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homonculus1on If you unscrew your belly button, your bottom will fall off

How slow do you read??

homonculus1on The War on General Purpose Computing (2015) [video]

Expanding the DMCA model to speech in general! Ten years ago I would have been very surprised to see this take on HN.

homonculus1on New York City hiring top rat killer

Well, your examples are from 50 years ago...

homonculus1on Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet

Hershey bars are made by Hershey, not by Nestle.

homonculus1on South Korea in demographic crisis as many stop having babies

There aren't going to be fewer people as a result of this, there are just going to be fewer South Koreans in South Korea. When developed nations pursue non-procreative social policies and lose their demographics, they get internally replaced from undeveloped nations. The global population continues to grow.

homonculus1on The Names of All Manner of Hounds: Inventory in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript

He was surely the leader of a fine category:

  "Pretiboy"
  "Swepestake"
  "Stanchebost"

But, there was also another kind:

  "Plodder"
  "Vagrawnte"
  "Helpeles"

homonculus1on The Names of All Manner of Hounds: Inventory in a Fifteenth-Century Manuscript

We call ours "Monty" for short

homonculus1on Mercedes locks faster acceleration behind a $1,200 annual paywall

It's not going to be for people convicted of multiple DUI's.

homonculus1on Sheep flocks alternate their leader and achieve collective intelligence

Bloody sheep!

homonculus1on The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature

That's a birth defect, not a sex.

homonculus1on The erasure of women from online pregnancy literature

"Male" and "man" are an adjective and a noun referring to the same thing.

homonculus1on Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in

Because that's where the rhyme is, dummy.

homonculus1on Earth now weighs six ronnagrams: New metric prefixes voted in

Earth weighs 0.6 yomommagrams

homonculus1on The plague of emoji insertion in French docs

But I'm not left-handed!

homonculus1on Why are U.S. transit projects so costly? This group is on the case

Put them in jail. There's no reason the general public should have to deal with them anywhere, rich or poor. The fact that we do is a policy decision.

homonculus1on Why are U.S. transit projects so costly? This group is on the case

Not that bad? Hate it less? What an exciting pitch for the new nuisance in your neighborhood.

I'm not familiar with that area but I can infer that it must be pretty miserable for people who care about their surroundings, respect public spaces, and work hard to maintain a high standard in the environments they occupy. More power to them.

homonculus1on How I survived a year in ‘the hole’ without losing my mind

Theft isn't a mere nuisance, it's an attack on one of the fundamental buttresses against chaos and violence.

The cost of living in a low-trust environment is orders of magnitude greater than the value of the items stolen. Severe penalties for persistent defection against society are absolutely warranted.

homonculus1on Apparently you cannot have the Kanye interview on Google Drive now

A transparent shakedown. I and those like me will continue to exercise our rights and pursue our own interests in spite of these threats of coordinated harassment.

By the way, your cries of being perpetually marginalized ring hollow, when in the very same sentence you boast of your ability to silence and damage those whom you hate.

homonculus1on Apparently you cannot have the Kanye interview on Google Drive now

Seen by who? This angle is disingenuous, because no third party is going to single out this file being on Google Drive and punish Google for not censoring it.

Admit it, this is 100% autonomous action on the part of Google to suppress ideas and opinions they disapprove of. There is zero external pressure or risk. The excuse of some nebulous toxic miasma is nothing but a fig leaf for exercising political power.

homonculus1on Apparently you cannot have the Kanye interview on Google Drive now

Why?

homonculus1on Remote work changed their lives. They’re not going back to the office

> it's not fair

TOUGH

homonculus1on The smash and grab of Kroger-Albertsons

It's incoherent to use the example of low service density as a justification to criticize a grocer for taking higher profits. You can't pursue both sides of a tradeoff simultaneously.

The more money there is to be made in the grocery sector, the more grocers there will be to compete for it, located in the places where the money flows. Likewise the leaner they have to operate, the more they'll shut down in marginal territory that can't support their business, and the more areas will go without convenient access.

If selling groceries in low-access areas for low profits is indicated by the necessity of food, then nobody is stopping you from doing it; but as the grandparent comment hinted, if you find your niche in high-margin software instead then you're following the money, just like grocers do.

homonculus1on Vogtle Unit 3 starts nuclear fuel load

Is the bureaucracy really apathetic? It sounds more like active hostility to me.

homonculus1on What “diversity and inclusion” means at Microsoft

I'm sure you'll be eager to consider that the reverse is also true, except in that case it's the majority of the pool getting aliened by open favoritism toward ethnic minorities and people with bizarre sexual proclivities. If the outcomes of explicit neutrality aren't good enough for you then you'd better start thinking up a new pretense, because people can see through it quite easily and they aren't going to put up with it forever.

homonculus1on The Road That Killed a City

I'm not vagueposting. Everybody knows what I'm talking about (and that's my evidence that I'm right)

homonculus1on The Road That Killed a City

The #1 reason is unmentionable

homonculus1on Facebook to purge thousands of workers as part of ‘quiet layoffs’

Metaverse has negative value too, but at least it has novelty...

homonculus1on US Government building AI tech to unmask anonymous writers

indi.an

homonculus1on Neutralisation of cockroaches with laser automated by machine vision

It usually goes without saying, but it's up to each man to exert his own will toward a spiritual value higher than that of mere vermin. Here we find one who lacks the strength to do even this.

homonculus1on SIM swapper abducted, beaten, held for ransom

Chicken/egg. Populations that share poverty traits practice collectivism to survive. But collectivism is a local maximum that prevents stronger traits from capturing benefit, and thus inhibits them from taking hold.

In the long run, non-collectivist populations develop an advantage through hard times and environments. Collectivist populations subsist, and nothing more.