Telemakhos

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by Telemakhos 5y ago
MoviePass was started by a group of conmen who ran scams in India. https://www.businessinsider.com/moviepass-owner-emerged-from... The company was a classic pump-and-dump; it was never supposed to last this long. Somewhere
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by Telemakhos 5y ago
I would much rather have a native (and M1 ready) client for Teams and Discord than the Electron apps. Electron is good for end users via Nativefier, though. I can pop together a sandboxed app, invokable like any other program on my computer
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by Telemakhos 5y ago
The cynic within me wants to know how diversity initiatives interact with hire-to-fire practices that protect valuable team members from churn. The former eschews meritocracy in favor of alternative hiring criteria; the later protects merit
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by Telemakhos 5y ago
The Greek concept of democracy looked nothing like the modern republic. A Greek democracy did not elect legislators: that function belonged to the people assembled as a whole. Nor did it elect ordinary magistrates, who were instead selected
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by Telemakhos 5y ago
And yet preposition has long been a word.
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by Telemakhos 5y ago
No, that part of the regulations (the 10 hour break requirement) specifically does not get suspended in an emergency, if I recall correctly, but federal qualifications for new drivers do, so maybe someone otherwise hauling oranges from Flor
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by Telemakhos 6y ago
Ascribing a salutary motive to sabotage is just as dangerous as assuming a pernicious motive. Suggesting that people "would" likely follow one course of action or another is also dangerous: it is the oldest form of sophistry, the
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by Telemakhos 6y ago
The last few times I went to Europe, my Europe-based GF made arrangements for our accommodations, and it was always AirBNB that she booked without knowing that she was doing so; many European AirBNB hosts apparently also book through other
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by Telemakhos 6y ago
MS Teams runs beautifully on my M1. Cisco Anyconnect now installs a bunch of network filters instead of a single kext, but it works. The only programs that run poorly are Apple's own Mail app (often hangs on quit) and Safari (has crash
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by Telemakhos 6y ago
Erasmus of Rotterdam was one of the greatest scholars of the Renaissance and certainly one of, if not the, best Latinist. His father was a priest, and so could not legally marry Erasmus' mother, who was apparently the father's ho
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by Telemakhos 6y ago
The English word “master” comes from the Latin “magister,” which is freighted with thousands of years of meanings and history. The meaning of slaveowner was not one of those meanings until probably the seventeenth or eighteenth century. In