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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> Is the company supplying arms to Russia? Is the coworker the boss who lied about >doing so? Is there some evidence that this is a defense/military-related project despite Google's public denials that that is the case? Hone
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
It's fair to say that the primary cause of Texan separatism was slavery. It's also fair to say that Santa Anna was a proto-fascist and that was a legitimate factor, not a convenience. Lorenzo de Zavala, the former Mexican finance
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
I'm not a lawyer and I've heard of more ridiculous laws than that, so quite possibly, but even if that's the case, I wouldn't think it would cover billing x and collecting 0.1x when you realize someone can't pay x.
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> What if you 'negotiate' and the hospital and the insurance company just reject? If you are sick and can't negotiate, and no one can negotiate on your behalf, or the provider won't negotiate, and if they sue, and if
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
> Just being in a hospital bed for one night without anything being done costs $3000/night No, it doesn't. It costs whatever you can negotiate it to cost. I've been without insurance; one experience isn't data, but in
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
Yes, so this is where the brains and effort (and time, forgot time) come in. The anecdotes in your links (that I read - can't get through all of them right now) have a common theme, which is that people died because they either needed
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by 0xBDB 2y ago
We (I am one, though fortunate to have excellent insurance) really are not one such group. https://www.healthline.com/health/diabetes/16-tips-to-help-y... I am not a fan of the American healthcare system. Navigati
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
I would say intrusive (to the ability to sleep), rather than invasive. I tried CPAP. I am a frequent tosser-turner and the pull from the hose was enough to awaken me dozens of times per night, which obviously defeats (part of) the purpose.
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
At the risk of dating myself, I copied Basic programs by hand out of RUN magazine, typed them into my Commodore 64, and saved them on floppies on the separate add-on floppy drive I begged my parents for. ( I am just a bit too young for the
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
I was hired to implement and operate a specific product for a specific customer who paid for four years of onsite support. I do other things too, but that's my one contractually obligated responsibility and my primary one. Turns out th
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
California is the one state where this argument might have a chance, because both Meta and Snapchat are there and maybe some of the users Meta talked into this are too. However I wouldn't put the chance anywhere near 100%: https:&#x2F
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Snapchat isn't a phone or in-person voice conversation. State two-party recording consent rules don't apply. If you work for a large employer in the United States, they are probably decrypting all of your TLS traffic to every site
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
"5 creative malicious actors can out perform 5,000 Cyber analysts + Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR) programs - it's not even a comparison." Hi. I'm a Principal Security Consultant, former Red Team
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
It happens everywhere. The North African cousins of these Canarians enslaved and presumably killed well over a million Europeans. https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/742848945914609664/b...
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
"Building more housing is like building more freeways." Possibly. But what building freeways does exactly is itself not uncontroversial. The article in this HN thread isn't great, but some of the comments are at least thought
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
"NIMBYism is directly proportionate to the amount of capital you can access." I tend to think it's more of a bell curve. The lower classes want more housing. The middle classes are NIMBY because the majority of their net wort
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
I am empathetic to your concerns but I may or may not agree with your proposed solutions. I do think it's always important to keep in mind that empathy and compassion aren't the same thing, or always aligned. Compassion is more ut
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
It isn't, but it's not that far from being a serious comment. The old man has an ancient PC choking on dust under his desk that runs a QWS3270 terminal that updates the mainframe directly. If it's a big bank, the bank owns th
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
OP asserted "probably", so not ==. In the U.S. class, income, and race are correlated for various historical reasons. Obviously "correlated" means "on average", not a rigid relationship. But discriminating base
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Possibly, but the insurer cares about GitHub, not its customers. If your account or even a thousand GitHub accounts get popped, the only risk to GitHub is reputational. I would guess this has more to do with the SEC's new reporting req
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
In my experience people in the US aren't envious of the NHS. Most of us are aware that the grass is not green on any side of that fence. People in the US would like a system that works. That means not waiting 666 days for a CPAP. It al
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
I would say the blessing isn't even in disguise. I've gone twice, in 2017 and last year, and last year the crowds in the main hallways and village lines were suffocating and I'm not usually claustrophobic. An extra couple of
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
It's strongly implied that Holmes used morphine for recreation as well by the fact that Watson had to ask which habit he was indulging in The Sign of the Four. "Which is it today," I asked, "morphine or cocaine?" &
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
The movie is an obvious satire. I've never understood how people get proto-fascism from the book. Even assuming it isn't a satire itself (and I could be convinced either way) it dwells on the military in a conservative society but
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Not yet covered by others: The Code Book, by Simon Singh [History of Cryptography] The Idea Factory, by John Gertner [Bell Labs] The Information, by James Gleick [Shannon and Information Theory. I haven't read the mentioned A Mind at P
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
I would have said it's more or less the American libertarian publication. Not a dig at the grandparent commenter who was obviously unfamiliar with it, but being upset at it for being a libertarian opinion mouthpiece is sort of like b
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
FWIW, I asked my last boss (a CISO) about taking advantage of the layoffs to staff up and his response was that he couldn't afford Meta and Google talent. I think this is a common perception among tech's less privileged - the man
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
This is a good list. To make it more modern (i.e., software defined or infrastructure as code or whatever buzzword is current) you could then do it all in Terraform, Ansible, etc. on a Proxmox / PFSense / VMWare home lab. Maybe ev
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
Gates isn't the only one. John D. Rockefeller basically eradicated hookworm in the American South, and was instrumental in funding a significant number of the country's historically Black colleges and universities, among many othe
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by 0xBDB 3y ago
"Optimum is zero, because if you could wave a magic wand to magically make the amount of accidents zero, it would be a good thing to wave the wand." You are conflating optimum (highest value outcome for all variables) and ideal (h

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