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Comment #49150961
This is trivial to navigate. Use the notes API to post the likely presence of a public bookcase with details (link to image, description, etc); and the community will slowly ingest…
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Comment #48694029
It also forces a spot to be freed, so that people with enough $ don't simply rent the most desirable cark parks forever.
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Comment #48683442
This feels like an AI narrative, transcribed by a human. 1) Impromptu yoga class brunch. No one says "oh, who needs to top up their parking since we'll be an extra hour"; so it's t…
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Comment #48579272
Re Australia vs China https://youtu.be/sgspkxfkS4k?si=JgnhenF0qeTZXeGS basically explains the situation. While having data/code stolen isn't ideal, there is a certain point where y…
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Comment #48382110
Yeah, nah. Simple example: Who will renew the SSL cert? Day 1: meh, no impact. Day 2: meh, no impact. Day 700: who the hell manages this and why are we making no revenue? You might…
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Comment #48381715
The lag time between firing your core team and finding out that was a bad idea can be measured in years of slow attrition.
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Comment #48293656
Pfft. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2799035/ Smart people drink and smoke more; not less, potentially to self sooth/deal with the oppressive reality they find themselves…
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Comment #47969515
That seems to be deliberately obtuse. It is more like being a firefighter and being opposed to airlifting icebergs to drop on fires. Sure, you'll get water eventually and you might…
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Comment #47762010
I disagree with the parts about Trump: he does know what he is doing. Not because it's a well crafted plan of 4D chess, but because he's deeply anxious/insecure and "lie with grand…
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Comment #46802288
One model for this type of behaviour/response in reaction to feelings of shame is known as the "Compass of Shame" ( https://www.researchgate.net/publication/233600755_Investiga... …
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Comment #46796526
One of the problems is the fundamentals of their tech works "just enough". IE; just looking at their puff piece demo for https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxKghrZU5w8 - semantic data…
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Comment #46795767
Factually incorrect. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trumps-immigration-approval... > Just 39% of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing on immigration, down from 41% earlier…
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Comment #46795594
I think it's important to assess the quality of the comments - they aren't bringing facts, just stating opinions; doing so quickly and agreeing with each other. You can test this o…
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Comment #46795338
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Comment #46795101
You are factually wrong. Jan 23rd General strike, Minnesota: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1c/Downtown... https://www.reddit.com/r/minnesota/comments/1ql7eva/mn_…
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Comment #46794935
Here's one the members of that group: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/tennessee-woman-sentenc... > As a Health Center staff member ('Victim-1') attempted to open the door for …
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Comment #46794437
Nonsense. ICE are engaging in violence, warrantless forced entry to homes, at least two shootings that border on murder, they even tried to force entry into an Ecuadorian embassy. …
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Comment #46496961
Did you actually argue this? Or did you place about 2-5 paragraphs per heading, with little connection between the ideas? For example: > Perhaps what some users are trying to expre…
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Comment #45624329
Alright, let's extend it. You work for Microsoft as an independent contractor, as a night watchman/groundskeeper. So do a number of others. You were hired because you and your crew…
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Comment #45620536
I sincerely doubt this without a source
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Comment #45620477
Notice how this was taking over a GitHub repository from an entire team of maintainers, through deceit ; and now we are all a few weeks in and you have seemingly accepted the narra…
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Comment #45620355
Right? Why is there (seemingly) no public offer to former maintainers to rejoin, or acknowledgement of wrongdoing having been done as part of this? It's practically zero cost to do…
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Comment #45620182
No, no, no, this isn't the open source way at all! I can't believe you aren't getting it still! Because I once installed your project, I need to: - Take over all of the accounts/ac…
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Comment #45619491
Do the former maintainers have full commit access? Remember, this is what was taken in the middle of a discussion about governance. https://github.com/rubygems/rfcs/pull/61
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Comment #45619419
Imagine if you opened up your laptop to discover Microsoft windows has locked you out of a your entire machine, because you were writing a novel in RTF and it could be opened in Mi…