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If the car breaks down maybe ask a stranger to look up the number for a truck and hit dial, then hand the phone to you. In a public place, of course. If I were in a gas station and someone who was dressed normally asked me that I probably wouldn’t refuse.


In Christian circles some people are KJV-only, only reading from the 1611 KJV. But articles like this demonstrate that languages change dramatically over time.

Thus I regard KJV-onlyism to be a passing fad; for if another 400 years passes, the writing in the 1611 will go from being strange to our eyes, to being unreadable in the future by anyone but trained scholars.


Very true. The trueness to the original text is lacking in KJV, which is the major argument against that translation. It is more written to be old English proper prose than meaningfully translated. Modern translations like ESV are much closer to source, although hard to read compared against others like NIV and NLT which are written for comprehension.


Hmm I’ve always heard that the KJV isn’t perfect but it is closer to the ESV than the NIV. These three charts suggest this[1]. I do know there are places where the KJV isn’t faithful to the sources, such as in the use of the word Easter for Passover in Acts 12:4.

It is a pretty translation, but harder to follow in my experience. I only use the KJV when talking with other denominations because it is more readily accepted than my favorite (NASB85).

[1] https://www.chapter3min.org/bible-translations-comparison-ch...


Oh interesting I thought KJV was more like NIV. Looks like it’s closer to meaning than I assumed. Nice article.


Kinda does a number on the whole "literal word of god" thing doesn't it?


Hey, if the KJV was good enough for Paul and the Apostles, it’s good enough for me


It’s political theater. Not intended to actually accomplish much except “See!? We did something! Now vote for us again.”

Meanwhile, open source printers can and will just bypass it.


Doesn't the law include that devices which fail to implement such checks are barred from sale?

>In addition, knowingly disabling or circumventing the blocking software is a misdemeanor.

The inobvious thing is that that aspect of the law cannot be applied to felons or persons convicted of misdemeanor domestic violence, since like failing to pay the tax stamp on a Class-III firearm or accessory, it would require self-incrimination, which thus far, is still illegal.


Thank you, I too was confused at the purpose of this



I used a joystick with a four-way hat that allowed simple and intuitive strafing in all directions along with thrust in four directions from the joystick itself. I got devastating with that combo. Spent hours mastering it.

Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital: https://ebay.us/m/Hxi8Wh


Automation made the TV inexpensive, but if you look at a chart on inflation almost everything that cannot be easily automated has risen in price.

https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/cpichart2019-...


Surely U.S. housing was not twice as automatable 12-13 years ago as it is now.


No, that rose in price for different reasons


Automations do create jobs, but fewer jobs. Businesses wouldn’t invest so much money if they had to keep the same number of workers. Automation necessarily reduces the number of humans working in aggregate at one task.

What DOES go up with automation is demand. Fewer farmers today than 100 years ago, but significantly more mouths to feed.

What also increases is new kinds of jobs; entirely new fields. The automobile shrank the number of buggy whip makers, but taxi drivers increased. Then the internet increased Uber drivers on top of taxi drivers.


This type of automation does not create jobs, and we are seeing that in jobs numbers. You're right it does reduce the amount of labour needed, hence why we are seeing equities rise why people's wages/opportunities shrink.

Get ready for french revolution v2, but global, the ruling class only exists because the working class tolerates them. This just won't work.


Hence the need for an AI panopticon. Monitor and squish rebellions while they’re still in the planning phase.


Speed (both in the CPU/memory usage and in speed of editing using advanced commands), backwards compatibility with older servers, ubiquity (guaranteed it is on every server you touch), insane feature count vs Nano, and my fingers mostly stay on the home row.

Its major downfall is the commands are hardly intuitive, but I forced myself to learn it by doing everything in Vim (including shopping lists) and it now feels comfortable.

Then you have situations where you have no choice. I work for a company with over 100,000 servers and they only install Vim and disallow us installing anything else.

Not that we would have time; we’re in and out of each server in five minutes then on to the next ticket.


I won't deny that vim has an "insane" feature count (particularly with plugins), but people who claim this kind of comparison typically vastly underestimate nano's own feature count and flexibility / extensibility.

And I'm surprised this usually comes as a surprise to people, given nano provides the ability for both internal (i.e. macros) and external scripts to manipulate its buffer. In principle you could even run non-interactive vim commands through nano if you really wanted to.


That’s a fair point, but the rest are still relevant. I simply cannot use Nano at my job but once you learn the basics Vi is not bad.


The problem with defining “living wage” is you must trust that the person defining it has your best interests in mind, and is calculating it while including _your_ needs.

For example, you don’t want me to be the one to define “living wage.” I’ve been a prepper/bushcrafter for 20 years… the ACTUAL “living wage” is _zero_. There are innumerable resources all around you if you know how to find and use them.


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