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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"Before anyway throws the "they export their pollution" argument at me, you need to look at the stats on global GHG per capita." I think it's more useful to look at carbon emissions per unit GDP, and the change ther
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
>Employees are a resource provided by "the public" (they are the public). Corporation is Latin for "body of people". They are the public too. 58 percent of Americans own stock. The largest shareholders (like BlackRock
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
I don't imagine it would either, which is I assume why someone said something pointed to the government of the Solomons. Maybe someday, but for now China isn't really in a position to try to rebase outside the First Island Chain w
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"Because it's hard to impossible to get alternate services for roads, water and electricity, i.e common carriers." You are omitting telephone service, which is also a common carrier despite being arguably more competitive tha
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
No one is protected by the First Amendment. The government is forbidden to do things. "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of..." several things, including freedom of speech. The idea that corporations were given Firs
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
"You really think that the police, especially federal police, would have disobeyed a direct request from the President asking them to stand down?" This takes me back to my German friends confidently predicting that the election of
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
That's true, though as another comment in this thread points out I still don't think the math works. But also it doesn't seem to be what that study found: "A new study from academic researchers found that 66.5 percent of
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
I live in the Dallas area. A typical salary in my corner of tech is 150k. That's about 30 percent in income taxes. Sales tax, etc. is (more or less) deductible from that. Like all of the 92 percent of Americans with health insurance, m
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
If 92% of American households have health insurance, which they do, and by law there is an annual out-of-pocket maximum on health insurance, which there is, I find it somewhat unlikely that 10% of the country will be medically bankrupt in a
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
In my experience the actual expert does not need to be in the room. The actual expert wrote the standards that the college kids are auditing against. And even then, he or she is an expert in writing standards, which is not necessarily quite
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
As a Red Team manager with both the OSCP and CISSP, in my opinion neither is worthless but they are oversold and they aren't really comparable. The CISSP is a risk management cert that's sometimes oversold as an infosec cert. It&#
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
This is true, but cultures can experience shame, as the Germans (and to the lesser extent the Japanese) did after WWII. I work for a company with a 30-year-old felony conviction (as a company). Pretty much the first thing that happens on ne
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by 0xBDB 4y ago
I agree. I think the grandparent is maybe describing an ideal state, but in practice most "DevOps" and "SRE" positions I see go by on job boards are for either sysadmins who can do some automation and infrastructure as c
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
"The school is effectively making the computer a terminal into their system." I agree with this. If you had an rdp / citrix / ssh session to your employer you'd expect them to control what's on the other end. A
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
"If GME can be shorted to the extent it is despite that being illegal" Shorting is only illegal if it's naked. When I ask people who say this what they mean, the answer is usually that the shorting must be naked because so ma
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
Russia is still on SWIFT (as of today) and still legal to do business with for the most part. Check with your lawyer, but unless your contractors are sanctioned entities or contracting through one, I would think you pay them however you&#x2
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
The marketplace killed it for me. I ordered a prebuilt PC for my kid from Newegg without realizing it was from a third-party seller. The seller printed a shipping label which counts as "shipped" so my credit card was charged. Afte
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
When I was a systems and network engineer I used a VMWare and GNS3 lab a lot for labbing out network scenarios and testing configs. These days as a Red Teamer I use VMWare for setting up vulnerable virtual machines and entire Active Directo
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
I was always under the impression that this is general practice with infamous people, to avoid mix-ups which might get the media outlet sued, however frivolously. But this may not be the case, including with Oswald, who apparently used his
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
This debate is pretty academic though. Article V is clear that the composition (or existence) of the Senate can't be changed even by amendment without the unanimous consent of the states. Arguably, even a new constitution couldn't
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
https://theworknumber.com/ You can check your own for free. Employers buy in bulk. Mine is completely accurate and includes full and accurate W2 info, i.e., salary and bonus (not stock grant) history to the dollar. Lying on
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
It varies quite a bit in the U.S. too. I live near Dallas. In Dallas (pop 1.4 million) jaywalking will absolutely result in a very expensive citation. In Fort Worth, 30 miles away (population 800,000) it is of course equally illegal but y
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
https://ourworldindata.org/optimism-pessimism The tl;dr of that is that the world is getting better at a rate that's almost impossible to believe. In fact, it is impossible to believe, which is why so many people don&
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
You should probably know that there is literally not one fully confirmed case of this ever happening. https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3qslhq/where...
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
I keep a list. There are various reasons for these, ranging from petty and personal to Global Evil: Google, Disney, the New York Times Co., Salesforce, Amazon, Facebook, Bank of America, Equifax, United Airlines, WeWork, Blizzard, Marriott,
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
"Though if you're in a specialized planning district, you can be looking at sales taxes of 10%+" The maximum cumulative rate by law is 8.25%.
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
My experience having gone from Principal Systems Engineer to cybersecurity analyst to eventually pen test and then red team is that cybersecurity pays substantially more than most other IT disciplines, except maybe SE and Dev(Sec)Ops. The 7
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by 0xBDB 5y ago
David Graeber was an anthropologist, not an economist, and a leader of Occupy Wall Street and author of "Debt: The First 5000 Years". I think the reference is to the latter. Whether you should take it seriously or consider it flat
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by 0xBDB 6y ago
Unfortunately this isn't the case. The Pleistocene North American mass extinction, which wiped out the saber-toothed tiger and North American mastodon, was a result of hunting pressure about 10,000 years ago. The positive stereotypes y
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by 0xBDB 6y ago
This makes sense, though I'm still not sure I understand exactly how it works. Thanks!

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