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sigwinch··on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce
Such an understanding must of course consider the Whig party. You understand that, right?
sigwinch··on FDA says companies can claim "no artificial colors" if they use natural dyes
Mars has committed to removing dyes, at great expense and effort. What if they simply left out dyes for a year?
sigwinch··on FDA says companies can claim "no artificial colors" if they use natural dyes
Look in the natural aisle. Those products which don’t rely on dyes.
sigwinch··on Who smeared Richard Feynman? (2014)
I don’t think Teller worked with Feynman.
sigwinch··on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce
Spot on. Between the end of the Cold War and the 1994 Congressional election, the right wing decided to flip the enemy from external communists to internal partisans. You’d hear some “party of Reagan” platitudes, but it was really the party of Cohn and Stone, names more influential today than Reagan. Those are people who recoil at doing good in the world.
sigwinch··on Leaked chats expose the daily life of a scam compound's enslaved workforce
China claims jurisdiction because 20 Chinese citizens were murdered, if that’s what you’re wondering.
sigwinch··on Scientist who helped eradicate smallpox dies at age 89
Are you kidding? A way to smear Obama and portray him as disrespectful to non-whites? The only reason it’s not on Fox is that it reminds Americans that we’ve only had one victory in the War on Terror and the Republican Party contributed nothing positive.
sigwinch··on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
However that’s not anonymous. Ministry of Interior is alerted with your identity each time you use it.
sigwinch··on Sparse File LRU Cache
Ah, clever. Since they chose RocksDB I wonder if Amazon supports zoned storage on NVMe. RocksDB has a zoned plugin which describes an alternative to yours.
sigwinch··on Sparse File LRU Cache
I dont think the author could even use SQLite for this. NULL in SQLite is stored very compactly, not as pre-filled zeros. Must be talking about a columnar store.

I wonder if attaching a temporary db on fast storage, filled with results of the dense queries, would work without the big assumptions.

sigwinch··on Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles
I would say that the late 1970s reflexive silver bubble revealed magical thinking about silver which isn’t common with fiat. We know that big names rode the bubble on the way up, and made more on the way down. I think we can talk about meme pricing in the same way.
sigwinch··on Bitcoin Looks Set for Longest Monthly Losing Streak Since 2018
I read 7% of 2024 demand is industrial. Gold ended 2024 at $2600.
sigwinch··on In praise of –dry-run
rmlint will only run a previous dry-run snapshot.
sigwinch··on FBI is investigating Minnesota Signal chats tracking ICE
Was true then, is true today with Project Esther.
sigwinch··on Gold blasts past $5k to record high on safe-haven rush
January-September 2025, most of the gain in gold was attributed to monetary policy easing. This comes with the dollar weakening.
sigwinch··on ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data
Even though Ron Paul gets reelected, we do not know how he’d rule as a leader
sigwinch··on UN declares that the world has entered an era of 'global water bankruptcy'
5-10 kWh per cubic meter pumped to Riyadh makes sense if you include the older process which requires oil to be burned to heat water first. Per capita, maybe Nicaragua can afford that. There are 65 countries poorer than Nicaragua.
sigwinch··on EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification
Trump has never won the popular vote.
sigwinch··on EU Parliament freezes US trade deal ratification
Putin had years to get any NATO promises in writing. I wonder why Georgia and Ukraine and now Scandinavia want membership?
sigwinch··on So, you’ve hit an age gate. What now?
I feel like mTLS could still work in third-party signing.
sigwinch··on Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
I can’t tell if GP is wry about Biden, or committing Type I error over Trump.

But yes today the questions are about how we treat politically-connected smugglers. What are the odds on a Justin Salsburey pardon?

sigwinch··on Overdose deaths are falling in America because of a 'supply shock': study
Right, these are Biden’s policies. Biden was superior on border and immigration issues.
sigwinch··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
“Still gangsta” I mutter to myself as I syntax-highlight punchcard #818 by hand and Port-a-Punch a replacement.
sigwinch··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
Prefixing a space on that command will keep it out of history.
sigwinch··on Oh My Zsh adds bloat
It requires a nerd font.
sigwinch··on A Nobel Prize cannot be revoked, shared, or transferred
Author Knut Hamsun (1920 literature Nobel laureate) gave the medal to Goebbels. After the war, he was arrested and explained that extreme Anglophobia was the source of his sympathies with the Nazi regime.

Born in 1859, he would have seen the “spheres of influence” of great powers. And some superpowers are back to speaking that way. Who would Hamsun have chosen today?

sigwinch··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
You’d think he’d want his name on a bunch of homes. Similarly, some salesman on the golf course has surely already pitched his name on a bunch of homes. I bet there’s a reason he’s been uninterested for so long.
sigwinch··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
“Built to rent” lately occurs in the sun belt and Midwest, in which fall most of the swing states.
sigwinch··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
I think the point is that he said he’d do it, and he’ll campaign that it’s done, even if nothing happens.
sigwinch··on US will ban Wall Street investors from buying single-family homes
Look into Trump Ocean Club in Panama. Openly popular for drug cartel money.
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