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by brickfaced 2y ago
It's a shame for the sake of memes that they couldn't hold out long enough for a Unicode flag emoji
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Yes
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by brickfaced 2y ago
>Because I'm pretty sure America needed plenty of foreign help to split the atom The whole point of my comment was that such truly high-skilled immigrants were able to arrive and thrive during the term of the Johnson-Reed Act. The r
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Just not true. The H1B visa program didn't exist until the 1990s. In fact, until passage of the Hart-Celler Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the US was under strict immigration restrictions established by the Johnson-Reed Act o
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by brickfaced 2y ago
>Y'all is one of the only decent things to come out of Texas, This is bigoted anti-Texas slander.
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Yes. A non-Southern speaker who uses "y'all," especially in the typed or written word, is a strong liberal/progressive shibboleth. That so few comments have remarked on this so far indicates the leanings of the HN commen
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by brickfaced 2y ago
This is a laughably naïve view of Chinese-owned companies and the total, I repeat total, amount of control China's one-party state wields over those entities.
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by brickfaced 2y ago
Reciprocity is a perfectly sane policy when it comes to America's top strategic adversary, China, whose stated goal is annexation of our critical economic ally. If I can't eat at your table then you can't eat at mine, and I w
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by brickfaced 2y ago
>Sundar doesn't say, we need more XR. Right, that's the job of some random PM who will launch a half-baked XR project that overlaps with a nearly identical XR project down the hall, which will compete with its fellow Google pro
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by brickfaced 3y ago
In 1975 Gerald Ford was President, "Star Wars" had just started filming, and the Soviet Union was four years out from invading Afghanistan. A lot has changed in the 48 years since then.
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by brickfaced 3y ago
And don't forget wage theft! Which yes, is a problem; and no, does not justify wanton violence and theft.
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by brickfaced 3y ago
I suppose it's only a tracking nightmare unless and until you're the victim of grand theft auto, or specific and tangible police abuse of this power.
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by brickfaced 3y ago
KeePass says 305. That's a few decades' worth of logins across everything from Yahoo! to GMail to random online storefronts. Unique password for each. Doesn't include old accounts I've deleted where possible. Not all ser
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by brickfaced 3y ago
The duality of man: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/11/the-end... - "Why Everything Is Getting Louder The tech industry is producing a rising din. Our bodies can't adapt.&quot
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by brickfaced 3y ago
Ditto fire safety. High-rise apartments where I live tend to have concrete floors and sturdy walls between units for this reason, and it helps greatly with noise reduction.
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by brickfaced 3y ago
>What we need is some good tech to make our homes and gardens more peaceful and quiet. Concrete or brick wall should do it. If you live in an apartment made of drywall and 2x4s, either commit to building a room-within-a-room or buy earpl