ZeroPipeline
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ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
when did "life isn't fair" stop being a cliche truism?
Around the same time that they started handing out participation trophies, if I had to guess.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
You can take any twitter url and replace twitter.com with twitter.com and get more or less the old experience without having to sign in. There are some companies that use twitter to post status message when there is an outage etc. and this has been helpful for me.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
I did the math before out of curiosity to see how many 155mm shells it would take to cover all of the Gaza strip with the lethal radius of at least one shell's explosion. It came out to around 52 million shells. If all 250 of Israel's m109 howitzers fired at their sustained rate of fire of one round per minute (and assuming no need for maintenance etc) it would take them around 144 days. I was looking at this just to get some idea of the scales involved in all this.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
I agree with you that the line is about in the right place. The pearl clutching about North Korea in that twitter thread is pretty unconvincing, unless they have been using crypto to keep their country afloat since 1948.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
My understanding is that Christians at the time weren't allowed to charge any interest, as that was considered usury.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
In kubernetes, the cluster nodes that run everything are already called the control plane, and have been for some time.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
Yeah they launched some initial raids after their evacuation notice last week and I thought a full assault wouldn't be too far behind. I know there were reports that they were delaying it due to the weather. Perhaps it is taking longer than they anticipated to reactivate their reservists and get them into position? Speed isn't as essential in this case from a tactical standpoint, but I do think the window is closing on the time when the world will turn more of a blind eye to any collateral damage they might inflict.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Having worked with kubernetes for years now, I have never found the term unclear or misleading. To each their own I suppose.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Probably because it is back in the news now that we are getting results from it that are likely to push forward our understanding of cosmology.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
All we need is an AI that can create convincing org charts.
ZeroPipeline
1mo ago
Well in that case it is because he fucked over a lot of rich people.
ZeroPipeline
1mo ago
Yeah, the difference between victim blaming and victim warning is whether you think public policy and social norms should be shaped to protect victims as much as possible.
I'm not sure I understand your view here. Warning victims seems like it would fall pretty squarely under protecting victims as much as possible, even if it isn't the only thing that would fall under that heading.
Maybe this is an example of two movies on one screen, but I didn't get that impression from the OP at all. OP isn't saying that public policy and social norms shouldn't be shaped to protect victims, but rather that the current attempts to do that are not very effective and are needlessly narrow in scope.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
then fucks it's it up by spraying foam all over the cake.
Well, it could always be worse.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Plus, riots don't really happen in winter time especially in conditions like this: if it gets really really cold the general population will be too frozen to do anything.
One notable (and relevant) exception to this being Euromaidan, which took place between November and February.
ZeroPipeline
1mo ago
Developers stopped supporting them with the rise of various matchmaking and digital delivery services. Requiring you to be online also ensures that everyone playing has purchased a license for the game.
ZeroPipeline
1mo ago
I would say it is both cringe and depressing https://instagram.com/anitasarkeesian/p/CwvaHCwPMeI/?img_index=1
ZeroPipeline
5mo ago
And if you asked the Egyptian government, they'd probably tell you the same thing since they just had their own issues wit the Muslim Brotherhood.
Was the issue here that the Muslim Brotherhood won the parliamentary elections after Mubarak stepped down? If so, that is an issue that goes much deeper than Hamas. You are taking issue with the political preferences of the people of Egypt themselves.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Moreover, consider for a moment that societies collapse.
You were already reminding me of this sketch, and then this sentence made it perfect.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
It seems like modern history has been something of an anomaly where we have had back to back revolutionary gains in productivity. Prior to the industrial revolution, there were long periods of marginal gains punctuated by smaller revolutions such as the printing press. Unless AI or some new energy source can come along and make us more productive I fully expect us to slide back into tribalism.
ZeroPipeline
6mo ago
I'd be curious to see a timeline of the entire event. Maybe they were able to time it quickly enough that the people monitoring these things didn't have a proper chance to respond before the para-gliders were on top of them.
ZeroPipeline
7mo ago
Perhaps someone more versed in the subject can chime in, but my understanding is the U.S. Constitution dictates that senators must be a resident of the state they represent. In California that means being present in the state for 366 days before filing for residency. Is there any likelihood of this being challenged? Has something like this happened before?
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
That is good. This means that people can't hack election infrastructure without detection and we have nothing to worry about. Hopefully no one will make any claims to the contrary.
Unless the machines are connected to any sort of network, in which case all bets are off.
ZeroPipeline
2d ago
Why does the US need 300 million people? Why does England need millions more people on its tiny landmass? Is it necessary to destroy the ethnic makeup of these countries to ensure the line always goes up?
I think the problem is that most of our economic systems are now predicated on growth occurring over time. The easiest way to keep the economy growing is to increase the population. The growth can't last forever, especially within the confines of a single planet, but no one seems terribly interested in moving to a sustainable model.
ZeroPipeline
1yr ago
Furthermore, the targets of potential abuse are very different. The majority of people police officers deal with (especially in a physical confrontation) are criminals and not innocent bystanders. Teachers are dealing with children, which society places a large value on protecting.
In at least some cases, those are being paid for by the federal government through the Nonprofit Security Grant Program.
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