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by dx87 7y ago
It's probably for the best now, but it shouldn't have needed to come to this. In "Call Sign Chaos" by Jim Mattis, he talks about how the Bush and Obama administrations both repeatedly ignored the recommendations of mili
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by dx87 7y ago
I'm continually amazed at how many people believe that "free speech" didn't exist before the 1st amendment was added to the constitution of the USA.
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by dx87 7y ago
Other people coming to take your food. If there are major food shortages and you have a big stockpile, you better hope you have a way to keep yourself secure.
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by dx87 7y ago
The "both people have to like" feature was on Hot-or-Not close to 15 years ago, Tinder didn't create it.
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by dx87 7y ago
Didn't Finland also tell the recipients ahead of time when the test would be ending? I know if I was told, "We're doing a UBI test for 2 years, you'll get 1k a month, no strings attached", I wouldn't quick wo
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by dx87 7y ago
That attitude is why I never bothered to learn it. Shortly after its 1.0 release, there were a bunch of "here's the good and bad about Go" posts. I remember seeing a post by Rob Pike on reddit where he said he was tired of
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by dx87 7y ago
It's an ADHD medication, so there's no health risk associated with not taking it, they're just really strict about the amount given out at once because they don't want people getting a 90 day supply and selling it. Some
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by dx87 7y ago
Nothing. To be more clear about the potential for abuse, it's an ADHD medication, so they don't want you selling it to other people to abuse. It's not physically addictive, so you can only really get hooked on the benefits,
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by dx87 7y ago
Yep, I'm on a medication that is commonly abused so they only allow 30 day prescriptions, and you can't pay with cash, it has to go through insurance.
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by dx87 7y ago
The only real difference is that there are ways the server can know if you are downloading it for inspection, or if you're piping it straight to bash. A hacked/untrusted site could serve up a malicious script file if it detects t
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by dx87 7y ago
It's not the exact same restriction. When a wasp lays it's eggs in a host, it has already reproduced. The host is just providing an environment to store the eggs until they hatch.
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by dx87 7y ago
I think she'll keep smoking as long as she doesn't face any repercussions for it. Right now, she keeps getting free medical care to fix anything wrong with her, so she has no incentive to get better. If she didn't have that
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by dx87 7y ago
I know it's an edge case, but there was that kid in the UK with an easily fixable, but fatal, heart condition. Their health association refused to pay for it because no doctors in the UK knew how to perform the surgery, and they weren
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by dx87 7y ago
My wife's aunt has been on disability for years because she hurt her back and refuses to quit smoking. The doctors said the smoking is preventing her back from healing correctly, and 3 back surgeries later, she still hasn't quit.
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by dx87 7y ago
If you're willing to gamble on your health, it's still much cheaper to pay the fine than pay for healthcare that isn't through an employer. When I was unemployed for a few months a couple of years ago, I opted to not get any
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by dx87 7y ago
I recently finished reading "Call Sign Chaos" by James Mattis, and it was interesting reading his viewpoint on Iraq and Afghanistan. A common theme with the Bush and Obama administrations is that they would ignore the recommendat
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by dx87 7y ago
Most of the top engineers would probably be contractors. The government pay scale pretty much forces you to become a manager if you want to move past GS-12. Including locality pay, GS-12 salary tops at a little over 100k a year[1]. I just
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by dx87 7y ago
> So the only possible limiting factor that might not scale is TAs. You can render this irrelevant by having high enough standards for entry, like GA Tech's OMSCS, or you can work on scaling it. They said bootcamps don't scale,
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by dx87 7y ago
Yeah, companies that want remote employees really need to drop the COL thing and pay everyone similar rates. At an old job, I was getting $120k doing remote work in a high COL area, and we were looking to hire another team member. Did a b
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by dx87 7y ago
Same. I was offered a promotion at my current job, but it would require being on site at different locations. I turned it down because I get paid well enough to work from home, plus I get an extra 2-3 hours of free time every day since I
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by dx87 7y ago
I was having a weird WebRender issue last year, except it was causing sudden reboots until the computer stayed powered off long enough for the GPU memory to be cleared. I had enabled WebRender in Linux (it's experimental, I know), and
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by dx87 7y ago
A company that my retirement plan used to be with was worse than that. The password could only be numbers and letters, and they would silently truncate your password to 8 characters. The worst part though, is the password was stored in a
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by dx87 7y ago
The same rules don't apply to top streamers. Smaller streamers will get banned for playing copyrighted music, but the most popular streamers can break the law, "accidentally" wear see-through pants on stream, etc., and they&
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by dx87 7y ago
They'll also force you to play a certain amount of ads. I've watched some streamers who wouldn't show any ads because they were making enough money on subscriptions and donations that they didn't want to make anyone wat
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by dx87 7y ago
The process is also rather arbitrary. If a streamer has barely any viewers but is a friend of a popular streamer, they'll get partnered almost immediately, but a "nobody" streamer that regularly has hundreds of viewers will
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by dx87 7y ago
> I’ll be impressed when billionaires actually make sacrifices themselves Donating 10 billion dollars sounds like a pretty big sacrifice.
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by dx87 7y ago
That flag had always confused me because most flags with a crescent moon are from Islamic countries. Until I learned that it was the South Carolina flag, I always figured it was the flag of a country that had people frequently immigrating
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by dx87 7y ago
It's because it used to be considered "womens work", similar to clerical work. Then companies did research and found that the best programmers were usually introverts, so they started advertising and pushing to get more men
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by dx87 7y ago
My wife leaves all of her tabs open, but it's not for any specific reason. If she opens a new tab and goes to a website, the browser will just switch to the tab that's already on that website instead of fetching the website again
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by dx87 7y ago
Anecdotally, nobody I saw doing cybersecurity work for the government had to wear a suit, unless they had a performance review that day, or had to give a presentation to senior management. It was mostly jeans and t-shirts from what I saw,

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