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by cmurf 6y ago
Peaceful protest does not work. That is the legacy of the last 50 years since the civil rights movement. Not a lot has changed. Black men are still being lynched. What would the conversation be if it weren't for video? Even with video,
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by cmurf 6y ago
This is the same attempt at plausible deniability of Republican institutional racism since the Nixon Southern Strategy as clearly, undeniably, articulated by its inventor. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/
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by cmurf 6y ago
Btrfs and WinBtrfs. The file system is the journal. https://github.com/maharmstone/btrfs Previous discussion on WinBtrfs https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15177002 Journal is about obviating fsck, j
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by cmurf 6y ago
Depends on the model. Quite a few were hit in 5.4, including mine, but was fixed in 5.5. I haven't seen a problem with 5.6 or 5.7 so far.
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Proportionate Response(slate.com)
2 points by cmurf 6y ago|2 comments
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by cmurf 6y ago
This assumes a basic ability to identify double standards and refuse them on principle. And this country really can't do that right now. Republicans are at a whole new level of hypocrisy than the ordinary variety in American politics.
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by cmurf 6y ago
POTUS is a legal term, and no law gives them power to prevent senators from entering either capitol chamber. Each house has their own rules who can enter. They each keep their own Sergeant at Arms. IF a POTUS can use force to stop them, it
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by cmurf 6y ago
Americans even lack the capacity to be humiliated about the facts: free market unpreparedness, and slow to react; government unpreparedness, slow to react and frequently in denial; the death toll itself. Are Americans just overwhelmed with
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by cmurf 6y ago
>But I'd imagine that the states that dropped out of the election would actually get zero votes, and and those would be the states most closely aligned with the president. Right. So you can't assume that outcome. You have to fi
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by cmurf 6y ago
You are correct. It's federally mandated as to the date, but it's up to the states to administer the elections. And if POTUS were to "cancel" it - well it would get a good deal messier than I've suggested, and reall
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by cmurf 6y ago
I think it's impossible to predict whether he makes such a call, it's the realm of psychology. What's the trigger? Let's say he loses the election. Does his decompensation happen so fast and so hard that he turns into Je
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by cmurf 6y ago
I agree that this system is more fragile than most people think; somehow almost preferring automatic government than the tediousness that functioning democracy requires. And sometimes people get a rude reminder of this. I do not agree that
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by cmurf 6y ago
It's not a concern at all. Colorado has had mail-in voting for years by default, with the option to show up at a precinct. Every ballot is bar coded. I get an email when it's mailed. I get an email soon after I've dropped it
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by cmurf 6y ago
Even during the U.S. civil war, it was possible to avoid violence, for the most part. Sherman's rampage, once he decided to take the war to the people... I'm not sure what percent of death and destruction that represents. The phot
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by cmurf 6y ago
Imagine how inspiring it would be for modern folks today to see these mosaics in their own homes instead of... carpeting. Rugs are cool. Wall to wall carpeting is gross, and unimaginative. I am not a fan. A few years ago I was in Fez, staye
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by cmurf 6y ago
That is inevitable. Trump will one day not be president. And one day while not president he will bitch tweet in a way that dramatically and clearly violates the terms of service. Twitter will have reached its Rubicon with respect to Trump a
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by cmurf 6y ago
I agree. I do not think the tweets of government officials should be deletable under any circumstances. Instead they should have an option for strikethrough, or somehow tag as obsolete with link to the revised tweet. I can see how a police
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by cmurf 6y ago
Voting is the mechanism for blame. It's why so few Americans vote. Non-voters are blamed less than those who do. They're not even ridiculed. That makes it increasingly voluntarily not a democracy. Central to democracies is the los
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by cmurf 6y ago
The mistake was to trust at China at all. Gandhi style non-violent revolution won't work. If it weren't for COVID19 I'd say start the emmigration. I don't think Hong Kong has the necessary weapons or violence to eject Ch
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by cmurf 6y ago
It's there a completely free and open source UEFI memory tester?
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by cmurf 6y ago
Profligate spending has been good for the consumption based economy, and bad for the vast majority of Americans who lack rainy day savings. Let alone something more serious. If self-reliance and personal fiscal responsibility is a "thr
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America’s Next Crisis Is Already Here(theatlantic.com)
2 points by cmurf 6y ago|0 comments
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by cmurf 6y ago
How do you grow an economy with negative birth rates?
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by cmurf 6y ago
It's fraud. It should be illegal to offer a "pre-order" of consumer features that take more than 12 months to actually deliver. And by claiming the car's value will jump this much, it's effectively gambling which is
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by cmurf 6y ago
Great, so Google is part of this con artistry too. This damages their brand. I am using search or maps to get the business's phone number and Google is actively participating in a deception. I consider it fraud. Google and Gruhub benef
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by cmurf 6y ago
The internet needs to be destroyed.
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by cmurf 6y ago
Last time I checked three years ago, the UEFI spec states that the hardware clock (rtc) is set to "current local time". UEFI runtime service's GetTime() includes TimeZone value in minutes offset from UTC, and a Daylight bitma
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by cmurf 6y ago
Maybe his education was strong but vertical, and thus inadequate, leaving him susceptible to irrationality? At my university, the arts and sciences school had broad requirements: math, chemistry or physics, a language, history, humanities,
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by cmurf 6y ago
Fast compression levels of a given algorithm means lower compression ratio. I don't know if ZFS supports variable compression levels (maybe per dataset), but Btrfs ZSTD support uses a mount option, e.g. mount -o compress=zstd:[1-15] Th
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by cmurf 6y ago
The repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act had bi-partisan support. Following 2008, Dodd-Frank Act was passed by Democrats, opposed by Republicans, signed into law by Obama in 2010. After multiple attempts by Republicans to repeal it, they succee

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