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NotAnAccountNO··on Why do most top performers have the highest count of commits and pull requests?
What do you consider to be large and infrequent? I see so many micro-commits that I start to wonder if some competition is going on...
NotAnAccountNO··on Prestige in US Today
Well you have to be full of the exact right kind of BS, with lightly understated confidence, and mostly certainty about what your social-peers proper place in society is.
NotAnAccountNO··on Why Europeans no longer dream of America
Visiting the US from Europe in 1986 for the first time, it felt like a vibrant place, well ahead. New York was amazing.

In 2006 I was shocked when visiting family on the east coast to hear that acquaintances there expected me to obviously want to immigrate, get a green card, etc. At the time the US from my POV was already an extremely iffy broken place.

In 2016, and that is, before the elections, nobody was assuming this anymore.

Now I get asked how best to move away.

NotAnAccountNO··on The US Air Force has built and flown a prototype of its future fighter jet
It takes 6 minutes for a fighter jet to cross the whole of the longest possible stretch of Swiss territory. How many defense missiles for the price of one F35?
NotAnAccountNO··on Apple blocks Facebook update that called out 30-percent App Store ‘tax’
How is informing users of some true fact not protected by the first amendment. How is this not free speech?
NotAnAccountNO··on Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down
Well no, building a dam fully destroys a valley's ecosystem. A point of comparison: Chernobyl also has a new ecosystem around it, where re-adaptation has occurred. We know the radioactivity is too high around it for a 21st century's human lifespan of ~80 years. Boars and birds are having a ball. Does it not follow that your accepting the environmental damage from a dam means also that you accept the environmental damage from an early generation fission clusterfuck?
NotAnAccountNO··on Climate experts call for 'dangerous' Michael Moore film to be taken down
Very informative thank you. From this rebuttal I see that the movie probably packages true information, some of it outdated, in a provocative way. The only fully scientific rebuttal is to run the experiment: run the whole economy without fossil fuels or nuclear, and see how much it looks like the middle-ages, how much it looks like utopia. My guess is 80/20 on the middle-ages side, but who know.
NotAnAccountNO··on French researcher posts successful Covid-19 chloroquine drug trial
This is the presentation Raoult gave yesterday, publication is coming next week. https://youtu.be/n4J8kydOvbc Link to the powerpoint. Please don't kill the IHU's servers though: it's all in french. https://www.mediterranee-infection.com/wp-content/uploads/20...
NotAnAccountNO··on Environmental lawyer who won a judgment against Chevron lost everything
Very scary. I can only assume that Ecuadorians will pursue this further.