bigwavedave

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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> If the other people in the room are also knowledgeable, you will come to an even better conclusion much faster face-to-face. > In my experience, having "group reasoning" is faster and with better results. Why is face-to-fa
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> If you really didn't know this, you might seriously consider whether you have anything to add to this discussion. Two things here: 1) Being snarky with someone asking a sincere question is a wonderful way to alienate them and leav
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> I've always thought that the Missionaria Protectiva was coolest concept in Dune. The "religious engineering". > The idea that over thousands of years the Bene Gesserit have seeded fake prophecy and religion throughout
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
On the off chance anyone else is wondering, there are plans for grapheneOS support, but they will likely wait for the first quarterly major update to Android 12: https://mobile.twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1444081
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> [snip] It comes down to this statement: "I have two candidates who are equal in every way except candidate A never finished college. Candidate B gets hired!" > Going this route you have to be better than everyone else with
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> I can legally be fired in roughly half of the member states of our union based on my identity. What? Where? And how? "At will" is one thing, but being fired purely because of how you identify? What? > I can be legally deni
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
I feel like the title is a bit misleading. The article doesn't much talk about the planned walk out, instead it focuses on the aforementioned employee being fired on suspicion of leaking internal metrics about a show that is apparently
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
I'm not disputing that there are options, since there certainly are- I was refuting the parent's assertion that buying a used model or one from an earlier generation are among them.
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> if you want a PS so badly, why not get a used one or older new one on ebay or amazon: like maybe one of the previous versions PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1 or maybe another game system? it'll probably be whole lot cheaper too and you don&#x2
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
As far as I know, biking on the highway is quite illegal in most states. So is walking, unless it's an emergency and you're walking to the next exit to get help because your phone and car are dead. It's been a long time since
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
I think it all stems from a misunderstanding between buyer and seller.
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
It's not the conclusions I've drawn based on your own dismissive words that will prevent me from putting stock in what you say, it's the way you seem to believe that it's impossible for others to have experiences that di
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Good thing that everyone's getting depressed! > [snip] nor is depression a bad thing on the whole. > The causes for depression are well known, so why are we trying to electrocute our brain into not acting in it's own be
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> If your aunt is using a wired phone, I recommend getting a model which has Caller ID with voice announcements. This is great and does not require any effort to learn -- phone says "RING RING CALL FROM 1-800..." and you just t
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
My mistake! Have a pleasant day :)
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> I see what you did there. It's not a play on words, "breaking the fast" is where the word comes from :).
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> I recently had my identity stolen and used for the first time. My data has been leaked so many times who knows where it was taken from (40+ hits on haveibeenpawned). The process of clearing the debt in my name was pretty enlightening.
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Why is this news? Is anyone even remotely surprised by this? > The rules exist to be skirted by those who have the power to shape them. I know places I've worked before have seen features in competitor products and scurried to
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> If I could I would hook you up with your eyes held open Clockwork Orange style and make you watch Blues Clues gender parade on repeat until you understand the pain of trans oppression. You know, statements like this don't help a c
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
I'll confess I have extremely limited exposure to these kinds of legal briefs; I expected the Apple Support site stuff, but the inclusion of the reddit thread surprised me. Is it common for reddit threads to be referenced and distribut
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
I say this as someone who uses discord heavily for a couple of hobbies: I truly detest discord search. I'd be more accepting of this trend if search wasn't hobbled; please, for the love of zeus, honor the difference between &quo
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> People who self-describe as Christians can't even universally agree which texts are authentic and holy and which are heretical frauds. The only thing they all universally share is the inclination to call themselves Christians. Int
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> It's hard enough to predict what you're going to be doing next month to be honest. Why try to guess what's going to happen in the next decade? ... for fun? No one is making plans and saying "oh I better dump my Disn
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Just fyi, you can delete individual cookies in the developer tools. While I very much agree with the point you're making, I can count on one hand (with fingers to spare) the number of family members I have who know what the develo
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> the composer would have legal grounds to sue and win >> I wonder was that tested in a court? In a case where the person who transcribed the song has not profited in any way from that, neither selling the transcription, not sellin
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Parents who are lazy and just want their kids to stop bothering them just give them to their kids without realizing it can destroy their early socialization skills. These hypothetical children have spent all day socializing at school-
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> At that point you still have a natural production, it's just less than at your lifetime peak. You can still destabilize your hormone signaling further and get symptoms like hypogonadism and gynomastia-- to say there's nothing
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Regardless of what Apple does, law enforcement must always manually review suspected CSAM before requesting a warrant based on it. So the idea that you could SWAT someone with some hash collisions on innocent images is just not possibl
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> The people who really need these and have tried everything else or struggled for years with ADHD really find the "you are just going to be an addict, have you tried meditation" approach patronizing. Absolutely. It's a re
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by bigwavedave 5y ago
> Does the article mention this? Sorry I have been looking for this information and did not see it. Yep, here you go: "No Metro by T-Mobile, former Sprint prepaid, or Boost customers had their names or PINs exposed," T-Mobile s

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