ejb999

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by ejb999 5y ago
principled move? Which principles were they following? the principles that made it OK for 8 years, or the principles were they decided to side with Russia's agressions once the real invasion started.
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by ejb999 5y ago
You mean like for the 8 years when the same page was up, and Patreon never had a problem with it? SO they were OK with it, until they suddenly decided when Russia ramped up the invasion - got it patreon, small invasions no problem big invas
843.
by ejb999 5y ago
I must have missed the part where patreon was asked to face down Russia. Hyperbole much?
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by ejb999 5y ago
Great, the war now has a logo - that'll fix things. When do we get the theme song?
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by ejb999 5y ago
and more importantly, the willingness to sacrifice millions of their own people if they need to. They have done it before, and if needed, I have no doubt they will do it again.
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by ejb999 5y ago
Probably not a bad idea to put all your troops and equipment stockpiles near an area that just about everyone is going to be reluctant to bomb indiscriminately - nobody wants to accidentally destroy that shell protecting that nuclear power
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by ejb999 5y ago
why would that be? I don't think I have ever seen a site that disclosed they are using GA? FWIW: I also prefer Plausible, and have all GA traffic blocked in my hosts file
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Do you disagree that employers sometimes abuse their employees by mislabeling them as one or the other? No, but I for one am very opposed to the drive by some (not you) to do everything they can to make it next to impossible for com
849.
by ejb999 5y ago
Thing is, its not all technical work - thats the problem 20-25 +/- hours a week of meetings - so I put in the extra time so I can do the 40 hours of technical work on top of that.
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by ejb999 5y ago
Ah, thanks, didn't see the connection with AT&T - that makes more sense.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>and the announcement that ATT would cost at least $10Bn. What?
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by ejb999 5y ago
because IC's almost always get paid more to work more - I was an IC for 90% of my life and loved it, when I worked more than 40 hours, I got paid for more than 40 hours. Now I work for mega corp, I get paid the same wether I work 40 ho
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by ejb999 5y ago
I am developer working for a very large 'non-tech' company; 100% WFH (even before covid because I don't live near any of the offices). I only get 3 weeks of vacation a year - and usually have a hard time even using that; hone
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by ejb999 5y ago
I don't believe companies will force employees back to the office to help the NY economy - they will do if if/when they realize enough people aren't doing their jobs as effectively while remote - and imo, lots of companies ar
855.
by ejb999 5y ago
I've only used it once in my career, and at the time I was 'junior' to the other dev with the tools being used on a particular project (I was more senior/experienced than him overall though and had more produce expertise
856.
by ejb999 5y ago
you don't really need a 'source' for that do you? - it's common knowledge that people reuse passwords across sites. It's not best practice for sure, but plenty of people do it. If some low quality site leaks your em
857.
by ejb999 5y ago
I am in the minority I know, but I don't trust them.
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by ejb999 5y ago
That and also makes you realize why no problems get fixed - nobody can a) agree its a problem worth fixing, or b) agree who is to blame or c) agree on how to fix it.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>You're not entirely wrong, but some people just want a house and are less interested in the investment aspect. I agree - I personally never thought of my house as an investment, doesn't really do me any good that it went u
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>Recurring land value taxes would prevent people from hoarding property as an appreciating asset without putting it to productive use. There is an awful lot of people, myself included, that don't feel vacant land is 'unprod
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by ejb999 5y ago
I live in a rural area (relatively speaking - town of about 1000 people) - around me if you don't show up to look at a house, ready to buy, and with no contingencies - you are not going to get a house. I know many folks near me who hav
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by ejb999 5y ago
I think most recruiters operate like email spammers - just throw out 1000's of solicitations and hope one of them connects with somebody.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>So, the thing is, I'd argue a focus on outcome with good technical skills to deliver it, makes you the 1% developer. I didn't read the article the same way as many here did - my take was that he was talking about the 99% o
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>and Japan's actions in China arguably were as well. Arguably? not sure there is anything 'arguably' about Japan's intentions and actions in China.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>The narrative that Japan was about to surrender is a nice story, but has no factual basis. I agree, if they were 'about to surrender' they would have surrendered after the first atomic bomb, but they didn't, and I bel
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by ejb999 5y ago
Please explain how it is illegal to call the person that sold you something defective, and refuses to refund your money?
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by ejb999 5y ago
I once bought a powerful IBM server many years ago at one of the online resellers/liquidators (not eBay) (actually bought 5 of them, but only one was IBM and was the only one that had the problem). Got the server, plugged it in connect
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by ejb999 5y ago
Why not do your own homework and prove me wrong.
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>The high rate of pedestrian deaths is a result of policy regarding road design, pedestrian infrastructure and lenient criminal charges. The driving culture is also to blame. Driving is a god given right. Cars equal freedom, and the
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by ejb999 5y ago
>>the illusion of a social life, Yep, that summed it up for me in 6 words. That would also apply to most social media as well.

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