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by BryantD 7y ago
Important updates: a) This does not apply to US citizens or their family members[1]. b) This does not apply to cargo[2]. It appears that the President misspoke regarding point 2. [1] https://www.dhs.gov/news/2020/0
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by BryantD 7y ago
It's still beneficial to slow the spread. It will be easier for a health care system to handle X cases over the course of six months than X cases over the course of three months. Mass testing has the potential to get infected individua
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by BryantD 7y ago
I was wondering if it was an SRE when the original story came out. I'd be interested in seeing perspectives on how you avoid this scenario. While you could isolate data access by team in many models, you're still going to have eng
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by BryantD 7y ago
Thanks -- this prompted me to actually read Citizens United, that's a really good call out. Here's another one for you: Bloomberg is hiring campaign workers at a reported $6K a month with three catered meals a day. As a result, ot
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by BryantD 7y ago
FWIW, I've built systems using Google Forms and Sheets to organize groups of 500-1000 people. Particularly if you're propagating data across multiple sheets, you start to see errors at that point. A refresh usually clears them, bu
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by BryantD 7y ago
The DNC isn't in this picture. The Iowa Democratic Party (and the Nevada Democratic Party) commissioned the app. I don't think the problem is ideology here, I think it's "consulting firm."
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A few vendors sell a pencil-sized sleeve attached to an elastic strap that goes around the Apple case; I have one of those and it also works very well. Agree that it's an odd omission.
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by BryantD 7y ago
FWIW, I use the Smart Keyboard Folio from Apple for a somewhat different use case (pure writing) and I am pretty comfortable sitting down in a coffee shop and writing a few thousand words. It's certainly not as good as a mechanical key
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by BryantD 7y ago
Yeah, it's normal. A personal accountant can and often will handle a lot of bookkeeper duties on top of the accounting work. See https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/04011... for more.
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by BryantD 7y ago
Zillow | Seattle | Full-time | Onsite | Senior SRE and System Engineer Production Operations supports the core Zillow website and ancillary services. We're hiring both generalists who'll provide support across the production envir
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by BryantD 7y ago
The first chunk of that article is here[1]; worth deciding for yourself if you think this qualifies as speaking for the company or not. As you say, this may or may not be the specific objection. [1] https://techcrunch.com/20
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by BryantD 7y ago
Head over here: https://outgress.com/ See the activity heat map about halfway down the front page? That is (or could be) a single person's play pattern. It is ludicrously easy to figure out where the average player wor
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by BryantD 7y ago
No, they're (mostly) user-submitted and user-approved. In theory new locations on military bases aren't allowed as of a couple of years ago, but a few slip through the process. And, inconsistently, old ones aren't removed.
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by BryantD 7y ago
Losing G+ really hurt here, since that was the primary community tool. I didn't save as much as I wanted to. Luckily there are some epic stories in Google Docs. Actually... https://bit.ly/ingress-sitrep-homecoming-1 h
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by BryantD 7y ago
I don't think this is an insane question. My take: #1 -- gated communities are way bigger than a bungalow court and are much easier to isolate from the community around them. I think this correlation is a misapprehension. Here's a
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by BryantD 7y ago
Mind you, in some cases the regulations were put in place to discriminate against minorities. See https://crosscut.com/2018/12/rectifying-seattles-racist-past... for a great example. IMHO you can't just say &
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This is exactly the kind of discussion I was thinking of, FWIW. I tend to agree with this line of thought — responsibility is too diffuse in this case. So... what are other options here? Cause it is definitely bad for the public if people s
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by BryantD 7y ago
I think that in general, if there are predictable consequences to an action I take, I have some moral responsibility for those consequences. Don't you?
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by BryantD 7y ago
Laws always vary depending on who's in power and what social and political will exists. The can of worms was opened the minute someone said "The state/community should get to make decisions about what you can and cannot do.&q
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by BryantD 7y ago
You just typed a bunch of words into a text box. Did you think, as you were typing, that it didn't matter what you typed because your speech would have no effect? Or did you think that your words might convince someone to change their
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by BryantD 7y ago
When we're considering regulation, it's important to consider the activity we're regulating in context. Here's one extreme: it's legal to light a match. It's not legal to light a match and toss it into a gas pu
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by BryantD 7y ago
Although the general class of problem is real, this story didn't hold up under examination. Here's a follow-up article in Spiegel: https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/deepfakes-werden-erkennu... It'
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by BryantD 7y ago
BAMTech has had high volume days, obviously, but on reflection I couldn't think of any service launch they powered that'd be bigger than this. WWE, HBO relaunch, NHL, MLB -- none seem likely to generate as much demand as this.
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Nah -- the people buying the keys on the Steam Community Market are legit. I imagine it's something like this: Jack Criminal buys a bunch of keys from Valve with dirty money. Possibly Jack Criminal passes the keys off to Jane Criminal&
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I'm not sure you can draw that kind of conclusion from a survey administered to a self-selected group of people, and I'm pretty sure that talking about it like that to the group of people who will be filling out the next survey wi
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by BryantD 7y ago
AppleInsider is really excessively biased, even for an Apple-focused site. I'm an Apple user from way back and I rarely find their opinion pieces useful.
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Thank you for finding that! I was looking but failed. It's great stuff. (Disclaimer: I used to work with Eric and Sandra.)
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by BryantD 7y ago
Yeah -- I think Tim Cook has better instincts than most but that doesn't mean I expect him to always do the right thing.
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This is very cool. In the same vein, I recommend Project Gorgon from Eric Heimburg and Sandra Powers -- a two person MMO, but still pretty cool. Check it out here: https://projectgorgon.com
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by BryantD 7y ago
a) Probably wise not to conflate homelessness with the opioid crisis. I would be a fool to argue that the latter correlates in any way with winter temperatures. b) Different scale, man. Seattle's issues are way bigger than Methadone Mi

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