narski

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by narski 2y ago
>Google should be broken up into Search, Browsers, Mobile Devices, Ads, and Services, and the units prohibited from contracting with each other. I admire the general spirit of your comment, but this specific example seems off to me. Sear
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by narski 2y ago
* Guatemala starts a major war over Mexican espionage in Petén * Donald Trump is revealed to be the true identity of Satoshi Nakamoto * President Nelson (prophet of the LDS church) dies and is replaced by Dallin Oaks * Dugin writes a sequel
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by narski 2y ago
I like seeing how far I can stack contractions, a purpose for which y'all is well suited. Eg "You all would not have" becomes y'all'dn't've.
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by narski 2y ago
It's similar to war heroes. Yes, Abraham Lincoln killed people. Yes, we could avoid glamorizing him and empathize with the poor southerners. But generally, war heroes are idolized. This guy is like a war hero who killed someone on the
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by narski 2y ago
>Looking at the numbers I'm reminded of this excerpt from 1984: But actually, he thought as he re-adjusted the Ministry of Plenty's figures, it was not even forgery. It was merely the substitution of one piece of nonsense for a
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by narski 2y ago
At least in the case of the Maya, literacy was carefully guarded so that a small class of priests could exercise precisely this kind of control. In fact, this is believed to be one of the reasons why modern Mayan languages are written in th
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by narski 2y ago
I read this as virility and expected something very different. So I'm going to comment as though it said "Virility in cartography". A virile map has monsters, and beckons a boy to grab his stick (gleaming steel) and hop aboar
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by narski 2y ago
Ooh I really like the triangle one. It's the top voted answer, so I guess I'm not alone. In fact, I think I really enjoy specialized notations. I care about how ideas are expressed , sometimes even more than the ideas themselves.
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by narski 2y ago
The attackers claim the motive is political: >They are under attack because the archive belongs to the USA, and as we all know, this horrendous and hypocritical government supports the genocide that is being carried out by the terrorist
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Internet Archive currently down from DDoS attack(twitter.com)
4 points by narski 2y ago|2 comments
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by narski 2y ago
>shoplifting is currently rife and, when the value is low, not addressed, but this is a temporary state of affairs. Remember though, how often in the history of states, the temporary cannily usurps permanence. It's hard to tell what
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by narski 2y ago
Wickard v. Filburn basically destroyed the commerce clause. Growing wheat on your own farm is "interstate commerce" because it impacts national wheat prices (since you would have bought that wheat otherwise!). In the second half
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Curtis Yarvin has returned to Urbit(twitter.com)
2 points by narski 2y ago|0 comments
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by narski 2y ago
Advocando pro diabolō, I disagree. Since the width just expands to the size of my screen, and I have a rather wide screen, I found this design (or lack thereof) sufficiently obnoxious that I added a touch of custom CSS. Setting a static max
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by narski 2y ago
Yeah, the death of comments sections really signified the end of Web 2.0 as something people eagerly believed in, rather than just a stagnant reality we're all trapped in. And they didn't die quietly - the real "Aslan slays t
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by narski 2y ago
Ha! I read the docs for ~+ ( https://docs.urbit.org/language/hoon/reference/rune/sig#-sig... ) and fibonacci sequence is actually the example they use! Thanks so much for this enlightening comment :3 Altho
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by narski 2y ago
>The standard way to expel stated mutable state us to push it into function parameters and returned values. This is precisely what I did in my Hoon solution :) However, I wasn't aware that this approach is the standard way, and I&#x
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by narski 2y ago
I recently ran into this issue when trying to memoize a simple numerical sequence in Hoon (yes, that Hoon. I know, I know...). Let's use the fibonacci sequence as an example. Let's write it the classic, elegant way: f(n) = f(n-1
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by narski 2y ago
I use `brew install` as liberally as a junior Javascript dev using NPM, so I'm grateful to all the engineers doing this work to keep me safe. Apparently, this was funded by something called the Open Technology Fund. From the OTF websit
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by narski 2y ago
You might like folk punk - check out Pat the Bunny. I feel like there are two kinds of singers - people who are good at singing, and people who have something to sing about. You and I, I think, prefer the latter.