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by clcaev 4y ago
For those that talk about giving people things they "have not earned", I note what we've taken from those same people -- the ability for them fend for themselves and live off the land. With regard to the mechanism of "co
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> One, has forced password changes at 6 month intervals (not as good as 90 days, but better than many!) Forcing password changes reduces overall security, especially for infrequently accessed services. It only normalizes the reset workfl
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Do you mind pointing to a paper that explains this phenomena?
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This may be adequate advice for ill-prepared students, but is it universally good advice? First, many students have a home life not conductive to study, or outright hostile. Traditional four year college provides a place where most things t
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> think we should intervene in markets to sustain a middle class Should interventions be limited to supporting a middle class?
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> uninsured people still get care anyway (showing up at the ER) This is somewhat of a myth; at least it is nuanced. The care in the ER is to stabilize the patient, not fix them. They provide acute care only. Even acute care can be quite
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by clcaev 4y ago
Yes. At an individual level, they ask the question: "Delay my deliverables a week or two in frustration as I retrain; or, pay $300". User by user, the decision is obvious: pay the ransom and move on with your life.
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> Where's the 45 days coming from? First, many employers pay bi-weekly, but deposit is delayed one cycle. You work, then at 2 week mark timesheets are submitted & approved, and then following week the auto payment happens. Secon
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> Hold him, breastfeed him and co-sleep with him and he'll be fine. Otherwise you're doing something wrong. Some humility would serve you well. Some babies, even toddlers, scream loudly for extended periods with no way to conso
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> I'm sorry but that is 0 risk compared to what an entrepreneur does. Most employees loan the company 45 days of labour. This is an "at risk" investment. If the company goes under, they may lose all of it. When multipli
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Moreover, people often forget that the poster probably took some time out of their life to chronicle something. Starting by acknowledging personal experience and their effort documenting it goes along way towards building a collaborative d
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I hope their Precor acquisition remains unscathed, perhaps they spin it off so it can continue to build excellent elipticals.
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One of the powers of having two or more cofounders is that you will see things differently. Those differences bring opportunity that neither one could see alone, but, those differences also bring risks. Consulting like this can go along way
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I had an unsolicited email offer to pay $5k upfront cash to use my github profile to solicit and perform work, plus monthly percentage of their earnings. I presumed it was spam, but they had done significant research as they knew the projec
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This paper proposes a framework of necessary, but not sufficient, conditions (technical skill, shared values, collective memory) for a community to resist assimilation by capital. It seems to propose a duality of capital vs hacker, where ca
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A code dump does not make it an open source project. Sustainable OSS projects are developed publicly.
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How does the user experience of these devices compare with Yubikey?
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As a society, those who are able bodied are often so quick to dismiss illness that others are experiencing. A bit more humility would be a kinder way to approach the world. Just because there may be a few that abuse charity, does not negate
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by clcaev 4y ago
Doctors all too often think that if you are experiencing something that their measurements don't validate ... that you are not sick. In my experience [6 weeks hospitalization; now chronic rare disease] it's that the doctors simply
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by clcaev 4y ago
Our neighbor got long covid. Went from a very active, helpful and involved community member .. into a recluse who lost his job, has not been able to function let alone work for almost 2 years now, and combined with economic strain is now fa
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by clcaev 4y ago
I've never heard of LARPs. I perhaps we should make student loans subject to bankruptcy again, but, make the university a cosigner if they accept public loans.
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Well, it was just as political... it's just the politics favor large companies who were convinced to use and let their employees contribute to projects under a license more akin to the public domain.
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The open source definition originates from Debian, driven by quite thoughtful industry practitioners. Yes, permissive open source licenses tend to benefit large industry players. However, you have it backwards. We promoted these licenses to
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One can so see how pandemic unemployment and other direct payments also substantially benefited existing businesses by not having demand for their goods and services drop, causing a cash crunch in otherwise healthy businesses.
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The FAQ does not address fraud or charge backs. This is worrisome. The FAQ had a link to a community site, but that link is already broken. I'd like to see a critical service like this fully open source so that it can be inspected and
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You can lose your trademark if you do not actively enforce violations. Hence, the full cost of a trademark should include its legal maintenance.
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> Then the police. In some regions, this is a bit unrealistic. I grew up in a neighborhood where the bully's dad was the police captain. The bully would target brown kids and property of their parents (e.g. M80 down the chimney, amo
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None of these compare to a presidential candidate who publicly muses about being a dictator and is elected anyway... and this was only foreshadowing what he orchestrated on Jan 6th.
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NPR was significantly biased even in the late 90s, when they went all-in on Greenspan's idea that we shouldn't reduce, but increase our national debit. Day after day they pushed this narrative with absolutely zero opposing economi
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Creating an extensive library of formally verified results is the goal of many systems, such as http://metamath.org/

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