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ParoxysmalVigor··on Cockpit Project
Used it mostly for cockpit-docker. Sadly, IBM decided to totally uproot (i believe their most popular) module to leverage podman over docker. First it was CentOS, now this.
ParoxysmalVigor··on Goldman told TWTR Elon’s $54.20 offer was too low but has a sell target at $30
I remember GME and what happens when big fish comes and publicly demands a big chunk.

Stocks are not commodities, offer is highly inelastic. They are precisely limited and traded as such. Especially when we are talking about profitable and political-weight-size media company.

ParoxysmalVigor··on 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
Rubber band can't dynamically detect and repair weared off molecule clusters.

Mammals are highly adoptive by the design, a living organism consists of trillions programmed and partially controllable nanomachines.

Body has autonomous and centralised systems, which checks and sends hormonal signals and redistribute resources from other parts and could directly command specific cell groups to grow or change behavior in a chance to increase organism survivability.

ParoxysmalVigor··on Overly analytical guide to escorting
I never voiced my attitude towards legalization of prostitution. I addressed very specific weak argument.

Sorry, if you found my comment rude, i assure you that this was not my goal.

You used abortion there. I don't think we could get a consent from fetus, law just assumes that female parent have a power over it's life until some development point.

People consensually participate at gambling, dueling, pyramid schemes, become criplled drugs and alcohol addicts, selling themselves and they family to slavery, do suicide.

Nor consent, nor something being an old and persistent part of the human culture are good reasoning.

ParoxysmalVigor··on Overly analytical guide to escorting
Assassination. Burglary. Similar to abortion, people are going to do it whether or not it's legal. It will never have an "end". It's one of the oldest professions in human history.
ParoxysmalVigor··on Russia asks Google to clamp down on Navalny′s ‘Smart Voting′
Election rigging is a finite resource. After certain amount regime loses it's legitimacy. This in turn creates a regime phase transition, which in certain scenarios could be not fatal (as Belarus and Venezuela examples shows us), but very painful for the elites and increases all sorts of risks, especialy for current incumbent.

Also there are investors, external and internal, which are too all over risks, this damages economy and national currency.

ParoxysmalVigor··on On beaming solar power from low earth orbit
Approach for energy comparison of solar travel and orbital launches: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta-v_budget
ParoxysmalVigor··on That $56,000 Drug? Blame Medicare
There is nothing with business protecting their interests with lobbysts or without.

Only people who you could blame are lawmakers. They are the people with real power and your interest representatives.

ParoxysmalVigor··on What do many terrorists have in common? They abuse women
Legal status is just an international politics bargaining chip and should not be considered a replacement for semantics. Terrorism - the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
ParoxysmalVigor··on TypeScript 4.4 Beta
TS is the most ergonomic and flexible type system i worked with. It has some deep quirks, but end-user app developers rarely have to do anything with those.

Miss it a lot when i have to push some python or golang code.

ParoxysmalVigor··on CMV: Tech monopolies should be banned as a class
AWS is not a monopoly in any sane definition of the word.
ParoxysmalVigor··on Apple’s new keyboard feature in iOS 15 is insult to Cantonese speaking community
This paragraph has addressed methods:

> Questions could and should be asked in regard to tools and apparatus used in such transition, for example repressions, violence and forced re-education. IF they were used.

English is not my first language, i was incredibly happy to learn it in my childhood, thanks to all the great old games (SeaLegends, SpaceQuest, Daggerfall, Fallout). Internet and technical literature motivated me to improve later. Though, i still very lacking.