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by _jal 4y ago
So when your own citation contradicts you, you call it nonsense and just go back to repetitive false assertions. Have you considered a career in politics?
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by _jal 4y ago
To recap, you contradicted drewmal above, who said: > it leads to loads of herbicide usage (glyphosate). The process of desiccation also leads to loads of glyphosate being used just prior to harvest, on non ‘Roundup Ready’ (glyphosate r
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by _jal 4y ago
I look at research. And in this case, it contradicts your claim. "A steady, linear trend for increasing number of herbicide area-treatments over the last 25 years was observed for all crops except soybean. The linear trend was not stat
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by _jal 4y ago
No. If you want your assertions to be taken seriously around here, providing your own citations for your claims would help.
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by _jal 4y ago
Seconded. Ssh on a phone is better than no ssh, but good lord is it frustrating. I would never willingly edit HTML (or anything else for machine consumption) on a phone, that's what real keyboards are for.
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by _jal 4y ago
> What's the downside? I did reconnect with someone I lost track of a long time ago via google-stalking, found their email address. I'm pretty sure they agree that it was nice to reconnect, we talk regularly again. (Neither of
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by _jal 4y ago
I don't think Florida's autocrat cares about legality. The message has been sent, right? Now the little people can figure out how to clean up his mess.
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by _jal 4y ago
> This was obvious at least 30 years ago, where have you been? Watching things like this happen: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/11/21363629/qualcomm-win-app... What color is the sunrise on the planet
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by _jal 4y ago
I suspect lots of large companies that do make things but also hold many, many patents would object. Patents can a potent weapon, especially if you have a lot of them in a specific area. So to answer your question, I would expect opposition
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by _jal 4y ago
I find this map surprisingly accurate. https://www.fitsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/map11.jp...
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by _jal 4y ago
Maybe. If you don't look, you don't know. But given the number of people I've heard using "we're on AWS, out of my control" as an excuse, this appears to be an unofficial service they offer.
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by _jal 4y ago
> Sounds to me like there are deep corruption problems I consider this to be a flavor of corruption, too, but it isn't, legally. It is the desired outcome for many, and for many more, maybe not the outcome they wanted, but the logic
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by _jal 4y ago
> One might ask why that is Indeed. It is one consequence of a highly atomized culture. I suspect it happens because individuals are expected to take responsibility for their care (basically, this is the human side of cost-shifting and c
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by _jal 4y ago
I don't see this. I have thousands of long-lived instances - full VMs, not containers, running in our hardware. If they start "going bad", something is wrong. That's a signal I wouldn't want to ignore. It has happen
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by _jal 4y ago
We do this yearly. The first time we did it was painful. It took all day, probably around 40 people involved total. We found all sorts of problems, and we actually only failed over the production site, nothing else. We'll be doing it f
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by _jal 4y ago
> This is pure status symbol Purchasing things like this certainly conveys a signal. I'm not sure that's a signal people want to be sending...
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by _jal 5y ago
> If I could figure out a way to give you more control over your own data would this still be a flop for you? For me? Probably not, but you shouldn't target me, I'm pretty out of the mainstream. As far as data use, I would thi
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by _jal 5y ago
Thanks. That's the culture-warrior's way of saying, "we're cancelling Disney because they protested that we were cancelling gay people."
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by _jal 5y ago
I'm sorry about your share price, but speculation is just what the market does. You'll have better luck asking for prayers.
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by _jal 5y ago
This. I cancelled it when they raised their prices, it made me think about how much I watch things on there. Which was rarely - my guess was around 1 show/month on average. > Now all the streaming services also seem to rate limit ea
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by _jal 5y ago
> There's no deeper logic here than decades worth of social stigma. Oh, there is. There's a whole school of thought that is basically non-stop hand-wringing about how superheroes are displacing religion, and We Must Take Back O
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by _jal 5y ago
Hope it works out for you, but it won't work for me. My gifting strategy is a category in my todo lists. It usually happens that I randomly think of, see, hear about, or am otherwise made aware of something, and I think, "That is
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by _jal 5y ago
So "most of the time" means "100% of the time" where you live?
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by _jal 5y ago
Let the tooling classes tremble at an open source revolution. The chip designers have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Fabbing Folks of All Countries, Unite!
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by _jal 5y ago
Allow me to strongly suggest you stop DCMAing things without a human-with-a-clue in the loop before firing. I get it, I'm an automate-first type of person, too. But it appears your outfit has made a habit of doing this, and you'r
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by _jal 5y ago
> Jobs was all about the web That was just the best answer he had to questions about third-party apps until they had the infra in place for it. Apple will never tell you ahead of time about changes like that. So, while I wouldn't ex
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by _jal 5y ago
> Not sure why all of the hate. .. I take it you have managed to post this without reading nearly every other comment?
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by _jal 5y ago
Poe's law in action.
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by _jal 5y ago
"Empirical evidence of adverse selection is mixed. Several studies investigating correlations between risk and insurance purchase have failed to show the predicted positive correlation for life insurance, auto insurance, and health ins
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by _jal 5y ago
Sitting on the elbow of the curve describing the risk of not getting back up after a fall.

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