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by callmeal 5y ago
> Do crime rates go up when you stop policing actual crimes? No they don't. See all the studies that disprove the "broken windows theory" that tried to prove that crime rates go down when you enforce policing. https:&#x2F
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by callmeal 5y ago
> Some people will never steal even to save their own life, because they have principles which guide them in that direction. Isn't this a restatement of the Fundamental Attribution Error?
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by callmeal 5y ago
Might be a good time to remember the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect: “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray [Gell-Mann]'s case, physics.
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by callmeal 5y ago
>Martin Ruby, 48, Facebook’s head of public policy for the Nordic and Benelux regions, said he was sorry “if we made the wrong calls in this case” Ah, the good old "we apologize because we're having to, but we did nothing wrong
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by callmeal 5y ago
I must say I'm surprised at most of the comments here. Whatever happened to "corelation does not imply causation"?
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by callmeal 5y ago
>In cold war it was obvious there were two sides Um, no. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-Aligned_Movement
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by callmeal 5y ago
But that would mean he would have to pay his workers more. How will he keep his employees in their place when they don't have to kowtow to him for shifts and payments?
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by callmeal 5y ago
>Saving you a click... who would realistically give such a high permission set IAM to an EC2? The same people who think docker/k8s is what everyone should use and that java is a slow language?
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by callmeal 5y ago
>This is Brazil or Mexico. Or payday loans. It's emphatically not America at large unless you live in SF. Payday loans are America at large. And don't forget Credit Cards rates.
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by callmeal 5y ago
>The US has relatively generous bankruptcy laws. Many people go through bankruptcy and rebuild their credit over several years. Not for student loans. https://bostonstudentloanlawyer.com/the-death-and-bankruptcy...
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by callmeal 5y ago
> How does this compare to Plex? Quite similar, but without all the invasive monitoring and telemetry. For example: you need an "account" to run plex on your local network.
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by callmeal 5y ago
>Nope, the worst thing a corporation can do is try to sell me something I don’t want. How quickly we forget. https://www.marketplace.org/2019/10/16/the-20-year-legal-bat... https://edition.cnn.c
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by callmeal 5y ago
>Now they are servants, beholden to the corrupted members of our government. ITYM corporations. The government is desperately trying to help and corporate interests (in the form of Joe Manchin's blocking of the BBB act) are how we g
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by callmeal 5y ago
>Logger levels are mutable to allow switching them at runtime, JIT can not make an assumption that the log level will stay the same. Java HotSpot can make and verify that assumption. And switch code when the level changes.
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by callmeal 5y ago
The us-west outage did not affect connectivity to the west coast. Our west coast customers had no problems with that connectivity, but our east coast and overseas customers had problems for a couple of hours.
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by callmeal 5y ago
Rachmaninoff heavily influenced Eric Carmen and others: https://www.cmuse.org/you-cant-believe-how-much-rachmaninoff... >> As far as derivative works are concerned, the adagio theme (the second movement) appears in t
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by callmeal 5y ago
>It's a big deal because most large users of Java aren't actually using the newer versions. It's very hard to source that claim, and I apologize for the lack of hard data, but in my experience with "enterprise Java&qu
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by callmeal 5y ago
> It reminds me of how poverty and gun violence dramatically reduced after Roe v. Wade Poverty and gun violence rates also dramatically reduced after we stopped putting lead in gasoline.
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by callmeal 5y ago
>Is it though? The current system is the equivalent of some old unmaintainable shit written in COBOL by a guy who quit after 30 years while making the codebase as terrible as possible to maintain job security. Almost always. Re-implement
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by callmeal 5y ago
>Whatever happened to the customer is always right? The full quote is: "In matters of taste, the customer is always right."
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by callmeal 5y ago
https://forebears.io/surnames/xi#:~:text=How%20Common%20Is%2... . How Common Is The Last Name Xi? It is the 708th most widely held family name at a global level, borne by approximately 1 in 9,415 people. Appro
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by callmeal 5y ago
Or the approx 1,000,000 people with that last name. https://forebears.io/surnames/xi#:~:text=How%20Common%20Is%2... . How Common Is The Last Name Xi? It is the 708th most widely held family name at a global level,
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by callmeal 5y ago
>If you’re reading their content why wouldn’t you click their affiliate links? Because they blackmail companies into affiliate revenue with the threat of "unrecommending" their products. See: https://www.xdesk.com&#x
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by callmeal 5y ago
>What are their current wages, and what are they offered, but have declined? They want an average raise of $384/mo (about $4.8/hr).
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by callmeal 5y ago
Wirecutter is a pay-to-play operation. I stopped heeding their recommendations after I discovered that they were aggressively persuing kickbacks and refusing to review products that do not pay. See https://www.xdesk.com/wire
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by callmeal 5y ago
>i don't understand why the so-called "lab leak theory" of origin for sars-cov2 is treated as some sort of conspiracy theory. Because wildlife->human is a lot more plausible than that. Consider for instance a novel muta
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by callmeal 5y ago
>How many high school graduations, proms, death bed visitations, dance recitals, wedding receptions, music concerts, games and sporting events have been ruined by these awful and ineffective government responses? I would think that not h
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by callmeal 5y ago
Not really. If I send you a (for example) Christmas card in an envelope - there is no way the USPS will insert an advertisement in the card.
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by callmeal 5y ago
>The USPS inserts vast amounts of advertising into my letterbox, and (unlike in most countries) there's no way to opt out. They don't insert it inside an envelope someone else sends you.
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by callmeal 5y ago
I thought it was a Laboratory Management System (for tracking samples).

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