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by yeetaccount 5y ago
You make HN interesting. Reminds me of slashdot 20 years ago.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
Simpsons did it first. Homer had an illegal bar set up in the tree house and when it started burning he told the patrons “By leaving the premises you agree not to sue!”
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
> IIRC, the famous "Good Friday" psilocybin experiment had some people from the control group believe they were not in the control group. I can find a few people right now that believe that Lord of the Rings is a historical acc
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
> Part of it is due to monetary incentives of businesses that now own the media outlets. Part of it is due to what the general public has interest in and will pay for. This should be an entire discussion thread. Even scrupulous journalis
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
Books sales are sales of anything with an ISBN. This includes adult colouring books, which I’ve heard is responsible for possibly all the sales increases in the past few years.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
Well you don’t have to listen to me, the X maintainers have said Wayland is the way forward and they’ve stopped developing X as of several years ago. It’s silly this is still an issue.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
The problem is that X was created over decades for very different eras of computers and it doesn’t really make sense to keep modifying it — there are design limitations to it, and the accumulated complexity has made it unmaintainable. X mai
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
X is like trying to fly modern rockets with Apollo-era computers. The computers will work, until they don’t. In which case the only people able to fix them are retired and you have to salvage parts from aerospace museums. Over the years the
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
Yeah but watching Bezos turn into a household joke is worth it.
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The Dozenal Society of America(dozenal.org)
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
We’re seeing a comparable decline in birds that depend on them for food, so probably not. That said, it’s fun to imagine that we just selected against insects that hang out by the highway.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
If you can find a link to that Captain Planet story I’d like to read it. It sounds totally plausible.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
I once donated a few Bitcoin to a free software project. At the time 1BTC cost about one tank of gas. I sold the remainder when I doubled my investment and thought I walked away lucky. Now 1BTC costs more than the car I’m putting the gas in
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
> x-raying people mmWave or X-ray?
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
If the police unions don’t like your laws they don’t enforce them. If they really don’t like you, they don’t show up at your house when there’s an intruder. If they really really don’t like you, they are the intruder.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
They let the homeopathy shit fly, not sure why they’d get involved in this. Nuke it all from orbit IMHO.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
For someone to find the wiki, read it and then attempt to solve their problem in a rudimentary fashion gets you towards the tail end of the bell curve. They might even follow up with you if you have questions.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
All this just makes it clear to me that we need a time standard which addresses all the problems and of ISO8601. It’ll be painful until it’s universally adopted, but once it is we’ll be in timekeeping heaven.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
It doesn’t take long to get used to the basic format. 20211024T090755, etc.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
More effort was put into expressing meaning when people weren’t constantly stimulated. There’s still meaning today, but I can’t help but feel it’s shallow and unappreciated by reader and writer alike.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
I don’t really understand the whole trans thing and why it’s suddenly become the job of the whole world to reinforce someone’s self conception. Lots of people have body dysmorphia and think they are morbidly obese. Some will even go so far
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
Same reason we don’t have stone masons in every town nowadays. Too much time, too much material, not enough customer volume. Can’t operate with today’s (lack of) disposable income and material availability being diluted by an increasing pop
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
Or investors are trying to mitigate potential damage to share prices if Tesla doesn’t improve their image.
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by yeetaccount 5y ago
Reminds me of Philip K Dick being told by a pink beam of light that his son was seriously ill and needed to go to the hospital right away. In one version of the story I heard, he told the doctor exactly what was wrong with him when there wa