BrainInAJar

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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
There should not be zoning policy. It exists out of racist midcentury policy to keep "those sorts of people" out of the neighborhood
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
> Why not just build a massive cluster of skyscrapers and put all the people who want cheap rent there? 1: where? and 2: these homeowners will oppose it, because it still drives down the value of their investment because it drives down d
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
> Here in the U.S., I have to notify ICE everytime I change my address Yeah, like OP said, "totalitarian shithole"
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
Just like how policing, the military and roads stop when congress decides to shut things down
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
Nationalize the internet. I'm not kidding. We paid for it in the first place, and if it's such a critical piece of economic infrastructure that market intervention needs to be mitigated, the solution is to nationalize it. How? Tak
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
it's true, Ange is a wizard with the PDF format. Always weird crap in there
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
The irrelevancy of the nation state is something neoliberals and socialists agree on, yes.
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
Freedom of capital movement without freedom of labour movement privileges the capital class over the labour class. The only equitable free trade agreements include the right to follow the jobs, such as the EU.
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
Sun was a company that very much focussed on correctness. "Good enough", wasn't. Features were delivered complete and solid. The downside of that is that features were delivered infrequently, and they sacrificed a lot of perf
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
it very much is a terrible place to work
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
The democrats don't need to abandon identity politics, but talking about poverty helps minorities and white poor people. As it stands though, the Democratic party won't touch economic issues. They've got a supermajority in
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
The Democratic Socialists of America went from 5,000 people to 25,000 people in a year.
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
I grew up poor, but I'm not now, and I can't bring myself to throw away anything, because what if I need it some day?
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
No it shouldn't. If I make a nazi movie nobody has to show it in their theatre. If I write a nazi book no publisher has to pick it up and print it. If you want a nazi domain name system then go ahead and create it. Run a DNS server, ad
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
They should rebel collectively, through a union perhaps
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How the Vote Hacking Was Done at DefCon25(alienvault.com)
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
it's unclear what "creating" entails. If I write a crypto library that a piece of ransomware uses did I create the ransomware?
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
My work is really flexible, so I come in around 930, and I tend to leave around 4:45 or so. I'm just not productive after that so there's no use sitting in a desk killing time
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
for approximately 2 months, before the burnout leads to you doing nothing but wasting time on HN
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
> Oof. I wonder what this means for Whole Foods culture and employees. > If you don't know, John Mackey, the CEO / founder, is a major believer in conscious capitalism and of empowering his employees. > Whole Food employe
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
As a Canadian tech worker in SF... Nope. I tripled my salary coming down here even in just nominal terms (ie, before you factor in the exchange rate that eats 25% of your salary.) I hate SF/SiValley. I would love nothing more than to g
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
That's basically what ThreatGRID did
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
Lots of malware will detect it's running virtualized and change behaviour (generally to "do nothing") and there are mitigations around this detection (removing virtualbox/vmware specific serial numbers, virtualization dr
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
Just use ZFS. It's been battle tested for the last 13 years in production, and was written by careful, thoughtful, intelligent engineers to solve a problem. BTRFS was written sloppy to solve the problem of "oh no, Sun did a thing
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
free marketeers are idiots...
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
American conservatism has morphed in to just doing whatever pisses off liberals, even if it's foolish.
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
good luck with that.
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
It's always Americans who can, at worst, get their laptops and phones seized that have this stupid ill-informed opinion. If you enter the United States as a non-citizen and don't submit you will be denied entry for 5 years or life
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
They don't exactly broadcast it on loudspeakers. I live in the West End of Vancouver. It's pretty common.
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by BrainInAJar 9y ago
> It drives me nuts that kids growing up in my hometown now don't understand these magnificent creatures, don't feel any special connection to them. Pods of orcas visit Stanley Park and False Creek at least once every couple ye

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