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Eastern Orthodox Christmas is not on Dec 25 so the argument for EE is not as air tight as the author thinks it is

I agree, but the social engineering parts do feel particularly cruel

Mild spoiler, but I could not find corroboration for the black axe human sacrifice claims anywhere on the internet

It seems like other VPN vendors are slapping obfuscation on top of OpenVPN and advertising their service as unobservable. This paper contests that claim

Ah, sorry I meant in test.c. I was nodding off when I wrote that comment

What do lines 7-21 do?

This is agitprop

Does anyone know what geometric means in this context?

Admittedly those are bullshit. They do go away if you create an account and login though

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I prefer new Reddit when I’m on my phone (which nowadays is my primary causal scrolling device). I think part of the reason people stick to old Reddit is because they haven’t ripped off the nostalgia band-aid yet

At the individual level, the cost of using cash is that you are subsidizing the other consumers who are paying with a credit cards that offers cash-back or other rewards

They do get innovation points for inventing SQL (over 50 years ago)

They don’t really do investigative journalism though. Most of their articles are summary + opinion

It’s hard to beat billionaire donations to longtermism causes for the title of the least impactful

Shkreli served prison time for fraud that did not lose investors money. But I think what you are saying has some truth to it

What is your approach to API design?

Yes this is it. I patterned matched on tags to create a simple state machine. Then I extracted values using splitlines on commas and quotes

I’m usually not a big side project guy, but I successfully used AWK to solve a IRL problem last year. It really helped solidify my understanding of the language.

The problem was that the Garmin GPS data for a bike ride I had just completed had split into multiple rides. I used AWK to stitch together the data into one file. I also did some basic linear interpolation to fill in missing data points.

The GPS data is formatted as XML and I was able to parse it fairly robustly using AWK.

Base64 encoding increases the size of text by 4/3. Like the other commenter asked, I wonder if another encoding could work

I feel like half the business models of VC companies these days is simply regulatory arbitrage

The luddites lost their status, leisure time, and middle class incomes. Their descendants worked 12 hours a day in factories. They definitely had good reasons to push back.

where’s the beef?

“I want to believe something is true so therefore it is true”. I actually respect the honesty here. Most people think this way but would never admit it.

“Cogito ergo est”

If it is just a case of people losing their religion, then people would be substituting their time with secular communal activities like bowling leagues or freemasonry. Instead everyone just became a shut in. I believe the real reasons run much deeper

That is only one interpretation of the founding however. You could also argue that vision died with the Articles of Confederation or the Whiskey Rebellion

How can someone even argue the US died? It’s the only superpower in the world. Also no one really knew if a state could leave or not - it’s a question that had to be settled with violence. Might is right and all that

The theory I’ve heard is that Christianity’s dualism was inherited from Second Temple Judaism’s cosmology. During that time there was a lot more interest in angels and demons among certain Jewish sects. In turn these beliefs may have been a result of syncretism with Zoroastrianism.

I consider Grant the ultimate when the rubber hits the road guy. In his interbellum years he was kind of an aimless loser but when the stakes could not be higher, he stepped up and lead the union to victory.

The trinity is the Orthodox belief. The history of Christianity is full of “heretical” beliefs about the Godhead. Also there is solid evidence that first century Christians did not hold a trinitarian position

The conception of the trinity as co-equal persons of the same substance is a later development in Christianity. The earliest Christian writings (Paul’s letters) never mention the trinity; you could even argue Paul was a sort of binitarian