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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Political will, removing subsidies for farmers, logistics of actually shipping wheat, climate change, etc.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
am interested, elaborate
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Maybe "people" in a "legal entity" sense, but companies are definitely not people, and shouldn't ever be.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Nintendo is definitely Disney or Warner Bros. They've been around forever, have lots of family friendly IP, and occasionally break out the lawyers and smack the hell out of groups that aren't even vaguely infringing on their IP.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Same with Mr Robot. I don't need to watch a show about IT security and mental illness -- that's already my life. I also think that's why Mad Men and some of the Edwardian dramas are so popular: close enough to our time perio
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
There is plenty of this in The West, too. It's often just couched in different terms, or in different ways. The continued dog-pile on the poor or homeless comes to mind. To quote some dude from The West: “It is not enough merely to w
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Eve Online in a nutshell. Loved that game, but it was more work than my actual job.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Google Summer of Code perhaps? You have to apply but it's not limited to students, just FOSS beginners, and with 4 years of experience you could probably talk the talk and walk the walk well enough to get in. FAQ: https://
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Yes. Boss asked us to get SAN / NAS gear on the cheap + other misc networking gear, all for test / dev env's to trial a new product / approach. We found some on eBay and leadership was cool with it. Forget the exact a
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
The crux of the article: > Great Resignation Statistics The most common reason workers quit during the Great Resignation was toxic company culture (31%). 80% of respondents said the pandemic influenced their decision to resign
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Chip shortage due to COVID screwing with international logistics. Most modern cars are computerized, so no chips means new cars can't get built. No new cars == prices are up for new cars, and since people can't afford new cars th
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> To give a dead horse another kick: can a bakery refuse to make a "gay wedding cake?" how about a "nazi wedding cake?" That law applies to US persons in the US. This is not a globally ratified treaty or a UN mandate
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> We found very little cross-societal variation in interpersonal cooperation Interesting. So then why do some teams / orgs / bureaus / militaries / etc. coalesce and work better than others?
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
This gets a lot of press along with the Millennium Challenge 2002 thing where Lt. Gen. Van Riper pissed off a lot of people by breaking rules. But the counter-point is that it wasn't testing rule breaking, it was trying to test that t
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
They moved the circles from outside of the ring to 100% part of the ring. This has completely changed my view of the product, and I will now replace all of my RHEL subscriptions with Canonical.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> Under the leadership of new Antitrust chief Jonathan Kanter, the Department of Justice is beginning to get much more aggressive. Here’s what Richard Powers, the head of antitrust criminal enforcement, just told the American Bar Associa
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
> may be Well there is a decisive response, the UN getting things done as usual. But they say: > To outside nations, Bachelet advises placing sanctions on Myanmar that will cut off the military's arms supply, cutting relationship
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Makes EBITDA look good, which investors want to see. Also means any buyer has to cut less when the show up. Let the old mgmt take the blame for layoffs and culture changes, rebuild from scratch.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
But that's just London. The rest of the UK... hit or miss. Haven't deal with UK / EU a lot since COVID, so not sure if remote has changed that game up.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
They're fighting a defensive war, not a war of maneuver. Easier to use IEDs and mines when you're bunkering down and the fields are mud -- necessitating the use of a handful of roads. I'd bet my hat that the reasons the Russi
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
How'd you do the retraining?
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
They already made this movie, except it was about a Russian girl trying to pretend to be a (already rich) billionaire, not meet them
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Most food in the US doesn't make you very sick . And food that doesn't make you sick is not very expensive .
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Aye, same. I can't speak to any specific, concrete data, but it's been easy to see an uptick in brigading like activity. Sometimes hard to tell if that's just the echo chamber or bots, but this is a simple, text-based forum
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Short version: Users with enough Karma can flag a post for breaking rules, being blatant propaganda, etc. Enough flags and it drops rapidly in the rankings or dies; depends on how many [flagged] hits it gets. Higher karma users can vouch
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
Ads are the price of free content, so spend that $$$ or pirate.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
What you're describing is a lack of impulse control, not anything related to a gym membership specifically.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
I made it around just fine in Seattle, Vancouver, DC (Tenlytown), and Nashville without a car. Bikes and ubers. Everywhere but Nashville was pretty easy to be a person, and Nashville was a PITA at times but doable.
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
They cut a deal to get the Pantsir, and there may have been strings attached. Plus, if you choose the next-gen AA over the next-gen fighter, there is an implication as to what you'll be shooting at. And since NATO chose the next-gen f
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by blaser-waffle 5y ago
The VVS doesn't have robust jamming, anti-radiation missiles, or SEAD. Like I'm sure they have them somewhere, but not in large enough quantities to reliably cover fat, slow bombers on regular sorties. They took down at least 2

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