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by VLM 6y ago
Maybe the world needs an unmonetizable space. I keep hearing how RSS is dead for many years. My favorite blogs seem to be doing fine, its not like my newsblur stream of posts has decreased over the years. Many people are unhappy about non-
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by VLM 6y ago
Thanks for your efforts. I often wonder how many teen boys get recruited into declaring a chemistry or chemical engineering major due to those classic books. I know it worked on me and several other people. Chemistry is pretty cool. A li
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by VLM 6y ago
If delivery driving is going to be socialized as a jobs program, is it the ideal jobs program? I think not. There must be unprofitable business activities that would make better jobs programs. Student stipends, vocational training, teache
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by VLM 6y ago
His argument seems to be that unlike supermarkets and wholesalers which provide positive value from which some profit can be siphoned off, delivery megacorps provide negative value so there's not much profit to siphon. Your argument se
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by VLM 6y ago
IO bandwidth is also a serious issue. You can run 250K interactive users and 1K printers and 25 or so tape drives quite easily off a mainframe cluster. Probably not off a pi, LOL.
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by VLM 6y ago
Most likely a beacon for mines and IEDs Was a pretty common argument against "smart passports" doesn't matter if the stored data is encrypted, just matters that a signal is detected from a first world target in range of the m
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by VLM 6y ago
Legal always claims losses in the billions, then accounting files the 10-K form and its de minimus and doesn't even show up in the financials. This has happened in historical "hacking" cases. I remember one phone phreaking c
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by VLM 6y ago
The distinction is that a mostly sane person decided to stock Hot Pockets at the grocery store and will likely continue doing so and if they stop it won't be for a random reason. The way it works with Android apps is if some random cod
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by VLM 6y ago
An opposing view is we don't have fair trials due to the expense of representation and plea bargaining. Possibly op was innocent but too poor and risk adverse to try and fight the harder charge, so op plead for a lesser charge. Possib
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by VLM 6y ago
As a disclaimer every court in the nation can operate differently although they're all kinda similar. Adoption records in the USA were sealed last century. Seems to be a temporary fad that's going away. Maybe it was a Spanish Fl
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by VLM 6y ago
The pseudoscience issue doesn't matter; pragmatically it works. Its intentionally designed to be intimidating for three very non psudeoscientific reasons. Will you break under pressure? Some fraction truly believe and will confess in
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by VLM 6y ago
No I had a clearance required position in the military along with my coworkers and they're actually primarily concerned about two things: Honesty when filling out your form SF-86. Are you gonna lie about being contacted by a foreign a
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by VLM 6y ago
Its also backwards looking, obviously. In the boomer working years, colleges were very selective and a degree was a stealth IQ test along with socioeconomic group membership. At this point the average IQ of a college grad is very close to
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by VLM 6y ago
"The former wants convenience and flexibility." Thanks but no thanks, if those were my priorities I'd just use my chromebook. Or a mac if I had to run locally hosted stuff old school style. This NixOS stuff is very interest
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by VLM 7y ago
Chapter 200 doesn't go into much detail but chapter 7 (for metals) explains how the exchange will facilitate an independent middleman to store until arrangements are made and they will bill you for that service. I have not been involve
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by VLM 7y ago
This is going to turn into a debate about the definition of the tech industry. For example, are you in tech if your employer has been around for 20 years and your employee number is five digits? If the business model has nothing to do with
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by VLM 7y ago
That's not the secret sauce, in the same sense that keeping source closed doesn't usually improve code quality from a security standpoint. The other counter is there are 26 operators of the F-16. Frankly it would be easier both i
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by VLM 7y ago
Kind of. For various budgetary reasons and capex vs opex and stuff like that, the US only has two aggressor squadrons now, the 18th and 64th. The 65th shut down recently. We're kinda getting out of that business. Something quietly m
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by VLM 7y ago
There are no US requirements for a PE stamp. There are 50 state level requirements, all somewhat different. In my state, a four year BS degree in an engineering discipline is an automatic accept, although a non-engineering but engineering-
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by VLM 7y ago
There's a couple more arguments: Amateur radio has usually been sold to regulators as a way to encourage international goodwill. Setting up a private point to point link is inherently in opposition to public goodwill. Like the differ
951.
by VLM 7y ago
Why not both?
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by VLM 7y ago
My experience with WFH when my teens were much younger, is that a laptop with 100% wifi is required, and toddlers building lego or similar isn't really any more distracting than an open office environment. Probably less distracting in
953.
by VLM 7y ago
I obtained an online CS degree fifteen years ago; my kids are doing middle and high school online for the first time last week. Most of my online classes were before my teens were born. Similar: Its fifteen years later, I'm not exact
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by VLM 7y ago
"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." A classic Winston Churchill quote. Even if he never said it, it sounds like something he would have said.
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by VLM 7y ago
I'm lucky to have development access to a small slice of a very large vmware cluster. I'm surprised no one else operates this way. The performance gains are immense.
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by VLM 7y ago
Well, yeah, I think we're aggressively agreeing with each other that life is quite a bit different for 5% of the population in megacities vs 95% of the population outside those cities. Take for example the location of the 2020 democrat
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by VLM 7y ago
It was a VERY widely held belief by the general public that Y2K only applied to real time clocks and wall time. However arguably most dates in corporate IT work are involved in some level of forecasting and prediction and future planning. I
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by VLM 7y ago
We were all on Y2K jobs, in the sense that for the decade of the 90s you'd get looked at very weirdly if you tried to produce code and systems using two digit years.
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by VLM 7y ago
Outside of a very small number of admittedly very large coastal cities, the action is in the burbs, not the city. Metro areas that are under, perhaps, 10M people, generally have nothing to do in the legacy cities. Everything fun has been b
960.
by VLM 7y ago
I googled it up and 209M adults vs 183M passenger vehicles. In the USA registration wildly varies by state and the actual stat is a quarter billion "vehicles" but in my state every non-rowboat boat is a registered vehicle (althoug

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