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by cmurf 6y ago
You're in a catch-22. For an entrepreneurial start-up government (which by the way sounds indistinguishable from aristocracy) to happen per any rules you're even remotely used to, you have to have a civil and trustworthy governmen
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by cmurf 6y ago
Democrats didn't remove the filibuster for SCOTUS judges, Republicans did that (McConnell). Democrats (Reid) removed the filibuster from federal judges, because Republicans were refusing to seat Obama nominees, and over 100 vacancies h
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AP Docs show top WH officials buried CDC report(apnews.com)
8 points by cmurf 6y ago|0 comments
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by cmurf 6y ago
It's way past time for an Amazon boycott. This blog post makes the case without saying the word. But even here on HN there's a long history of complaints about fraud on Amazon: fake reviews, fake products, and little to no action
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by cmurf 6y ago
Emoji might be weird symbols, still, although I make no estimation how they'll be perceived 100 years from now. Whereas Chinese, Hindi, Japanese, Cyrillic characters are not weird. There should be some reasonable subset of UTF8 support
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by cmurf 7y ago
The kernel code for reading zstd squashfs image has been merged for some time. But zstd is only a recently supported algorithm in upstream squashfs tools for creating the squashfs image. In my testing with OS installs that depend on squashf
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by cmurf 7y ago
One party stood vehemently, unmoving, in 2005 to change the law in order to make it more difficult for student loans to be subject to bankruptcy, based on false pretences. And quite literally no one cared. There's no political will to
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by cmurf 7y ago
Already tried that, the first constitution, the Articles of Confederation. The founders quickly discovered the federal government was too weak. But alas, one of those founders, Jefferson, argued we should rewrite the constitution every 19 y
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The Threat of Trump’s Deepfake(theatlantic.com)
2 points by cmurf 7y ago|0 comments
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by cmurf 7y ago
Meanwhile, a minimum of six states still publicly display variations on flags of the Confederacy as their official state flags. https://extras.denverpost.com/flags/
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by cmurf 7y ago
It's 2020 and they're still doing that chickenshit hybrid MBR crap that violates their own goddamn Tech Note? https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/technotes/tn2166... A hybrid MBR by defini
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by cmurf 7y ago
You think Trump is a viable candidate with no glaring weaknesses? The five year racist lie and conspiracy theory of birtherism he peddled before he was even a candidate? The Trump University scam before he was a candidate? The Trump Foundat
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by cmurf 7y ago
That isn't how the Electoral College works these days. It varies by state, but generally each candidate chooses their own slate of Electors who are loyal to the candidate, and upon winning a plurality of votes, that candidate's en
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by cmurf 7y ago
Those cities see more widespread use of masks generally. And specifically once COVID-19 was common knowledge, so was the use of masks. Widespread mask usage doesn't happen in NYC, same as the rest of the U.S. It's very recent this
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by cmurf 7y ago
"the economy" is not any one thing, and this additional story is not enhancing any "the economy" argument. It correctly means everyone should be getting in line to sacrifice. And quite seriously HNers haven't sacrif
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by cmurf 7y ago
I guess this means the PNG reader in the article example ignores the CRC-32? I wonder if a smarter reader could warn on error, assume a bit flip and iterate to see if any one flip causes a CRC-32 check to no longer mismatch (what's emb
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by cmurf 7y ago
COVID19?
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by cmurf 7y ago
I think it it more difficult than this. The constant refrain on HN is that this is all politician's fault, the media's fault, it's about partisanship, etc. It's always a blame game. Of course there is a connection betwee
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by cmurf 7y ago
People are lazy and selfish. If government doesn't give them a disincentive: fines for littering, high taxes for buying unrecyclable plastics or banning them outright, people flat out do not change their behavior. If everyone on earth
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by cmurf 7y ago
I wonder if OpenCore would enable me to (a) passthrough an i915 GPU but not an AMD GPU; (b) run Catalina on a Mac that doesn't support it? I have an ancient macbookpro 8,2 with the defect that eventually leads to AMD GPU failure (it fa
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by cmurf 7y ago
Well to do folks can work from home, or not work from vacation homes, have all their needs delivered, and not catch this thing. All the "essential" people will catch it and some will die, and the well off will consider this very c
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by cmurf 7y ago
I'm not sure about how to moderate the reported DMSMR behaviors reported in this thread. But I wonder if folks are better off buying host managed or host aware drives instead, and pairing it with either dm-zoned and their preferred fil
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by cmurf 7y ago
I think the case of tobacco companies is equally damning to the free market as it is to governments. This is wholesale exploitation, profiting off the suffering and death of others. Nothing so far has stopped tobacco companies. The one thin
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by cmurf 7y ago
They have long (deep) error recoveries, and most of them don't have configurable SCT ERC. If used on Linux, where the default command (queue) timer is 30 seconds, a bad sector could result in the drive not reporting success or failure
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by cmurf 7y ago
Moderate measures. And disproportionate burden. The whole economy isn't shut, quite a lot of people are considered essential services, so they still get called into work, and have no option to just quit. It's a luxury for people w
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REI: Stewarding the Co-Op Through Unprecedented Times(rei.com)
2 points by cmurf 7y ago|0 comments
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by cmurf 7y ago
The smaller strip malls in my area might be 25% "essential" services like restaurants. The rest are shutdown by order of the government as "non-essential" - places like barbers, hair and nail salons, yoga, gyms, cell and
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by cmurf 7y ago
In a non-destructive workflow, the image data is never modified. The image data checksum should never change. Rather, the edits are a kind of "edit list" stored in metadata, which can itself be optionally (separately) checksummed.
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by cmurf 7y ago
fatrace https://piware.de/2012/02/fatrace-report-system-wide-file-ac...
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by cmurf 7y ago
Ext3, ext4, and XFS have a journal that's constantly being overwritten. On Btrfs, the file system is the journal. It does have a bit of a wandering trees problem [1], where F2FS expressly intends to reduce the wandering tree problem.[2

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