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>No really, some people actually think Californian government institutions and politicians are doing a good job, but being undermined by forces outside their control. The truth is probably somewhere in between. There are just as many goo
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7y ago
Or an even better one: “American manufactured Toxic pesticides and chemicals are poisoning wildlife and water in America’s public forests.”
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If by "real-world manufacture & sales operation" you mean an operation where there can be no guarantees of the quality of ingredients and processing/storage, you would be right. Like some pesticides or mold with your bud?
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>If they don't have any money to spend on infrastructure, then what have they been using to pay dividends to investors? The money they should have spent on infrastructure?
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>Why wasn't waiting a few months for stability patches an option? Because it's impossible to buy a new device with an old os?
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>You might be able to solve most of your problems by being more conservative about upgrading. That would be fine, but what about the situation where you have no choice? (i.e. buying new hardware or unrelated hardware - there's no ex
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>More government involvement is seldom the right answer. Actually most of the times, more government regulation is the right answer. There's a long history where limited government involvement and corresponding lack of regulations h
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7y ago
It's a technique to control public discourse and provide the illusion of free speech. Read this[0] and weep. [0]: https://cryptome.org/2012/07/gent-forum-spies.htm
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>Then in all went downhill, quick. IME things started going downhill when UberLyft started reducing driver payouts, which led to drivers starting to game the system. Makes sense too in a way. Driver now have no inventive to make the serv
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This is how it would be done in Java: class Parent { public void first() {}; public void second() {}; public void third() {}; } class Child extends Parent { @Override public void third() {}; /&
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>It's obfuscation by volume. I find it hilarious that you mention this and completely disregard what google is famous for: search. Volume means nothing and relying on volume to hide in a crowd is basically impossible in today's
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Well, that's why they're pushing so hard for DoH (DNS over HTTPS) in the name of "security". There's no easy way for pi-hole to work around that.
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Anker[0] has a dual usb-c power adapter. Comes in handy while traveling. [0] : https://www.anker.com/products/variant/powerport-atom-pd-2/A...
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7y ago
>Jamie "doesn't give a shit about Bitcoin" Dimon. So he won't just hop on any bandwagon. Don't you mean Jamie "we'll setup up our own cryptocurrency[0]" Dimon? [0] https://www.jpmorgan.c
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>I guess their target market is people who don't care about quality? At all? No, their target market is people who have no other choice. This is what regulatory capture gets you.
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I thought it was about my favorite poem [0], but it turned out to be even more heartbreaking. > Lastly, you who read; aye, you >Who this very line may scan: >Think of all you planned to do ... >Have you done the best you can? &g
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The same way it currently works. You don't get paid while you're logged into the app. You start getting paid once you accept the ride and stop getting paid once you've dropped off the rider.
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>- I don't want each company to be forced to pay a minimum wage per hour that then means a driver loses the flexibility to drive for multiple companies at once. Those two things do not compute. How does the amount being paid determi
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>It's meant to be anonymous, yet with some diligent data mining, it can become pretty clear who's who from their spending patterns by observing the ledger. How is that remotely anonymous? It's not anonymous anymore. Transa
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7y ago
Please stop with this fud. 80% of antibiotic production goes to the livestock industry[0] and that is where all the antibiotic resistant bacteria evolve. >Antimicrobials are widely used for disease prevention and growth promotion in food
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>The fact Ethiopa insisted on sending the flight records for their MAX 737 crash to Europe and not to the US shows some serious loss of trust in the FAA had occurred. I don't blame them, given how Boeing had previously tampered with
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That's a nice way to spread fud, when the complaint is that binary code was decompiled and copied. >"Most of these instances of copying occurred before we opened our proprietary code last year, which means the Search Guard deve
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7y ago
This is such a lopsided disposable-society view of things. Has anyone considered the fact that perhaps more cameras are not being bought because the market is saturated? Take me for example: I have an Elan 7e, a 40D and a panasonic mirrorle
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Not really. It's sometimes it's easier than debugging monoliths - just log the incoming message, log outgoing message. And you can narrow down the problem just as quickly as in a monolith.
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>Why is that directly his fault? Just because someone supports a side doesn’t mean they’re complicit in everything every arm of that “side” conducts. You can be complicit by omission too. There's a reason why "just following or
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Java features that have yet to show up in other languages: Scalability - both horizontal and vertical. Memory utilization (you can have humongous heaps without having to worry about managing all that memory). Managability - easy to "di
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Wander around your local Chinatown stores. They should have both Jackfruit and Durian. And if you're really lucky, mangosteen. I'm starting to see Dragonfruit in regular groceries now, so hopefully some of the other fruit should m
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There are two different varietals of jackfruit: one with firm/crunchy flesh (this is the kind you see canned in stores) and the other with creamy. Durian is like the jackfruit with the creamy flesh (in texture), but durian's fruit
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>- Plex Server I had to stop using plex after they insisted on knowing everything I was watching. Mine runs pihole, a print-server, and a fileserver for kodi now.
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> the keyboard going from good-enough to fairly-crappy. And don't forget the ginormous trackpad where your typing ends up in weird places because your palm or your wrist touched it unexpectedly. And forget it if you had the shift ke
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