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iknowitwheniseeit ,

Can’t you make one atom thin sheets of carbon with a pencil and tape?

iknowitwheniseeit ,

The sequel films are trash, but a lot of Disney’s Star Wars stuff for the small screen has been really good.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Police don’t even really have a duty to enforce the law, at least not in the USA:

…wikipedia.org/…/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I prefer a touchscreen in general. Although I realize that different companies have better or worse systems. I read complaints about self checkout in the USA and scratch my head since in Holland self checkout is lovely.

Trying to use AI is a dumpster fire though.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Yeah I hate “unlimited PTO”. If it’s actually unlimited then let me know when the office Christmas party is and I will be off until then, when I will see you for drinks.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Great it you do not want kids. Not so much if you do want kids.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Indeed.

Iraq (no nukes) - armies flattened and US-installed government running the show.

North Korea (nukes) - stern finger-wagging by Democrats and angry rhetoric followed by hand jobs from Trump.

Pakistan (got nukes violating treaties) - serious frowning by US until we needed them for our pointless “war on terror” in Afghanistan, then all was forgiven and forgotten.

Iran (desperately seeking nukes) - agreed to stop their efforts for a hot minute until Trump rolled the deal back, showing that US is an unreliable partner and not to be trusted.

Overall the message is clear: get nukes as fast as you can and you’ll be safe to torture and oppress your people. The west in general and the US in particular doesn’t have any real efforts to stop you (although watch your opsec and don’t use Israeli USB sticks you find lying around…).

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I don’t understand how you are supposed to look at the photos taken with the great camera on an e-ink display?

iknowitwheniseeit ,

The mention of “authentic” cuisine is giving me PSTD from working for a Californian company. Apparently that is something very important there, whereas I don’t think most of the world gives a shit… even other parts of the US.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

The last election in Gaza was in 2006. 65% of the population in Gaza is 24 or younger (!!!) so the majority of Gaza residents literally could not have voted for anyone, including Hamas.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Palestine

…wikipedia.org/…/Demographics_of_the_State_of_Pal…

iknowitwheniseeit ,

That’s the New Testament, meaning the Christian Bible.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Wow you’re right! TIL!

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I mean, they have nine dashes of legitimacy.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine-dash_line

/s

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I have a friend who unironically believes in expensive services for this reason.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I wanted to buy music, but a CD that I got in the 00’s had some “protection” so that I couldn’t rip it and listen to it on my MP3 player.

Now, I ripped it from a Linux computer and had no problems, but was so upset that the record companies tried this. I realized that it’s not about right or wrong, but just about power and money.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Companies are willing to pay so they can fire people!

iknowitwheniseeit ,

New Zealand stopped subsidizing farmers, and survives. So we have at least one data point showing that it is possible.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Dentists are not scientists though. They suffer from a limited data set and all the other cognitive problems that we invented science to counteract.

Having said that, scientists should not make policy, but inform public health experts, who understand that science does not tell you what to do, but just the best current view of reality. These experts have to take into account cost/benefit ratios as well as science from a wide set of fields.

Luckily for fluoride in the water, they all agree!

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Godzilla was from 1954!

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godzilla_(1954_film)

Definitely worth watching.

archive.org/details/BigGMovies

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I mean, it does also cause visual, aural, and olfactory hallucinations. Plus mess with how you perceive time.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I understood that reference!

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Indeed part of the reason the current Israeli government is so radically right is that Netanyahu kept having to find more desperate and less morally-centered parties to make a coalition government with.

Still, I’m happier living in a country with a dozen parties than on with only two…

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Also the Dems were happy to continue most of Trumps policies,

I’m still waiting for the people held without a trail in Guantanamo to be released. There have been 11 years of Democratic Presidential leadership since then…

iknowitwheniseeit ,

European salaries for software developers are half of what they are in the USA. It’s a problem on both sides of the Atlantic, honestly.

Source: software developer in Europe who usually works for American companies.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Funny but diseases usually become less virulent over time. A successful disease generally doesn’t harm the host too much.

Ebola doesn’t spread far because it quickly kills the carrier. The COVID-19 pandemic was basically ended because it mutated into a less dangerous variant.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Data does not actually support the idea that politics are shifting right:

nyu.edu/…/america-more-liberal-than-50-years-ago-…

iknowitwheniseeit ,

It’s plausible, but a quick DuckDuckGo didn’t find anything about this. Do you have a reference?

iknowitwheniseeit ,

That was a wild ride!

iknowitwheniseeit ,

DuckDuckGo-ed

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Copying is not theft.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Is that true? Median is literally taking the value in the middle. So if there are 30 million 70 year olds then it would be picking the 15th millionth person and using their savings.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I’m pretty sure that liquid assets are things that you can spend, so cash and bank accounts. Anything that you have to sell to buy things is not a liquid asset. (Note that we are not talking about barter. I had a friend at college who traded a snake for a VW camper, neither of which would be considered a liquid asset. Even though technically you could put the snake in a giant blender…)

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I feel like we have a lot less reporting of the Trump drama of the day than in the past. It’s still a lot and still way too much, but less?

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I think that they will. Much like tech workers who had no interest in unions because they thought that they were aligned with the owners, management is going to have a rude awakening and learn that if you don’t own the company then you are just labor.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Maine already has ranked choice voting for statewide elections. They can’t fix the national system.

If the hack to at least give the person with the most votes the Presidency wins, then maybe we can work for ranked choice for Presidential elections.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Why do you think that is true? The only violence from people unhappy with a presidential election that I can think of is the MAGA insurrection in 2021.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

In Holland we have wooncorporaties, which are non-profit companies that own apartments and rent them out. They are cheap, and usually there is a maximum income for tenants. There is a waiting list, and a lot of people add their names as soon as they turn 18.

The Dutch housing market is fucked, but these are good, and would not be possible if you restricted them to a single apartment.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Me too! I remember mansplaining to my girlfriend at the time how long it would take to visit a page and download images, and how nobody would wait that long to see pictures of cats. I underestimated how much people really want to see cat photos.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

How is this different from creating a feature branch and making your PR against them until everything is done, then merging that into the main branch?

iknowitwheniseeit ,

You can make a PR against your feature branch and have that reviewed. Then the final PR against your man branch is indeed huge, but all the changes have already been reviewed, so it’s just LGTM and merge that bad boy!

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I suppose it is possible to have two PR that have changes that depend on each other. In general this just requires refactoring… typically making a third PR removing the circular dependency.

It sounds like your policy is to keep PR around a long time, maybe? Generally we try to have ours merged within a few days, before bitrot sets in.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Poland uses coal to produce most of their electricity, unlike the rest of Europe. They don’t have a lot of coast for wind, they are northern and don’t get much sun for solar, they don’t have nuclear plants, and they were avoiding Russian gas for ages. Plus they have had right-wing governments for ages, who don’t care about pollution or global warming.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

The purpose of the UN is so that nuclear powers have a forum to talk, instead of, you know, ending all human life on the planet.

Everything else is just sort of stuff that came along once you had all the countries of the world sitting around realizing that they should do something once they’re in the same room.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Current metrics of the economy will show that it tanks. But we have known for ages that these metrics are at best wrong and at worst devastating to the planet and people on it - since leaders and policy-makers use them to allocate resources in ways that show up-and-to-the-right graphs.

It first occurred to me when hearing about Japan’s “lost decade”. Japan is by no means perfect, but when you visit you find a place where people have their material and social needs taken care of. If you read economists though you would think that the country was doomed.

Similarly after the housing bubble burst we had job losses and other problems in Holland the same as in other places. But looking at the metrics of wealth per capita, we basically were back in the same place as less than a decade before. Was life so horrible in 2004 that this was a huge tragedy? If you are insisting on constant improvement by some arbitrary measurement, then yes.

For me the biggest example was COVID-19. We showed that if it was important that we could have a way of life with drastically less environmental impact to the planet. We surely don’t want to live exactly like that, but we could make radical changes to have a better world for ourselves and our children (yes, even with drastically lower birthrates there will still be people on the future earth).

Luckily there are rebels in economics fighting against the orthodoxy. If you want to feel a bit of hope (mixed with a large dose of pragmatism) you can check out the Economics for Rebels podcast.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Not the human rights of Lego, rather the human rights of suspects or accused people.

US sues Apple for illegal monopoly over smartphones (www.theverge.com)

The US Department of Justice and 16 state and district attorneys general accused Apple of operating an illegal monopoly in the smartphone market in a new antitrust lawsuit. The DOJ and states are accusing Apple of driving up prices for consumers and developers at the expense of making users more reliant on its iPhones.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I’m reminded that Macs did not have right buttons for decades because Steve Jobbs didn’t want them.

Pornhub and other adult sites sue EU over landmark digital content law (www.aljazeera.com)

Pornhub and two other adult sites are suing the European Union over a landmark digital content law, the Digital Services Act, which imposes age verification and other obligations on large platforms. The European Commission last year named Pornhub, Xvideos and Stripchat as a category of “very large online platform” under the...

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Yes, correct. You have to assume that each party will be tracking everything they can, otherwise it doesn’t make sense. So the age verifier will know that you have requested many authentication in a given time.

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