ToaKraka
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ToaKraka
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4mo ago
ToaKraka
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20d ago
It's so dispiriting the possibility that all the problems in our community: crime, poverty, ignorance, are intransient. How are you supposed to deal with that without becoming utterly nihilistic?
The easy solution is to simply reject the idea of "our community". I happen to be an uppity big-lipped nigger myself. But I do my best to refrain from feeling any sense of community with the "urban youths". Rather, I exist primarily online, as a being with no face and no race. When I am forced to exist in meatspace, I think of myself primarily as a competent and diligent employee, not as a black person.
Individualism!
ToaKraka
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4mo ago
If you download the full spreadsheet and reduce the weight of incarceration rate to zero in the calculations, Texas still ends up at a pitiful #46 on personal freedom.
Gambling: #39
Marriage: #44
Education: #35
Marijuana: #50
Asset forfeiture: #42
Travel: #50
ToaKraka
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5mo ago
Perhaps this couple had a higher paying job when the kids were younger but has since been laid off. Perhaps this couple used to be able to afford things but haven't gotten raises despite inflation.
"Financial discipline and planning" includes planning for uncertainty.
Perhaps the female was in her mid 30s and they decided to have kids despite not being financially stable because it was now or never. Should people who don't make enough money be effectively consigned to end their genetic line because you (or the other commenter I was responding to) "don't have much respect" for their decision to have children?
Choosing expensive children and a late retirement over cheap living and an early retirement is a valid choice, in the context of the human mind—but calling it a financially-intelligent choice seems a little too much.
ToaKraka
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1yr ago
Petition for new rule (and report option): Any user who uses (not mentions) the misspelling "Ghandi" will receive a 24-hour ban, with no exceptions.
ToaKraka
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4mo ago
Have you ever gnashed your teeth at the choice of an author to use " – " rather than "—", "he" rather than "they", or a semicolon list within a single paragraph rather than a bullet list comprising multiple paragraphs? Well, gnash no more! Never forget that nothing can stop you from ripping that author's """copyright-protected""" """intellectual property""" out of the webpage or the paper page on which it sits, and forcibly remaking it to suit your fancy. Word, LaTeX, Notepad++—there are many ways to fuck the text into submission and ejaculate your grammatical and orthographical preferences all over its fertile womb. Just Do It!
ToaKraka
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4mo ago
You are perfectly free to build a high-rise beside my bungalow, it's your land and I don't get to say what you can do with your own things.
I don't think there is a right to have an unrestricted view of the horizon. If you want to buy the air above my land in order to preserve your view of the horizon, then of course that's fine. And you can sue the "economically disadvantaged" "urban youths" who move into my apartment building if they trespass on your land or play their boomboxes too loud.
By the same token, I am perfectly free to hold our brass band practice sessions in my living room at 3:00 a.m. just when you got your colicky baby off to sleep. You can't tell me what to do with my own things on my own land.
Noise loud enough to extend onto someone else's property and interfere with his enjoyment of that property is a valid subject of a lawsuit, I'm pretty sure.
ToaKraka
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6mo ago
Tired:
Relying on its prior opinion in Central Florida Nuclear Freeze Campaign v. Walsh, 774 F. 2d 1515, 1521 (CA11 1985), cert. denied, 475 U. S. 1120 (1986), the Court of Appeals held:
Wired:
Relying on its prior opinion in Central Florida Nuclear Freeze Campaign v. Walsh (F. ser. 2 vol. 774 op. 1515 (CA11, 1985, cert. denied (US vol. 475 order 1120 (1986)))) p. 1521, the Court of Appeals held:
ToaKraka
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11mo ago
Would it be reasonable? IMO, yes. It's funny to imagine a world where bodybuilders are free to call overweight males women, and mothers are free to call old-maid females men. (See also this recent comment regarding the past use of the masculine grammatical gender for powerful women in the French language.)
Would it be appropriate? At the moment, I doubt it.
Multi-story housing is expensive to build, but those costs, as well as the cost of land, are spread out among more people. The relevant metric is cost per unit of housing.
Are you seriously suggesting that a typical 1,100-ft² (100-m²) apartment in a four-story building is just as attractive for a family of four or five people as a typical 2,200-ft² (200-m²) one-story or two-story house is, when the two options have exactly the same cost? No, cost per square foot is more important.
Single-family homes can easily be 3 stories, so it's not even like you're necessarily saving much.
Specifically, he alleges (again, based only on that one rather shaky source) that three-story buildings are only 30 to 50 percent more expensive than one-story and two-story houses. That's in comparison to 100 percent more expensive for four-story buildings and even worse for buildings taller than that. The (alleged) difference is not insignificant.
The default template for all tech codes of conduct
It's the most common one out there
Github's two default choices are the Contributor Covenant and the Citizen Code of Conduct, and neither of those documents contains that passage. It's true that a quick Google search for "will not act" "reverse racism" turns up quite a few hits, but I think you need more evidence for your inflammatory claims.
Why don't you just hit the mute button and watch the ads? I don't understand why people complain so much about watching a few short seconds of advertisements in exchange for dozens of minutes of FREE video.
It's my understanding that, if you don't skip until the 30-second mark, then the ad counts as having been "watched", so the uploader still gets paid. There's at least one Chrome extension that you can set up to automatically skip ads after the 30-second mark. I don't know whether Safari has anything similar.
ToaKraka
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1yr ago
How many different instruments/parts do you prefer to hear in a piece of music?
I am inclined to feel that anything in excess of three, or maybe four, is overkill/bloat. But maybe I just listen to too much chiptune/MIDI stuff.
ToaKraka
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3mo ago
in every city in the US and Canada which is worth living in
Without onerous zoning regulations, the office buildings could simply be built outside those cities, making the cities superfluous.
Dense, expensive urban centers are dead. The true vision of the future is an unending low-density sprawl of cheap single-family houses interspersed with office-building complexes.
ToaKraka
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4mo ago
what percentage of slot machines are in casinos
The actual metric is "Slot/video games legal outside casinos & tracks? (=1 if yes, =0.25 if in strictly limited locations with half of revenue going to charity, =0 if no)".
what percentage of marriages are gay
The actual metric is "Same-sex civil union, marriage, or extensive domestic partnership=1, limited domestic partnership=0.5, no same-sex unions=0, super-doma=-1". (And all the states score the same on that metric anyway due to the federal Supreme Court's decision.)
The entire thing is full of really dumb metrics that are unrelated to any reasonable definition of freedom.
If you disagree with the authors' weights, you can modify them yourself.
ToaKraka
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6mo ago
ToaKraka
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7mo ago
I don't need a ton of horsepower (I'm basically looking at stuff between 200-300)
That sounds like a contradiction.
I could talk myself into a manual, but I'm fine with a conventional auto, CVT I'm iffy on.
I've seen people on 4chan's /o/ board say several times that, though CVTs often have reliability problems when they're attached to too-powerful engines (such as in Nissan cars), this is not a problem with the 76-horsepower Mitsubishi Mirage.
ToaKraka
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7mo ago
Sufficient Velocity
All the cool kids are on Questionable Questing.
ToaKraka
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11mo ago
If I purchase a copy of The Adventures of Scrimblo Bimblo for the Atari Jaguar in year 1995, most of the value that I consider that game to have is my own enjoyment, but a (very) small part of that assessment is the resale value that I will get later on. The publisher of the game knows this, and sets the price of the game—and the compensation paid to the developer—accordingly.
ToaKraka
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1yr ago
Matrix > Discord
I'm a lot less tech-savvy than this site's admins, and even I have been able to set up an instance (using DigitalOcean's """one-click""" offering, which costs 6 $/mo).
ToaKraka
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1yr ago
I wonder whether it would be cost-effective to buy a decked-out car, but then remove and sell all the newfangled parts that you don't want—or to just set up a mechanic shop specializing in such work.
ToaKraka
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1yr ago
Three or four instruments in one entire piece or three or four instruments going at the same time?
The latter—though, on the other hand, the former can be considered bloat (as opposed to overkill) if they're real physical instruments with human players who are just sitting around doing nothing when the score doesn't call for them, rather than a single computer player swapping between instruments instantly.
ToaKraka
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1yr ago
Is https://youtube.com/watch?v=BtyWhHwCXIU too much or close to right?
Well, that's three or four different parts, right? Guitar, percussion, and one or two synthesized parts (I guess—I'm not an expert at decomposing music). The tune sounds a little generic to me (I have no knowledge of the Scott Pilgrim franchise, so I have no feelings associated with this video game), but I don't find the instruments objectionable.
In the immortal words of Peter Griffin: Oh, my God, who the hell cares?
Why don't you just hit the mute button and let the ads play while you browse in another browser tab? Did your parents fail to teach to you the overwhelming importance of the TV remote's mute button when you watched traditional television with them, two or three decades ago? I don't understand why people complain so much about watching a few short seconds of advertisements in exchange for dozens of minutes of FREE video.
It's my understanding that, if you don't skip until the 30-second mark, then the ad counts as having been "watched", so the uploader still gets paid. There's at least one Chrome extension that you can set up to automatically skip ads after the 30-second mark. I don't know whether Safari has anything similar.
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