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by StudentStuff 7y ago
> Unchecked IP and currency abuse by China, and unfettered illegal immigration are also "not good for the USA or my fellow American." Please cite how the USA has been negatively affected by IP abuse or China's monetary pol
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
I did not care to dig into his first two sentences, but next time you see a comment like that, please ask them for citations and dissect what they said with your own citations. We need to deal in fact, which requires a fair bit of effort to
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Citation for that last paragraph? All I've seen is a shrinking coal industry leaving workers unpaid for their last month on the job[1], 25% tariffs slapped on our hardware imports [2] (causing a 30% drop in our sales) and kids being ki
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
How many CCFs of water (748 gallons) are you using? In Seattle the average is 4.3 CCFs a month of water use, and most of your bill isn't for potable water, but sewer. Watering your lawn is likely $100+ of your bill, green lawns are exp
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Amazon is deadset on abusing their workers as much as possible to make a buck. Wether its the intern turning a spec into code, then getting verbally lashed for 3 hours for not "being creative", or demanding 50+ hour weeks out of e
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Only volunteer your good references, and consider auditing your ex-employer by having a friend call HR asking about dates of employment, performance and references. Many states restrict what can be said about former employees, double check
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Tucows has been terrible in handling a client of mine's issues, their domain has no SPF or DKIM, and thus their email is unreliably making it to customer's inboxes. If anyone has pointers on how to get a domain & email address
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
A good chunk of the 90% that do have DSL don't have broadband speeds (25/3Mbps) offered to them over DSL.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Amazon is directly putting additional vehicles to the road as a fourth shipping carrier, where USPS, FedEx & UPS already run trucks through these neighborhoods. If Amazon wanted, they could expand their use of existing infrastructure, n
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Sounds like you live in a bubble
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The sheer volume of fraudulent paper ballots needed, combined with manual partial counts to ensure automated scanner accuracy has ensured the security of paper based voting compared to alternatives.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Lets go LARP in the forest for our wedding? Sounds expensive
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Did you buy the iPhone through a cell carrier? If so, ask them to reprint the bill where you originally bought it. This can be sent to Apple and they will remove the iCloud lock when provided with proof of purchase (ex-employees commonly le
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The US is riddled with natural gas pipelines, most homes literally have a pipe in their backyard (or front yard) that is used for natural gas.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Any place where people LARP and hide themselves behind masks of their own design all day can be caustic, Yale is far from being an outlier.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
So long as they're spending most of their cash on maintaining out of tree patchesets for the Linux kernel, that is tens to hundreds of millions a year in wasted money on their part. Eventually the community will write their own drivers
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Windows has had multiple breaking changes to the driver ABI between Windows XP and present. There is no "proper" futureproof driver ABI, otherwise there would be a major OS using one.
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Userspace drivers permit upgrading the kernel to a certain point (depending on how kernel APIs change), but your forever trapped with the bugs and vulnerabilities in the userspace blobs. Its a step forward in kernel upgradability, but it al
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Biking in the snow can be quite fun, I enjoyed it last winter up here in Seattle. Good gloves, glasses and rain pants are useful to make it an enjoyable ride tho :P
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Democracy Vouchers have been a game changer in Seattle. Lots of small campaigns that would've petered out earlier have persevered and been well funded due to community support enabled by this program. Politicians are interacting with p
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
> An increasing number of businesses are legitimately intercepting encrypted traffic on their networks. It’s pretty much a necessity today. This is blatant FUD right in the intro, trying to push F5's known bad TLS MITM hardware: ht
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Hundred year old infrastructure is not the most sturdy, obviously this structure was past the end of its design life (leading to its failure). Maintaining a structure doesn't prevent the concrete from spalling (as the chemical bonds th
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
IIRC that deal was Ericsson fabbing their LTE & 5G basestations on Intel's 10nm process, but Intel's 10nm process can't produce large working chips in volume (and likely never will), which has kneecapped Ericsson as a cel
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Any clue if Google crawls from IPv6 addresses?
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Company scrip has a long and nebulous history, its great for tethering your workers to the company town (and company store) while keeping them indebted and unable to leave: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
This series of videos is pretty crummy, Amazon couldn't hire a decent actor (or was too cheap to do so), and proceeds to have their talking heads contradict themselves by saying they are neutral towards unions, but they will "bold
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Any chance you have a link to the peach pit? Not turning up many SBCs by that name when I search for it...
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
The Cortex-M controllers just don't seem too competitive for networked applications or anything requiring complex code/IO. The cost for a full fledged ARM board is quite close to a STM32 with some addons, making me think one would
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Debian x32 has a pretty similar concept wrt more efficient memory usage: https://wiki.debian.org/X32Port
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by StudentStuff 7y ago
Twitter has also been refusing to load tweets in Firefox for Android (on T-Mobile USA), instead showing "Please wait to refresh". Its like they think I'm DDoSing their infra, rather than trying to view a tweet every few days.

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