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by barryrandall 2y ago
Groundhogs are better at predicting weather than sanctions are at achieving their stated goals.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
A taker sued a maker for calling out their taking, and the maker cut the taker off from free services they were providing.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
There is, but the size of the "to" and the dissimilarity of Y to X is what makes the pathway interesting.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
It could just be fertilizer, but Russian sailors are known to be reckless and often dangerously incompetent. Given that Russia's national interests are served by an explosion regardless of cause, it's just not safe to let them any
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by barryrandall 2y ago
What do I want them to do? Pass a constitutional amendment that bans government invasions of privacy, legislation that extends those rights to individuals' interactions with private parties, legislation that funds the enforcement of th
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by barryrandall 2y ago
You can usually see the cameras, and many places require that you notify people they're being recorded.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
I ran into that at a CVS a few years ago and stopped shopping at CVS.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
The market for content that reassures people their preexisting views are right and valid is huge, evergreen, and held to the lowest possible standard.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
Nobody is telling anyone what kind of headphones they're allowed to wear. They do, however, tell _companies_ that they can't claim their product has medical benefits without proving (to some kind of standard) that the product is s
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by barryrandall 2y ago
Back when I bought such things, SQL Server Enterprise Edition was about $30k per CPU socket, Oracle about $40k.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
Relief from the IT procurement policy antipattern.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
And multiple Azure services named Fabric.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
The first database server I bought required 3 months of negotiations and approvals, multiple vendor meetings, ~100 sheets of paper, 4 hours of capital asset tracking paperwork, and annual meetings with auditors to show them where the expens
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by barryrandall 2y ago
As I understand it, X was fined, didn't pay, and the judge pierced a few corporate veils to discover that Starlink and X share a majority owner.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
I think there are a few very interesting ways this could play out. Option 1: ByteDance appeals, loses, and the ruling stands Option 2: ByteDance appeals, wins, and the ruling is overturned Option 3: ByteDance doesn’t appeal, the ruling stan
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by barryrandall 2y ago
The problem is what X11 didn't do: attract and retain maintainers.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
A lot of "serious questions" asked on the internet include assumptions and assertions that may or may not be true. These questions are often downvoted when people object to those assumptions and assertions.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
This is cool, it’s just unfortunate that it’s necessary. It would be nice to see more research into the role of “payor harm” in patient outcomes.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
The role of alcohol, drugs, and other mind-altering substances in history can't be ignored. A lot of these fascinating people were intentionally and unintentionally drugging themselves.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
If people subscribed to a publication expecting it to be mostly news and got mostly sensationalism, do you expect them to keep paying?
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by barryrandall 2y ago
It seems like Apple needs to be split up into separate Services, Devices, and Marketplace companies.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
That doesn’t stop businesses from falling for the sales pitch.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
A lot of companies with SQL injection vulnerabilities remediated them by buying security appliances advertised to stop SQL injection attacks. That works for a while until time and turnover result in someone optimizing the appliance out of
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by barryrandall 2y ago
To quote other posters: this isn't about email. But, this provision doesn't include the usual exemptions for politicians/campaigns, so if you ever set up recurring donations to a campaign, this might require that they behave
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by barryrandall 2y ago
It's a theoretically great political wedge issue. It's available to some people and not others, something some people want and others don't, negatively impacts some people and positively impacts others, and at the end of the
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by barryrandall 2y ago
Is it any better if the data is scraped from public sources and sold as a real-time analytics tool?
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by barryrandall 2y ago
Orlando could probably handle it, but DefCon seems a bit off-brand for Disney.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
If CISA is producing a deterrent effect, only LIGO can measure it.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
If it's like every other IP-encumbered drug, the price will be approximately "the value the recipient places on HIV resistance," which is probably close to what's being charged now.
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by barryrandall 2y ago
Access to parts and repair information usually requires entering in to some sort of business relationship. Especially when highly regulated components (radios, telephones) are involved.

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