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by boxmonster 4y ago
Silicon Valley’s earliest focus was on pioneering defense technology, and Congress must reinvigorate this partnership to meet 21st-century challenges. To this end, I propose three areas of focus for the 118th Congress to rebuild a “Defense
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It’s time for Congress to bring back ‘Defense Valley’(defensenews.com)
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by boxmonster 4y ago
So if you had a friend visit and say he was going to kayak down the San Joaquin you would tell that's a good idea while the state is facing a massive drought? Also, you need to spend some time in really poor areas of the country to get
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by boxmonster 4y ago
That's not what I'm doing. In this case the massive criticism of California comes from right wing media
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Life long Californian here: You have to be brain dead to think you can kayak down this river and then declare the Central Valley to be a waste land. Let me guess. The author is not from California but has bought into the California hate on
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I think PayPal has been hacked and they don't know the extent of it yet and don't want to publicly comment. An intruder with an agenda could have closed those accounts. I say they've been hacked after I closed my account due
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Dear FogBugz User, Mea culpa — sincerely, We've become well aware of the maelstrom of concern and comments caused by a series of emails that some of you received, but to explain, we were just as surprised as you when multiple emai
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Some places do place pressure on you to do so if what I read on the internet is to be believed
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Obviously Jesse Powell isn't right for the CEO position but I do have a tiny bit of sympathy because I refuse to put my preferred pronouns in my profile. I think it's an invasion of privacy to force me to announce to the whole wor
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I was going to say the article is written in the style of Bill Hicks with some George Carlin, but then I remember that everyone is freaked out right now and "end of the world" themes are popular. No the internet is not going away,
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by boxmonster 4y ago
> speaks three languages fluently. Maybe women should smoke more pot while pregnant. But seriously, glad everyone is ok
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Thanks for this
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Maybe something was lost in translation but it reads like gibberish to me: Sound — a particularly manipulative use of the Dolby effect — plays a prominent role, not by anchoring the image, making it more intelligible, but on the contrary,
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by boxmonster 4y ago
It's funny how the mind is mathematical to mathematicians, a compartmentalized system to psychologists, an engineering system to neuroscientists, a small representation of God to religious people, an emotional system to artists, etc...
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by boxmonster 4y ago
An interesting question. Do transwomen have a male scent or a female scent and do mice respond to transwomen like a male or female? How about transmen? A fascinating area of research.
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by boxmonster 4y ago
You're confusing Russian bots with real people. Real people who are racist homophobes have gone to ghettos like Gab because they've been chased off Twitter. Why can't I say I'm glad my son doesn't want to be a girl
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Early Jordan Peterson was great. My first intro to him was in 2015 or so and it was a talk he gave on depression that helped me. Recent Jordan Peterson has gone off the rails and seems more interested in attention. He's become kind of
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by boxmonster 4y ago
> "I'm very, very... I won't say dreading, but I'm, hmm, somewhat tentative about this whole thing That's the problem. Shaming and shunning is an ancient technique for punishing transgressors, but social media en
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by boxmonster 4y ago
You might want to do some research before proffering an ill-informed opinion. In particular, I would look up "Harm Reduction" which is a relatively new strategy. Heroin is already illegal, so it can't be made any more illegal
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by boxmonster 4y ago
With tree shaking .NET you can compile your C#/NET program into a fairly small single executable on the three major platforms if that's what you need, which is nice.
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by boxmonster 4y ago
This is going to put a lot of pigs out of work
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by boxmonster 4y ago
No doubt a16z is making out like bandits
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Many are taken with the idea that blockchain can be trusted in a world without trust. Governments can't mutate it. No one owns it. My sense is that this inspires an almost religious faith in some people. Google's ability to find j
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by boxmonster 4y ago
"If you can't stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen" - Harry S. Truman There is nothing wrong with my comment. I am of the opinion that you wasted dang's time, especially since recently we have all been praising him fo
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by boxmonster 4y ago
The snobby attitude about Microsoft on HN makes no sense to me
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I was told there would be volcano powered Bitcoin mines
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I don't know anything about Systemd or PulseAudio, but this Lennart Poettering must be quite a trailblazer based on the number of arrow shot into his back
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by boxmonster 4y ago
I say, bloody well said Smedley
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by boxmonster 4y ago
Maybe, or he is trolling https://old.reddit.com/r/meme/comments/vga9q1/google_has_hir...
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by boxmonster 4y ago
It will be interesting to see if she goes to a male or female prison. If she goes to a male prison she's going to need protection. If she goes to a female prison but still has a penis that might cause some controversy.

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