trentlott

My brother works in industry and has hired lots of Veterans. From what he says, the military tends to have paradigms that don't translate well to civilian work - like electricians. So I'd assume 'vets who code' have Perl 6 as their modern language.

I remember a time when decreased murder rates was just a lie by the government. But we all know nobody's more trustworthy than the El Salvadorian regime, especially when it results in an influx of cash.

It's more efficient because you introduce a middleman and ignore pesky regulations. Thank god we've discovered this important thing that's never existed in history and created so much wealth exploiting this very new technological dynamic.

I feel some irony it in being a video one has to sit through rather than crafting it into an actual article made of characters.

I can always access my email if I have a computer and internet. I cannot access my SMS without my phone. Which, with the sudden battery swelling...

People adapt very easily. If you were trapped on a mountain, you'd likely butcher a cow with the rest of your soccer team. Don't judge everything through the lens of plenty. If you're American, it might be an exercise that becomes useful soon.

Yeah, the random memecoins he issued and the NFC trading cards were meaningless to him. He's only invested in Truth Social and The Constitution. That's why he's in such competition with the owner of Twitter and would never undercut his social media platform.

I'm sure all those billionaires who paid Trump the $1m to grin behind him are dreading the impact on their groceries and upward mobility like the rest of us. Never forget that Trump and Bezos and Zuckerberg truly think of us first and wouldn't be so antisocial as to trade your family for a little bit more.

Because they're wealthy enough to have separation between their 'existence' money and their 'power and status' money. Tank the country and they get to own a little sliver more of it. The cheese and clothes they buy don't change. Because they've got more than plenty.

It's a shame there's not just an embedded applet. Those were always popular on MU*'s websites in the 2000s. Shame that's not an automatic add.

I'm sure you'd be annoyed if poor people couldn't buy or use brushes, and their quality of live would decrease. Amusing that 'plastic=wasteful purchase" de facto in your mind (for the purposes of this thread)

MUDs were fun because, as a kid who read various magical fantasy series, there would inevitably be a server that was spun up attempting to recreate the world and magic system. Because it was just text, it made it far easier to do fan works like that. It's something kids today probably can't imagine. Really enjoy Twilight? You can join as server and make a character who's a [N]ormal Teenager, [W]erewolf boy, [C]enturies-old Sparkling Vampire. And you'd have a whole list of skills and progression for 100 levels. Wheel of Time had several different competing codebases with differing versions of channeling.

It was an entertaining way to learn C as a kid, and programming new weird spells made one feel like an actual wizard.

I think there's still some space for MUDs in the world. You could build a programming/literacy class around just teaching kids how to navigate and interact within that world, how to be a god/mod/admin within the world using its tools, and how to modify it and compile it with their desired changes.

It's much easier if you invest in observing the natural world that has had hundreds of millions of years to do the work, without the limitation of human intention.

He was was in theory anti-union because he thought union benefits should just be turned into labor protections for everyone

Uh, hmm. So weaker unions result in labor protections for everyone? I gotta say, doesn't seem like that's really how the U.S. is playing out. If weekends off and an 8-hour workday didn't exist they certainly wouldn't be argued for now.

But if we represent it as a percentage we can pretend it's relatively not a big deal and minimize their stranglehold on society.

Yeah, corporations are great because we have little other choice. And, soon, we'll have no other choice! Because they're the only reason free software exists, according to my Excel spread.

But what if businesses got benefits from society and tax money and were free to ignore the needs/desires of those who pay taxes and who society consists of? That seems just about right.

That's a fascinatingly obvious idea and I'd like to see data that supports it. I assume there must be some.

Yeah, it's a bummer the clearly defined statement is so overly detailed and abstracted. It's way easier to listen to some dude talk about going to a lot of Stooges shows barefoot and vaguely talk about some random vinyl being 'angry'. Much easier and satisfyingly agreeable.

Democrats tend to be authoritarian and pro-centralization of power. Republicans tend to be anti-authoritarian and pro-decentralization.

I can't imagine a time that this would have been true in my life.

Dems are pro-regulation, but I don't see that as authoritarian. Republicans want capitalism to determine who has power, rather than democracy.

They both want to socialize corporate losses for billionaires, but Democrats are at least nominally comfortable making them pay taxes.

If you removed health care from the equation

Removing a defining characteristic to force data to fit your model surely isn't good science

A proton weighs ~10^-27 kg, so that's about 100 protons. I sincerely doubt we have masses that are quite that good - especially that which can take a high mass item (harddrive) and detect an atomic-scale change without being hideously noisy

And the apparent state that, not only can they not get the thing made as proscribed in the amount of time - how do they make it robustly designed with mind for future use?

They're like a freshman finishing their paper the night before - hell no they didn't edit for clarity, much less added depth.

Well, per the article it affects your searches and similar videos pop up. Maybe they'll get enough traffic to...I don't know. It doesn't seem like YouTube monetization is an achievable goal, right?

Maybe hotlinking? Or some wierd grooming attempt?

But the guy below who suspects it's censor circumvention makes sense- it seems to be something like a dirty CD set to a coloring program.

Children probably aren't the target, but victims still.

"I do not disagree with you at all."

Yeah, that's kinda how it works.

If you're lucky you publish 2 - 3 papers in your PhD career along a similar topic. Stick those in and coheretize them with an introduction and a conclusion.

Those whose fields are less productive or who are in groups which don't publish very much will have a harder time getting their final bit written...but it isn't exactly supposed to be easy.

Or dump nutrients and start the iPod a few months later

But look at the car chase procedures that a lot of police have adopted - non engagement.

Some realized that putting everyone on the road in danger is not worth popping some ticket skipping asshole

Obviously with car reg and helicopters this could be mitigated, but the police could have just waited the guy out.

The crime did not warrant physical violence or disruption to third parties that eclipsed the crime itself by several orders of magnitude

The police should be punished.

Nobody would agree to have their house destroyed to catch a guy who stole their own two shirts and a belt, and it makes no sense that they should bear that burdern on behalf of a business that have an accounting column for such events.

Hmm, but we know weather like two weeks in advance

We understand it isn't an exact and perfect prediction for the state of things half a month from now, but it's better than nothing.

"your area is at risk of blackouts next week - 60%" is better than nothin'

Many phone games are (or were) browser games at heart. Just an app that served a webpage.

The fact that they weren't very imaginative or fun or free is what the hyperconnected mobile web brought us.