Volundr

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by Volundr 2y ago
Starlink yes, Bloomberg no. Can you explain it to me?
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> The people voted for this: a majority of the American people. Democracy, no? Does this mean it was wrong of Republicans to have tried to stop anything Obama or Biden was trying to do? Or question it's legality? I keep hearing this
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Usually it's user flags. There's more than enough Trump supporters that between them and the folks who will flag anything political that it takes a HUGE number of upvotes to overcome that. Technically @dang does have mod control t
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> If that is true, then the chief executive would have the authority to instruct the agency to do nothing and spend no money This is called Impoundment, and is illegal. Just ask Nixon. The Executive branch is actually required to spend a
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Pretty much this. I too have done both private sector and government. People think government is more wasteful than private because it's public. When government wastes a few million some unneeded program the details are just an FOIA re
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Your link talks about two people being arrested at a protest of 300, presumably for being involved in one of the "minor scuffles" mentioned. Not for saying "All lives matter". Or are you really suggesting that at an &quo
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> My point was more that if "liberal" == "clean" and "conservative" == "incompetent apparatchiks" then you're (the royal you) a shill If I consider all the ones who voted for Presidential immu
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Auditors don't need write access to the system. And audits absolutely do include a careful accounting of who has access and what is being accessed.
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Why do they need write access for this? Here's the thing, I'm very happy with uncovering fraudulent spending. I strongly doubt that's actually happening. If it was we'd be seeing careful audits and lawsuits against tho
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This is factually untrue. The constitution gives Congress the exclusive power of the purse. The president does not have the authority to withhold funds approved by Congress (search for Nixon and Impoundment if you want a history lesson on t
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by Volundr 2y ago
It is in fact unconstitutional for the executive branch to withhold funds approved by Congress. Congress has the sole power of the purse as Nixon tested (and lost).
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You just claimed your pronouns are unimportant, and because of that your non-answer to an honest question should be respected, then turned around and said you would indeed be offended if someone used the wrong one. Sure sounds like playing
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The power of the purse is explicitly under the pervue of the Legislative per the constitution. The executive does not have the discretion to not spend or redirect funds assigned by Congress (there's some interesting history with Nixon
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> Why not just cut and run on social security? There's no appetite for this for the exact same reason social security was created in the first place. Without it you have a bunch of senior citizens out on the street unable to work an
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> they reversed the public + private parts of the key Is there a reason this is actually a problem? I always thought the public/private key was arbitrary and it was easier and less error prone to give people one key called public an
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In other words, you do care, and your whole "it's unimportant to me" and "your best guess is fine" isn't actually true. Instead, if you've chosen to play guessing games with someone who has made clear thei
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> respect that “my” pronouns are unimportant to me I can respect this if and only if it's actually true. If your going to be offended if someone uses a pronoun for the wrong gender, or uses "they" then I don't respect
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> And it seems impossible to get away from theses 'assistants' Assistants or assailants? Between my Apple stuff at work trying to get me to enable Apple AI, and both Samsung and Google trying to get me to enable their version o
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> "When they can work next" is entirely dependent on supply and demand. Are you really going to try to make the case that a company the size of Uber finds the demand in NEW YORK, of all places, unpredictable? That speaks more t
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> That's seemingly what OP was demanding, given the displeasure he was expressing at uber for the practice. From the OP > Uber runs an algorithm which kicks drivers out of the app randomly if demand gets too low, without warning
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> expecting uber to continue allowing unlimited amount of drivers to be "online", when they have to pay for them is absurd. I don't recall anyone demanding that. Maybe things have changed since then, but back when I worked
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> The engineers and developers just got the green light for every good idea they can come up with. Where in the world is this idea coming from? What part of their new mandate makes you think engineers and developers suddenly have a blank
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I have Inovelli switches that have a "smart bulb" mode that lets them send commands instead of physically switching the build. I use that to make my smart bulbs respond like dumb ones to a switch, but means I also make them do sma
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Is there actually reason to believe costs will come down significantly? I've been under the impression that companies like OpenAI and Google have been selling this stuff at well below cost to drive adoption with the idea that over time
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It took me a minute to work through why I hated this so much. What it comes down to is that <politician I loathe> is actively doing harm. Even if you don't believe that it's essentially gamifying something that has very real
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Is it? Back when I was commuting from Boise -> Nampa (a suburb where a lot of folks live) leaving at rush hour it'd easily take me a minimum of 45 minutes to get home. They've done some upgrades since so it might be better now,
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If there are only two people on the call, sure.
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It depends on the company and probably even the team. At least when I was running an IT team I generally viewed a colleague doing something like this as more effective than me nagging some sysadmin about them leaving their computer unlocked
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> It happened once and I hope won't happen again. I should certainly hope not. I definitely won't be making "I'm providing free IT support while being bombed to someone who apparently thinks I'm some kind of conm
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Just making sure I understand. You have sold your business but are still responsible for IT support. You are responsible for IT support but don't already have a defined access path. The new buyer knows what a root password is and how t

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