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1021.
by cudgy 4y ago
And what evidence may you have that it did not come from a lab? Ignoring the incredible risks of playing with and even creating deadly pathogens and the high likelihood of it being released into the world serves what purpose other than to p
1022.
by cudgy 4y ago
For larger properties, a “Beware of Unexploded Land Mines” might work too. Or copy Vladimir the Impailer’s technique of using scarecrows impailed on stakes with the word “Thief” drawn on them. Might scare the neighbors away too though, but
1023.
by cudgy 4y ago
And this is more likely than a lab leak?
1024.
by cudgy 4y ago
> It is perfectly reasonable that some lab somewhere would collect and study the COVID virus. What is unreasonable is that the lab or a lab worker just got sloppy and accidently released that virus out to the world. Is this still true? I
1025.
by cudgy 4y ago
Seems that a privately held company can hold a political ideology as it is owned by typically a limited number of owners, but a corporation is an organized charter within the society owned by an unknown and ever-shifting population that sho
1026.
by cudgy 4y ago
Is it ageless? Or is it a sign of a jaded societal class living during an era with relatively few hardships?
1027.
by cudgy 4y ago
Well said. The blinders that ignore the equally abhorrent wars and policy of NATO and the US placed upon much of the discourse regarding the Ukraine situation are glaringly obvious yet somehow ignored.
1028.
by cudgy 4y ago
Looks like Swift.
1029.
by cudgy 4y ago
Not a fan of using the average for this metric. Median is far more useful.
1030.
by cudgy 4y ago
> but that will implode real estate and hurt a lot of homeowners You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Homeowners need to get hurt in order for housing to be more affordable. Housing taking up huge chunks of earnings is a terrible sta
1031.
by cudgy 4y ago
I like knowing what they are teaching my kids. I also like knowing when they are marked absent from school … in case I was not aware of their absence.
1032.
by cudgy 4y ago
Agreed. Smart TVs are at the top of my list of hated IoT devices. Why can’t one just buy a dumb tv terminal to do what a tv was designed for … display images?
1033.
by cudgy 4y ago
Do you get Javascript error messages in Clojure? That is one of the drawbacks to transpiled languages I have used before. The best one I’ve used so far is Kotlin, which is a pleasure to use in comparison to Java, but this might be because I
1034.
by cudgy 4y ago
Apple FaceID in general but definitely when driving, wearing sunglasses, or outside in bright sunlight. I have a mount for the phone at center dash of my car and FaceID rarely works from there. I have to lean over while trying to drive to p
1035.
by cudgy 4y ago
Oh no! Stock options and other stock-based compensation for less than 1% of tech workers is suffering from the easily predictable end of the longest stock bull market in history. Now that these shares are hammered and more fairly priced, w
1036.
by cudgy 4y ago
Now it’s an acronym for “Selectively Lost All Communications and Knowledge”
1037.
by cudgy 4y ago
Yes, that is a concern as well. There is a threat from three primary vectors: data, algorithm, and hardware. All can be used for nefarious purposes with hardware being the most fundamental and scariest threat of all.
1038.
by cudgy 4y ago
Yes, we are in agreement. I was responding to the comment “But I think TikTok's specific case warrants additional concern because it's all that, plus …”. My point is that they are all a concern and plugging a few holes in the priv
1039.
by cudgy 4y ago
Good modifies the noun job, so it is correctly used as an adjective in this case.
1040.
by cudgy 4y ago
Ok. Put a stop to TikTok and allow US companies to vacuum up our data. China then hacks those companies servers or installs agents within the companies and gets the data anyway. Security threat not avoided. None of these companies should be
1041.
by cudgy 4y ago
What if your government gets the data anyway? Hackers could hack TikTok servers and release data or sell to interested parties. Your government may already be tracking your TikTok usage by sniffing traffic on intermediate servers or other m
1042.
by cudgy 4y ago
The past and present is not the future. Only 20 years ago China was a third world country and conventional wisdom was that China could only make cheap trinkets and never be a threat to the mighty US economy. Now they manufacture practically
1043.
by cudgy 4y ago
Wouldn’t that be great? Unfortunately, unless it benefits the critical stakeholders (eg military complex and corporate elite), actions like this will be discriminatory, selective and rare.
1044.
by cudgy 4y ago
Algorithms are designed and tweaked by people who have biases and can be threatened by government officials or influenced by the media they consume which itself is majorly influenced by government organizations, lobbyist organizations, and
1045.
by cudgy 4y ago
My impression is that he is comparing himself to others and worrying about other developers working weekends, possibly making him look bad if he does not do the same. The reality is that the “weekend warriors” at the company are doing more
1046.
by cudgy 4y ago
This sounds nice, but without defining what “people like you” means, it’s meaningless. Is the criteria class, race, religion, consumer behavior, geographical location, educational background, work ethic, experience level, proficiency level
1047.
by cudgy 4y ago
On mobile, the instructions when first loading block the screen, making it more difficult to follow. Maybe a simple, quick video showing a few scenarios would be easier to follow?
1048.
by cudgy 4y ago
For used mobile homes (caveat emptor), this can be an advantage if the structure is usable, since the buyer essentially gets a “free” or very low cost livable structure with a septic field included. Fast depreciation is an advantage to the
1049.
by cudgy 4y ago
An inspection is required for most home purchases that are financed. The inspection report would clearly indicate the construction type. If buyers aren’t reading their inspection reports, what can you do?
1050.
by cudgy 4y ago
Prefab is a different animal altogether in the US from manufactured homes. Prefabricated homes are many times built to higher standards than regular homes, and prefab homes are usually permanent with no intention of moving the structure to

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