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by gred 5y ago
I usually have a libertarian bent, but I'm finding it hard to muster much sympathy here. If these companies have generally angered the "small government" crowd, I don't know who they expect to protect them from the &quot
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by gred 5y ago
You'd probably do it under the table. I once spent a few months working from Spain. Prior to departure, I also wanted to do things by the book, but my tax and visa questions to the Spanish consulate kept getting deflected in that &quot
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by gred 5y ago
The extinction of species and even languages triggers mass self-examination. But entire cultures are currently evolving at a speed and in a direction that will essentially lead to their extinction within two or three generations, and few pe
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by gred 5y ago
> TL;DR lots of conflation of "lab leak" with "man made". Mixed with media sensationalism and political tribalism... Actually, the most interesting part of the linked article (IMO) was the suggestion that it actually
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by gred 5y ago
"Be prepared, it’s coming. Climate change is going to be the next COVID thing for CNN. We are going to hone in on it." -- Charlie Chester (CNN) on hidden camera, April 2021
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by gred 5y ago
I think the anchor contract is a great idea. Basically, try to make the type of time commitment that you've been avoiding due to your FTE status. If you're able to do that, it's both a good indicator that you'll be able
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by gred 5y ago
Given the surge in online shopping and the blue-collar labor shortage (not really a shortage, just wages triplicating within 1 or 2 years), logistics automation is in overdrive right now. Many of these jobs won't be available to come b
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by gred 6y ago
Interesting read. The Basilica of San Clemente, which the author spends some time describing, was the basis for the fictional "Basilica di San Tommaso" in Ngaio Marsh's 1970 novel "When in Rome" -- a nice read for t
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by gred 6y ago
That may be true, I remember there was quite a bit of surprise when the Court of Appeals overrode the fair use jury finding (not so much because they decided differently, but rather the fact that they set aside the jury's finding at al
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by gred 6y ago
They didn't establish a new test, they applied the existing 4 tests / factors and found that they indicated fair use. The first 2 or 3 pages contain a description of the 4 tests and how they were found to apply in this case.
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by gred 6y ago
It's how you get noticed these days. It's hard for me to read past it as well, but I assume we'll continue to make slow progress understanding the past, even with these self-imposed handicaps.
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by gred 6y ago
Partly agree, but also keep in mind that the CCP is by nature secretive and authoritarian. IMO the cover-up still shifts the probability, but less than it might in another country where cover-ups are less "business as usual".
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by gred 6y ago
I'm hoping to skip modern (i.e. reactive) and go straight to post-modern (i.e. Loom).
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by gred 6y ago
Can we frame this as an equity or social justice issue, so that we can leverage the social media MaaS (Mob as a Service) infrastructure to effect change?
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by gred 6y ago
Be right back.
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by gred 6y ago
ATX?
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by gred 6y ago
I heard he said something positive about Richard Stallman once. /s
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by gred 6y ago
This is just Facebook exercising their right to free speech. Or so I've been told.
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by gred 6y ago
It does look cool, but it appears that there are some legitimate concerns around privacy and security. Mozilla, for example, won't be implementing this: https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues&#x
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by gred 6y ago
Honest question, do you not have a 401(k) or similar? I certainly have a vested interest in seeing a healthy, sustainable stock market over the long term. Not because I'm part of the 1%, but because my upper-middle class retirement dep
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by gred 6y ago
Citation?
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by gred 6y ago
No administration ever "reigns in" the powers of the administration. This is always a priority and talking point of the party out of power, regardless of party. As soon as you are in power, you exploit and expand on the precedents
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by gred 6y ago
It's time for real p2p social media. I'm off to tinker.
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by gred 6y ago
The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, The leopard shall lie down with the young goat, The calf and the young lion and the fatling together; And a little child shall lead them. All popular databases shall routinely undergo Jepsen reviews;
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by gred 6y ago
This article is very relatable. I also usually arouse bridled passion.
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by gred 6y ago
Unless I misunderstood the docs, it is a KV store underneath the abstraction layers: > At the highest level, CockroachDB converts clients' SQL statements into key-value (KV) data, which is distributed among nodes and written to disk
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by gred 6y ago
http://www.thepostalhub.com/
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by gred 6y ago
> Do you believe in meritocracy? Because ownership of that amount of wealth is surely going to skew the entire system. Your focus is too narrow. Broaden the timeline -- the meritocratic spoils cascade across the generations, as they ever
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by gred 6y ago
Yeah, I love the physical mute button on my mike.
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by gred 6y ago
Ah yes, version "9999.0-empty-to-avoid-conflict-with-guava" is especially impressive.

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