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811.
by cmurf 6y ago
Meritocracies require extreme discipline to maintain. Like militaries. Hierarchic and authority driven. In something as casual, permissive, and political as a democratic republic, even with laws, it corrupts itself. Those with power decide
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by cmurf 6y ago
National Popular Vote Interstate Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Intersta...
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by cmurf 6y ago
Trump received the Regeneron antibody treatment. He did not shrug it off. There aren't enough such treatments for everyone who would benefit from it.
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by cmurf 6y ago
Where are the spit tests? 36-48 hours for PCR results isn't practical for the kind of testing regime needed for restaurants, and bars. Gyms, shops, shopping malls are open. No testing and no limits. States have a legal and ethical pubi
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by cmurf 6y ago
Most of the mobile encryption schemes are using file system encryption, not block encryption, i.e. the metadata is not encrypted other than directory and filenames. There's a range of opinions to what degree the unencrypted file metada
816.
by cmurf 6y ago
On Btrfs, there's no overwrite of metadata. The super keeps a record of current plus three backup sets of trees. You want to stop this file system quickly though, they don't stick around very long. Those root tree address can be p
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It’s Only a Matter of Time Before China Detains U.S. Executives(lawfareblog.com)
26 points by cmurf 6y ago|1 comments
818.
by cmurf 6y ago
Yeah this is vile nonsense from a charlatan who should be living in a cardboard box. Book of Job soundly rejects prosperity gospel. Job has everything. Satan makes a bet with God, that the only reason why Job acts righteous is because he ha
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by cmurf 6y ago
I was watching primarily Fox News during the period of time in question in this article, and Arnon Mishkin and others from their decision desk explained all of this. They expected mail-in ballots to be overwhelmingly Democratic in all count
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by cmurf 6y ago
This is bureaucratic inertia. It starts with Reagan's SDI program, repackaged by each of the Bush's. It's like a booger we just can't flick off. So they keep spending money without any real idea of how it fits into a det
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Former Harvard Fencing Coach and Maryland Businessman Charged with Bribery(justice.gov)
2 points by cmurf 6y ago|0 comments
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QAnon proves internet companies aren't up to the task of defending democracy(thehill.com)
2 points by cmurf 6y ago|0 comments
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by cmurf 6y ago
Are you referring to AB 685? That's drinking water. If you're talking about water rights, i.e. lakes, rivers, streams, California is not unique in having this complicated regime that goes back to early settler ranching and farming
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by cmurf 6y ago
Why should people who spread out over a large area get to decide how most people are governed? A republic can be democratic, autocratic, or made of an oligarchy. Only one of those is predicated on a majority of the participants choosing the
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The crisis isn’t too much polarization. It’s too little democracy(vox.com)
20 points by cmurf 6y ago|29 comments
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by cmurf 6y ago
Of course not. They're piling up in mobile refrigeration units. What about the news stories are overblown exactly? What's the motive for scaring people?
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by cmurf 6y ago
Holiday gatherings are cancelled for the rest of the year as far as I'm concerned. In Denver, public and private gatherings are limited to 5 people. Statewide, gatherings limited to members from two households.
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by cmurf 6y ago
One reason is short staffed nursing homes and hospitals. In North Dakota the governor just signed an executive order allowing Covid-positive healthcare workers to stay on job. Including nursing homes. Another reason: don't work, no inc
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by cmurf 6y ago
Whatever the White House is trying to do, the overwhelming majority of Congressional Republicans are going along with it.
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CISA: The November 3rd election was the most secure in American history(cisa.gov)
147 points by cmurf 6y ago|191 comments
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by cmurf 6y ago
https://twitter.com/BeschlossDC/status/1325863193923686400 Given that Trump has just fired the Secretary of Defense, without cause, we might start thinking what his end game is going to look like.
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by cmurf 6y ago
Who’s going to come in behind me? It’s going to be a real ‘yes man.’ And then God help us. Quote from the outgoing Secretary of Defense. https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2020/11/09/
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by cmurf 6y ago
It is possible, there aren't official or legal safeguards in place to prevent it. And I don't think you're being paranoid. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/08/11/donald-tr.
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by cmurf 6y ago
Add infantilization to your list, please. America's sins aren't unique, but Americans are fairly unique in demanding that they shouldn't have to confront those sins. That's for people of color to do, every day, dispropor
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by cmurf 6y ago
Donald Trump has a long history of racial animus. Yes, he is a racist. The racist five year lie of birtherism he told before he was even a running for office, to delegitimize the first Black president, and the sitting president at the time
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by cmurf 6y ago
All we have to do is read the letters of secession from the slave holding states. They tell us why they seceded, and it was over slavery. We can read the Constitution of the Confederate States, and find slavery mentioned ten times, enshrini
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by cmurf 6y ago
I once thought this way too, based on common cold and flu spikes coinciding with onset of school. But that's also when kids are all on top of each other all the time. We should sooner completely shutdown bars and restaurants before shu
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by cmurf 6y ago
Oh they are way more hateful of transgender people. Same with Trump as evidenced by his policies. He really does represent his supporters. Democracy in action, I suppose.
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by cmurf 6y ago
PPACA came straight out of Heritage Foundation. It had substantial bipartisan support in committee, markup, and amendments. Republicans voted against it to use as a political fundraising foil, which they did extremely effectively for a deca
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by cmurf 6y ago
Quite a lot of American liberals think Trump conned his supporters. Promised them factory jobs, didn't deliver, etc. It should be considered the other way around, that the populists saw him as a narcissist who would bully their enemies

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