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by hnaccount141 5y ago
I think you would be surprised by the treatment endured by even the most well-off people of color. I know a guy who's very financially successful, lives in an expensive neighborhood, drives a luxury car, wears expensive "professio
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
> How shitty would you feel if you've worked your whole life at a very high level, and then the president announces that you're chosen not because you're the best of the candidates, but because you're a black candidat
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I have no idea whether advertising works or not, but I see this "successful businesses do it, therefore it it works" argument applied to so many different things and it always baffles me. Besides not having much substance beyond a
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That's the strange part though. The streaming service and most of these new features are free. Most of the major features they charge for via Plex Pass are geared at people running their own servers. So they seem to be alienating the o
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
I've been using Unraid for a few years now and while it's served me well I hesitate to recommend it. Were I to start over today I'd definitely be looking at TrueNAS Scale or rolling my own. Unraid seems to be targeting a rath
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
Building a new car doesn't tend to require scrapping an old one. Every car built increases the total supply of cars. Building new luxury housing often (not always) involves tearing down existing housing, leaving the total housing suppl
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
The tech job market is favorable for workers for now. That will most likely not always be the case.
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> Can we assume that anyone who has worked at any of those companies has at best dubious morals, or are they instead small players in a big machine? Why not both? They certainly are small players in a big machine, but the reality is that
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
I get value out of the videos I watch on YouTube and would like to support the creators so that they can continue to produce them.
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Donations to the Mozilla Foundation support the Foundation's outreach and education efforts, not Firefox development. Firefox is developed by the Mozilla Corporation, which is a for-profit entity owned by the Foundation and is not dona
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It's not about singling out individuals, it's about Adafruit as a company taking responsibility for their mistakes. The phrasing in the post makes it sound like the breach was something that happened to them, vs being the direct
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What's more, even in a perfect market as you describe, advertising will only ever represent the subset of the solution space for any given problem that involves spending money. With how powerful a voice advertising has, we end up train
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I think that has more to do with 2020/2021 being unusually good years for the Mac in particular. Computers in general have been selling well due to the pandemic, and the hype surrounding the move to ARM generated a lot of sales. Anecdo
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They already do, they just have to ask Visa/AmEx/Mastercard nicely.
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> Please remember the people at the bottom of the chain here who have (and will continue to) seen a material impact on their business, income or employment due to these (and the inevitable further) changes. We see this dynamic in so many
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If useful ads designed to genuinely inform consumers were the norm it'd be one thing, but I don't think that's the case. The norm is deception and manipulation. The majority of advertising boils down to this fundamental asser
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I guess my point is more that I don't think it's actually that common for people to say they want to defund the police but not mean it. I was thinking more of a case like this: If someone is already outraged about police brutality
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
I'll definitely agree that that motto and indeed the name of the sub itself are not at all representative of the current state of the sub. It didn't start out that way, but over time as it grew it attracted people who just enjoyed
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In both of these cases "we" is a group of thousands of people with varying opinions. There are absolutely plenty of people who very much believe in defunding the police and ending work. As both movements have grown more popular we
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I can understand why you'd get that impression by only looking at the top 40, there's a thriving middle ground of artists that are popular enough to do national/world tours but don't get radio play. Rock and folk are hug
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
Requiring facial recognition in the first place is uncomfortable, though the status quo of treating SSNs as adequate for auth is problematic. That said, requiring citizens to submit incredibly sensitive information to some arbitrary private
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
I'm running a bunch of old Mellanox ConnectX-3 cards, they've been plug and play in all of my Linux systems. Cheap too.
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by hnaccount141 5y ago
I've always wondered why worker co-ops aren't more common in software. It seems like the industry would be particularly well-suited for it.
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Wow, had no idea they had an R&D page. There's some pretty cool stuff in there, thanks!
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> NYTimes maintains a blender docker container Interesting, anybody know what NYTimes uses it for? Can't find much information about it.
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I don't think the person you're replying to is saying that the pursuit of knowledge has anything to do with any one identity, they're simply saying that the pursuit of knowledge inherently changes the way we conceive of ourse
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I have an instant on switch and quite like it. Worth noting however that the unifi-style all in one management interface requires using their cloud service, it can't be self-hosted like unifi. The switches can be configured locally (in
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I have the 24 port poe model and swapped the fan for a noctua. The stock fan wasn't noisy by rackmount switch standards but it was more than I prefer to have audible in my living space.
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If you ignore the historically loaded proper nouns in that piece, most of the values described are the sort of thing that's typically pretty popular around here. Decentralization, free software, information freedom, etc. It doesn'
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> The aggregation of power into some kind of central authority system for the good of the people always ends up bad for the people. You will find that this sentiment is quite popular among communists these days. The idea of achieving a c

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