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I use two text manipulation plugins in sublime text all the time. I did not manage to have the functionality in zed, which made be renounce to use it: - Evaluate, a plugin that eva…

Moreover, the law literally says that contracts are considered as laws but only applicable to co-contractants (at least in France it's written like that). So it's the same thing, j…

I have some of these usb keys, and I remember having remounted the device rw on linux, and the device failed with an io error when I attempted to write. So if I'm correct, the driv…

When you imprison someone until they become a spy in the company you're trying to buy, do you really think there is no outcome where you might gain leverage?

I would not know how that works, but I can recall a "strange" order of judicial events in the Alstom buyout by General Electric. Frédéric Pierucci was incarcerated for some weird f…

I am using it, and I find it provides good services overall. Much more flexible than traditional banks. I contacted the customer service once and it responded. I have not used the …

No sorry, I went on a tangent and generalized without stating it clearly. I just wanted to argue that by my definition, we are already in a tranhumanistic (and eugenistic) society,…

I get that, I understand very well it's a slippery slope. For me it's just a cursor, whereas I think that people pretend there is no cursor, only absolute values. I guess it's a qu…

I don't know why, but the word 'eugenics' is enough to trigger a thought-terminating cliché. Maybe the GP was being tongue-in-cheek, maybe not, but it's always a strong reaction to…

I think it has meaning after all. I would rewrite as this: "HEX directly targeted investors globally, using advertisements placed in football stadiums (especially those involved in…

I think you are enamoured with the idea of being neutral, like a pure-wisdom spirit above the melee, wisely noticing the hypocrisy of the west and reminding us the right for any pe…

Yes, I think it's a fair assumption unfortunately.

"Honey, you are so important to me that I decided to dump you." If you tried adapt the corporate wording in your everyday life, you'd be judged by everyone as one of the biggest a-…

Indeed, thank you, I was not aware of this example.

If I did start an open source project, I think I would do a very simple licensing that I have never encountered, like: "Dual licensing: Paid software now, and GPL starting 2032". I…

First of all, _most_ services is not _all_ services, so you have a use case here. Also, you could make FIDO keys that support restoring but not backing up. If you could set up a FI…

> But none of those drugs will result in the long-term change that you’re looking for. Sorry to be blunt, but this is clearly the morally infused cliché of "healthy people do not t…

Exactly, you can search "motus france 2" on youtube and you'll see the tv show that existed for decades in france.

I have a similar problem, and when I finally allocate bandwidth for a project, I can't find relevant objects when I need them. So I bought a commercial label printer, I made a web …

Well, adding "obviously" to an argument does not add anything to the argument. I can see how you _might_ think this some type of mental health issue, but seeing a behavior that is …

It is sad that you would rather believe the parent has mental health issues, rather than entertain the possibility that yes, someone is actually doing something effective against p…

Obligatory meta TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8S0FDjFBj8o Personally the TED talk I liked the most. It's funny but I actually find it interesting, showing that appearan…

If you happen to compare what are (argued as) early weak signals, with the morality of the nazi holocaust in its last stage, then sure it's disrespectful. But this a kind of a stra…

All that website inspires me is the American Psycho business card scene. Sometime reality is stranger than fiction.

I think you basically ask the right questions. But when you have progressed in your understanding, and you're confronted with the next problem caused by PoS, you seem to assume tha…