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by eplanit 5y ago
Not being an Apple fan, I'm enjoying the schadenfreude of watching them destroy the arguably most-favored, though one of the last remaining, qualities of Apple products -- people used to see them as the great protectors of their privac
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by eplanit 5y ago
Today they look for child porn, tomorrow it will be "Covid Misinformation" (which is today's terrorism). A blind man with a stick can see it coming.
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1Password 8 for Mac is now in Early Access(blog.1password.com)
2 points by eplanit 5y ago|2 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
What an unhappy author, who goes to such trouble to throw whatever cold water he can dream up in order to disparage captialism, without ever making a solid point. It comes off as envy, without any concrete points beyond well, luck was mayb
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by eplanit 5y ago
"A lot of people think masks are very effective" And they are free to make YouTube videos saying so. A US Senator, trained in medicine, is not allowed to opine otherwise, and is in fact banned from saying _anything_ on their pl
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by eplanit 5y ago
Yes. With this, they're already doing that to his constituents in Kentucky.
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YouTube suspends Rand Paul for seven days(mercurynews.com)
285 points by eplanit 5y ago|752 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
For those who haven't yet experienced ageism, it often starts for you when the hiring manager/director is younger than you are. Beware of the age of the bosses when surveilling a potential new gig.
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by eplanit 5y ago
They've built and earned their (negative) reputation. This is cool, but it's like Philip Morris Tobacco Company coming out with a useful home appliance. Uhh....thanks?
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by eplanit 5y ago
Yes Vietnam was a shitshow -- but it was Nixon who was the chief executive who decided what to do. I have no love for Kissinger, but his job was giving advice (no matter how cold) on how to win the absurd war. My point is, of all the pla
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by eplanit 5y ago
It's time to re-educate or ignore the elephant, whose policies are what brought us what we have now. It was that elephant who eradicated logging, promoted extinguishing all natural fires, and told us that the best thing is to allow un
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by eplanit 5y ago
Saying harsh but true things makes him a war criminal?
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Big Tech and the Battle for Republican Liberty(thepublicdiscourse.com)
2 points by eplanit 5y ago|0 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
Shhhh....you'll ruin the illusion. It's marketing aimed at a narrowly defined demographic that is highly attuned for this kind of imagery (Heaven on Earth, for some). As a ruse, it's rather well-done.
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by eplanit 5y ago
I wanted to think that, but the article (though interesting) seems to be written by somebody quite impressed by themself. I may be biased, though, because most of the (few) people I've known to have so many tabs open seem that way to
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by eplanit 5y ago
"I am widely admired at work for my ability to have many, many browser tabs open. (That, at least, is what I take from the frequent shouts of "holy cow, man, look at your browser!" You might consider that maybe they're v
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by eplanit 5y ago
Yes, that's my point in asking. AirBnb's have never been appealing to me, neither as a host nor as a guest, for just these kinds of reasons (i.e. lack of regulation like a regular hotel is under). I'm sure it's great f
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by eplanit 5y ago
Do laws prevent 'regular' hotels from doing this?
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CDC Contingency Plans for COVID-19 Camps (a.k.a. Shielding)(cdc.gov)
6 points by eplanit 5y ago|0 comments
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A Man Who Lost $20B in Two Days Is Lying Low in New Jersey(bloomberg.com)
12 points by eplanit 5y ago|3 comments
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by eplanit 5y ago
Massive population reduction (I don't think any serious person is suggesting elimination) would be the single most effective advancement we can make in reducing our environmental problems. It's definitely a tough sell for politic
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by eplanit 5y ago
The little, unsophisticated people: https://politicofire.com/2021/08/09/cnn-guest-suggests-obama...
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by eplanit 5y ago
Yet another record-setting fire started by PG&E. https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/wildfire/pge-may-be...
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by eplanit 5y ago
I love it -- the fellow countryman picked up, dusted off, and re-used the good business model that Netflix discarded so long ago. It's great.
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by eplanit 5y ago
One of the reasons I don't buy any online versions of movies from Amazon anymore is because of their UI (the other reason is that I just don't trust them). Their web UI for videos lets me scroll through cumbersome graphical tiles
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by eplanit 5y ago
That's the model I'm accustomed to, as well. Most shops I have worked with in the past 10 years use Gerrit, which facilitates that (transparently).
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by eplanit 5y ago
It's not the cognitive dissonance that one would assume it to be. They've studied their methods well. Marx and Mao would be proud. https://nypost.com/2020/06/25/blm-co-founder-describes-herse...
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by eplanit 5y ago
They're wanting "busy" employees, which is not necessarily the same as productive ones. It's like the old "Jesus is coming ... look busy!". https://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Coming-Look-Busy-T-Shirt&
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by eplanit 5y ago
It reminds me of people dying in, or waiting for, ambulances because protestors were blocking the streets, preventing their movement. https://www.kqed.org/news/10426160/patient-died-after-23-min...
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by eplanit 5y ago
You're right, and that's been true for millennia. "Think of the children" is like a damn magic sword of rhetoric.

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