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by badRNG 4y ago
Even if Amazon gets in trouble for union busting, it may be the case that the consequences of getting caught are outweighed by the costs associated with rising wages/benefits/conditions for labor under a union.
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by badRNG 4y ago
> "obstinate or unreasonable attachment to a belief, opinion, or faction; in particular, prejudice against a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group" This is just the fallacy of definition. Techn
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by badRNG 4y ago
> but did nothing to erase the fundamental feeling that all of reality and my actions within it are pointless There may not be some cosmic teleology for your life, but that doesn't mean it's pointless; it just means you have a
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by badRNG 4y ago
Same boat. I'm not a vegan, and I try my absolute best to avoid thinking about what we put animals through. It certainly sits in a specific category of intrusive thoughts. The only real analog to this in my mind is being aware of my ow
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by badRNG 4y ago
What the peasants didn't understand was that having a Monarch is fine. In fact, I bet in a few generations it will be a totally different royal family running the show.
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EFF: Security and privacy tips people seeking abortion(eff.org)
17 points by badRNG 4y ago|0 comments
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by badRNG 4y ago
> My experience with former prostitutes who started out young was that they were unaware of the price they eventually paid for their actions. They were taken advantage of because they were at a disadvantage. It feels like this line of th
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by badRNG 4y ago
Honestly no. Pretty much the only folks I've heard talking about Rust are in the application dev space. Generally the space I'm familiar with is lately being called "deeply embedded" to differentiate it from IoT platform
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by badRNG 4y ago
Unless you are going for their post-bacc (which is a really good deal), doing their full online undergrad program would be an absolute nightmare. I'd go just about anywhere else.
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by badRNG 4y ago
If you have experience with software, learning embedded concepts isn't a huge leap. At least in my area, aerospace, defense, and automotive tend to be the biggest, easiest employers to get started with. They will hire basically anyone
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by badRNG 4y ago
I currently work in embedded software which involves a lot of overlapping interaction with EE and hardware design folks. The consensus is that the hardest, most fascinating field is the one you currently have the least exposure to. The easi
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by badRNG 4y ago
Important note: the largest "SFW" Deepfake community, r/SFWdeepfakes, was not banned, rather a smaller competing subreddit which doesn't have a recent archive on the popular archive sites.
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Quantum Chip Brings 9k Years of Compute Down to Microseconds(tomshardware.com)
3 points by badRNG 4y ago|0 comments
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by badRNG 4y ago
What makes you think a more expensive ISP will go against their interests and refuse to maximize their profits by selling access to information that they are legally allowed to share? Are there expensive "privacy"-branded ISPs I&#
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by badRNG 4y ago
>When I got my first Android phone I could root it pretty trivially and run a fully customized ROM, these days it's not really practical on many devices. Some of the easiest phones to do this to today, namely the Pixel phones, are a
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by badRNG 4y ago
Note: I am not the OP
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Why I left Amazon (PIP?)(medium.com)
2 points by badRNG 4y ago|1 comments
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MRI disables every iOS device in the facility(old.reddit.com)
2 points by badRNG 4y ago|1 comments
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by badRNG 4y ago
Eh, sending $1200 on a hobby doesn't seem all that problematic to me, especially if one is getting additional utility from it. It's not like the cat is going to go missing behind a pile of hard drives any time soon.
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by badRNG 4y ago
Maybe my experience was in part shaped by the fact that I took classes at night. Were the classes you took exclusive to members of the dual credit program? It does make sense, as basically every teacher I had at my cc was phenomenal. Though
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by badRNG 4y ago
This was my experience as well. I went to cc prior to going to a 4-year institution for CS. The instruction in the math classes at my local community college were far more impressive than anything I've ever taken anywhere else. My th
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by badRNG 4y ago
This isn't about fearmongering, it is about consistent application of the principle. If the legal principle of privacy and autonomy doesn't apply in Roe, then its reasonable to conclude that it doesn't apply for marriage equa
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by badRNG 4y ago
>it would be a great day for human dignity and sanctity of innocent lives in the US. Yes, having a country that forces an 11-year-old to carry a pregnancy to term would be amazing for human dignity.
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by badRNG 4y ago
Do you think the "correct default" for deciding whether gay or interracial couples can get married is whether or not one is in a blue state?
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by badRNG 4y ago
Why was this post flagged?
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by badRNG 4y ago
I think fascism is often thought of as reactionary backlash against modernity.
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by badRNG 4y ago
This isn't the first time "tunneling" has appeared on HN, nor the first that it intersected with the techy/hacker community. There was the case where a hacker who gave talks at Defcon built a tunnel, and paid someone to
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by badRNG 4y ago
> Think long term. Eventually AI will be able to do most of human jobs. As a result, products and services will become cheaper. As a result, people will have to work less for a living. As a result, more people will be able to draw and pa
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by badRNG 4y ago
> To me the most interesting leak/investigation that can come out of NSO is what happens once a 0-day is patched, is there downtime? do customers need to wait for a software update? is there automatic rotation of exploits? I'd
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by badRNG 5y ago
I think maybe either my comment was misinterpreted or I wasn't clear enough. As I stated before, I'm not wanting to start a debate on whether nuking Japan was justified nor am I taking a position one way or the other. What my comm

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