neartheplain

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by neartheplain 4y ago
Thanks for the positive comment. I sometimes wonder what it feels like to be the parent of a child murdered in these communities, like the moms I see on Twitter occasionally doing anti-violence marches and rallies, and be told that your son
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by neartheplain 4y ago
Centrist candidate for Governor of California Michael Shellenberger, who has interviewed many addicts on the streets of SF and has a credible plan to address homelessness and open drug abuse: https://www.shellenbergerforgovernor.
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by neartheplain 4y ago
Are those emergency telephones, or the "press big button, speak into mic" public safety call posts? Can't order a pizza or call a cab on the latter I'm afraid.
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by neartheplain 4y ago
Dismissing what people living in Oakland, southeast D.C., and the north side of Milwaukee know from frequent painful experience to be true as "white nationalist talking points" says more about your views than it does mine. Try fol
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by neartheplain 4y ago
>Canada is the U.S.'s neighbour and is probably closer, culturally, than any other nation. Your point about cultural similarity holds true mainly for descendants of European immigrants. The shared culture here isn't just Marvel
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by neartheplain 5y ago
>His books all have a scientist doing evil because of their lust for grant money. How unrealistic. Scientists like Peter Daszak and the EcoHealth Alliance would never do anything evil or untoward, such as using grant money to perform da
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Here's how the actual executive order defines "inherently divisive"- seems worth a tip line to me: >For the purposes of this Executive order “inherently divisive concepts” means advancing any ideas in violation of Title IV
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Did you know that iPhones also say "Made in China," and include Chinese-manufactured components?
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Israel doesn't need Anduril. They have a large domestic drone industry with decades of experience and a strong export sector. Israeli drones gave Azerbaijan a decisive edge in that country's recent armed conflict with Armenia. By
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by neartheplain 5y ago
You mispelled "Theranos." >The man is passing a Chinese RC toy as his own development. Citation needed
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Young developers often propose large-scale rewrites with little sense of the costs or risks involved. Changing old code often has unintended side-effects.
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by neartheplain 5y ago
In what regard is Skyrim's gameplay emergent, aside from the OP link's fox example? As I understand it, Radiant AI is a framework for fixed and relatively simple finite state machines, with states like "use the anvil at the b
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by neartheplain 5y ago
At least in the US, military officers don't make a lot of money relative to similar positions in private industry. Their total compensation is often underestimated as it includes healthcare for life, a housing stipend while on active d
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Worthing noting that Morrowind, and presumably also this mod, is now playable in VR thanks to the OpenMW project: https://uploadvr.com/play-elder-scrolls-morrowind-vr-openmw/ https://www.youtube.com/wat
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Twitter use is near-ubiquitous among journalists, politicians, and those who wield or seek to gain influence. Corporations fire people, companies terminate business deals, and universities expel students based on what gets said on Twitter.
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by neartheplain 5y ago
How many times a year do you watch C-SPAN? How often do you browse the press release page for your local elected official, much less someone else's? Whatever you think of this particular Congresswoman, Twitter is one of the largest and
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by neartheplain 5y ago
In terms of fashion, Japan's Uniqlo is quite popular in the US and continues to grow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniqlo#United_States Americans remain fascinated with all aspects of Japanese culture, from food
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by neartheplain 5y ago
>If you removed that button people would copy and paste or screenshot and share. And this already happens, often between people who've blocked one another yet want to continue the personal attacks. It's all too easy to open a b
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by neartheplain 5y ago
This is the third time you have misunderstood and misrepresented my thesis. I will not respond to a fourth time. >You said the reason we don't hear about those West African empires is that their wealth was built on the back on slave
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by neartheplain 5y ago
>the other caused by mismanagement and frankly jaw droppingly pigheaded incompetence which would also never happen in a country like Germany. Are you sure? One example: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-48527308 >BE
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by neartheplain 5y ago
You ignored the explicit meaning of my comment, rewrote it to mean something entirely different, and now claim to have disproved that version of it. I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. >As for this supposed "Mansa
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by neartheplain 5y ago
You've misunderstood. Read the last sentence of my comment again, the bit after the comma.
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by neartheplain 5y ago
I'm a Midwest native and huge fan of the region. It's been great to see more big tech firms open offices here, in addition to a rising number of startups and software consulting firms. Was happily surprised to see that Tundra Labs
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by neartheplain 5y ago
There's also a full-fledged Google office in Madison, in addition to their offices in Chicago and (soon) Rochester, Minnesota. Working as a developer and living in the Midwest doesn't necessarily mean leaving Big Tech.
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by neartheplain 5y ago
There's a lot to be said for products which take traditional disposable alkaline batteries, such as my pair of older Bose noise-cancelling headphones. Alkaline cells don't spontaneously combust and may be packed in checked airline
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by neartheplain 5y ago
>She cares for the students. They are all very underprivileged. The school system is driving her out. I've heard this from close friends and family who taught. All were teachers, all loved teaching, all taught underprivileged kids a
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by neartheplain 5y ago
The realpolitik perspective is that some countries demand allegiance from companies that operate on their soil (China), while others don't (USA). So Apple has a national allegiance to China in that country, and an allegiance purely to
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by neartheplain 5y ago
>But you have a young person being driven to a counter-protest by a parent This is where I stopped reading, because you're incorrect about basic facts of the case: https://news.yahoo.com/kyle-rittenhouses-mother-did-
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by neartheplain 5y ago
He took a gun to a small business at the owner's request, per police investigation, photo and video evidence, and the sworn testimony of numerous witnesses. The riot came to him.
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by neartheplain 5y ago
Police brutality in another state doesn't give you the right to burn down my livelihoood, burn down my home, or kill me. Unfortunately, NPR and the Washington Post led many to believe otherwise last summer [0][1]. Many rioters openly b

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