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by bhouston 2y ago
It is right in the article: "The small, independent federal agency investigates and adjudicates complaints about unfair labor practices. It stores reams of potentially sensitive data, from confidential information about employees who w
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by bhouston 2y ago
Why did they actively hide their tracks? In law this relates to: - Spoliation of evidence - Intentionally destroying or concealing evidence can lead to legal sanctions and adverse inferences. - Consciousness of guilt - Actions taken to cov
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by bhouston 2y ago
The issue is we don't know what they took and they took steps to hide their tracks. This is whacked territory we are in. You can defend it but normally there are checks and controls in government for a reason. The fact that we are n
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by bhouston 2y ago
> Believing that something is inevitable is the first step towards it becoming inevitable. But there feels like there is a momentum in people, and in society as a whole that only ends one way, and we need to release and explore. I don&#x
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by bhouston 2y ago
The core fundamental problem from my viewpoint in the US political system is unlimited campaign contributions which empowered the ultra wealthy. This means that elections are fought between ultra wealthy people and politicians have to firs
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by bhouston 2y ago
The issue is Vercel Image API is ridiculously expensive and also not efficient. I would recommend using Thumbor instead: https://thumbor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ . You could have ChatGPT write up a React image wra
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by bhouston 2y ago
> all I can think is what a fucking lay-up I am nervous about the US right now. So many cases are going to end up at the Supreme Court that is controlled by conservatives. It may not be the lay-up you think it is. Also what happens if
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by bhouston 2y ago
> If a non-US citizen disrupted your commute or college class for a position you found reprehensible, it's likely you might feel the same. First: Just to be completely clear, there is a leaked memo from the US state department yeste
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by bhouston 2y ago
> I can guarantee you such a system already exists. There is a limited one the US has built just to deport pro-Palestinian students from the US on visas: https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence&#x2
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by bhouston 2y ago
I hope what is happening in the US right now, with people getting deported for writing Op-Eds criticizing US foreign policy, is a temporarily thing and not the direction we are heading into. But if it isn't temporarily, we should expec
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by bhouston 2y ago
> I am missing something big here. How and why did they raise 480 million dollars in a year for a cloud security product? I am not an expert at Wiz specifically but I understand this is a "sales lead SaaS business" rather than
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by bhouston 2y ago
For some reason Google's early large acquisitions were amazing, but its later large acquisitions have not been. YouTube and DoubleClick were absolutely key to Google. And Nest seems pretty critical until you notice that Google is slo
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by bhouston 2y ago
You are inferring too much from that comment. I think those people just had large stock holdings in general and were he market went up a lot that day.
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by bhouston 2y ago
Another reason why consultants are good in government is because of unions. I am generally pro-union, but a side effect of unions, at least in my experience, is that you will have a proportion of incompetent people who can not complete any
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by bhouston 2y ago
If anyone had advanced warning, you could have made a fortune today: https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/stock-market-today-...
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Trump temporarily drops tariffs to 10% for most countries(cnbc.com)
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China's central bank asks state lenders to reduce USD purchases(reuters.com)
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by bhouston 2y ago
I haven't done the deep dive into the details of this - it seems difficult to test at this point because everyone in the US has fluoride - but given that it repeatedly is raised for decades, why not have a few US states remove fluorid
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by bhouston 2y ago
Here is a slightly better link with more information: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/tariffs/2025/04/09/china-announc...
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China responses to Trump's 105% taffies with its own 84% tariffs on US goods(bbc.com)
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After pro-Palestinian students, now foreign students being targeted by Trump(theintercept.com)
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by bhouston 2y ago
If building hardware products wasn't hard enough. This could kill a lot of companies pretty quickly. If you have massive inventory in China or you've invested in a factory to build things at scale and now your US margins are und
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Understanding TanStack/Router's beforeLoad and loader behavior(benhouston3d.com)
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by bhouston 2y ago
So the website claims: "Avoids bot detection and CAPTCHAs by using your real browser fingerprint." Yeah, not really. I've used a similar system a few weeks back (one I wrote myself), having AI control my browser using my logg
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by bhouston 2y ago
Tobi's been really weird lately. He's been posting straight out conspiracy theories. For example, just yesterday, he re-posted (re-tweeted) this unfounded rumour claiming election interference by unions across the whole Canadian
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by bhouston 2y ago
There is a significant censorship issue at Toronto University-affilated hospitals as well though - you don't get deported by you get suspended and fired: https://breachmedia.ca/abuse-of-power-hospitals-med-schools-...
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Elon Musk sets the stage for Tesla to bail out Twitter/xAI(electrek.co)
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by bhouston 2y ago
> Usenet and Dove/FidoNet still work and you can access them over NNTP Great for nerds but not going to solve society’s larger scale needs.
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by bhouston 2y ago
> However, the original commenter is right by saying that social media is far from being a necessity. We need something to allow people to organize around friends/topics/places and discover ideas, share, make sense of the world
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by bhouston 2y ago
Mastodon’s distributed nature makes it hard to adopt and find friends and services. Explaining why it is so hard to use to non tech people is really not easy to do. It is a platform for nerds and its complexity will gatekeep others unfor

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