MikePlacid

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by MikePlacid 2y ago
Allow each reader to have his own moderation. Basically, I want to be able to enforce 3 rules: 1. There are people I want to read always. 2. There are people I want to read never. 3. I want some random sample from all other people, in propo
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by MikePlacid 2y ago
> boring similar photos I've probably already saw like 100 times from a slightly different angle I’ve started a blog about my summer house in the Sierra Nevada foothills as a way to stay connected with friends and family. Suddenly,
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
> Humanity has never needed billionaires and only in abstract theory does their existence benefit the rest. I’ve witnessed how decisions are made in a country with no billionaires - they were made by Politburo guys. I’ve also witnessed h
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
> if you are born rich, you get to be rich, if you are born poor you get to stay poor. I came to the US with $700 in debt. But I didn’t stay poor. >Then it seems natural to start to dislike each other. It may be natural, but it seems
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Well, destruction of a competitor is always good for owners of the company, not for workers.
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
>All it would take is one activist shareholder to blow that whole thing apart. The following fascinating story about stealing money from Pacific fleet operations mentions 27 (twenty seven) whistleblowers whose reports were ignored: http
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
> processing is usually stuck at 99% Why call it 99% then, call it 49%.
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Looking at my Ricochet modem: mesh networks are so cool, but…
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Well, speaking of airplane industry one thing is obvious - you can’t build great airplanes without money and you can’t get large sums of money without building great airplanes. The survival/prosperity question is of balance, not of pre
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Industrial espionage does not necessarily improves engineering culture. When I visited NITsEVT, a big-big-big organization dedicated to adapting of the stolen IBM 360/370 software to Russian language and Russian computer variants - I w
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Right direction to go, comrades! Now, start dismantling the shower and the toilet - save the Earth.
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Well, what about your own dwelling. Each of your rooms can house one additional family. And yes, I am counting a living room and a dining room too: Communal apartments (Russian singular: коммунальная квартира, romanized: kommunal'naya
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
> state-backed construction on a postwar scale One more innocent question: Should our state build enough houses just for existing population or for all South America population too?
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Shhh! I would pay to watch America moves this way.
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
You forgot one crucial step in that book: nationalize all the housing and pack more families into the existing units.
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
I’ve lived in a country without sprawl and without the automobile. I’ll watch with great interest if this country moves in that direction.
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Could you please suggest any mechanism for limiting anybody’s input into decisions?
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
> but it's still piracy if you don't pay for a service in the ways they provide. Nope, it’s called “negotiation”. Here’s the money I want to pay for your service. You don’t want it? Fine, I’ll leave it here in case you change y
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
> But the prestigious and serious news organisations still do perform serious high-quality reporting and investigative journalism. You’ve omitted one word: honest.
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
I remember clicking on some Google ads - when they were unobtrusive and textual - just to get these new nice guys some additional revenue (often ads were “on-topic” even). But these jumping, blinking, content obtrusing things? And I am on a
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Most probably. Petro is the Ukrainian first name, while Petrov is the Russian last name. Zailenko is the Ukranian last name. So the only valid combination is Ukranian. (Do not ask me how I know this. I can’t explain. Just a trained neural n
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Technical curiosity: how site owners are able to detect blockers and why blockers are not able to bypass detection? As for ads I prefer Brave Browser model, where I pay websites directly, bypassing advertisers.
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
> I ran about 30k machines with sshpass and it worked just fine. Easy to script. I don’t understand at all why we need something else here. Do you keep all your passwords in one directory or in something more complicated?
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
You are probably asking about the passh page. Examples there show that sshpass creates a new permanent tty entry with each use, while passh does not. More importantly though is that sshpass keeps your password permanently on your computer,
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Nice article explaining why Apple won while Google lost: https://www.theverge.com/24003500/epic-v-google-loss-apple-w...
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
> Apple and Google both arrived at 30% as Thr number for their cut and why it’s never changed in the 14 years it’s existed Trial documents show that Google charges 0%, 10% or 15% - depending on a situation. Lower than 15% rates were call
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
I do not know about Israel, but I can read both Russian and Ukrainian. And there is a pretty objective test: read a Russian president’s statement - see how it is reported, read a Ukrainian president’s statement - see how it is reported. Not
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
“ incl eg ukraine” is in the wrong place. It should be here: “We can support war crimes and install really bad regimes (incl eg ukraine) all we like cause we’re the good guys”. Otherwise OK.
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
> If they were to for example steal the 5G architecture from another company What about this article? It says Huawei has the largest 5g patent portfolio in the world: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021
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by MikePlacid 3y ago
Huawei to start demanding 5g royalties from Apple, Samsung - from 2021: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-16/huawei-to...

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