grecy

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by grecy 2y ago
Pretty normal for a global traveller. I delt with up to five extortion attempts a day for three years when I drove around Africa. Tons in Honduras too. I NEVER pay, because it makes it worse for those behind me, and now everyone has a cellp
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by grecy 2y ago
I visited a friend in Zurich recently who has such a bunker in their house. ( now a wine cellar) Surely this was before nukes? After reading “nuclear war: a scenario”, I’m really not sure there’s much use surviving the initial blast anyway.
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by grecy 2y ago
I’ve been using Firefox on OS X since forever (never jumped to chrome and back) and I’ve never experienced this. Is there a bug report? Surely this would get a lot of attention.
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by grecy 2y ago
> At the current rate, the suspension and other components seem more likely to fall apart They're trivial to replace when the time comes.
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by grecy 2y ago
More recently those consequences had a lot more of a bang…
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by grecy 2y ago
The last telco I worked at had a project manager like this. She would take on a dozen small-ish projects (~6 months / $1M), and just jam them through by buying some off the shelf managed solution and using an external contractor who wo
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by grecy 2y ago
It would be incredible if you could write a book someday about all those experiences. I would very happily buy that book. Thanks for all that incredible work and your insights here.
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by grecy 2y ago
Elon tweeted a while back they could do positioning, but it’s just not a high priority right now
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by grecy 2y ago
I think it’s widely accepted that many animals, including dogs, go nuts leading up to an earthquake. They can detect it, so something must be measurable.
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by grecy 2y ago
When I worked at defence it was an important part of getting funding that your project had a catchy acronym. Bonus points for combining multiple TLAs
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by grecy 2y ago
> They seem very much like traumatized people, on a massive scale, just trying to survive. Every few years I like to leave the world for a bit and do something else to reset a bit. For example I just finished walking 779km on the Camin
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by grecy 2y ago
> Requiring H1B holders to leave the country to renew paperwork is an insane anachronism FWIW every country requires you leave and come back to change or renew visa status. The computers and processes are all setup at points of entry a
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by grecy 2y ago
> It pays to have empathy and just get on with it. People can be smart in their own ways This x 10000. When I started at a large Telco in 2015 people would print an email they had just sent me, walk over to my desk and say "Did yo
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by grecy 2y ago
Soundtrack to "Sunshine" also seems very appropriate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXzqJucLae8
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by grecy 2y ago
In no other country in the world is money considered speech, and in no other country in the world is there remotely as much money in politics as the USA. I understand you want to justify it's existence, but that doesn't mean it&#x
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by grecy 2y ago
When I worked at Defense a friend maintained a db of TLAs. There were over 13,000, and I can’t remember how many were not unique, but it was staggering
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by grecy 2y ago
I hung out with a native san guy in Namibia who remembers hunting giraffes with bow and arrow with his dad. (he still uses the bow he made) He said when they killed something that big they would light a signal smoke fire and the entire vill
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by grecy 2y ago
The US is turning into Russia where anyone about to testify magically falls out a window
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by grecy 2y ago
> Sounds like a failure of regulation to me Which is a direct result of corporations lobbying with billions of dollars. Every other country calls it bribery for a reason
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by grecy 2y ago
We have our wifi router on an old school power timer. It turns off at 10pm and back on at 8am. It’s a great signal I need to go to bed.
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by grecy 2y ago
Neither Canada, nor Australia nor the UK has this concept. You’re a legal resident? You have 100% healthcare same as everyone else. There isn’t even a question about pre existing anything
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NASA's boss-to-be proclaims we're about to enter an "age of experimentation"(arstechnica.com)
1 points by grecy 2y ago|0 comments
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by grecy 2y ago
Theses headlines are always sensationalist, because it sounds like these deaths are avoidable. To be clear, all of these people were going to die within days, weeks, or at most a few months. Death is certain. Dignity at the end is the least
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by grecy 2y ago
> Sometimes that might be coding, most of the time though, it is not. I agree 100%, though I will add it is important to have a manager who can do, so that at the very least they can have technical conversations. Nothing worse than a
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by grecy 2y ago
I’ve always been shocked there are not way more common parts between vehicles and brands. Alternators, starters, ac compressors and so much more could just be small, medium, large, extra large. The price would drop dramatically.
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by grecy 2y ago
When Rosa Parks sat on the bus it was a crime. Sometimes breaking the law is the right thing to do, and results in great improvement.
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by grecy 2y ago
I couldn't help notice how you avoided abortion rights....
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Trump announces Jared Isaacman as the next NASA administrator(arstechnica.com)
3 points by grecy 2y ago|0 comments
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by grecy 2y ago
Haha, careful. You might soon be saying the same about free speech or abortion rights - “just go to another country if you want those”
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by grecy 2y ago
The US did just adopt a Federal EV charging connector. [1] Hint: it’s Tesla’s NACS 1 : https://driveteslacanada.ca/news/teslas-nacs-set-to-become-o...

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