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by CamTin 6y ago
https://media.ccc.de/v/36c3-10575-how_to_design_highly_relia... is a really interesting talk by some guys from CERN who have to design chips for use in particle accelerators and other physics experiments where they m
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by CamTin 6y ago
The average person isn't doing any mining, specific people are. It has utility for the people doing it.
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by CamTin 6y ago
If you're set up for it, you can always set it up on a sandboxed SSID with access only to the internet (or even just to sites you choose, like an FTP server of your ebooks). This is probably a good idea with most sketchy gadgets that &
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by CamTin 6y ago
This is the main lesson we've learned in Texas this week. Why go it alone? We're asking for help from the rest of the country anyway (Federal emergency funds, etc). If we'd just played nice to start with we wouldn't be i
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by CamTin 6y ago
I'm watching https://floss.social/@forgefed very closely. It's a project to provide a federated GitHub-alike/JIRA-alike application (code hosting and ticketing) on top of ActivityPub/the Fediverse. I thi
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by CamTin 6y ago
So is the Declaration of Independence. So is Matthew 5. What's your point?
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by CamTin 6y ago
I think this is legally the case in most places, but IMO it is extremely unfair to give ownership acting through the corporate entity the same rights as employees, which are actual people.
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by CamTin 6y ago
> What tactics are ok for a company to use to combat unions if it doesn't want them? They don't have a right to combat them at all. Union organizing is literally a human right. Of course ownership doesn't want them -- the
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by CamTin 6y ago
"the editor becomes the ssh client itself" is effectively how I use Emacs. TRAMP ( https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/TrampMode ) makes editing remote files pretty much as seamless as editing local ones. I even se
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by CamTin 6y ago
It's not clear why this would be the case. Why should we care which "party" somebody is from when then issue at hand is a revolving door between DC and the Valley? The military-industrial complex has done fine under a two-par
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by CamTin 6y ago
The Sanders campaign was trying to address these things but was ratfucked by party insiders (who are in the pocket of the ones benefiting from all the regulatory capture) and is currently, humiliatingly, stumping for Biden. You can't f
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by CamTin 6y ago
A lot, if not most, of America's current problems are the result of the settler-colonial pattern that Columbus established.
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by CamTin 6y ago
The United States before 1924 for one. Passports and travel documents didn't really exist at all until Napoleonic-ish times and weren't widespread until about WWI. I personally feel that defining "citizen" in any other w
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by CamTin 6y ago
This is correct IMO. Most of the workforce at any office-y (including tech) company of significant size isn't a positive investment for their employer. We're all just spending our days trying to prove that there's good reason
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by CamTin 6y ago
Because their power rests on fossil fuel revenue?
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by CamTin 6y ago
This is the premise of Cheapass Games' "US Patent No. 1" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Patent_No._1
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by CamTin 6y ago
this sounds like "dc" except with dc you'd need to add a "p" at the end to print the top of the stack
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by CamTin 7y ago
If there's one thing the Air Force is known for, it's doing things fast and cheap, with restraint and elegance.
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by CamTin 7y ago
The "remind" program has a pretty well-developed DSL to represent dates and recurring schedules, with backends to produce postscript/html/etc calendars. https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
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by CamTin 8y ago
It doesn't but it would continue buying for longer if the price went significantly and permanently up. But the point of this whole thread is that labor isn't just another commodity like aluminum. It's a special, weird thing a
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by CamTin 8y ago
(almost) nobody would dream of working for Facebook if the salaries weren't there. The "problem" with the games industry, and other industries with prestige jobs like publishing, film, etc., is that their toxicity derives fro
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by CamTin 8y ago
Yes, this was exactly my point. We shouldn't care about productivity: we want affordable childcare, as much sick time as a doctor tells us to take, and guaranteed vacations. Making the argument that ownership should give us these thing
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by CamTin 8y ago
I'm in favor of treating workers better as much as anyone, but I'm dubious about claims that European-style pro-worker policies are actually better for the bottom line. The US has higher productivity than most EU states. Given bro
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by CamTin 8y ago
The traditional Inuit diet is obviously much much lighter on starches and vegetables.
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by CamTin 8y ago
Right, the point being that even absent the requirement to do so, dairies have figured out that it's cheaper/better to all use the same packaging.
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by CamTin 8y ago
If your business is essentially burning VC money for a decade to buy a ticket in the Unicorn lottery, then the easy answer is to spend a lot more money. You can do this by poaching expensive people, by offering more, or by hiring lots more
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by CamTin 8y ago
On the other hand, many container types are already de facto standardized: the lid of the pint of the cottage cheese and the quart of yogurt in my fridge right now, for example, are interchangeable even though they're from totally diff
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by CamTin 8y ago
The situation is similar, if not worse, in the US, and the latter is true: absent government pension programs like Social Security, almost nobody can afford to retire. Social Security is the retirement plan for regular people. Basically o
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by CamTin 8y ago
If you do elect for a trial, you are going to be waiting for a long time (on Rikers), because the system is overloaded and isn't actually provisioned to provide justice for the volume of people forced through it. This is the same reaso
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by CamTin 8y ago
They basically are. There are some "Mormon" sects that aren't LDS but they are much smaller, and LDS adherents want to disambiguate.

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