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by _jal 4y ago
That's an OK summary of FedSoc talking points, but you're missing some of the barbs. Might want to try again. The effective reuslt of the non-delegation doctrine is that, when Republicans do not like a policy outcome, Congress is
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by _jal 4y ago
> Avoiding chaos is not a valid reason for allowing a legal injustice to persist even one day longer. Wow, people are sure selective about which injustices they cannot tolerate "even one day longer". > I support legal mandat
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by _jal 4y ago
Quibble all you like, it has been that way for living memory, and reversing this is going to cause an enormous amount of chaos, because the modern state is built on these assumptions. This is not some minor change, you're going to thro
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by _jal 4y ago
Correction: That's exactly how it worked until a large change in the court composition decided to change the rules. People like to pretend that SCOTUS decisions are retroactively true, that somehow they're discovering legal nuance
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by _jal 4y ago
> I think it improved quite a lot. Maybe on Windows. My work machine (running Big Sur) currently shows: Slack: 251.6MB Slack Helper: 10.2MB Slack Helper: 48.3MB (Yes, there are two of them) Slack Helper (GPU): 316.2MB Slack Helper (Rende
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by _jal 4y ago
My personal favorite, 'shitweasel', is completely absent.
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by _jal 4y ago
It happens a lot, and isolation can help keep scams going. In case anyone has any illusions about how bad financial scamming can get, pyramid schemes famously led to civil war in Albania not that long ago. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by _jal 4y ago
So, more weird insinuation. Got it.
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by _jal 4y ago
No, this did not go bad recently in a declining market. There were never good actors - inkjet printers were physical malware in the 90s, too. The cheap printer market has always been an abusive, anti-user shitshow. Arguably bad for the sel
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by _jal 4y ago
For a lot of firms, it seems like the question is more of a test of leadership's insecurity than anything else. They feel like they don't have control without bodies they can see doing things. The company I work for was bought by
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by _jal 4y ago
Billions of years of conflict and selection lead to you. Anyone alive today is the product of a crazy amount of competition over time. That is a pretty impressive lineage, no matter who you are. I know why people see a direct line to this o
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by _jal 4y ago
I have friends, mostly musicians, who use them, and it drives me nuts. I'm almost at the point of building a VM strictly for it, I'm certainly not going to install that garbage on my daily-use machines. I would literally pay them
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by _jal 4y ago
It was a stupid question then, it is a stupid question now. But if Howard wants to share his 5 year plans for various industries, I'm sure we'd all love to see how he'd allocate our goods and labor. I'd love to learn whi
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by _jal 4y ago
The discussion is about governments losing that monopoly. It is true that one plausible mechanism of that transition is outsourcing. Let a mercenary outfit become too competent and your vendor can become your rival.
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by _jal 4y ago
The answer is "way more than is sensible, even factoring in how absurd pricing on crap like this has gotten." We dropped SN a couple years back over this. They were charging us about 6-7x what we pay for Jira, and we still use the
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by _jal 4y ago
Did anyone ever "mint" any Beanie Baby NFTs? That would have been funny.
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by _jal 4y ago
You've more or less summarized my major issue with him. He seems to have interesting things to say, but every time I read him I'm never sure to what extent I'm listening to the voice of a mathematician or a salesman. He'
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by _jal 4y ago
I think the risk scenarios in question are more legal/political than war-related. As others have noted, the set of safe locations to store an enormous, expensive, extremely fragile collection of uncensored material during a world war i
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by _jal 4y ago
> I no longer report any bugs nor care. Past that point years back, kept going. I just don't use anything Gnome related, if I can help it. I have found some things that unfortunately use the toolkit and somehow manage to not be inte
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by _jal 4y ago
First, have you ever asked (even if just yourself) if anyone sees an issue with massive corporations? The second thing is that it isn't the right question. Anything make by humans is imperfect. The question is, does union representatio
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by _jal 4y ago
Right, right, as everyone knows all unions and all government jobs are pretty much the same, and your phrasing clearly demonstrates your deep experience with both.
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by _jal 4y ago
Seems like you need to run a herd of McKinsey suits through your paper trail once a decade or so to really get away with this.
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by _jal 4y ago
Yes they did. It was foreseen, look at the sibling comment where the issue was discussed in the spec. They just punted, just like they did with https and CAs. (And Javascript, for that matter, although that's less directly security-rel
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by _jal 4y ago
Feel the same way about Scihub?
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by _jal 4y ago
Machinery's Handbook is similar, but sort of a step back on the production chain. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinery%27s_Handbook Edit: And a step further back would be Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy, by
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by _jal 4y ago
Absolutely. I tend to be mystified and lost without some way to place what I'm doing in some larger context, even if that context is super-vague or wrong in technical ways. Had several teachers who utterly refused to provide that, repe
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by _jal 4y ago
I mostly play with metalwork as a hobby. But I did make some of my furniture, mostly because I couldn't find what I wanted (bed, workbench), or because I wanted to build them in-place (bookshelves, different workbench, some storage). T
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by _jal 4y ago
I've gotten much quicker with chargebacks in this situation. Companies that go out of their way to insulate themselves from their customers leave you little other alternative. Dropbox is acting no different than any other scammer here,
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by _jal 4y ago
Apple blesses a converged Mac/iOS approach, which in practice means you basically throw away a lot of what made the Mac excellent. Not that Apple is even following their own guidelines... https://mjtsai.com/blog/20
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by _jal 4y ago
I want to read the other article - the one in the can if Chelsea had held on.

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