostly by low income black people) versus powder cocaine (preferred and used mostly by well off white pe
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Thanks! That makes more sense now.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
> it's probably going to be leaflets & magazin ads with sound first Advertising is truly the worst thing humans have done in history, IMO. All advertising has done is made everyone think they aren't good enough and to buy t
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
It's even easier than that: quarantine any ship that has made port in the last 2 weeks and the crew was allowed to disembark and let any ship with no sign of disease where the crew has been onboard for 2 weeks to disembark. Then, the c
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
> The goal is to ensure that builds can be deterministic despite non-determinism ...by using non-determinism? Very mind bending for me, I'm not sure I understand, but I'm glad smart people are figuring this stuff out.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Treat everyone the same, maybe?
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I spent all week working on a project task, then I was told to refactor it, then they wanted to re-refactor it back, and not just revert the change. I think I'll leave it until next week. This weekend, I will take care of my son, to gi
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Ask HN: Who here had a long week?
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I've had the best Dells and Lenovo's for Linux and it's still not as good as my System76 integration. With my 76, I just use it and upgrade it, with the others I always have little things that don't quite work unless I c
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
You're describing the reasons for the opioid epidemic. First, get someone addicted to opiates for pain, then take them away when it's obvious they are, resulting in the heroin epidemic. There's always gonna be a black market
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
We need to replace the "work as social outlet" with something else. It's not the office anyone wants, it's the connection, we're just lacking the connection part to make remote work... well... work.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I just say my request with the urgency: "Hey, how do i do X with a microservice? Not urgent, take your time." Or "Hey, my service is crashing and I'm not sure why, can you look at it in the next few minutes and see if yo
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Same, that's what I use, and it was super easy to do.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
You can even setup SSH to the bootloader to unlock LUKS if it reboots.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
For most people, the stimulus is just a bonus. Even if 30 percent of people lost jobs, they're the minority. I think the money would have been better used as a weekly stipend for those on unemployment, or those who lost income at least
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
In today's world of a thousand package managers, why isn't there a package manager for datatype schemas? Then, when I'm looking for an "addressbook" schema, I can just download the most popular one. It could include
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
If you read the three books, you realize that the true message is that if you're considered a possible threat to an advanced species, they'll annihilate you, otherwise you'll be left alone. Maybe every other species which kno
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
> easy to use Wireguard It gets easier?! I love how easy Wireguard is, stock, so perhaps I'll try Tailscale. Also, a good reason to do this would be to play with friends easily, sometimes NAT and other things make it hard to connect
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Are we? Because to me there are huge cracks opening up. Death toll isn't the important part about terrorist attacks, it's the responses that count, and the response to this seems about the same or more extreme as 9/11 to me,
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
There are plenty of real power plants connected to the internet today in the form of virtual aggregations of large batteries. In a decade there will be gigawatts of them online, so let's hope those companies take security seriously bec
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Yes, try removing coax by tripping over it. You're more likely to remove your foot doing it.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Exactly, that's why we're fat as fuck. We don't have the same culinary habits as most of the world. I ate a cookie for lunch today: it was 500 calories.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I barely walk, but I've been losing weight like mad because I've been cooking at home everyday now, not eating fast food, and not drinking soda. Look at the ingredients for any premade foods, even the ones that bill themselves as
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I personally know 3 people who get pretty ill from VR, so that's not an option for everyone.
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
No, the fault lies with the ignorant people mischaracterizing the phrase. "Reduce police funding by a large amount, but not too large, let's face it, we need at least a few cops!" isn't as catchy for protesting. The only
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
Now I know why I can never think of good ideas for a business, I'm thinking about what I can build to help my customers, but in today's SV I need to be thinking how can I more easily steal user data at a lower cost than my competi
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
The real problem is that the data generated by the user is very valuable to the social network owner, there's no way to make money allowing a user to have a private self hosted federated infra unless you charge the user and then no one
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
On the other side, my last job had no work for me and never merged the stuff i did that they asked for, and that was pretty annoying also; sounds like you got out though, so hopefully you found something better!
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by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I'd prefer we just have a daily politics thread and remove all others. I'm really tried of seeing the same arguments over and over, no one agrees with each other, no one will compromise, no one wants to see their own faults, it&#x

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