stvltvs

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by stvltvs 2mo ago
* per se
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Nice! I can't help thinking it would be informative to see it on a linear scale. Vast, unfathomable stretches of time before humans come on the scene, and then human history is a blip at the end.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Only if you weren't fired for cause, are looking for full-time employment, have earned enough recently, etc.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
It's hard to say whether you're missing out on legit emails from new senders or old senders with new addresses unless you review your spam folder regularly.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
And helicopters tracking you are hard to miss.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
People will shoot themselves in the foot if it means criminals get harsher punishments, sometimes literally.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
I believe the post was intended to be ironic, implying that privacy isn't really a small cost.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Flipping my phone between portrait and landscape thereby changing image size is enough to determine which message is legible to me.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
Any tips on how to switch from Tmux to pure neovim?
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
The changes in Earth's rotational speed that leap seconds help account for affect the whole globe. Why shouldn't the effects be noted in the global time standard?
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
There are degrees of power, of course. All white men aren't at the pinnacle of power, and many are truly disadvantaged, but they collectively share a disproportionate amount of power in the world given how few of them there are.
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by stvltvs 2mo ago
That should be the case, but the frequent data breaches that I get notified about with little consequence to the companies involved make me doubt that there will be real incentives for good behavior.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
In other words, the job market is as bad as during a global pandemic, on this particular metric.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
The left-leaning vibe is a historical accident reinforced by user-managed moderation. Bluesky came at the right moment to pick up lots of people fleeing Twitter after Musk's overbearing edgelord enshittification of Twitter. Now, Bluesk
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but jurisdiction can be summarized as whoever is subject to the law and the rule of the courts.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
Context: this is usually just for national holidays like Independence Day next weekend. It's just a way we've traditionally observed them.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
There are many alternative ways to distribute wealth, Cuban communism being only one of them. Capitalists would like us to believe in a false dichotomy between democratic capitalism and totalitarian communism. Instead of Cuba, why not point
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
Right, it's usually not the inventors, artists, etc. who reap the wealth generated by their creativity. The already-wealthy divert a disproportionate share of that productivity to themselves.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
We should be happy with a disproportionate amount of wealth going to rent seekers because they let us buy their goods and work in their companies making them even wealthier? The wealthy always skew the rules to favor themselves, e.g. US cap
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
Lake Mead is projected next year to be at its lowest level since it was filled by the creation of Hoover Dam. The states on the Colorado River have been fighting over the dwindling water for decades. Locals care about water.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
/me looks at the history of wealth distribution following new labor saving innovations
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
People quibbling about the news coverage only normalizes the unjust sentences imposed on political opponents while the felonious president pardons loyal supporters. It's not normal, not acceptable.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
If so, they will become an obvious red flag sitting right on their faces, become cringe and stop selling.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
Not enough thought goes into safely transitioning from scrappy startup to mature enterprise. Attitudes, culture, and practices have to change. It gets super awkward, and it's a rare CEO that does both well. Practically speaking, I spen
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
It takes a few weeks to acclimate, so visiting for two weeks you experienced just the suffering before you would have adjusted. If you moved there it would feel different. Not pleasant, but different.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
The priming didn't prepare us to sympathize with robots that were built to plagiarize our art and literature and take our jobs. Robocop is an interesting example where we sympathize with a cyborg but not the greedy corporate executives
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
Sounds like the book and the film are different works, so people who only watched the film can't misunderstand the book because they didn't read it.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
It's funny how we Americans jump to judging this vehicle by our own needs.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
But the paperclips! I'm skeptical about the existential threat of AI, but a lot of smart people have been beating that drum for so long that people are afraid.
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by stvltvs 3mo ago
Search your settings for Power Button, Side Button, or whatever. You should be able to change the setting for a long press.

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