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by bbarnett 6y ago
Yet, you didn't just agree to disagree. You threw a parting shot over the bow, then wanted to walk away. Not very sporting, now is that? You're saying you believe individual's rights trump company's rights. Well sure
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by bbarnett 6y ago
The male/female discussion is a massive red herring, and a load of baloney. You cannot change your born sex, not when it comes to hiring discrimination. What we're talking about pay, relative to where you live. This is NOT discr
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Discussing social imbalances, when referring to fiscal concerns of a company in a free-market economy, isn't logical. You're effectively complaining that capitalism isn't entirely fair. Yes? And? You're also saying &qu
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by bbarnett 6y ago
You're referring to imbalances in the equation, not to the premise.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
No, not even slightly.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Er. Yes, but in SV for example: - housing is literally 4x or 5x or even 10x the pricing elsewhere in the US. Rent is easily in that category too. - food, fuel for your car, electricity, and literally everything including haircuts is more e
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I hate to break this to you, but humanity is quite filled with just this type of being. Able to speak eloquently, even put word to paper quite well, yet incapable of basic, logical thought. "Politicians" come to mind first, of al
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by bbarnett 6y ago
There are loads of additionals added to soap, likely SLS helps too, to combat hardness in water. Most water has some hardness, but mine varies between 20 and 60 grains of hardness, which is quite high. As you cannot tell the perfect amou
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Re: SLS. Hadn't heard of it, but clothing detergents can irritate my skin. Obviously, it may be SLS. I'm rural, and so have my own well. One side effect is that depending on rainfall, and other factors, the hardness of my water
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Yup. 100% safe, as long as one never ever heats up teflon beyond a certain point. FDA validated testing, therefore, shows it as safe! Yet who one Earth has never, even for a few seconds, had something happen while cooking. A distraction.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Classic lobster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hzBh0J1YFU
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by bbarnett 6y ago
THIS is the proper path to becoming a crusty, crotchety, greybeard. Self taught. Pulled up by your boot-straps. Doing it because you like it, not just because of $$$. Congratulations!
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Two things. There is no system on Earth which tracks, which you can ever, ever trust to be purged. We already have issues with state actors, all over all of our democracies, constantly stepping out of bounds. They spy where they are not a
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by bbarnett 6y ago
With respect to road damage via heavier vehicles, as other posts discuss, I won't. Not because it isn't real, but because the debate has been going on for, oh, 50+ years. Thus, conflating that issue with this, will result in an
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Imagine if we all wrote?
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by bbarnett 6y ago
No. That is factored into the new costs, which with all of those things, plus initial / ongoing hardware buys, saved that $75M.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
What got me, was explaining SMTP to engineers not familiar with the acronym, who used SNMP, and a guy walked in asking it if was SNTP. Everyone started saying the above as initialisms, or long form, at that point.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
The real and true bothersome part, is that Firefox (and others) do not seem to allow permanent exceptions. Going through multiple prompts, each and every time someone wants to do what they want , is problematic. I have gear on my LAN. No
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by bbarnett 6y ago
This is more of a rural versus urban thing, and just an example of cultural differences. Canadian ones, FYI. As per my example, it is rude to not wave, stranger or not, at least where I grew up. Yet when I moved to the city, entirely diff
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Now I'm wondering if I'm a Swede. :P
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by bbarnett 6y ago
It is a stereotype, certainly, as a "grouping of people" to define characteristics, is. Is it offensive? Well, maybe, but that's tact. However, is it true? Bear in mind that an excessively gregious society, and yes there a
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by bbarnett 6y ago
And you likely meant this, but I have often discovered, or provided, patches. Upstream may not care about them, but they can help others with edge cases too.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I think this was mentioned elsewhere, but this is different from many other cases. In this case, you cannot choose to opt out, not if you wish to drive. Further, this isn't just ID, but a whole range of info around that ID. As example
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I find it bizarre, but if you point to an athlete who is world class, many will acknowledge that yes, that person has unique skills and abilities. Point to the mind, and suddenly everyone is equal.
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by bbarnett 6y ago
Law and order were put on hold, until the army got to us. I'm Canadian, grew up in the area, was living in BC during the ice storm, and returned soon thereafter. No one I know would describe it this way. I've never heard the ic
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by bbarnett 6y ago
It’s not like they use it to build a profile of you, as goddamn chrome does. Eh? Says who? Them? So many times, companies have lied, cheated, made excuses. So many times "we don't", then they do. So. Many. Times. So I sh
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I had the same issue with my father, and I've often wondered ; was this a response by the body, which knew that eating was "feeding the enemy"? My father literally could not eat. Tried, but simply could not. I found this ut
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I've never understood why browsers didn't show the SSL Common Name or other agreed upon identifier, in place of a little lock. Why do I have to click 4 times in Firefox Linux Desktop, just to see info on the cert? So this is perh
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by bbarnett 6y ago
I'll add one thing here. "Slither" is definitely a negative term. A human doesn't slither, unless it is up to something nefarious, sneaky, malign, or evil. The devil is seen as serpentine in the Christian religion, and
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by bbarnett 6y ago
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099077/ Two incredible actors, and one very touching movie.

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