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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Or perhaps a gentleman thief who stole them from the original thief and returned them!
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Like toxoplasmosis?
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Same way they dictate which graphing calculator you buy?
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
This is the correct answer.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
>They are not the internet's babysitters This kind of attitude is why we're all enduring nonstop spam calls.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Why a command rocket that is launched to broadcast orders instead of using satellites?
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Somehow I knew it was going to be a bit.ly link before opening the image
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
IMO memory-mapped IO is the coolest thing since sliced bread. It's a great example in computing where many different kinds of hardware can all be brought together under a relatively simple abstraction.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Social media websites are NOT obligated nor are compelled to carry/broadcast each and every person's opinion, how shitty it may be. That is is their choice and their freedom.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
One of my earliest memories of the internet was reading about Tranquility Bay , another similar school with the added bonus of being outside the US. It was absolutely mind boggling that kids could be kidnapped and abused for profit like th
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
I have Hotline Miami's soundtrack favourited for a specific stretch of highway.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Haha I love crontab.guru! It fits perfectly for me who uses cron schedules only 1-2 times a year, just infrequently enough to forget the format before needing it again.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Being able to hack out code to explore and experiment with data while not having to reload and reprocess data (thanks to that global mutable state!) saves a hell of a lot of time in the long run.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
The effect is compounding too because those people will spend less time driving and idling their engines!
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Imagine the environmental impact of cutting out emissions from 37% of commuters for "free". We could do it today. Its been proven to work the last 2 years. It's such low hanging fruit it's mind boggling!
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
When a woman in her early 40s driving a hatchback can destroy a tank from a safe-ish distance, using a weapon that has an interface that any gamer could figure out, yeah I'd say things have moved on from WWII: https://youtu.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Pay should scale with the value of work produced, not the perceived "worth" of the worker. You argue with a hypothetical teenager. But what about my racist and sexist hypothetical uncle who owns an Arby's?
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Perhaps the assumption is of a couple living together? Also known as: shack up and produce offspring/future worker bees.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
My spouse is a nurse and at her work, they are required to do "double verification" of narcotics where a 2nd nurses recounts and also signs off on the drugs being taken out. They also don't use any electronic or automated sys
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Ticket scalpers use pools of credit cards to make purchases. What's to stop botters from using pools of CCs+phone numbers?
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Yikes, suddenly your trusted hardware floating in space is anything but.
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
Onwards to the Eugenics Wars and then the post scarcity Startrek future!
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by monkeybutton 4y ago
This is one of the arguments against machine translation: one would first need to construct an AGI capable of observing and understanding the living cultural context that language is being used in. Without that, researchers are endlessly ha
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
What would you classify wearing poppies around remembrance day as?
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
It's all so repetitive. I have a cupboard full of mugs, travel mugs and water bottles. A bunch are even the same product with just a different color and logo! How many liquids does one man need to keep hot/cold for 24 hours?!
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
That's one way to stop vendor lock-in by data hostage taking; just kill the hostage!
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
IIRC Germany experienced some rather horrific accidents in their facilities for manufacturing chemical weapons.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
The head doesn't even look attached to the body. Wow.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
There's a small part of the book that crosses over with the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Tests and the interpretation of events that transpired couldn't be further apart. It feels like that era of American literature is long past now.
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by monkeybutton 5y ago
The Arab spring started with one too: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi

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