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by gustavus 3y ago
Truth is always the first casualty in war.
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by gustavus 3y ago
Very higelian comment.
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by gustavus 3y ago
I'm getting major "working out will make you right wing" vibes from this comment. The fundamental idea of stoicism is that I will focus on what I can control and accept what I cannot. It only seems to ruffle the jimmies of pe
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by gustavus 3y ago
The problem isn't water, it's drowning. The problem isn't obesity, it's calories. The problem isn't expenses, it's income. Inflation is literally defined as prices rises in response to increase in currency....
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by gustavus 3y ago
Can I just take a minute to thank you for CloudFoundry, it seems like it was what PaaS really should be and when one of the organizations I was contracted with moved to AWS one of the things we realized was that there really was nothing lik
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by gustavus 3y ago
The problem is Psychology is a psuedosicence built entirely on a foundation of cargo cult. Cargo Cult Science: http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/51/2/CargoCult.htm The Control Group is out of Control: https:&#
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by gustavus 3y ago
You know the DoJ could save a lot of money by just telling Oracle that criminals are running unliscenced versions of Oracle for commercial use. Oracle would find those people in minutes, I've never seen anyone as diligent, committted a
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by gustavus 3y ago
Maybe it's like that in LA or something, but in my samllish town in rural America the police are pretty upstanding great guys. They help do crosswalk duty for the kids going to school, they help people out who need a tire changed. I&#x
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by gustavus 3y ago
First off marketing piece masquerading as a blog/information. Secondly how many of those are ranges like $70,000-$150,000, or $15/hr-$30/hr type positions?
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by gustavus 3y ago
They spend their time navigating the bureaucracy of DoD contracts. IBM is still around because they have contracts with the pentagon. Bidding upon these contracts is a route very rarely taken because it is the kind of process that takes yea
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by gustavus 3y ago
Apparently it includes allowing for sending people to prison because they criticize politicians and jailing people who are carrying a chisel or pair of scissors though. EDIT: And because I watched it on Sunday. Remember as always ENGLAND PR
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by gustavus 3y ago
Small companies can move fast and change direction. Medium companies can move at a moderate pace and can change their direction with minimal delay. Large companies move slowly and change directions slowly. A whole countries governing appara
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by gustavus 3y ago
Disclaimer FamilySearch is my primary client. The Church of the Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints doesn't store or maintain any data on people that aren't members of the Church and relatively little data on those that are. FamilyS
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by gustavus 3y ago
Disclaimer FamilySearch is one of my primary clients. There is absolutely no money flowing from ancestry to FamilySearch in any way. There is an agreement that members of the Church and FamilySearch centers get free access to ancestry in re
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by gustavus 3y ago
> Despite Microsoft acknowledging the reports, its security engineers decided the flaws weren't severe enough to guarantee immediate servicing, postponing the fixes for later. Well that is an egregious display of bullhockey and an a
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by gustavus 3y ago
> Perhaps at some point we'll be able to move more towards a Westminster parliamentary model, where the party in power at any particular time basically controls both the executive and legislative branches simultaneously This for me
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by gustavus 3y ago
> It’s in the same feature family as emacs, I resent that emacs is a full on OS that just happens to have a less than stellar text editor.
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by gustavus 3y ago
I mean cities in California have legalized all shoplifting under $900, which is more than most people's grocery bill. But you're right it's just a moral panic by those darned conservatives trying to push their racism and bigo
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by gustavus 3y ago
You're right after all it's not like there are people all over the world risking their lives for the shot to come to the US. The US is a late stage capitalist hell hole that no one really wants to live in and is worse than every w
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by gustavus 3y ago
Duuhh it was so obvious the whole time, why don't we just fix poverty. It's so simple. I mean it's not like there are dozens of confounding factors that make it a complicated problem like mental health issues, disabilities, i
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by gustavus 3y ago
> They are fencing them and use the money, which can buy meth and fentanyl FTFY
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by gustavus 3y ago
> Whatever desperation drives people to shoplift, amplifies. We need to keep in mind most of this shoplifting is not out of desperation or people needing things in most cases. Despite what people like to complain the US does have some s
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by gustavus 3y ago
> HAVANA, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly called for the 31st time on the United States to end its decades-long trade embargo against Cuba as the communist-run island suffers its worst economic crisis in decades, with shortag
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by gustavus 3y ago
> The trouble is that Americans seem to be onboard with not adding taxes, and so that's your slippery slope right there. In Europe regulators are like "If the headline price is €10 but actually nobody pays €10, that headline pr
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by gustavus 3y ago
For those embroiled in this holy war there has come a mediator that has quelled the discord and brough harmony and his name is Doom, Doom Emacs (Seriously if you've been a vimmer for a while and wanted to give emacs a go give Doom Emac
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by gustavus 3y ago
Exactly finally someone thinking of the poor executives and shareholders. These lazy workers I remember back in the days of my youth when a man would work for 23 hours a day with the only break being the 3 minutes you'd have to fish th
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by gustavus 3y ago
Soviet man and American man were arguing about which country was more free. The American man said "I am so free I could walk up to the White house right now and scream 'I hate Ronald Reagan he is an incompetent buffoon.' With
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by gustavus 3y ago
Honestly everytime I've tried downloading a large file the bottleneck is on the serving end, where they aren't able to send that much data that fast.
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by gustavus 3y ago
As long as front-end developers keep shoving more and more layers of JavaScript "libraries" and corporations shovel more and more adware into every request it's likely we'll continue to need more and more bandwidth; beca
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by gustavus 3y ago
I'm sure China and Russia and Iran and all those other nations will 100% see the value of artificially restricting their AI efforts as well because of the risk of harm, and be socially responsible global citizens, that won't explo

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