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hobomatic

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    Comment #37587054

    This reminds me of a strange recurring experience I used to have with electronics in my house. In that house,on certain days of the week at midnight, something that sounded like re…

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    Comment #37037844

    [flagged]

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    Comment #36901532

    It would involve serious consideration of the opinions you don't agree with, rather than just qualifying them in the most hyperbolic and dismissive way possible. Hopefully ai is be…

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    Comment #36791442

    It may, but it doesn't provide the motivation to bother, especially if you only ever get caught at the end of your career.

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    Comment #36639491

    ... or a student.

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    Comment #36533167

    Being 'declared possible' seems meaningless. Isn't it already implicitly possible?

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    Comment #31219590

    Yes it's a relative term, but it's a comparison; it's being used as a relative metric.

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    Comment #30402883

    And ultimately, every sort of trust system requires bootstrapping on points of centralization. People are like 'well yeah obviously' but no, not obviously in everyway to everyone. …

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    Comment #30401966

    Ah, thanks

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    Comment #30401945

    Probably a sketch/paste on something like https://godbolt.org/

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    Comment #30401896

    Would be nice if this didn't require an account to read

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    Comment #30388197

    "I can get back to school and wage slavery at any point in my life later" I wouldn't be so sure. You ever wonder why older people are always talking about 'the good ole days'? It i…

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    Comment #30387821

    Similarly, the average American has fallen out of love with pop culture, since it isn't actually popular culture, it's the fringes of culture trying to drive the status quo. It can…

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    Comment #30387367

    Reminds me of how ASCII '3' is hexadecimal 33.

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    Comment #30376286

    Well Microsoft is pivoting into being a cloud services provider, the OS provides ui integrations for these services to make them more compelling, but the thing itself isn't the OS.…

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    Comment #30374385

    > violent

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    Comment #30361743

    I'm with you, and I was right about the apple watch. This(vr in general) feels like a one-off of the next big thing, like the pda was to the smartphone.

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    Comment #30350823

    That's probably it. I don't know enough about the product or THC chemistry pharmacology to say, but I've talked to some users who say they got a THC high from them, one of which wa…

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    Comment #30350781

    The stuff I am talking about lists a percentage of THC on the packaging and people are buying it almost exclusively to get high. I was dubious at first too, but I have talked to se…

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    Comment #30347802

    Dancing!? Traffic? Loudness? Those savages. Meanwhile literally firebombing a church gets the thumbs up from trudeau.

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    Comment #30347461

    Nope. Was hoping this article enumerated a few, and made some sort of compelling argument to the contrary, but it didn't.

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    Comment #30347326

    To me it seems like they are a pot calling the kettle brown so as to divert attention from the fact that their own blackness is the larger offense. 'these guys are just stupid' as …

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    Comment #30334223

    Go figure, racial stereotyping attracts racial stereotyping. And while I agree that these things are privileges,the modern usage of privilege implies 'mere' privilege, like you jus…

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    Comment #30332781

    One of the more strikingly recognizable steps along the way is the alef programming language, also a plan9/bell labs baby.

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    Comment #30306271

    Yeah an earlier poster mentioned something about there being no black box problems and that all the information to do anything is already out there to read. I think this is only tr…