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timecubeon Cast iron leet

Good luck finding a stainless steel pan that even weighs as much as a cast iron, let alone more.

timecubeon SpaceX said to fire employees involved in letter rebuking Elon Musk

A left-leaning person would not support Ron DeSantis for president.

timecubeon State Dept Guidance on DPRK IT Workers [pdf]

North Korea literally does have universities and an educated class.

timecubeon The 'impossible' crane shot from Soy Cuba (1964) [video]

This is set in pre-communist Cuba, under the dictator Fulgencio Batista.

timecubeon DoorDash and Societal Arbitrage

ChowNow is exactly this: https://get.chownow.com/

timecubeon Super Micro says review found no malicious chips in motherboards

Twitter's mobile site does that all the time, just refresh and it'll work.

timecubeon You Can't Have Denmark Without Danes

Social democratic policies tend to become more efficient with increased scale, so why would it be negative that the US is larger than Norway?

timecubeon English rivers polluted by neonicotinoids, first tests reveal

>How would there be a capitalist incentive not to do these things? Not sure what a capitalist incentive is, but we have plenty of ways to potentially regulate this. Are you asking about technical feasibility of finding the actors responsible for it?

>Do we really need regulations? Yes.

>Why do these things happen? Greed/profit motive.

>Why do people think it is acceptable to pollute? Greed/profit motive.

timecubeon NYC Subway travel time map

timecubeon American Airlines Accidentally Let Too Many Pilots Take the Holidays Off

Of all employees in the country, certainly less than 7% actually have ever cast a vote in favor of the company that employs them.

timecubeon Landlords demand rent on flooded Houston homes

How can you charge people rent for something that isn't inhabitable? Isn't this what flood insurance is for?

timecubeon The Amazing Bureaucracy of Burning Man

Please explain how Burning Man attendees are "socialist" because they go to an event with rules

timecubeon Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF

Are you seriously doing "both sides are bad" with the actual Nazis right now

timecubeon Inside Patreon, the economic engine of internet culture

IGD is an antifa website...

timecubeon Theresa May Wants To Regulate The Internet

Turns out that in the real world, conservatives are far more dangerous for your freedoms than "SJW types".

timecubeon US Tax Filings are down 5% as of April 15, 2017

>they're shit outta luck.

This is why the new measures exist.

timecubeon Overkill: Java as a first programming language (2010)

>Why is the Java code handling exceptions when the Python code isn't? Why is the Java code reading the file line-by-line and the Python code isn't?

Because you have to do those things in Java. That's the entire point of this article

timecubeon Why the bounce rate of AMP pages is so high

They finally added a way to easily get the original URL (click the link button in the AMP header). Not ideal, but better than trying to get it out of the address bar.

timecubeon How Uber Used Secret “Greyball” Tool to Deceive Authorities Worldwide

https://youtu.be/t5zQpN28xa4

Life imitates art.

timecubeon H.R.861 – To Terminate the Environmental Protection Agency

"Finally, the bill terminates the national sales tax if the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution (authorizing an income tax) is not repealed within seven years after the enactment of this bill."

So if the 16th isn't repealed, and the IRS no longer exists... does the US just stop functioning in 2024?

timecubeon Tom Wheeler Resigns from the FCC

True, but turning the internet into a series of homogeneous "integrated experiences" isn't a good thing.

timecubeon To Build a Better Ballot

Libertarian socialism aka anarchism isn't really related to propertarianism. And again, most people agree with neither.

timecubeon To Build a Better Ballot

Most people don't agree with libertarianism. That's basically it.

timecubeon Show HN: Text Emoticon Generator

Reminds me of a more advanced version of http://textsmili.es

timecubeon Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century, in 20 minutes (2014) [video]

If you want to make the silly argument that anything other than completely free markets isn't capitalism, stop calling authoritarian state capitalism "communism".

timecubeon The Ruins of Dead Social Networks (2011)

http://www.archiveteam.org/ is specifically dedicated to archiving web services before they go down.

timecubeon Daydream – Google VR

The actual resolution you get in an HMD is much, much lower than the screen resolution. For example, a movie theatre screen in an Oculus Rift CV1 with a resolution of 2160 x 1200 (1080 x 1200 per eye) would have an effective resolution of about 720x480.

Of course, you can create as many of these screens as you want in a virtual space, but the resolution combined with the distortion will hinder any text-heavy work.

timecubeon A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it

If you can't get government assistance because you have an "extra" kidney, and you need to feed your family, I wouldn't call that decision anything other than forced.

timecubeon A kidney donor at 18 now regrets it

A big issue with allowing organ markets is that impoverished people can practically be forced to sell their organs.