eganist

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by eganist 5y ago
not the same as a car leaving the factory without a brakepad. not even in the same ballpark. not even on the same continent, for that matter.
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by eganist 5y ago
> I know > 10 people well into their 80's, none of them give a damn about such stuff, that's more for the people who are on the edge between being old and being young. I'm middle eastern, and I've largely been tem
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by eganist 5y ago
In fairness, I should've contracted even further to the ISO 3166 code "RU" Vehicle codes are only slightly less clear than the ISO codes, but they're used in a surprising number of places, like international sports. Ed
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by eganist 5y ago
Rus: "We'll support you with your interests if you at the very least turn a blind eye to ours" That's my naive read, anyway.
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by eganist 5y ago
Just flag it
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by eganist 5y ago
I mean, it seems like Inc's pretty clear in their position that Google could just pay for the technology they infringed ("The company doesn't want to pay Sonos for technology it copied") rather than backtrack on features
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by eganist 5y ago
At least part of SF is already there, and as posted elsewhere here, at least one developer is taking a crack at using the state code as intended. https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/How-one-S-F-housing-p...
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by eganist 5y ago
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine https://globalnews.ca/news/4283526/john-cena-ford-settle-law... Ford's done this before, and if a settlement is the best that John
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by eganist 5y ago
The reference, for those understandably not inclined to google/ddg/brave it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwG3HWubpZI RIP, Bob
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by eganist 5y ago
Dogpile was at least memorable. I had to remind myself how to spell Cuil. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil Edit: also, dogpile is somehow still around.... which is worth something I suppose.
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by eganist 5y ago
https://www.itcblog.com/488-did-you-know-determinations-of-p... "Infringement, validity, and/or enforceability" constrained to section 337, per the above legal analysis. IANAL
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by eganist 5y ago
I saw wild chickens roaming around in parking lots on O'ahu all the time lol
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by eganist 5y ago
I'm still amazed the first and last times nukes were used against people were in 1945.
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by eganist 5y ago
In fairness, they're probably the best vertically integrated family friendly electronic gaming company, and so long as they don't goof in that specific vertical, they've probably got a lock on it for a while. At least until D
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by eganist 5y ago
> idk what legal precedent is, but if i was hiring i could make a large good faith salary range. What'd be interesting would be how often a company offers near the top of that range, or potentially beyond it. I'd think the freq
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by eganist 5y ago
Thanks for this, I was wondering why every sentence was its own paragraph.
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by eganist 5y ago
Thank you
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by eganist 5y ago
> When trying to build an argument from first principles, it's important not to make a mistake early on. In your case, you use the profit seeking as an argument that this automatically leads to minimizing everyone's salaries.
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by eganist 5y ago
> Colorado State Senator Jessie Danielson would make you believe it's more likely that millions of companies are "bad actors" than that she just doesn't have the relevant experience in business to predict which way he
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by eganist 5y ago
> I personally don't see this as entirely a negative. If I have an issue usually I can just dm a company on twitter and I don't have to call anyone, deal with phone trees, or be there actively waiting for a response. I know thi
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by eganist 5y ago
Doubtful considering how long it took to put JWST together. What, 30 years almost? Granted a lot of that was scope creep but nonetheless, I'm betting it's not launch capacity that's the bottleneck.
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by eganist 5y ago
I learned a LOT from this reply. Thanks for your patience in writing it out; it seems to mirror what I witnessed elsewhere e.g Australia, and it's starkly different from our situation in the US. Given the context, I can't blame yo
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by eganist 5y ago
> GP never suggested that the selection was based on the cars they drive - what gave you that impression? You captured it well in your next sentence: > My own reading is that gp uses the cars are evidence of past financial success
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by eganist 5y ago
> They own a Mercedes, BMW, or Mazda RX-8. I'm not trying to be glib, but what quality of a person or partner were you looking to assess with this measurement? Asking because I've never thought to consider the car a person driv
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by eganist 5y ago
Going from the code: > Special programs 42 > (1)It is not discrimination or a contravention of this Code to plan, advertise, adopt or implement an employment equity program that > (a)has as its objective the amelioration of conditi
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by eganist 5y ago
> I feel truly lucky to have bought a car in Oct 2020. I dream of selling it for that sweet above-what-I-paid price point... but these stories help sober me up Similar story. Bought a specific car that felt like it was already at the bot
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by eganist 5y ago
disclosure: I hold an equity position in an end to end encrypted, trust on first use communications app, not really relevant to this conversation so no value in naming them. I'm not terribly surprised at the number of services that hav
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by eganist 5y ago
> This is likely a script that somehow avoided google's malware scanning pipelines. I can't think of a good reason for scripts through google ad syndication to be asking for camera and microphone permissions. I'd assume Go
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by eganist 5y ago
True
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by eganist 5y ago
> The title appears neutral, but I can't help but think "I've definitely been unwittingly poisoning myself" Probably because this abridged title isn't neutral (flagged accordingly). By simply stating "Lead e

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