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by fapjacks 9y ago
I bought the book associated with this post (absolutely beautiful and well-made book), and in it they mention that only civilian maps made available to Soviet citizens were purposefully nerfed, but that many Western civilian maps of Soviet
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by fapjacks 9y ago
That's sort of what they're doing. It's just a two-bit QR code: Red, and Not Red.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
What the parent means is: Can you point to any other (faddish) methodology that didn't come about in that way? Also, waterfall was provided in the original paper as a minimally-viable methodology of software development which was s
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Or, you know, you had too much.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
In a liger. Indeed.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
No, 500 million people aren't mining cryptocurrency in their browsers. Clickbait extraordinaire. 500M monthly visits =/= 500M people, jeez.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
If you do, please document your journey, as I am in the very early stages of a similar decision.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
For others interested in solutions, look at the traditional Swedish farmer's methods of managing common resources. Actually a Nobel Prize was awarded based on work documenting and implementing these and similar practices in far-flung a
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Some of my fondest early teenage memories are tied up in this game. This was truly a remarkable and enjoyable read!
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Uber as well.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Right, the whole purpose of war in the first place is to defeat your enemy's will to fight you. There are a huge number of ways to do this without an army, and Google is in a particularly powerful position to do this.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Only if the crime is relatively minor. How bad of a crime is using dragnet surveillance to create activity logs and dossiers of millions of people, then using that to profit financially, but also (very probably) providing those dossiers and
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Yes, at least in Star Trek that's actually a thing! In DS9 they use "Ferengi Print" for example during the episode when that Tosk creature comes onto the station.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Yes, I learned this from a sysadmin in the early 90s and did this when learning to use Unix and having used the technique in various other contexts (e.g. database DELETEs), I am confident this one weird trick has saved me from catastrophic
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by fapjacks 9y ago
They call that Ferengi Print.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
But RadioShack was a shithole. The reason I stopped going was because it just wasn't frankly safe to go there and buy a last-minute capacitor from the store on Sunday night, versus just wait a few days for DigiKey to ship. You'r
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Humans are Klingons. We in the developed world are currently living in a very strange universe unlike any before it in the history of humankind. Previous to the peaceful, violence-free lifestyle most people enjoy in the West everyone was pr
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Honest question: Why do people do this with the school pickup/dropoff? What is the point of that? Do schools still have buses?
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by fapjacks 9y ago
My great uncle was basically robbed by his own daughter, and his daughter had money to begin with. She had power of attorney and sold everything he owned out from underneath him while his wife (her mother) was dying in the hospital of cance
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by fapjacks 9y ago
This is really why I prefer remote. I mean besides wearing pajamas all day. If I need to be scarce to get some work done, I can make myself completely scarce. Nobody can route their problem around my barriers by just showing up at my desk.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Sounds like the kind of place where the CEO will say those kinds of things because "we're all family here". But I'm guessing if something unprofessional went the other way, there'd be hell to pay.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
There are shitty startups, just like there are shitty enterprises.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
At some point, there were an equal number of average and bad programmers on Stack Overflow as there were average and good programmers on Stack Overflow. But Stack Overflow does not reward people for being good programmers. SO rewards act
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by fapjacks 9y ago
You must have stopped reading at the first couple of sentences, or did you just not see the whole thing about jumping on a local WINS repeater? That wasn't ninja edited in there.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Right. His philosophy is "anti-regulatory capture" which is a great philosophy all around.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
You can buy the ingredients for ayahuasca (B. Caapi vines and P. Viridis leaves) online for cheap.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Many of the answers are stupidly narrow.
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by fapjacks 9y ago
It's not a fringe position. There's plenty of research out there, you can do the footwork yourself [0]. It's not "akin to removing the appendix in every newborn" because it's a minor procedure. Certainly less i
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Actually, don't believe that. There is some kind of distributor war happening, and you should not trust any claims about which Baofeng distributor model is "upgraded" or has "the latest" chipset, because it seems th
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by fapjacks 9y ago
Seems there was a ninja edit.

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