iknowitwheniseeit

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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 older people get the greater apparent differences of people who are the same age.

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.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Palestine

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_State_of_Palestine

iknowitwheniseeit ,

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

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Wow you're right! TIL!

iknowitwheniseeit ,

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

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I don't agree with that all hierarchy is bad; a tree structure allows scaling. But The Peter Principle book explained why they result in society being shit.

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 ,

Or alternately:

Capitalism doesn't even work. In the US prices are kept high.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

One of my favorite poems. First published in 1818:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias

iknowitwheniseeit ,

But then you ended up with another king. Overthrowing royalty was hard.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

Either is possible, which is why @laughterlaughter was asking for punctuation!

iknowitwheniseeit ,

A general strike will almost certainly be met with violence. So comrades need to plan their reaction in advance. This could be taking the punches, or not....

iknowitwheniseeit ,

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

iknowitwheniseeit ,

My wife cried tears of frustration at not being able to breastfeed her children, and still feels judged as not being a proper mother for this reason. 😟

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 ,

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

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 ,

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

iknowitwheniseeit ,

A good Christian will still treat you like a brother or sister. It's not about your beliefs, it's about theirs.

iknowitwheniseeit ,

I visited Prague, and this painting is just up at a cafe. I ordered the absinthe with my tour guide, a Czech schoolteacher who gave city walking tours to make ends meet. She had never had it, which I thought a kind of minor sin. Anyway, we didn't know that its like 90% alcohol. Great experience, terrible drink. 😆

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 was in traffic court in the 1990s and saw a guy get sent to jail for driving 75 miles per hour on a 25 miles per hour road.

This was in Virginia. The person refused a lawyer. He looked like he was maybe 22. The look of surprise on his face when he was led off to jail was priceless.

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 ,

The President can declassify anything, apparently, so he wouldn't need to sell any classified documents, just ask for bids on which to declassify.

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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