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by dx87 6y ago
That's a good point. While we don't know the details, it's entirely possible that it didn't stop any terrorist attacks because the intel gathered allowed the USA to remove the conditions that would have allowed an attack
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by dx87 6y ago
> ‘Fixing’ women is itself a problem That's been my experience as well with female bosses. The best ones I've had seemed genuine, and led in their own way. The ones that tried to act like males usually fed into the "confid
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by dx87 6y ago
If you earned it, then it isn't privilege, by defintion. Unless you consider being born a hard worker as being privileged, in which case the word is meaningless.
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by dx87 6y ago
I had an interviewer do that once, and it was clearly just to show that he knew more obscure technical info that I did, even though it was at a much lower level than was required for the job. The other interviewer even sighed and rolled the
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by dx87 6y ago
Not ethnic diversity, but lack of a shared identity. Outside of the major cities, the people living in the middle eastern countries were more loyal to their tribe and village than whatever power happened to currently be in charge of the cou
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by dx87 6y ago
H1B and immigration shouldn't be used interchangeably. I think immigration should be easier, but I highly doubt that when the company I work for uses hires junior web developers with H1B visas for low pay based on the area, that they c
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by dx87 6y ago
Governments benefited because they learned how easily people will turn on each other and support sweeping restrictions with no end date. Any time someone questioned the lockdowns back in Spring, people would claim that they were being selfi
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by dx87 6y ago
Except it's not your apartment, it's the landlord's apartment, and they probably have rules against being so loud that people in adjacent units want to move out.
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by dx87 6y ago
I think Linux and MacOS viruses get a special callout because they're exceptions. Similar reporting conventions are used all the time, like a terrorist attack in the middle east vs a terrorist attack in France. It's not some nefar
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by dx87 6y ago
That's the reason Nassim Taleb gave in Black Swan as well. He said in Europe and Asia, failing is looked at negatively, while in the USA failing is fine, as long as it wasn't due to lack of effort. So the USA has a lot of failures
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by dx87 6y ago
Here's hoping these "vaccines" aren't mandatory. I'm not an anti-vaxxer, but if I'm going to get a new vaccine, it better do more than keep me from getting the sniffles from one specific virus.
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by dx87 6y ago
That's completely irrelevenat to what I was talking about. As an adult, it can be difficult to find a psychiatrist willing to prescribe medication.
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by dx87 6y ago
I'm on 6x10 mg of ritalin, and one thing that helped me with it losing its effectiveness is taking a reduced or no dose on weekends, and making a concerted effort to get plenty of sleep. I noticed that I'd be sleeping less when I
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by dx87 6y ago
Yeah, the stigma against the medication, and the people who casually say "omg, I'm like, so ADD" really hurt the people who have actually been diagnosed with it. Depending on where you live, it can be difficult to find a psyc
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by dx87 6y ago
Outside of SV, working with law enforcement and government agencies isn't viewed as a cardinal sin. I wouldn't claim they're a threat to liberty just because you don't like them.
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by dx87 6y ago
I used to have one, it lasted ~5 years before the display stopped working due to some sort of internal electronics failure. IIRC, the reason they're cheap is because they're off-brand Samsung TVs that failed QA testing.
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by dx87 6y ago
You don't understand how something running as root with full access to your entire filesystem is worse than something that has access to your home directory?
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by dx87 6y ago
I'd be willing to be that the worst thing most people have done isn't murder or manslaughter. You don't have to be "older and wiser" to know that you aren't supposed to murder people.
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by dx87 6y ago
The tweet says that it was a "serious, violent crime", and that they got out early on parole, so the 13 years wasn't even the full sentence. With that amount of jail time, it looks like she murdered someone. https:/&#x2
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by dx87 6y ago
I don't really blame the people who question the efficacy of masks. Fauci said that they were deliberately downplaying how effective masks were because they didn't want people buying them up before healthcare personnel could get t
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by dx87 6y ago
It's not an urban myth, Nintendo acknowledged it and told people to not use 3rd party chargers. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/heres-why-nintendo-sw...
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by dx87 6y ago
Nintendo says you shouldn't use anything except 1st party cables with the Switch. There were articles a couple of years ago talking about Switches being bricked. https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/08/her
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by dx87 6y ago
I wonder what their criteria is for "inclusive". My current company has a lot of surface level diversity that most people look for, but I feel isolated because I went to the military while the vast majority of other employees went
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by dx87 6y ago
Or it will make the wait even longer, since the queue time is going to increase if a large amount of people use this feature and take 15-30 seconds to answer their phone when a representative is available, instead of being able to answer im
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by dx87 6y ago
Setting Thunderbird to default to only loading plaintext has been great for discovering sites that use trackers. Sometimes I'll sign up for a weekly newsletter, read it, but the hidden tracking isn't loaded. Inevitably, I'll
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by dx87 6y ago
Depending on how you define "a little bit of everything", you'd lose that bet. Colleges have always leaned left politically, but the viewpoint imbalance has been getting larger in recent years. The last study I read said that
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by dx87 6y ago
That's what the book "Black Swan" by Nasem Taleb recommends as well. Basically, he says that if you're working on something that working on things that depend on a huge scale, they also require a huge amount of luck for
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by dx87 6y ago
While it's a difficulty in understanding a Linux system as a whole, it means you can understand pieces without understanding the entire system. One of the major difficulties I've had learning about Windows systems is that it'
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by dx87 6y ago
The Iraq War was also a big example. Military leadership wanted 3-4x the troops and to immediately start working with the existing Iraqi military and government in order to secure the country and get it back on its feet. Instead, the civili
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by dx87 6y ago
Practice mindfulness. You don't have to actually meditate, but just try and take some time each day to conciously think about something that made you feel emotional, and why you reacted the way you did; I normally do it while taking a

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