ricree

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by ricree 1mo ago
Looks like, though a shame if true, since the account is more than 10 years old and presumably had a person behind it at some point.
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by ricree 2mo ago
Or even the Roman Empire itself. > an empire is a state where the core ruling population exercises control and extracts resources from a periphery which is composed of people other than the core group By definition, doesn't the late
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by ricree 3mo ago
The main issue is that they are very careful not to frame it like that. In broader contexts, it's always framed as something like "do you favor limiting children's access to social media" without a word on what it would
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by ricree 3mo ago
> Rather, hopefully, Iran will be to the US what Turks were to Byzantium. An invading force that settles within it and ultimately destroys it before launching expansionist invasions to all of its neighbors?
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by ricree 3mo ago
Arguably, Rome itself is such an example. Over the course of its long history it was repeatedly pushed to the brink of ruin only to slowly build back up without ever quite reaching its old heights. The crisis of the third century could easi
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by ricree 3mo ago
>It's harder to play baseball or football without all assortment of costly bats, helmets, gloves, et cetera In practice, casual football isn't any more resource heavy than soccer. Most non-league games of football are going to
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by ricree 4mo ago
Can they? In most places with any sort of economic opportunity, I have a very hard time believing that part time earnings would get you housing on par with a full time earner in 1976.
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by ricree 6mo ago
>For example, the vast majority of people choose to retire once they reach the age where they are able to collect enough from their pension that they no longer need to work in order to get by Part of the problem is that the current syste
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by ricree 6mo ago
>but most states do not have a per se ID Out of curiosity, do you have a source or list for this? My own home state and those around me that I've spot checked all have a state ID available as an alternative to a driver's licens
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by ricree 7mo ago
Pertinent quote: >It was also possible to bypass the copyright monitors by installing a modified system kernel. Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of
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by ricree 7mo ago
>Many kids who placed highly in the Westinghouse Science Talent Search ended up winning Nobel Prizes later in life Do you happen to have a list available? I saw a few among the winners, but I wasn't able to find much about non-winni
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by ricree 8mo ago
I remember reading about this when it first happened. Glad there was at least a somewhat positive outcome. For reference, here is the HN thread shortly after the arrest: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21000273
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by ricree 8mo ago
> how much sugar water people buy, cases and cases One confounding factor here is that oftentimes the price is only reasonable in bulk. I don't know about walmart, but around me the best deal typically is "buy 2 get 3 free&quot
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by ricree 1y ago
Yes. As far as I'm aware the person I responded to was mistaken about that. My own point was that commercial farming in the rest of NA (and possibly even parts of Mexico, I genuinely don't know) was introduced via Europe rather th
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by ricree 1y ago
>So it's native to the new world, but not native to North America? My understanding is that the wild turkey was common throughout North America, but was domesticated in Mexico, and modern turkey farming uses stock descending from th
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by ricree 1y ago
Just about a year and a half too late for https://longbets.org/712/ Although from the article, it sounds like this might not be servicing a wide enough area to win the bet even if the time was extended a couple years.
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by ricree 1y ago
>This change will not affect any other benefits in your AOL plan, which you can access any time on your AOL plan dashboard. To manage or cancel your account, visit MyAccount Sounds like everyone keeps getting charged, since this is techn
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by ricree 1y ago
>My sense is actually that the reason he talks that way is to make sure that people who consider themselves "on the left" don't mistake him for being someone "on the right" If so he has sorely missed the mark. I
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by ricree 1y ago
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by ricree 1y ago
Is this really viable for something like Uber, where most rides aren't really meaningfully better or worse?
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by ricree 2y ago
I imagine it would work out roughly the same as if security camera footage was copyrighted, but as far as I can tell there really isn't a clear precedent in the US for this. The monkey selfie case suggests that they probably aren'
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by ricree 2y ago
In addition to that, if the Why ever changes (maybe the issue was in an external dependency that finally got patched), you'd have to update the name or else leave it incorrect. Mildly annoying if just in one codebase, but a needlessly
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by ricree 2y ago
To elaborate on your points some more: the basic building blocks of contract law were already well established by the time Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball came about. The main question at hand was whether these could apply when the offer was
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by ricree 2y ago
>And you're expecting them to make pennies? I don't think the person you are replying to was expecting this. Rather, I read their comment as agreeing with you that the benefits and compensation were low enough that few people w
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by ricree 2y ago
I also enjoyed his similar series on generating a procedural city: https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=2940
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by ricree 2y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, this strikes me as a really incredible claim. To the best of my knowledge, Rome didn't make much use out of cast iron. Iron has a very high melting point, it's not something that people were just casually
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by ricree 2y ago
In his blog (acoup), Bret Devereaux had a decent sized three part series examining this debate. He mostly comes down on the "decline and fall" side (especially when it comes to the living conditions of people in the region), but d
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by ricree 3y ago
I believe PEP505 should cover what you're asking, but from what I can tell it seems stalled out. https://peps.python.org/pep-0505/
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by ricree 3y ago
Artistic preference aside, the Dall-E 3 version definitely follows the prompt closer (in the it shows someone dunking a ball).
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by ricree 3y ago
It would be much less likely if we could get the market share back to 2010 levels. Is that a realistic goal? I don't know, maybe not, but it seems like there's little will even in tech to try. There was a time when tech was the bi

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