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by secstate 2mo ago
Zero growth neighborhoods and exponential housing prices. How do you think major cities in the US grew in the 1800s? It wasn't because of perfect zoning or astronomical land prices.
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by secstate 3mo ago
Fantastic write up. To what degree is all of capitalism actually built on this premise? Why can't I buy the same damn running shoes I bought in 2015? Why can't I buy a dumb TV?
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by secstate 5mo ago
I also concluded based on the video: 4. GitButler is a terrible name for this 5. No one will use the "but" command over "git" 6. The founder needs to learn to enunciate the name of his new product better And also, your
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by secstate 6mo ago
At-will employment is hard. Honestly, if you aren't planning to lose your job tomorrow when your at-will, you're not being honest with yourself. I wish it were different, but outside a union contract or some other fairly well-comb
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by secstate 6mo ago
Outside of 90s television, this might be the most universal reference I have in my life.
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by secstate 6mo ago
I think we're only beginning to appreciate just how sensitive our guts are to the abuse modern high-calorie food can dish out. Honestly, given the extent to which many people's diets consist primarily of bleached and re-enriched w
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by secstate 6mo ago
This. I'm as exhausted as anyone about the latest macro/micro nutrient diet. But also, when I binge on a bag of potato chips, I assume (correctly) that I'll feel like shit later. Calorie dense food that's easily procured
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by secstate 7mo ago
This is awesome. I knew about orgnice and orgzly ... this is different, so light weight, so easy to find things. I used org aggressively to track tasks and as a Roam alternative and this fits my use cases wonderfully. I'm adding some n
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by secstate 8mo ago
Christ, this is like a textbook definition of sealioning. You've hijacked multiple threads here persistently asking for more and more evidence of their claims. If you don't agree with an argument, provide your own counter evidence
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by secstate 8mo ago
They should have said total fertility rate. Birth rates have absolutely been in a steady decline for decades. EDIT, also, looking at TFR, it's been bumping around but there was clearly a collapse in the 60s. I wouldn't use that to
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by secstate 8mo ago
What source? The US birth rate was absolutely not steady from 1990 to 2010 according to the OECD [0]. Fear mongering aside, surely the prospect of a population failing to birth enough new lives to replace the ones that die, as happened in F
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by secstate 9mo ago
Oh man ... it's been years since I read this, but it all came flooding back reading that post. Brilliant. And interestingly, "Choose again" is shockingly similar to Steve Job's "Don't be trapped by dogma,"
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by secstate 9mo ago
It's not a great solution, but you can vote with your wallet and simply not partake in that form of entertainment. I can't say it's fun to be not up on current games, or to find indie/non-drm games to play. But piracy is
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by secstate 9mo ago
I suspect at least part of this has to do with the fact that, relative to four wheeled vehicles, you can buy "impressive" motorcycles for relatively little cash compared to say, buying a truly performant sports car. Combine this l
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by secstate 9mo ago
e-recycling is only marginally better than a landfill. At least a landfill in pseudo-regulated government economy has the chance to be safely abated in 100 years. Though a few things of value are sometimes extracted, mostly it all ends in
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by secstate 11mo ago
While I wont argue about it feeling like a conspiracy theory, I will argue that pretty much no one knows sideloading as a term with regards to what i-drive meant by it. And the fact that `adb sideload` is where the concept originated does n
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by secstate 11mo ago
> The phrase after the "but" in the second sentence isn't the "summary definition". It's the part of the definition that best supports your argument. Cutting the Wikipedia definition down to that part is dec
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by secstate 11mo ago
Honestly, UPF feels like a food industry plant word to make legislation a hot mess full of holes. Just regulate added sugar and saturated/trans fats and be done with it.
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Discord: Update on a Security Incident Involving Third-Party Customer Service(discord.com)
3 points by secstate 11mo ago|1 comments
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by secstate 1y ago
I mean, unless you know the various arcane aspects of Windows, it's pretty hilariously un-friendly when you step off the path, too. After a decade of using Gnome exclusively, whenever a friend asks for help with Windows, all I can do i
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by secstate 1y ago
The last company I worked for it honestly took me about two months to actually grok what they were doing with their forms because I couldn't fathom why you'd do this input-listener business on the FE while the backend was all Djan
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by secstate 1y ago
haha, I swear I read Marx and Engels, but it was 25 years ago. So I suppose the problem we find ourselves in now is the feedback loop of capital sources being so well endowed there's no risk of investment to create more capital.
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by secstate 1y ago
That's a pretty nice fundamental law. Explains the rot that occurs with land ownership as well. Really, stopping wealth accretion via non-action would probably help with some of the nastier outcomes of a regulated market economy. I sup
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by secstate 1y ago
This feels like nothing more than an ad.
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by secstate 1y ago
I hadn't really thought about PHP through this lens. But it's so much a part of where it came from as a preprocessor for text. It was a first-class part the stateless design of the OG internet. Now everyone wants all things persis
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PHP: The Toyota Corolla of programming(deprogrammaticaipsum.com)
188 points by secstate 1y ago|193 comments
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by secstate 1y ago
That's a fair counter argument, and I do genuinely believe (not know) that everyone needs a balance of cynicism and optimism to function optimally as a human. I also believe the resignation you feel from cynicism is rampant exactly bec
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by secstate 1y ago
Cynicism wins the day because negative outcomes are easier to plan for than positive outcomes. Humans defaulting to optimistic outcomes of the future often end up littering the ground with externalities that they failed to consider. And we
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by secstate 1y ago
Wat? E-trade is not an application, it's probably dozens of coordinated services. Meanwhile, a game usually has a single binary and another one for the server.
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by secstate 1y ago
I wonder if it was the Creative Nomad [1] ... I had a Jukebox that had a 6GB spinning disk in it originally. Upgrading to a 20GB drive was the first real hackery thing I did with my old RedHat box. I had to buy an IDE converter too to move

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