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by dade_ 5y ago
Not much of an expert, caller ID means nothing. Standard procedure for everybody in the last 20 years should be: Whenever I get a call about security or fraud from the bank, I thank them for the notification and tell them I will call them
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by dade_ 5y ago
The return to office has generally been an awful failure. Business owners and management have broadly failed onto address employee experience, and generally have done nothing to support hybrid working. For example, there are simple tools
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by dade_ 5y ago
That was long winded, but it seems to agree with the ideas: Since the pandemic, more perceived effort is needed to accomplish the same work which directly causes burnout (or whatever name you want to give it) Companies need to think about w
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by dade_ 5y ago
Wonderful news! I grew up without time changes in permanent "summer time" and watching the glorious sunrise winter mornings. I already wake up in the dark in the morning in the winter, so a few more precious moments of daylight
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by dade_ 5y ago
Plenty of mention of different sports, but the post and references cited seem to focus on examples from the NFL. So I suggest the title should be Cities shouldn’t pay for new NFL stadiums. The NFL is over the top from an opulence perspecti
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by dade_ 5y ago
Dead maybe: Harald Bluetooth https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harald_Bluetooth
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by dade_ 5y ago
I didn't say hate and acts of violence are mutually exclusive, only that they aren't the same thing. Further, I wouldn't judge harshly anyone that exacted revenge though I would remind anyone that "revenge is a dish best
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by dade_ 5y ago
Calls for violence and hate are different things. I don't hate Russians, but I support violence against their soldiers invading Ukraine. Hating someone also doesn't mean they are worth the jail time from a violent act.
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by dade_ 5y ago
Inspired by recent events, I re-watched 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 Vladimir Putin watched the movie wit
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by dade_ 5y ago
I use Write (iPad/Windows/Ubuntu/Android) to take handwritten notes and jot info. I first started using SVG on my Sony eReader, it used this vector format. http://www.styluslabs.com/
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by dade_ 5y ago
MD for all things text and SVG journals for handwritten notes, diagrams, sketches, screenshots. Works great, but haven’t found a way to integrate them beyond using a common set of folders.
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by dade_ 5y ago
So we had the report for the Indian government: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30357755 Now we will have actual lessons from Ukraine. “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
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by dade_ 5y ago
Putin was a member of the Soviet KGB. I am saying the Soviet Union methods are at the root of both, also the PRC.
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by dade_ 5y ago
I think the Soviets wrote the handbook NK uses.
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by dade_ 5y ago
Ukraine (and everyone else on this planet) needs to counter Putin’s constant barrage of misinformation. There are lessons here for all of us. ‘I need ammunition, not a ride’: Zelensky declines US evacuation offer, while Russian media annou
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by dade_ 5y ago
They have a website to make donations here: https://savelife.in.ua/en/donate/ These crowd funding sites are turning out to be a disaster. Too many competing interests, values and laws.
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by dade_ 5y ago
Russia and China have a deal to back each other’s despotic regimes on the UN security council. No matter what Xi says, he will back Putin.
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by dade_ 5y ago
I bought a Samsung Flip 5G, it is 1.5 years old now, and no issues with the display. The close sensor failed, which mean that my call kept going after I hung up, but Samsung repaired it under warranty. I was actually surprised someone woul
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by dade_ 5y ago
Studying ML has massively increased my appreciation for the intelligence in biology from cyanobacteria to mollusks, but rarely people on Twitter.
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He should find a younger person to run Meta as he is clearly aging out.
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by dade_ 5y ago
A reasonable conclusion for advice to a government. Currency controls and manipulation are the most powerful controls nation state governments have. The important question remains, is what is good for the government, good for its people?
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by dade_ 5y ago
If it wasn’t for Uncharted on PlayStation, I’d probably never have learned about Sir Francis Drake’s piracy on behalf of Queen Elizabeth I. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Drake He gave half the value to
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by dade_ 5y ago
Watch the Toronto Police Service handle the trucker convoy/protests. No emergency powers needed. Police in Canada are generally well trained so I am baffled by what is going on in Ottawa only a few hours drive away. https:/&#x2
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by dade_ 5y ago
Do earplugs work? I ask because the truckers arrived in Toronto and I worried about 24 hour noise, but then the TPS did their job, and I never needed to find out. As an aside, I actually had a lot of respect for Sloly when he was in TO, so
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by dade_ 5y ago
It appears this was the result of terrible security at GiveSendGo. I'd agree it could be state sponsored, but I am certain there are enough people with the skills to do this on their own downtown Ottawa (even if it turned out they wor
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by dade_ 5y ago
The premier's daughter is definitely unmasked, and an adult as calculated by age: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krista_Haynes https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-anti-vac...
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by dade_ 5y ago
Sauerkraut is simple to make and cabbage is cheap. https://www.livestrong.com/article/413921-does-sauerkraut-ha...
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by dade_ 5y ago
Ice jellyfish have been in the news lately, but I prefer this ribbon ice. https://www.pentictonwesternnews.com/community/ice-jellyfish...
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by dade_ 5y ago
I think it was nearly a decade ago and I made an offhand comment to a friend about baby powder causing cancer. He didn’t believe me as the idea seemed absurd, but his aunt worked at J&J and he texted her, she responded with a canned le
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by dade_ 5y ago
I think a better title is, "What to do if you find yourself working at a dysfunctional company." You may have started at a wonderful company that is acquired or for some other reason becomes dysfunctional. The place isn't da

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