thomassmith65

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by thomassmith65 12d ago
The points in my comment are in the letter, albeit in doublespeak (eg: "You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women." ) I omit
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by thomassmith65 12d ago
I would normally also roll my eyes at "They hate us for our freedoms" , but a couple passages of this letter reasonably could be paraphrased as "We hate you for your freedoms" . The paragraph beginning with "the
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
Yes, there was a lot of buzz about a keyboard like that from Art Lebedev* for several years prior to Apple's touch bar. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimus_Maximus_keyboard
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
That may be intended as hyperbole. If it is meant sincerely, it is the kind of idea that falls apart in the actual world - especially if someone wants to graduate with Honors in a degree program that requires higher maths. That isn't t
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
Jarred: I'd tried once before in a single session and it went nowhere. Eight days ago, when I tried again, this was the opening message: > Resume your work on solving the Riehmann Hypothesis. > [...] You need to take a
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Why Reykjavik, Iceland Banned Dogs (2023)(allthingsiceland.com)
4 points by thomassmith65 1mo ago|1 comments
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Karl Marx, for the NY Daily Tribune: "The American Question in England" (1861)(marxists.org)
3 points by thomassmith65 1mo ago|1 comments
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
I posted this because it's a terrific time capsule from the onset of the Civil War. I don't go around carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, but a good essay is a good essay.
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
It is likely that Claude enabled this, given: So, I put the notebook with that design in it on a shelf. For nearly 20 years. Today, I’m happy to say that I’ve finally been able to carve out enough time to grab that “old” redesig
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
The comment to which I replied appears to draw an equivalence of the US and the IR, both in terms of theocracy and pugnacity. The former charge (ie: that the US and the IR are similarly theocratic) was the more satisfying to rebut, since it
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Googie Architecture (2012)(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by thomassmith65 1mo ago|0 comments
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
Americans worry about theocracy when the right wing SCOTUS bans abortion. Iran hangs people for apostasy * Different strokes for different folks, but to me, drawing an equivalence of the US, even with its current deplorable (I could search
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
This reminded me of a 20 year old 'viral' video "Microsoft Designs the iPod Package" : https://youtube.com/watch?v=EUXnJraKM3k
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
Under Trump, the US seems more likely to turn on an ally if the ally is a peace-loving nation that keeps to itself. That said, when tensions rise between the US and another country, it doesn't automatically confer sainthood on the ot
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
The point was that Iran, under its theocratic rulers, is not a peace-loving nation that keeps to itself. That is the case regardless of whether Iran's rulers choose Mahatma Gandhi or Genghis Khan to be their great satan.
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
Even if one is against bombing Iran on account of its civilians, one shouldn't act like Iran under its current rulers is a peace-loving nation that keeps to itself. I'll join the chorus if Trump bombs Greenland or Canada.
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by thomassmith65 1mo ago
Yes. If one had never seen a bicycle, and were not told in advance that it works, one naturally would expect balancing upon its seat to be no easier in motion than at rest.
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
I just reread the blogpost (by the parent) that this article cites, and its points all seem correct to me, including that "Mac OS X 10.6.0 was certainly much buggier than Mac OS X 10.5.8": • 10.6 was not primarily about bug fixe
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
Yes, my point (ie: that Adobe sucks and has to acquire its rivals to survive) is immaterial to your primary point (ie: there are no alternatives to some Adobe products) . I suspect you know some Adobe history already - like that a coup
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
That's because Adobe acquires competitors who suck less than Adobe.
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
Evolution is surprising and complicated enough that that might not be the full picture. People have relatives and relatives have many genes in common. If there are genetic traits that predispose people to remaining childless, it could wind
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
It should be a mandatory part of a technology-related degree to watch "The Man in the White Suit" (1951) https://youtu.be/RC8q1QSkE3M When a new technology comes along, it diminishes some aspect of the human exp
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
There's plenty of other people on the internet with identities worth stealing. You'll probably be fine. Still, it's not a lottery I want to play.
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
The best mitigation a person has is to have an LLM 'flood the zone' with slop based on her writing style. So she has one comment on the internet admitting she cheated on her taxes, another copping to an axe murder, another revea
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
Too late to edit my comment. I'm embarrassed to say, I just realized the big problem with my original comment, and it is hackneyed: the end-users probably weren't the customers . I doubt Google was cavalier about its relationship
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
Gmail was a great product because they doled out a GB of storage for free. Agreed that they introduced other features people liked. As a user, you were faceless. I have a vague memory from the early Gmail days. I'm pretty sure they cha
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
25 years ago, 'customer focus' was the buzz word. Gmail (and similar products) killed it. The internet made it possible for a company to serve hundreds of millions of people without the overhead of listening to, or supporting, or
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
It is a disgusting dysfunctional institution that should have never been created in my opinion. The EU successfully addressed some big issues that young people don't feel are relevant anymore because the EU successfully address
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
Is that to say the Islamic Republic of Iran don't necessarily want to eradicate the USA but merely want to see its downfall? I don't have much sympathy for that; it's not like there's some more liberal, more democratic,
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by thomassmith65 2mo ago
The most likely thing is that the person who contacted you wanted more acknowledgement from you that, in a lot of ways, subscriptions suck. If that wasn't the root cause of his/her rage, it might be that the person felt the referr

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