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by haroldp 2y ago
> if people have the option, they prefer the locally grown, locally owned and operated smaller stores that might cost more If the close store is the same price, then for sure, everyone will prefer what's nearby. If it is one hundre
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by haroldp 2y ago
> grocery corporations will actively work to grow larger and close stores in Black neighborhoods If black neighborhoods are underserved, go make a fortune in black neighborhood grocery stores or their suppliers.
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by haroldp 2y ago
> When Robinson-Patman was enforced, suppliers had to offer the same deal to all grocers The law made it so no one had the position to squeeze suppliers for lower prices and as a result, consumers paid more for groceries. If the suppl
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by haroldp 2y ago
Of course. Or to put it another way, since we are already forced to have cars to get by within the current organization of cities, consumers recognize that they can save considerable money by going to a big consolidated store instead of a
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by haroldp 2y ago
Isn't this a roundabout way of saying that, absent government coercion, consumer preference tends to be towards buying cheaper groceries at a big consolidated store a drive away, than a more expensive nearby store? Isn't the real
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by haroldp 2y ago
It's always evolving, but these days the most common platforms attacking sites that I host are the big cloud providers, especially Azure. But AWS, Google, Digital Ocean, Linode, Contabo, etc all host a lot of attacks trying to brute-f
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by haroldp 2y ago
> I was a Young Libertarian in my day and I recognize the urge to blame lunatics who disagree with my politics Reason is obviously a libertarian magazine, but the author is certainly not a libertarian.
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by haroldp 2y ago
I have long felt that the best way to optimize photograph JPEGs was to scale them to the right size and then have a human turn the quality down until just before the eye notices a decrease in quality, and this has worked well for me. But I
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by haroldp 2y ago
Continuity camera is great too. The mouse and keyboard sharing... works great when it works. Looking forward to that maturing a bit.
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by haroldp 2y ago
> But this does highlight one weakness of these FIDO tokens - you have to manually maintain a list of where you've registered them. FWIW, I use KeePassXC as my password manager and tag each account that uses my hardware keys, so if
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by haroldp 2y ago
It never does. It just LEAPS out at you on a Tuesday morning, stabbing at your eyes with pink, serif, all-caps. How about, "Coaching clients to ask for new DB fields instead of overloading existing ones?"
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by haroldp 2y ago
And now you have a new job: untangling garbage <a>HTML      <&#x
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by haroldp 2y ago
> An election is a legal event and the constitution requires the states to conduct elections in a representative format, which is violated if they then defer to the electoral results of another state. The history of the Electoral College
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by haroldp 2y ago
It has always been up to the states how they apportioned their electoral votes, and it has gone through many different versions to arrive where we are now, including electors being independent of the actual popular vote, and allowing fait
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by haroldp 2y ago
I'm not responsible for what anyone else's goals. And I have never seen anyone advocate for making suburban houses illegal. I just want it to stop being literally illegal for people to use the land they own in safe and reasonabl
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by haroldp 2y ago
> The thing about density advocates which I don't understand is why they wall themselves off to the irrefutable, unquestionable, fact that the second anyone, anywhere in the world, has enough money they move to a less dense area. Th
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by haroldp 2y ago
Mainly, Euclid didn't want Ambler to put a factory in their bedroom community, so they used (abused) their governmental powers to prevent it. Ironically (or perhaps inevitably) the federal government forced them to accept a General Mo
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by haroldp 2y ago
This is exactly what we need, but we can't have it. Though there is probably no single imposition keeping poor people poor than restrictions on land use.
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by haroldp 2y ago
No. It seems unlikely that the drone pilot would have all of that information beyond where the target was, that would be necessary to make an informed decision about participating in an extrajudicial execution of an American citizen.
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by haroldp 2y ago
> We've been ignoring the Constitution for a very long time. Since Thomas Jefferson sent Navy & Marines after the Barbary Pirates without consulting Congress.
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by haroldp 2y ago
Obama ordered drone strikes that intentionally killed at least two Americans. One he copped to, one he denied was intentional. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_al-Awlaki https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by haroldp 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Caracas_drone_attack
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by haroldp 2y ago
Well say I have U&P or API keys for some network service and I have a little shell script that automates it. I can save the auth info in the script or in a ~/.keys/ file or something and the file system permissions are all th
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by haroldp 2y ago
Very cool! Would it make sense to use this for storing keys used other shell scripts? Does it support hardware keys?
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by haroldp 2y ago
Syncing via NextCloud.
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by haroldp 2y ago
The very best thing about keepass is that defines a standard and publishes a reference implementation that anyone can build a compatible client for. I like KeepassXC on MacOS and Keepassium on iOS and I keep the DB in sync between them w
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by haroldp 2y ago
I read Infinite Jest on my Kindle without any problems. So long as the end notes are linked, it works pretty well. If I had a copy of Pale Fire where the poem line references were linked, it would probably be fine too.
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by haroldp 2y ago
> Those are the sorts of books they’re best-suited to. Which is 98% of novels. e-Readers are even great for books with lots of end notes or foot notes. It's great for flipping between those. I had no problem reading Infinite Jest
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by haroldp 2y ago
I would disagree strongly with this. :) The e-reader UI is generally so much better than paper, if a book is not available for kindle, I'll usually find something else to read. Pale Fire is a special case book where you want two have
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by haroldp 2y ago
If you are going to read Pale Fire, get it on paper. I tried to read it on my Kindle and the UI is not up to task of lots of flipping back and forth between the poem and the prose sections.

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