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by briandear 1y ago
No. It’s the idea that you’re renting your paid off home from the government. And the government gets to decide what it’s worth.
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by briandear 1y ago
> Just imagine giving sensitive personal, government-issued ID to a corporation to install an app outside Google Play In Spain, I have to give my NIE (National ID number) and show my government ID just to send or receive a package from F
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by briandear 1y ago
Hamas to this day still has hostages. People were still butchered and raped by Hamas. The meme that Palestinians are blameless is just not accurate. Not defending either side, just saying this is like the Soviets and the Nazis on the Easter
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by briandear 1y ago
> this is not the fault of scientists. This is a byproduct of a severely broken system with the wrong incentives, which encourages publication of papers and not discovery of truth Are scientists not writing those papers? There may be bad
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by briandear 1y ago
“Visa Waiver” it’s right there in your comment. Waiver means “no visa required: the requirement is waived.”
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by briandear 1y ago
Who paid for that 18 months? Your wife’s lower salary did.
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by briandear 1y ago
That’s true with any country.
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by briandear 1y ago
Meanwhile, in Australia, they’re raising student visa fees to $1279 (USD.) US student visas, after all fees are roughly $500 (USD.) UK skilled worker visas are about $1660. The H1B is about $1700. The U.K. multi entry visitor visa for 10 ye
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by briandear 1y ago
The EU is far ahead of Texas on this. Spain is launching a “porn passport” system (Cartera Digital Beta) using government-issued digital ID to verify age, and France has already attempted something similar. Under the EU’s Digital Services A
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by briandear 1y ago
Landing gear controls are nothing like the fuel shutoffs. And they are in completely different locations. Landing gear controls are in front of the throttle, fuel shutoffs are aft of the throttles.
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by briandear 1y ago
We could also suggest that aliens in the cockpit did it — about the same probability. Two switches, on independent circuits, both failing within one second of each other in the exact same way?
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by briandear 1y ago
Nope. First of all, the FO was the “pilot flying” and thusly controls the throttle. The fuel shutoffs are on the left side, well clear of the range of motion throttle operation for the right seat. If the Captain were controlling throttles,
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by briandear 1y ago
My buddy says the same, he’s a 787 captain for United. Essentially impossible to accidentally turn off those switches. My buddy isn’t “evidence” of course, but actual airline captains are all saying similar things.
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by briandear 1y ago
You don’t inadvertently turn off both switches. The linked SAIB was in 2018 and addresses faulty installations, not a failure after use. And preflight over thousands of flights would have detected if the switches had a failed locking mechan
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by briandear 1y ago
“Once you’ve learned the tool” I don’t have time to learn the tool. I want to use the tool immediately. Otherwise, I’m moving on. Configurable options are certainly a good approach for those that know the tool well, but the default state sh
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by briandear 1y ago
This is why I really despise “Material Design” and the whole Google aesthetic. Look at Google Meet for example. How many times and I trying to remember what the Share Screen icon looks like? Apple generally does this stuff far better: text
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by briandear 1y ago
Aren’t we all self taught? I’m not sure why that part of the story is relevant. In over 15 years of this business, I’ve directly been on a team with probably 5-10 total people with a comp-sci degree — and that includes my time at Apple. Mar
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by briandear 1y ago
Those rockets, the ones that went into space, are those BS? Starlink works. Tesla’s were the most desirable electric car until politics came into it. And PayPal? Literally changed the internet.
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by briandear 1y ago
You think Elon Musk doesn’t know what he’s talking about? Sorry, you might disagree with his politics, but the assertion that he doesn’t know what he’s talking about it absurd.
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by briandear 1y ago
The “anti American sentiment” is overblown. Average person doesn’t care. I live in Spain and I’m not seeing much anti-American anything. Anti-Israel has reached hysterical levels on the other hand — at least in the media, though the average
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by briandear 1y ago
The people who have less of it.
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by briandear 1y ago
Property taxes mean you never own your home: you just rent it from the government.
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by briandear 1y ago
Assuming you have registered the trademark. Most small businesses don’t think to do this.
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by briandear 1y ago
Not really a trademark infringement.
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by briandear 1y ago
Why not nuclear?
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by briandear 1y ago
What’s the net energy footprint of an employee working in an office whose job was made redundant by AI? Of course that human will likely have another job, but what’s the math of a person who was doing tedium solved by AI and now can do some
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by briandear 1y ago
So low salaries in Europe are because they lack oligarchs?
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by briandear 1y ago
AI can be a legitimate interstate commerce issue. If my code runs on a data center in Virginia, am I, someone located outside of Virginia now subject to Virginia AI laws? Do I control network routing so that my application requests won’t in
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by briandear 1y ago
> it has been happening a lot more frequently. Is that factual? Or has the media simply been covering it more due to their bias? International Travelers Processed with Electronic Device Search Fiscal Year Quarter Total Border Searches Co
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by briandear 1y ago
I’m sorry, I have no idea what you’re going on about. Help me understand how this pertains to immigration.

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