sewer_bird

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by sewer_bird 5y ago
It’s a reference to “Snow Crash” by Neil Stephenson
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by sewer_bird 5y ago
You’re allowed to have a storefront and have that not fall under what most reasonable people call “doing advertising”
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by sewer_bird 5y ago
Ah, true: I mentally read “president”
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by sewer_bird 5y ago
This isnt true. She died in 1913.
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by sewer_bird 6y ago
Presumably an obese one. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/most-obes...
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by sewer_bird 6y ago
That’s not really super meaningful in terms of interplanetary travel. For example, for most of the year Mercury is the closest planet to Earth. Change in orbital velocity matters more than distance
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by sewer_bird 6y ago
It's pretty dense because of all the subordinate clauses. "... cases that asked the court to revisit the existing doctrine. This doctrine protected police from lawsuits concerning police conduct, where their conduct didn't in
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by sewer_bird 7y ago
Yes, but 95% of devs, even fairly talented ones, don't really know how to use Git.
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by sewer_bird 8y ago
It's not really inferiority: the commonality of the other countries is that they typically follow a different regime of negotiation of the road. In specific, the USA and other anglophone countries are extremely strict about what motion
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by sewer_bird 8y ago
To be fair, most Ofo bikes in Shanghai have the same auto-unlock feature in later Marks... maybe about 75% of the ones I've tried.
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by sewer_bird 8y ago
Can corroborate, also in Shanghai: I had much preferred Ofo to the Mobikes because they were a 'normal bike' without a belt chain. But then... time passed and rain poured, rusting up the chains and riders bending the wheels in inn
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by sewer_bird 8y ago
Indeed! I keep my to-do lists in vim and have added a few lines to my syntax file to recognize/color a couple extra checkmarks like - [?] question - [o] blocked by someone else - [~] in progress - [H] on hold - [Y] Is X true? (yes) - [
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by sewer_bird 8y ago
It can be both. The article says there's the idea of sussing out that the different businessmen are "the same kind of person" with similar 'desires'. That's why the article mentions cases of men trying to signa
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by sewer_bird 8y ago
Indeed, K8s is a numeronym[0] for K(ubernete)s. [0] Compare i18n, g11n, and i10n https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeronym
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by sewer_bird 8y ago
"But they didn't, and come to think of it, why should they know about something so far outisde their specialty?" Outside ;)
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by sewer_bird 8y ago
I think he means Linux kernel developers hate (their own) solution for Meltdown.
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by sewer_bird 8y ago
They do: there's a very prominent amount of windmills along the I-80 in Carbon County that's quite a sight to drive by :) http://www.uwyo.edu/werc/wind-wyo.html
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
A total extinction event is pretty unlikely: a nuclear war could perhaps end our civilization, but there'd still be folks around, even if their lives were harder. It's believed that we've already as a species gone through a v
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
Could be: a lot of the 'branding' of the actor these days is about curating what films they show up in. Like, if Johnny Depp is in a movie, you know generally what kind of film it'll be. The AA (Artificial Actor, haha) would
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
Reminds me of this Guardian article investigating such a plan to combat Zika, Dengue, and so on: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2016/feb/10/should-we-wip...
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
One can feel sympathy for someone without absolving them. If they're so desperate, then why deny them their moral agency as well?
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
I don't see a contradiction between Equality of Opportunity and welfare programs. Indeed, they seem to be proposed hand-in-hand by most people, so I'll set aside for a moment the emotional content of your argument. I do not see ho
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
Equality of outcome's implication is a culture engaging in an authoritarian and quixotic pursuit of perfect human misery. It is hard enough to ensure a specific outcome for yourself, let alone another, and even less so to make two peop
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
The central dilemma is that there are myriad ways to do it wrong for every one way to do it correctly.
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
I think I switched to DDG perhaps 5 months ago, although I'm not sure. Happy ducking, hah!
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
DGG has about as much red on it as Hacker News: is it such a heavy use of color? At least on desktop in Safari, the site is pretty 'white', and I'm surprised you get literal physical anxiety.
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
"who is still to this day behind bars while his wife is enduring a strict house arrest." Liu Xiabo is since dead, actually: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/13/opinion/liu-xiaobo.html
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
"feels like Vim, just different enough for you to be frustrated" is true, but I like the Lua built-in: it's a fantastic language for this kind of thing, and feels more inviting to a new plugin-writer than, say, Vimscript migh
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
It's a plot device from Kurt Vonnegut's book "Cat's Cradle". It's a good read if you're looking for a recommendation
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by sewer_bird 9y ago
If you're not even going to source/verify some hearsay, why bring it up, especially in such an equivocating way?

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