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by caeril 4y ago
Probably the same actions taken on antifa forums that are used to dox Trump-voting boomers with the explicit goal of harassing them: nothing. IA is not being "bad", here. They're just being inconsistent. Either doxing/ha
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On income? How would this work? As a CF customer, I am far more concerned with a policy or precedent of capriciously cutting off customers than a policy of defending "bad" customers.
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Sometimes I think that the border of GenX and Millenials have the best grasp on reality. US Boomers had literally the world handed to them in the shadow of WW2 and therefore have no conception of the privilege into which they were born. US
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> That Americans are generally way more overweight than say Europeans Indeed, and this is why it's difficult to discuss universal health care with European friends and coworkers. It's one thing to subsidize basic humanity, some
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The main reason for me is that 90% of them ride on or very near the lane/shoulder divider, putting their handlebars firmly in the vehicle lane. There's a fair bit of anxiety running the mental calculation of how much margin is bet
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This view is probably a little too cynical. Are some providers honeypots? Sure. But I'd wager that most no-log VPN providers are earnest in their claims and intent. The problem, of course, is that, as Proton demonstrated, any "no
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Carmack has kids, and still makes it work. A lot of excuse-making in these comments. Jonathan Blow has some good clips on this topic of "Work Life Balance": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alfCi8QoZQ8 There's
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> You may have more distractions in life or job that you cannot get rid of s/cannot/choose not to/ Carmack walks his kids to school, occasionally plays video games with them, and that is the extent of his "dad" t
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With all the posts and debates lately on this site about the health "evils" of alcohol, this is the most important thing to note about the substance: It absolutely kills your focus. Don't quit to "be healthy", as th
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You can run the client on an existing Roku STB instead of building a separate box.
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Ctrl+- is reduce font size Ctrl+Shift+- is a no-op What version of VScode are you using?
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This is the correct answer. Use GrapheneOS and synchronize your photos to your NAS. Nobody needs to use Google or Apple "cloud" for photos.
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Apple says they don't currently scan, due to the previous backlash. But the capability is there in iOS, waiting for the mothership to remotely enable the feature flag.
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> exclusively answerable to their shareholders. Shareholders are pretty happy under a system in which the corporation benefits from tax breaks and loopholes, fat government contracts, favorable legal environments, carve-outs for regulati
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> many young people were pressured into going to college When I was young, drunk, and impressionable, a pit boss pressured me to apply for casino credit and get hosted in Vegas. Of course, I took out my entire line in markers and lost it
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Literally the only correct answer in this thread is downvoted, of course. Yes, the correct solution is to actually do the job you're paid to do. Offloading your job to a GPT-3 model sounds great in theory but the model knows nothing of
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> alcohol abuse is a surefire way to get liver cancer ...and even then, in the vast majority of primary liver cancer cases, cirrhosis is already present, and typically precedes the cancer. So yes, it's very likely that the general
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Ukraine Invasion really ran hard on this site earlier this year, and the comments were 49% geopolitical, and 49% domestic-political, at minimum. The remaining 2% were about actually-interesting-to-hackers like military technology or tactics
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> How do you find interesting gigs? Honestly, you need to accept the reality that useful companies pay less. It's a sad commentary on the world, but if you want to do useful work and actually contribute to humanity, you're not
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> But when it’s on every page, from a web performance perspective, it equates to a lot of data. Author of this article is apparently unaware of browser caches. > JavaScript is known as a “render-blocking” resource. Yeah, if only there
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The problem being addressed is the Moore's Law equivalent of the Hedonic Treadmill. Some of us don't want EVERY available byte of RAM or clock cycle occupied by bloated window managers, terminals, browsers, init systems, text edit
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And just like Ulbricht set a great example for future darknet market operators to take OPSEC far, far more seriously, so too will this overreach of authorities drive authors and operators of tumbler/mixer software/services to do t
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> this is not going to fly if all he did was write some software Stephen Watt had his life destroyed because he wrote some software. He didn't use it, he didn't directly victimize anyone; he just wrote the software that other p
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Why does this tired argument always appear on HN? We share 97% of our genes with mice. Our organ systems and metabolic pathways are extremely similar. Our homeostatic mechanisms are nearly identical. Some mouse models don't carry ove
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> but doctors have never been helpful at even going in that direction Yeah it's really weird that when doctors profit from pathologically over-prescribing antibiotics, they're hesitant to consider the long term effects of doing
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> I remember catching myself in some meeting talking over a quiet woman who had probably been wanting to talk for quite a while. As a man who used to be very quiet/timid, and get talked over constantly , I'm fairly unsympathe
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Let's be honest, here. Psychologists use preponderance of evidence based on both visible and self-reported traits to form diagnoses also. Psychology is not engineering. They're not diagnosing based on log files or material stress
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> or continued backend support This is part of the problem. Give me software that runs locally only, and there's no need for "backend support". This insane integration of local software with unnecessary remote services is
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This is a good solution with a few caveats: 1. The "ground" in question shouldn't be your own property, or tied back to you by paper trail. A trusted ally's property with a handshake agreement, or poorly-trafficked publi
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> the super rich don’t even seem to be trying to hide this mischief They don't need to. Talk to normies, they love their pods, Doritos, Xtreme Mountain Dew, sportsball, porn, celebrity drama, and Instagram. The product that elites p

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