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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
That WAS true, until Scalia et al eviscerated the protections of the 5th Amendment if you invoke it after you start talking. Then (according to the majority opinion of the Court), your subsequent invocation of the 5th Amendment CAN be used
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
It's a puff of logic in either circumstance: If he's wrong, he never had exclusive rights to public land in the first place and it was not his to lose. If he's right, he obviously did not suffer the loss of the value of that
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
Dramatized in a scene from "Fat Man and Little Boy" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ0P7R9CfCY
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
I wonder about a connection between the collapse in commercial real estate and the recent flood of editorials, news segments, interviews, public statements, tweets, etc., railing against Work-from-Home. It feels like a lot of investor-class
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by CottonMcKnight 3y ago
I have always felt like "imaginary" was a poorly-chosen name. After all, I can plot, in two dimensions, a function that has "imaginary" roots, and yet I can see those roots in the graph. There is no discontinuity.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
We can have empathy for sociopaths and psychopaths, and still want them separated from the rest of society. We can try to understand and address the socioeconomic causes of crime, while also aggressively deterring crime and punishing crimin
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
There is surely a quantifiable way to measure how much a stupid or off-putting name like Pop!_OS or CockroachDB drives away potential users, especially in business.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Every invasion of Russia in modern history has been defeated by winter, and now NATO is gaining the world's best winter fighting forces as an ally. Even Moscow knows not to f* with the Finns. Couldn't be happier about this allianc
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
His personal lawyer went to prison for 2 years on charges related to this crime, and was the primary witness against Trump in this Grand Jury investigation. Whatever he told them, along with whatever other evidence was presented, it was suf
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
The second meeting was scheduled for after the CEO checked his references. Then the second meeting never happened and "things got weird." I wonder what his references said.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Iridium constellation orbits at 780km, while Starlink is slightly lower at 550km. Don't know how much, if any, difference that makes in the signal strength requirements. As I understand it, Iridium was designed with the tradeoff of acc
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Always love an opportunity to link to my favorite Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_future
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
One of my favorite definitions from the Devil's Dictionary is: BAROMETER, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
TL;DR: how a data company uses their own product.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
> update the “theft alarm software logic” to extend the length of the alarm sound from 30 seconds to one minute Almost literally Steven Wright's joke: "I couldn't fix your brakes so I made your horn louder."
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Verizon even markets "5G Nationwide" as "performance comparable to our award-winning 4G LTE". So what's the point? You have to spend more $$ to get "5G Ultra Wideband" on your plan, which is the real deal.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
I'm sure he believes his multi-million-dollar income is perfectly justified.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
The U.S. Senate exists to protect the interests of landowners against the overwhelming interests of population centers. That is the bulwark against "tyranny of the majority." If sentiment is so overwhelming that they can't ev
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
put it in a Kubernetes cluster and I'm sold
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Then there's The Abyss. Where the Director's Cut is pretty much a completely different movie.
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Also, "make the web totally OS agnostic"? Clutches pearls how will Microsoft control the web if any old operating system is allowed to access it!?
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
The Trump Organization got away with doing this in New York for decades. He'd stiff one real estate developer figuring there was always another who would be star-struck by the "opportunity" to work with him. (He was right.)
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
There should be a Godwin's Law for "we're a republic, not a democracy."
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Speaking of badly-named hooks, this tweet infuriated me. If it's legal, the linter should allow it. F$@k "consistency." https://twitter.com/acdlite/status/1581401077915975680
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
Ironically, this data dump could prove particularly useful for me. I have a Twitter account for which I no longer remember the username, and have lost the password. It is, and has been for years, impossible to recover the account, because o
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
> The company provides a $25 DoorDash credit to employees who work more than 10 hours a day. Wow, what a generous perk!
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
I'm an aging elder millenial, I've spent my entire career in tech, and these stories scare me. Lately, I have started to think about starting my own business so that I do not suddenly find myself unemployed and unemployable in fiv
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
In that context, it should really be "Vox automatos vox Dei".
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
"In the fall of 1972 President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection." - Hugo Rossi https:&
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by CottonMcKnight 4y ago
It's affectionately known as a Fuck You stop, and the easiest solution is to put the slowest people up front, instead of writing lengthy blog posts about why it's a noble thing. https://slowerhiking.com/skills-tech

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