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And additionally funded by the US State Department to provide anonymity for users seeking political expression in countries where that expression may be dangerous.
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by cheese_van 4y ago
I unwittingly "rented" a book that I thought I was buying. Luckily I realized after the fact, and was immediately able to cancel. But the interface was exactly the same as buying a book and I, smug that I know what I'm doin
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It may be the appeal of a small machine with exceptionally tiny, often handmade parts decorated or at least polished to a beautiful sheen. There is an unquantifiable moment when a crafted item, in this case mechanical, is so well made it s
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by cheese_van 4y ago
Long ago, I had the pleasure of being in a two car convoy in the Syrian desert looking for a particular castle deep and isolated in the desert (we were Foreign Service). We had the galley draft for Monuments of Syria as a guide. We were so
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by cheese_van 4y ago
My cheap smart phone is hard disconnected from anything to do with the web. No connectivity. At first, I chalked it up to my previous gov CI and comms career. But honestly, I'm just being stubborn. And it stays at home when I leave
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NASA: On July 13 Live: Webb’s First Full-Color Images Explained(youtube.com)
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NASA release of first full-color images from the James Webb Space Telescope on July 12. Join Webb experts for a conversation where you can interact in real time on July 13.
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In some gov circles, the scenario often postulated is that a bird flu variant would be globally spread by Hajj pilgrims leaving Mecca to return to their various homes. The average yearly Hajj partipation is about 2.5 million people. It&#x2
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I believe Pong was, due to it's complexity, and possible dual use, not an exportable item. Not sure it that's true, or how I knew it, perhaps folklore? Perhaps not. Neither were most of IBM's processors. Shit, I just rememb
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Idle hands are the devil's workshop > Restrictions are Satan seminars. I'm going to use that last phrase with good, but obtuse effect, I'm sure.
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I read with interest most well written articles explaining entropy. I often leave the article mildly satisfied that I understood it. Until the next day when I again have to figure out the difference between "high" and "low&
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I do have font preferences but my greater preference is background color. I've found that hex color #FEF0DF as a background tires me less. For reference, it's roughly the Financial Times background. Calibre allowing me to set th
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by cheese_van 5y ago
...and the galaxies will have drifted so far apart, that nothing will appear to exist beyond their own galaxy, except dust.
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by cheese_van 5y ago
Same in Germany. The potatoes with dirt on them are "the good stuff." Another huge difference: In Germany, it is illegal to sell eggs that have been washed. In the US, it is illegal to sell unwashed eggs.
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This is nice. Not criticism, more a confession. My eyes aren't what they used to be. They somewhat struggle to focus if there is much white screen appearing with colored fonts if the font isn't sufficiently dark. My tired eyes w
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by cheese_van 5y ago
>The 80s and 90s had a more libertarian or liberal (less authoritarian left) vibe. Looking back on it, it's hard to decipher. I explained to my son that once, a movie usher asked me to put out my cigarette at a midnight movie. Thi
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by cheese_van 5y ago
>Works, is easy to use, and help is everywhere for it. It's so easy you can't even be smug anymore using nearly any linux distro. Damn their eyes, I worked hard in the 90's getting my linux cred. Now, grandma is using it
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by cheese_van 5y ago
>it communicates the sheer chaos of the period For me, it's the sheer chaos of being alive. There's no sympathy in McCarthy's universe, no room for sentimentality. It's bleak as hell. If there's loving, human c
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by cheese_van 5y ago
We view this problem so wrongheadedly. Disinformation, in all manner of forms, has always been with us. From fraudulent Victorian business prospectus, from yellow journalism, to today's social media. The responsible observer has alw
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Yes, US tax law compels and drives Tesla's behavior. We tax cigarettes, we tax beer - we tax bad behavior in the hope of positive outcomes. From that perspective, it would be considered bad behavior if a corporation does not utilize t
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by cheese_van 5y ago
>Let us also find out why a non governmental entity is handling * Ex-gov here. It is baked into gov thinking that the most desirable solution to difficult problems is to give it to the commercial sector. To a degree, it recognizes that
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>But the average person (or even the average IT dept) does not want to open their machine to update the BIOS. I happily updated BIOS until I experienced a catastrophic failure that bricked the board, don't know how. Since then I&#x
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by cheese_van 5y ago
This may have been the first SCOTUS ruling that cited a tweet in defense of an argument. Ron Klain's tweet crowing that the OSHA mandate was the “ultimate work-around for the Federal govt to require vaccinations,” was cited by Gorsuch.
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Remember that the farmers were tied to the land by medieval relationships. After the labor disruption of the plague, and because the demand for their labor greatly increased, farmers were better able to negotiate the relationship for bett
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by cheese_van 5y ago
The first time I encountered Prufrock, it took my breath away, and I was inspired by its beauty. I honestly cannot imagine my mind, then an English major, and now an aging fool, without Prufrock's influence giving me such a sense of d
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> it made me pine for the days when you could walk into a shop and a knowledgeable salesperson would ask you a few questions and pick the right stuff for you. When you use Google you are walking into their shop. That salesperson is very
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by cheese_van 5y ago
Perhaps it is a good thing that you can't downvote. I'm not sure. Is being able to downvote a necessary condition to "engage"? Or does not being able to downvote force us to engage, not with an easy click, but with a
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> I'd never pick mushrooms from the wild Foraging for mushrooms is an awful lot of fun. In many European cities, you are often able to bring all your mushrooms to the local food market mushroom expert and have them identified. It&
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Perhaps. Although appointments are by definition, appointed, not hired, or considered part of the hiring process. Certainly, the ratio of career diplomats to appointments with respect to ambassadorial appointments is a lively topic among F
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>they struggle to hire people who can actually speak foreign languages I was career Foreign Service. This observation is rather wide of the mark. State's foreign language school is the best of its kind as it certainly needs to be -

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