banish-m4

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by banish-m4 2y ago
Most people voluntarily imprison themselves in conventional, middle-class values because they have been brainwashed.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Your "logic" is bullshit because luck doesn't exist. Capitalizing on timing, risk tolerance, excellent anticipatory judgment, self-control, and rich parents also help.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Are you going to lecture me about women, online Mr. Pickup artist?
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Yep. I was a freelance technical consultant for 10 years. Stanford University School of Medicine wouldn't pay my invoices. All you can do is keep asking politely for weeks or months. If they don't, then you might name and shame be
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Okay, chief, you know it all. Liquidating assets causes significant losses.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
That's what doesn't compute. The wisdom and care required to have and keep billions requires a certain pathological, insouciant public face or internal armor. Sure sexual thrills and "love" makes most people dumber, but
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Birds of prey would probably be better at it and more trainable. I've see way more videos of hawks taking out drones than shore birds.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
While tech advances are cool, I secretly do too. Like Mother Nature's vengeance and reminder that technology isn't invulnerable. Now if critters could just disable Russian tanks, the circle would be complete.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
I don't understand marital instability when you're rich and live in a community property state. Either stay married because there's way too much to lose or stay single, but to philander and divorce is just economic suicide.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Humans can detect mercaptans down to ppb but I suspect they require a fermentation process to create. Also, I wonder how it handles eating asparagus.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Bill Gates will be the number two.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Standardization by centralized administration, reduction of rogue external and DIY options, concentrating efforts on delivering managed services based on a common and repeatable platform, strict change control, clear training enumerating wh
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by banish-m4 2y ago
There's an excellent book about this topic. Three Felonies a Day by Harvey Silverglate. Convictions for white-collar crimes aren't about stopping significant crime, they're about building statistics by sacrificing the most
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by banish-m4 2y ago
AT&T - too big to jail, worst UX, worst service, and worst customer service ever. Until CEOs end up in prison, nothing will change and there will be no consequences. It will never happen because money has more votes than citizens.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
It was mostly for running NFS to talk to other UNIX boxes, not to run UNIX software. To make a Windows NT box UNIX-ish, there was MKS Toolkit. It predates Cygwin, msys, and djgpp.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
An interesting footnote is that installing the web browser package on AIX caused a telemetry dial-home to Big Blue. I found this because it was keeping our ISDN BRI leased line up constantly and costing us money. Blocking that address solve
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by banish-m4 2y ago
If you want money, ask for advice. If you want advice, ask for money.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Attack and shrink healthcare for the poor and all the good it does with selective attacks on the edges. The motives are transparent.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
You're making a snap value judgement that offers no value. Perhaps you should keep your disrespectful comments about other people to yourself.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
There are many stupid choices: violent religious extremism, picking altercations with strangers, snakeoil wellness products, driving a giant diesel SUV without a seatbelt, trying to control others online, and listening to The Eagles. Eating
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by banish-m4 2y ago
It's morally indefensible to create incurable bacteria or another pandemic, destroy antibiotics' effectiveness, and destabilize the climate balance of the only planet we have through the supply-causing action of buying and eating
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Animal welfare, while laudable and under-appreciated, isn't the biggest problem with meat ag. It's fucking killing us slowly and may kill us quickly.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
That's historically the least-persuasive argument for vegetarianism. The far greater threats are anthropogenic climate change, antibiotic resistance, accelerated pandemic evolution, land/water/air pollution, higher food price
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by banish-m4 2y ago
I'll agree through biased rationalization. It's 1:33 am now and have more tasks to finish rather than procrastinating on HN. Later folks.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
The startup was ServiceBell. It was a feature company in a crowded market with little defensibility. They're still around. It's easy to get rich quick in business when you're dishonest for a short time, but it's slightly
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by banish-m4 2y ago
It's no surprise Microsoft and Boeing get special treatment and never face scrutiny for their foul-ups that get people killed and harm America's security because PR and profits come first.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
I had a titanium ring cut off my middle finger that swelled from high blood pressure and weight gain. It took a long time with a ring cutter at a jeweler's in Chico, CA, but it worked.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Never has there been so much suffering as falling in love with an idea of a wish for reality to the exclusion of it. What is most important, essential, or profitable is unlikely to be perfectly represented by the initial plan or thesis.
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Was just thinking of this. Here's a video on thermite welding to go with it: https://youtu.be/5uxsFglz2ig
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by banish-m4 2y ago
Some scammer "founder" invented a "job" to pick my brain while pretending to be hiring. Absolute liar. One of those customer/feedback chat widgets with video call features.

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