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by efitz 3y ago
I have a finite amount of attention, resources and energy. I'm fortunate to have more than most. But climate change is not even in my top 10 problems. Preparing for retirement, getting my kid educated, caring for ill family members,
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by efitz 3y ago
"In denial" and "catastrophe looms" are exactly what I was talking about in my original post. Evangelical protestants will be happy to tell you why you need to change your ways today or else you'll go to hell along
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by efitz 3y ago
I am tired of the “end of the word is nigh” headlines about climate change. I stopped going to church regularly in my late teens because I got tired of the “Armageddon could happen anytime” messaging in protestant Christianity. Feels the
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by efitz 3y ago
This thread baffles me. There are a lot of replies that either didn’t read the article (or even the headline) that seem to be government apologists, or arguing that a particular email isn’t coercive enough, etc. A court found that the gover
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by efitz 3y ago
That is literally what the government was found to be doing by a court.
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by efitz 3y ago
> If anything this example shows the exact opposite with Flaherty sending indignant anger in the other direction. I don’t see how you got there. I see literal demands for action in the tone of someone giving orders to a subordinate.
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by efitz 3y ago
No wall: https://archive.fo/sp4sl
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by efitz 3y ago
I don’t really think this is a problem everywhere in all industries. I think that there is something inherently corrupt about the business culture in the entertainment industry that attracts an abnormally high concentration of psychopaths
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by efitz 3y ago
The Ottoman Empire controlled the region until about 1922. The British came in at that time and arbitrarily drew a line dividing the region into “Mandatory Palestine” and “Transjordan”. This lasted until 1948 and the creation of the moder
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by efitz 3y ago
Someone should turn this HN discussion into a gist.
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by efitz 3y ago
You buried the most interesting part until the end - “WinGPT”! You built a WFW3.11 AI assistant! You have taken Bob into the 21st century!
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by efitz 3y ago
Did anyone else notice that they failed to mention clouds?
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by efitz 3y ago
I have written my congressman and my state representative multiple times in two states, asking them to sponsor a bill to address this. The basic idea I have is that it should be illegal for an unsubscribe or cancellation process to take mor
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by efitz 3y ago
Why would a bespoke one- or few-of-a-kind controller be better than a commercial one? The commercial controller has statutory requirements to provide warranty and would financially damage the company if it had a high failure/return rat
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by efitz 3y ago
Who’s hiring? :-D
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by efitz 3y ago
CAF makes my blood boil. If not for the uniforms these people would be called bandits. How did we end up with so many people in law enforcement and the judicial system who have accepted “the end justifies the means” or “you gotta break a fe
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by efitz 3y ago
It was really a thought experiment rather than advocacy of action. The question I have is, is it right to let someone continue to hurt people just because we don't have an agreed on process to stop them? > That sort of thing isn&#x
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by efitz 3y ago
A Modest Proposal Sometimes investigators know the actual actors involved with such attacks. 15 years ago I worked for Microsoft and went to a security presentation where the team had done some brilliant work and collaborated with law enfo
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by efitz 3y ago
I had a completely different experience with DevOps at a large MANGA than the author. Where I was, DevOps meant that the team that wrote the code, maintained it in production. The thinking and upside of this was that quality wasn’t an exte
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by efitz 3y ago
I told him not to turn on Windows Update.
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by efitz 3y ago
This discussion makes the whole idea of software licensing (of any sort) seem silly to me.
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by efitz 3y ago
I think it’s something else. If you sell me a thing and we both agree the price is fair, then I have no problem with that. It’s when you then try to exert ongoing control or establish an ongoing revenue stream from me that I have a proble
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by efitz 3y ago
There is a special circle of hell for business people who try to turn every single product into a continuous revenue stream. It’s just artificial rent seeking and people who involve themselves in it are morally deficient.
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by efitz 3y ago
I don’t know who/what Lemmy or “LemmyMigration” is. I don’t know if they share the same values as me or if I would find them abhorrent. But if what they were saying was legal , then I am strongly opposed to social media having the ri
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by efitz 3y ago
This is not the US concept of property. The United States views rights (including life, liberty, and property) as being natural, i.e. they exist in the absence of governments, and that government can only infringe on those rights to the min
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by efitz 3y ago
I can’t believe the election disinformation being posted here. That was the fairest election in history. We shouldn’t be spreading conspiracy theories about election software or operator errors. I learned all this I 2020.
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by efitz 3y ago
“NORDO” means “No Radio”.
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by efitz 3y ago
As others have pointed out, the natural rights argument is off-putting. It’s also unnecessary. Copyright is explicitly defined in law as a limited time monopoly granted by government. Don’t use the word “property” or “intellectual property
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by efitz 3y ago
States should mandate that public universities use open textbooks. Federal government should make open textbooks, open journals, and FRAND licensing of patents mandatory as a condition of subsidies and other largesse like student loan guar
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by efitz 3y ago
> There is a certain type of person that clearly gets a sort of intrinsic pleasure from being correct. And they all seem to want to reply to HN comments.

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