rvense

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by rvense 1y ago
I obviously meant sewn by hand, using a sewing machine. Not by a robot. The fabric is cut and passed through a machine by a human.
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by rvense 1y ago
I just don't see how it holds water at all to say that Christianity was what caused the abolition of slavery, when just as many Christians were in favour of it.
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by rvense 1y ago
Yes, socks, but nothing else is: underwear, t-shirts, jeans... all sewn by hand.
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by rvense 1y ago
But if these things are because of Christianity, and it is often implied that western modernity is present in it from its beginning, almost an unavoidable consequent of it... then why are they not universal in Christendom? Why can I point t
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by rvense 1y ago
The interesting question is whether the West is succesful because of or inspite of our Christian base. There's no denying the place of Christianity in European history, but that doesn't mean that the good things about our societie
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by rvense 1y ago
I wonder what this will cost to build and how often they break. I doubt it's going to be able to compete with the price of human labour anytime soon. So it's either for going places people can't go (rescue bot?), or doing thi
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by rvense 1y ago
Sounds low. None of the companies I've worked for would have existed without open source.
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by rvense 1y ago
People like you are ruining the internet.
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by rvense 1y ago
Brain drain means you have great politics, gotcher.
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by rvense 2y ago
And that has happened again. Changing the colours is "improving UX".
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by rvense 2y ago
It's not more complicated if you know the language. Language is a tool. People will use their language for what they need it for. If there isn't a word they'll make one up or steal it. This is absolutely universal. I know you
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by rvense 2y ago
We know alot about how English has evolved. Word forms develop along certain paths, sound changes follow laws that linguists have described, and the "fuuuug" in refugee does not become "fugg". Etymology is probably the s
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by rvense 2y ago
Etymology is a science. This is random guesswork, and it's not even very precise (deriving refuggle from refugee is definitely objectively wrong). Maybe I'm coloured by having spent half a decade of my life on a linguistics degree
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by rvense 2y ago
Fyllipig is derived from "fyllan" and "pigge" and means "descriptive of something that is both full/abundant and pig-like." Terryjambled means "mixed up in a confused or disorderly state, and covered
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by rvense 2y ago
Thinking about that picture from a (UK?) hospital breakroom with the sign that said "Please turn off the Echo before discussing sensitive patient information."
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by rvense 2y ago
Can you give me some concrete examples of where Euro uber-government is negatively impacting my life?
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by rvense 2y ago
The world would be much better without much of what American venture capital has created over the past twenty years. Ad tech mass surveillance, Uber eating labour protections, "Unicorn" worshpping monopolization of basic utilities
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by rvense 2y ago
No, but the French and German governments just gave you an excellent code base to start from!
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by rvense 2y ago
Are they undercutting businesses or creating new ones? Running and supporting an instance of a suite of open source tools can be a business.
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by rvense 2y ago
When your health sector is being shaken down by foreign monopoly for software licenses whose prices increase for no reason, making your own word processor suddenly doesn't seem very different to training your own doctors.
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by rvense 2y ago
Software licenses are certainly a major expense for all levels of the Danish government. (Cloud infrastructure, too, increasingly.) They've started complaining, especially since prices have been going up, but while there's rumblin
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by rvense 2y ago
Is it just me or has this been a year or two off for at least a year or two now?
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by rvense 2y ago
If you keep doing it she's sure to get it eventually.
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by rvense 2y ago
Isn't this exactly what you'd expect from an Uber for (somethign)? Garbage company, garbage culture, garbage business model.
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by rvense 2y ago
I'm actually part of a site like this, just a thing a friend of a friend made: - You can write and edit one post at a time. - This post, in whatever form it has then, gets published at 8 in the morning. - You can only see posts for tod
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by rvense 2y ago
> though IIRC you had to patch BeOS for SMP support The board might have require a driver or patch, but SMP was BeOS's entire reason for being! The drawing of each window on the screen ran in a separate thread. It was their main s
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by rvense 2y ago
You can get a ZIP of OGGs if you want. Those will last as least as long as a 2005 DVD rip from Pirate Bay. Feels good. (You can also stream through their site and app, and I think they have all sorts of social features... but you can ignore
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by rvense 2y ago
Especially if we're more concrete: If your job is, say, in administration and what the machine answers is correct enough that in in 8 out of 10 cases you can basically copy-paste it, I'd say it's extremely likely that it&#x27
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by rvense 2y ago
A basic education should include a lot of stuff you never use. If you're not exposed to things that don't interest you, how are you going to find the ones that do?
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by rvense 2y ago
I probably will, actually. It was good to have an ally with their stature and history.

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