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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
When I hear stuff like this, I begin to ask questions: Why is your supply chain so vulnerable that a cyberattack on business partner (or multiple) causes you to close down *all* plants in your country? That's insane. That sounds like y
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
From the video: > Communication between humans and machines is hindered by a lack of shared awareness. Yeah... by the fact that humans aren't aware that AI is just a bunch of 1s and 0s and not actually aware. There's no intel
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
> I often wonder how money is stored. In a computer account. Here's a 22-second clip[0] from a 60-Minutes interview with a former chair of the Federal Reserve talking about how money is lent to banks. Literally just numbers on a co
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
Yup, they're paying for the privilege to test their product
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
https://stackoverflow.com/a/56220630/2561579 TLDR: * ImageMagick has more questions and follows on StackOverflow (read: better for getting help) * ImageMagick has more features * GraphicsMagick is faster with a ca
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
The main problem I've run into while running my own email server is IP reputation issues. It is still an ongoing issue for me. You can read my previous IP reputation issue in this comment [11]. You should make sure your server's
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
Further down in the article, there's a more technical explanation under the heading "Can you elaborate on the technical issue?"
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
> Are we the baddies? Yes, we are the baddies. This is where a large portion of our tax dollars go instead of providing the people in the US with universal healthcare, public housing, high-speed rail, etc. Instead of building a better li
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
I think it's pretty clear that China isn't going to bail them out like how the US bailed out our failed companies back in 2008. China cares more about protecting the homebuyers and contractors who are building the homes more than
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
Hakim did a very good short introduction [0] on defectors in general and how this term is used in our media. In the video, he also briefly brings up Yeonmi Pak's story and how it's changed over time as well as the conflicts of int
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
> I also think of him as an example of how activism can consume people and ruin their lives The feds and those in power ruined his life. Our legal system ruined his life. Our society ruined his life. This line of thinking is like "d
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
> I've seen non-shitty standups where the effort people put into to make stuff work was valued both by team mates and management Agreed, but those people must truly believe that their work matters.
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
> team members do not believe in their core that their work is valued Yes, that's the reason. If you know the work you do doesn't matter, you're going to get subpar results. I won't speak for everyone, but the work I
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
I switched from Arch to Fedora in 2015. I don't miss anything from AUR. When I was on Arch, I used a bunch of stuff from AUR, but I honestly can't remember what I used. So, it seems like it's worked out okay. I honestly got t
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
https://archive.md/F5FUk > All over the country, hardware from Huawei Technologies Co. and ZTE Corp. keeps American telecom networks humming. In the coming months, many of those networks are going to start ripping it all
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
I'm very skeptical about anything coming out of Freedom House when its chair was the co-author of the Patriot Act... like come on. There is quite an obvious conflict of interest in what this organization puts out. More often than not,
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
Wage theft reported in Iowa using unpaid overtime as an example: http://www.iowapolicyproject.org/images/150818-wagetheft-Fig... EPI has some good articles as well: https://www.epi.org/publication/
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
One difference between then and now is that more people then thought of themselves as workers, which gave a sense of connection and common struggle to build solidarity. They also worked closer together, lived closer together, etc. We'r
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
It's crazy how much better the US manned photos are on the Hasselblad. There's absolutely no imperfections. I wonder how the US managed to get such crystal clear photos.
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
Better than getting bombed if you ask me.
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
A US company wanted to build a pipeline through Afghanistan in the 90s. Since the Taliban was in control of the area, the US tried to work with them to build the pipeline, but the Taliban didn't didn't agree with having a pipeline
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
Incredible. I would love to have a good high-speed intercity train network in the United States connecting the major cities in each State. I just looked up an Amtrak from Atlanta to Dallas: 3 legs around 64 hours. Cries in American. (ther
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
Events don't happen in a vacuum. The US placed missiles at the border of the USSR and pointed them at the USSR [0], and in response, the USSR placed missiles in Cuba. It was the US that provoked those missiles. These are responses to U
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
If communism and socialism is so bad, why is there even a need for an embargo? Surely these socialist countries will collapse under their own poor economic policies and not need a 60-year embargo to help tip the scales, which prevents them
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
You can see how much the Fed has been propping up the economy in the M1 money stock chart [0]. They've been injecting so much cash... that's a lot of fucking money. I think when they slow down, the market will crash. Money needs t
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
Anecdotal, but when our local government does a project, they only look at the price tag. If they can afford it, it gets approved. Building something is very labor intensive (the way we do it here in the US; the article talks about China an
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
I've been having a lot of trouble sending mail to Gmail recently. It seems that recently the IP block that my mail server's IP address is in got listed in a Spamhaus database. I checked neighboring IPs, and they're all listed
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
> An ounce of prevention really is worth a pound of cure. We have the technology. The cure is cheap. It's criminally insane that the US doesn't make life-saving or life-bettering drugs more available for free.
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
> I always have mixed feelings on if art influences society ... or it is just a representation of it. It's a little bit of both. There is a model of society called the "base and superstructure" [0]. The base comprises of t
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by EarthIsHome 5y ago
A 2-hour round trip commute is insane. Let's look at a 1-hour round trip commute assuming 240 working days per year. This means 240 hours gone in a year to your commute. That's 10 full whole days. A 2-hour round trip commute means

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