ticviking

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by ticviking 2y ago
What I find most interesting is how few of those stereotypes/archetypes are present in our media today. I still know many of most of them, but they've been replaced as our economy and demographics change.
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by ticviking 2y ago
I'm still wondering how this precedent prevents parallel construction nonsense
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by ticviking 2y ago
Simply requiring an actual, physical filibuster would weaken it's power while keeping it as a check on excess or an option for a principled stand/PR stunt.
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by ticviking 3y ago
even 0.5% interest on recourse debt is fundamentally usury.
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by ticviking 3y ago
Our employers will revolt because we will either cost more or be slower. The price of an developer is already very high compared to other skilled labor
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by ticviking 3y ago
“We must know our customers” The bank will take any approach other than having an account manager who knows each customer individually. This is the biggest reason I make it a priority to bank locally and in person.
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by ticviking 3y ago
Generally it's worth talking to a lawyer about cases like this.
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by ticviking 3y ago
Ultimately "Show me the code" is the only standard that has ever worked for Open Source. Give me code to reproduce an issue for people who are contributing as developers.
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by ticviking 3y ago
In North America its often considered "crippling" children to give them too much help. I've seen it repeatedly, with some families giving children 3 months after graduation to begin paying rent.
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by ticviking 3y ago
The other option is self-built. But that's been roughly the way things have always been. What's changed is the creation of a middle path of "built to sell" homes.
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by ticviking 3y ago
People who can independently produce food have a form of real power that is very hard to resist. The measures used to keep various peasant and serf classes under control were so extreme in history because if they became able to exercise tha
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by ticviking 3y ago
I still see this in rural America. Guys show up and transfer the title on the car for an envelope of cash and a signature. Same for livestock, butchering, services and so on.
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by ticviking 3y ago
And any time you decide to eff over anyone, you can and should expect resistance.
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by ticviking 3y ago
Because very few companies offer relocation. Living on welfare in a paid for trailer on land your ancestors lived on is much more appealing than moving without relocation for worse lifestyle in a rental in low wage work that will result in
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by ticviking 3y ago
The point is that there was enough water in the desert until people decided building massive retirement communities in the desert was a good idea.
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by ticviking 3y ago
Imposing a protective tariff on goods that are against our interest to sell isn't at all comparable to a 200% property tax
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by ticviking 3y ago
Any time an activist organization presents evidence that the state doesn't contest I assume the whole case was set up by activists and the lawyers on both sides have an outcome that they both want but that democratic processes like ele
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by ticviking 3y ago
The number of grazers that are needed to maintain a prairie or plains ecosystem is far higher than most people assume, and vast spaces in the US are becoming forested because of lack of wildlands management.
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by ticviking 3y ago
I'm not sure that's a bad thing given that the previous approach was hampered so much by confusion about where the value is. If this is a commitment to a set of source then the players can compete on ease of use, support or other
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by ticviking 3y ago
The day a professor made me implement a simple http server was the day I achieved code enlightenment. At that level of abstraction it’s all just strings
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by ticviking 3y ago
But the claim you called BS wasn't that they had 25 year warranties, just that they last 25 years. As rule my Grandparents had stuff that was out of warranty, but having repairs done was cheaper than replacement. By my parents time thi
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by ticviking 3y ago
Unit files seem like a good idea. Does systemd need to do everything it does in order to gain that benefit?
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by ticviking 3y ago
I'm curious what alternative you make use of. My issue has been that getting an alternative set up was just painful enough that the related learning doesn't fit into a very full schedule.
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by ticviking 3y ago
In my past experience the poor I know are saying, "I would like to be able to afford gas to drive to work, and have a workplace that treats me with dignity and afford a good night on the town a few times a year." I'd love to
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by ticviking 3y ago
The only solution to this kind of thing is to actually roll up our sleeves and make alternatives. Most people don't have either the skill or time to do that. So we bikeshed instead.
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by ticviking 3y ago
Good rhetoric takes time and energy from both the author and reader
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by ticviking 3y ago
On some level it does seem reasonable for Universities to pursue their own goals, and let industry find or sponsor some means of training their own workforce
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by ticviking 3y ago
Seems simple enough to get someone that vain to cough up an annuity to pay for maintenance and some admins for that building, “we’d hate for your building to wind up like poor Jefferson Hall, we can’t even afford to pressure wash it every 5
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by ticviking 3y ago
The guys down at the shop aren't talkin about how pretty the snap on tools are. Make it work. Make it easy to work with. Then make it pretty.
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by ticviking 3y ago
Emacs pretty clearly needs to be split into 3 layers. Elisp The editor - written in elisp GUI/TUI - Also in elisp that call back to the editor functions.

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