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by dev_dull 7y ago
Which says the problem clearly was the purchasing / money laundering, not a lack of government regulation regarding rentals.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
A crazy idea that is simply too radical here in CA because it means the government relinquishing some form or power and control.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Jails are full and filling up of “examples”.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I found several articles on flooding. Specifically I wanted to know if the sea level is actually rising, which should be something easy to measure.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Just what I was looking for. Thank you!
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Has sea level on the easy coast of the continental US changed materially over the last 100 years? I’m asking seriously. All of the googling I’m doing turns up doomsday scenario articles or high tide observations but not changes to measured
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Eventually people will wake up and realize the Bay Area is the way it is because there’s vested political, financial, and ecological interest in keeping it broken. The reason there’s no affordable low income housing isn’t because that speci
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by dev_dull 7y ago
If you remove your phone number, you’ll eventually be locked out of your account and forced to provide a number. It’s unfortunate.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> It turns out that the 2FA with text messaging sent to a cell phone may be useless when hackers steal your SIM right out from under you. The most annoying part about this is that Twitter demands your phone number. You can't use a
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by dev_dull 7y ago
The Pareto principle says that reducing CO2 by 80% is doable, but reducing it by 100% will probably destroy us. How much CO2 do you think will be released if we destroy every outdated building and build a new energy efficient one in its pla
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by dev_dull 7y ago
This is largely my problem with climate activism. It seems largely based on what's fashionable. For example, ban straws in SF even though all of the ones in the ocean come from another continent[1]. Also stop offering glasses of water
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I'm surprised there's an actual search warrant. I would think these websites get so many requests for IPs that there's not some way the websites hand it over without a warrant.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> Most of the devops (side question, is SRE technically devops?) In my experience a “good” SRE, devops engineer, or software engineer is difficult to distinguish in skills. It’s more about responsibilities. This is especially true of t
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Is it a rack server? I found the power usage too high on those servers compared to more traditional servers.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> I've said in other comments my 4790K is getting a bit old at this point, not slow for most stuff, but definitely hungry for more cores for a lot of tasks, and looking to break past 32gb of ram. I'd also been considering Epyc
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> However, most people don’t think this through, especially if they want to buy, in which case ~10% of your home value is spent on the transaction This is really not true, at least not in high-demand areas. First of all the seller pays
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Fair enough but two sovereign countries aren’t expected to agree on everything. Variance is expected. What’s the data say in the pesticides?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> Location data is stripped. Photos are downloaded with their full EXIF metadata except for latitude and longitude. This is unfortunate. We recommend augmenting your timeline with Google Location History to add location data. This is i
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> and will prevent auto filling fields by browsers and password managers. I would MUCH prefer the recaptcha over this!
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by dev_dull 7y ago
And even if WE did implement it quickly and efficiency, and it works as intended, how do you convinced the other countries responsible for the other 85% of global carbon emissions to care?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
> But whatever, obviously Amazon is getting into the slave credit business. Like they care, and like anyone would bother holding them accountable. I hear this kind of argument from the same people who say the government shouldn’t be te
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I used to do this too. For me they were only interesting until I started my career. Now those screenshots are just the default Mac background with a few apps hidden in the launch bar. The things in person in real life, on the other hand, ha
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Mint alternative? What app?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Couldn’t reas past the headline: > Online disinformation, or fake news intended to deceive, has emerged as a major societal problem. What I’m actually hearing is “the specter fake news is finally enough to give governments the power to
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Yes, which makes them very effective! Squirrels on the other hand...
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by dev_dull 7y ago
Sometimes I wonder if our generation will be remembered as the people looking for the next thing to indignantly complain about.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
In fact, we should make sure all of the other natural predators of chipmunks such as owls, hawks, and cats stop ripping out the organs of chipmunks while they’re still alive and eating them.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
I prefer my cats, which are more cruel than any of the mouse trap styles sold here.
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by dev_dull 7y ago
How does piracy aid in convincing companies to release the source code for games?
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by dev_dull 7y ago
That’s an interesting anecdote because most wealth building strategies don’t really discuss the value and cost of networking.

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