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ThinkPad 560E(pappp.net)
181 points by djsumdog 6y ago|71 comments
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oh we totally should. The US has historically extracted resources from regimes who play nice. When they stop playing nice or might want something a little better, the US goes all Iraq/Iran/Libya on them. The foreign aid of high in
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by djsumdog 6y ago
You realize US presidents have imposed embargo via executive orders against nations for decades right? Cuba? Huawei? Whether you think it's right or wrong, legally, it has prescient.
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The legal argument is much more clear though. The US can impose embargo via executive order. Keep in mind Australia dropped Huawei over security concerns for their national broadband network back in 2012. China is a totalitarian regime that
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I started seeing this trend a few years back and wrote about it: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/the-new-era-of-corporate-... No one cared when it was extreme/hard political sites, but the growing corporate cen
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I was so glad when Google Reader died and I switched back to a real RSS reader. Google Reader was garbage. It wouldn't show 404s and had a ton of bugs. Every RSS reader I've tried since has been loads better.
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There are some people who don't want to go back to work even when their jobs are returning. There might legit safety concerns in places like meat packing plants, but they can be addresses by those places spending the money on PPE and s
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by djsumdog 6y ago
> Now you've gone completely off the rails. Gavi's primary role is as a purchaser of vaccines and not in development. Both Gavi and the Gates Foundation are intended to create "healthy markets" for vaccines. Gates did
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Senate proposes one-time wealth tax(cnbc.com)
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I can only see this as being a disaster. Vaccines need very careful testing before administering them to millions of people.
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It's silly to think we're going to have a safe vaccine on the market any time soon. It'd probably be safer to give everyone coronavirus common cold viruses if it can build an immunity. ..and Immune Enhancement Syndrome one of
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Automatic wipers have ALWAYS been bad. The old Nissan 200SX had a wiper sensor and it was one of the first things to fail on that car.
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I took two long journeys in my life, one for 11 months and another for 5: https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/perspective/minimalism/ https://battlepenguin.com/philosophy/perspective&#x2
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Location: Chicago, IL Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, After April 2021 Technologies: Scala, Python, Ruby (languages), Docker/k8s/Marathon/Ansible/Puppet/Jenkins (devops). Currently in devops but looking to go
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I can't wear masks due to a medical condition. For a while I just drove one state over to get groceries or ordered online for drive-up/pick up. I went to a restaurant with some friends last weekend. "Do you have a mask"
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by djsumdog 6y ago
It seemed like California took some of the strongest lockdown measures early on, especially compared to Texas and Florida; all three of which are seeing increased fatalities while the rest of the country is plummeting. I wonder if this a ca
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I made this back in 2016, about voting and that famous paper that talks about how the opinions of voters are really only expressed for the top 10% of income earners in the US: https://battlepenguin.video/videos/watch&#x
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Freedom of speech is quite complex and every single country in the world has limits on speech. Japan and the US seem to have the broadest interpretation of freedom of speech, yet both countries have reasonable limits when it comes to obscen
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by djsumdog 6y ago
I wrote a post on this years ago: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/the-american-banking-system-i... To be fair, in Australia all I needed to transfer money was your name and account number and it'd appear within 24
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This is what people are afraid of. If you live in a city where you have IT salaries over 100k (Seattle, San Fransisco, Chicago), companies may be using this as an opportunity to hire 'cheaper' workers in markets where you don&#x27
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Side-note for people switching work, move your money from your direct deposit account before starting a new job. I was talking to a security researcher about a friend who had a full interview with a company, sent papers for hiring, filled e
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Why do we even have 'high value' accounts on a centralized platform? Why isn't there a whitehouse.gov ActivityPub instance that no single admin can censor or subvert?
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Their bias has been increasing for years. I was turned off by NPR back in 2008 after this terrible Inskeep interview: https://battlepenguin.com/politics/wipedoffthemap/ I still listened to NPR for years after, but
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by djsumdog 6y ago
Not everything needs an objective quantifiable measure of academic performance to make it a good thing people should know. Even if Music may not have an affect on academic performance or cognitive skills, it's still a fun skill. Most p
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Let's say you sign your vote by mail, acknowledge all the legal stuff in there. Say you also live in a suburb with no locks on mailboxes. Say someone steals your actual ballot out of your mailbox, or before it gets to your mailbox, and
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Stop watching ABC/NBC/CNN/FOX/NPR and Democracy Now?
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I didn't think about that. That is very valid. We had this in 2000. I'm old enough to remember George W. Bush and Gore. Remember, Bush wasn't elected the first time. That went to the Supreme Court.
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Absentee is very different. It's opt in, and those votes are counted separately. I got a mail in registration form for someone who doesn't live in my flat today. I do think it's unlikely as a whole it will effect anything due
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It really shouldn't. It's just meant to inflame. There's no legal basis for postponing an election. As others have pointed out, it'd require acts of congress, and possibly also changes to the constitution. It's pret
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by djsumdog 6y ago
UBI feels like Communism with extra steps. With UBI, we're saying "You still have a choice on where you apply your skills and labour," and contrast it with systems where the choice is removed; or people are filtered via schoo

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