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by duxup 10mo ago
Reminds me of the "we can only send helmets" to Ukraine thing ... that apparently wasn't a real hard and fast rule but when originally presented you would have thought it was some magical rule set in stone.
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by duxup 10mo ago
I worked for a company where we brought in teams from a couple European countries after a merger. The absolute "I won't do anything more than I explicitly have to." was brutal. It was hard to even talk to them as they seemed
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by duxup 10mo ago
>haven't seen any of those for smartphones Many phone cases do. Under the idea that you're protecting the camera, but it blocks it none the less.
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by duxup 10mo ago
This just seems like a cycle in Iran. Protests flair up, maybe they die down, maybe the government cracks down harshly and executes people and then it's quiet for a bit.
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by duxup 10mo ago
I suspect Elon's value proposition now isn't really anything he does, it's the fear for stockholders that their companies will be evaluated like any other company and it will tank the stock if Elon isn't around. Sort of
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by duxup 10mo ago
I've seen some truly great CEOs from time to time. I knew what they did. I have zero idea what most CEOs that I've worked for do ... and the seem to want it that way.
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by duxup 10mo ago
I worked at a place where I did tech support for some networking equipment. A few big customers insisted all their support run through the US & US citizens (this was the case anyway, but it was part of their support contracts). The big
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by duxup 10mo ago
I suspect you may be onto something. I'm a run of the mill dev. At least in the past when I was last looking for a job and more active on linkedin, the volume of contacts did not represent legitimate interest, not at all.
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by duxup 10mo ago
My wife's phone, is just full of noise. Notifications, messages, email ... some folks just want to be in front of a fire hose of crap... I don't know why.
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by duxup 10mo ago
Are your skills particularly unique / unusual resume? I could imagine that working. For most people though I expect they're just one of many and odds of spam / scam contacts greatly outweigh legit communication.
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by duxup 10mo ago
Is LinkedIn a "social network" beyond the technical term for a site like that? I find I get zero social interaction that I would associate with humans being social animals from LinkedIn. Are you seeing genuine connections with pe
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by duxup 10mo ago
I'm only on there to once every few years look up old work friends / where they are ... or when I'm job hunting. Otherwise app deleted, I'm not on there. Pretty easy to do. I find it soul crushing even when I do look, so
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by duxup 10mo ago
Despite Trump childish behavior, Ukraine is still getting a lot of weapons and money last I checked.
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by duxup 10mo ago
>On the whole, it’s pretty clearly a grab-bag of stuff that sounded cool, thrown together without any real attempt to explain how is this better spending an equivalent amount of money on Burkes or on the DDG(X) program, which was going t
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by duxup 10mo ago
I get it, if you're a city worker whose job it is to maintain a river running through a park and clearing debris makes the river less turbulent ... that's your job. Not necessarily maintaining a safe surfing spot.
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by duxup 10mo ago
Getting tips and opinions might be.
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by duxup 10mo ago
Yeah work from home, but all the jobs for the less well off require driving.
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by duxup 10mo ago
It's the writers call on how to try to write it. I think the "you should painstakingly work on my thank you letter" is a bit of a rude ask / expectation. Some folks struggle with wordsmithing and want to get better.
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by duxup 10mo ago
I'll bite. For say a random individual ... they may be unsure about their own writing skills and want to say something but unsure of the words to use.
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by duxup 10mo ago
I do wonder about how we as individuals influence this stuff. We want free services and stuff, complain about advertising / sign up for the google's of the world like crazy. Bitch about data-centers while consuming every meme poss
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by duxup 10mo ago
Tariffs is the obvious example.
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by duxup 10mo ago
POTUS power has already extended well beyond even congress.
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by duxup 10mo ago
The laws exist, SCOTUS majority just doesn’t want to enforce them because their guy is in power.
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Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian news(nbcnews.com)
163 points by duxup 10mo ago|55 comments
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President Trump Announces New Trump Class Battleship(navy.mil)
17 points by duxup 10mo ago|20 comments
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by duxup 10mo ago
Full article link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/climate/trump-offshore-wi...
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by duxup 10mo ago
I know getting folks onboard is not easy for any social media site. But I'd pay for a social media site that respected my preferences / content choices and had everyone using real names / validated and so on.
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by duxup 11mo ago
I'm not sure how much is outsmarting, as much as it is that the Trump administration is happy to make a big show and then sell out the US as long as he and his cronies get their cut.
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by duxup 11mo ago
I recall a story about how clothes laundry machines were introduced and while it made people "more productive" ... many people just did laundry more often, cleaned other things more often, and thus it didn't reduce the worklo
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by duxup 11mo ago
That's been the case with hardware at several companies I was at. I was convinced that the process was encouraged by folks who used it as a sort of weird gatekeeping by folks who only used the magic code names. Even better I worked at

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