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by a3n 6y ago
Of course we do. Who else is going to buy all the crap that billionaires are selling us now?
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by a3n 6y ago
A friend from years ago was an astronomy student at Boulder. He was explaining something they were developing to improve ground based telescope observations (holes in disks). I got this sudden understanding that we, I , were the universe,
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by a3n 6y ago
This Wikipedia article has pointers and references in so many directions, you're bound to find something about what you're looking for, or that points to something else that you're looking for. The article itself is a good st
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by a3n 6y ago
Yep, that.
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by a3n 6y ago
Wasn't there something like that on reddit years back, that got turned into a book or movie?
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by a3n 6y ago
"Why don't they just ..." https://blog.jgc.org/2012/08/why-dont-they-just.html?m=1
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by a3n 6y ago
I seem to remember the classroom doors of my elementary school (I'm in my sixties) opening in to the classroom, so that during an emergency they wouldn't be pressed closed by the panicking hords rushing by in the hallway, and so t
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by a3n 6y ago
A railway crossing is the sudden appearance of an industrial environment in an otherwise non industrial setting.
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by a3n 6y ago
Maybe you have to be logged in to DDG for this to work? Which if true feels that much worse.
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by a3n 6y ago
They've already started down that path, judging by all the DDG billboards I see driving my 18 wheeler around the country, and all the DDG ads I hear on NPR-related podcasts. Not that I'm against making money. But there's a ti
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by a3n 6y ago
> By upgrading the firmware ... ... to include atomic operations.
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by a3n 6y ago
> I can't quit, it would kill the company It sounds like you have some leverage. Have some discussions with the company about what you need. And see a therapist to help you sort out your issues and figure out how to deal with them.
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by a3n 6y ago
It sounded more to me like they had planned, but a failure mode slipped through.
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by a3n 6y ago
I listened to this the other day. Extremely interesting, both the loss of wealth to directly affected individuals, and to the general economy, both measurable. The guy that got the Nobel for the theory she scrutinized encouraged her to publ
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by a3n 6y ago
Incentive.
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by a3n 6y ago
> "As we clearly state each time you open a new incognito tab, websites might be able to collect information about your browsing activity during your session." And we're happy to facilitate that.
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by a3n 6y ago
> I live in New York City. Vaguely related. I'm a truck driver. I recently drove a 53 foot trailer full of Campbell's tomato soup from Findlay OH to a grocery distributor in Brooklyn. You're welcome. :)
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by a3n 6y ago
I don't think Windows has "come with" installation CDs for a long time. But can't you still "buy" Windows discs? That's usually a better version of Windows anyway.
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by a3n 6y ago
Ethics laundering. Like money laundering.
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by a3n 6y ago
"We are implementing a one-year moratorium on police use of Rekognition" ... until this whole thing blows over. /s They're leaving money on the table, but it will still be there in a year, and they'll only miss what
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by a3n 6y ago
If a law was broken by a corporation, how could at least one person in that corporation not be guilty of breaking that law? Was it the corporation's AI that did it?
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by a3n 6y ago
No, same pay (but I'm only one guy in one company). And they're really no more stress than any other trip, they just require that you pay a little more attention to your legally available hours, and you communicate any problems im
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by a3n 6y ago
You need to work on your operating system, not your computer's operating system. People who struggle with other mental health issues often have to try for awhile to find something that works for them. You might try cognitive behavior
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by a3n 6y ago
I think the modern internet is just TV anymore. Early internet was innovation. It was almost as if you had to innovate merely to get on and use it. Now it's a commercial resource, and the major effort will be extraction. Dislosure:
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by a3n 6y ago
In the US and elsewhere, the pandemic has shown some dangers of too much reliance on JIT, just in time stocking and use. Just in time income seems to be as risky, if not worse. In both cases, everything's fine as long as everything&#
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by a3n 6y ago
I am anti communist for the things documented in, for example, The Black Book of Communism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_black_book_of_communism For context, I'm not a McCarthyite, nor a conservative.
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by a3n 6y ago
These restaurants signed up for a voluntary man in the middle attack. The reporter should have asked why these restaurants don't quit grub hub.
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by a3n 6y ago
My ignorant guess: During a manufacturing process?
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by a3n 6y ago
This has been true for years. Decades? That people are still surprised about it astounds me.
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by a3n 6y ago
Duck Duck Go, https://duckduckgo.com/ It's good enough. And when you don't get what you want, you can use the google bang code, !g in front of your search. DDG should be your default.

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