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That's the "pay someone else to do it" option.
It's this way because "archive and then forget about it" isn't really a thing. It turns out an archive that is not maintained is no archive.
Everyone is destructed in the end anyway.
Is this true? How do you know?
I can't remember the last time I used an office restroom.
I wouldn't be surprised if restaurants found a way. I've seen folks go to great lengths to "marry" half-empty ketchup bottles.
As Foxmilk's talking lion tulpa, I can confirm the post is mostly BS. He/she (I can never tell because you all look the same to me) doesn't even know I'm on HN.
there are self-interpretations that seem pretty self-destructive
That's the counter argument to your previous assertion. A self-interpretation is wrong if it destroys the self. By destroying the interpreter (the self), the interpretation becomes an unfalsifiable claim.
It's r/tulpas without My Little Pony
I don't think it's necessarily what I'd call narcissism. We look back on history and see people championing causes and things for real victims, e.g. the civil rights movement. I think a lot of people feel a weird guilt at not having a chance to be one of these great, celebrated people or someone fighting that struggle.
Or maybe it is narcissism and it's a selfish desire to say "look at how much better we left the world!" I don't know. The first time I saw it was with a friend's mother who literally said to her "why couldn't you have been a lesbian?" because she wanted to have a personal cause. One day it dawned on me that she had just missed being old enough for the '60s.
Ethereum uses uint256 for many things to avoid having to do floating point math.
Wow. I'm pretty ignorant when it comes to Solidity, so it hadn't previously occured to me that it doesn't have floating point. It stretches the limits of the imagination to consider the insanity we'd be seeing if Ethereum did have floating point math.
I'm positive that most people who mean the former will backpedal, provide conditions and loopholes, or become outright angry and start calling you a nazi if you make them actually think about it.
What's so bad about it? If someone says they are against banning books, asking "what do you mean by that?" may not get you an honest response due to the claimant not necessarily considering their position thoroughly. Checking for the Turner Diaries seems like a good quick and dirty test to see what they really mean.
Elie Wiesel's Night
I read that during my junior year in high school. It was the last straw that launched me into a depressive episode that wrecked my grades for the year that mattered most on college applications and I barely missed having to repeat the year.
It's probably not the fault of the book that it was dangerous to me, and if not Night, something else probably would have done it. I don't think censorship is a solution, but there is definitely room for educators to be aware of the psychological safety issues presented by traumatic material.
If you want to see the list for real, here it is: https://www.bklynlibrary.org/search?booklist=booksunbanned
It seems to have had a big cultural impact.
It just happens, apparently. Here's a decent rundown:
https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/What_to_do_with_a_swollen_batter...
let's make it harder for the people who have to clean up after security incidents
Uh oh, sounds like you might have to actually do your job too!
I really, really doubt almost anyone had racist or problematic visualizations in their mind.
Reminds me how we used to have Backlog Grooming meetings, but we had to change the name because apparently "grooming" is something pedophiles do.
Poor naive me, I thought it was something my parents- sorry, birthing persons- had done for their poodle when it was getting too shaggy.
Can you please not use the word s____? My ancestors were Slavs, and when I see the word it is a painful reminder of how they were treated as property by Romans who bought and sold their "ex slava" captives.
Your use of the word is violence.
/s?
I prefer sovereign and vassal. No one has called me out on it.
But isn't the name Amazon inherently exclusionary, and one of the oldest distorted stereotypes?
The mote in the employee's eye vs. the log in the company's eye
How about "motherboard/fatherboard"? If we just use that everywhere they'll all be happy. No fatherboards will feel left out. Mother-of-pearl can just be nacre, and I don't know what you'll have to call mother-of-vinegar. Maybe just say it's something special and not to think too much about how fermentation works - especially if it causes you to have evil, non-inclusive thoughts.
If I'm writing about a ship and refer to it as a "she", does that set off the autoinquisitor?
Cutting phrases like “whitelist/blacklist” ...out of our vocabulary... addresses years of habitual bias in tech terminology
Vice, you are not helping.
Unless your ancestors had lands confiscated or graves desecrated in a manner you find unjust during the Stuart Restoration, you have no standing to complain about "blacklist".
I've been using a Zoom meeting of just myself, locked, audio and camera off. Worked like a charm when I needed to discharge a swelling battery.
I think your real anger should be directed at the studios that aren't fairly structuring your benefits and compensation, as well as the union that is not getting these for you.
This essay was nearly impenetrable for me, so I suspect I'm nowhere near educated enough in the humanities to understand his book.
This zinger really stood out to me:
"The only appropriate use of social media, beyond simple announcements of personal milestones or professional engagements, is shitposting. It is a medium that deserves nothing earnest, and that can facilitate no real project of social betterment."
Unfortunately I think the shitposting is being digested and regurgitated by web3 cultists as the "real project".
I've heard the game of Twitter described as follows:
"Each day on twitter there is one main character. The goal is to never be it."
I was in Paris for 1-1/2 sleep deprived days, so I think I can clarify. See, in much of Europe, the toilets have a little flush button and a big flush button. My understanding is that the big flush button is for le double mouvement.
Is this a counterargument?
Those categories aren't mutually exclusive.
This illustrates the worst thing about Play Store: I can search for an app that I know exists, but if it's not supported for my device /OS version, Google will pretend there's no such thing. Surely there's a reasonable UX solution for returning unsupported results such that even if you can't install them, you at least know they exist and what the requirements are.