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by huffmsa 7y ago
My cat knows when my alarm is supposed to go off. If I miss it or turn if off without getting up, he's usually stomping on my throat and batting at my face to get me up. In the spring he get a bit thrown off by the increasingly earlier
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by huffmsa 7y ago
So what's the problem here? BC is making money.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Can't speak to Vancouver specifically unfortunately, but I'm dealing with "Her Majesty's Royal Water ownership" while trying to rebuild an old breakwater on my property. Or if you look at US corporate tax law, until
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Sounds to me like all of these cities and their containing states and further countries are on the wrong side of the Laffer Curve. And / or have policies which have a higher cost of obedience than the risk/ reward of illegally ski
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by huffmsa 7y ago
> millions in cash often stuffed into hockey bags O, Canada. Must we live our stereotypes so?
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by huffmsa 7y ago
That's up to you. I'm just here to make sure you have firearms available for when you decide it's time to use them.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Yes she was. Because she refused to get out of her vehicle. She was only asked to get out of the vehicle because she was self-admittedly "agitated" and began increasingly berating the officer in a way that was keeping him from fin
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Why are you being threatened with a taser in the first place? Real life isn't Training Day.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It is natural for centralized authority to go rotten if left unchecked. Certainly not imaginary. If I had my way, all government bureaucrats would have a body cam glued to their chest, not just law enforcement. Humans are prone to bad behav
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Get a separate recording device. Get multiple. One on your person and one in your vehicle. Don't rely on your phone if you think you're at risk from corrupt policing.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
There's a difference between going out of your way to be compliant and complying with lawful orders and warrants. > Please step out of the vehicle. Comply and then ask if you're being detained. > Can we come in and take a
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by huffmsa 7y ago
> The cats are out there... they hide well. There's a good reason they're as widespread as humans. They're machines. I was thinking a bit longer term. This effectively free new source of food is going to lead to fatter c
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by huffmsa 7y ago
A feature, if you will.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Going to have a mountain lion problem in 2-3 years.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
But once you get to deployment, particularly if you're using shiny new containerized orchestration, in my experience, it is safer and easier to allocate the host node's memory to the redis container and keep it protected from appl
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by huffmsa 7y ago
It's basic freemium. They own the tubes and the content producers. Give away a lot for free, offer premium stuff. It's not illegally uploaded, MG owns most of the underlying copyright, and they do revenue share with others. People
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Most people don't know that MG owns most of the industry. They've done a really good job making sure no one looks behind the curtain.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Well at least someone still knows what the internet is for. They'll make a bundle.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Only because we pretty long ago agreed that it is important for a government to control the import and export of goods at it's borders. Pay your tariffs, citizen.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
But purging the content meant 30% of their users left literally overnight. Those users probably consume some safe content.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
I'd hazard that the lack of nation vs nation wars over the last 70 years has led to a misunderstanding of what a "sovereign government" is primarily supposed to do. Control it's borders, territory, and exert monopolist f
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Why aren't there articles about big bad tech companies providing software which enables the control over the flow of goods at commercial ports?
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by huffmsa 7y ago
When did deportation become a dirty word? > an operation in 2017 in which immigrants crossing the border were arrested for deportation Because it is illegal to enter the United States except for at controlled points of entry. This is t
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by huffmsa 7y ago
They could take a look at what Nishimura did by splitting 4chan into a work and advertiser safe 4channel.org and the unsafe 4chan.org domains.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
> Whoever said programming side projects should be “full-stress cases”? That's what the context is here. There's a notion in the software development profession that you should have a side project which you put near full-time
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Studying law isn't practicing law. Yes, all professionals should be reading and continuing their education. I read tons of technical publications. But I rarely commit code. But working full-stress cases outside of your actual work? Sou
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by huffmsa 7y ago
> I think in most fields the top performers are going to be investing significant effort outside work to practice, learn, and improve themselves throughout their career. Agreed. I spend a lot of free time reading about and discussing t
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by huffmsa 7y ago
All of that sounds like overtime. Still the same job. How many docs are working on side projects in their free time?
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by huffmsa 7y ago
Reading papers isn't the same as doing the job though. I read mostly technical content related to software dev / general tech, but I rarely create software outside of work.
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by huffmsa 7y ago
I included the vet example because they're almost violent about not wanting to work outside of hours. For the reason you stated. And some have told me that providing that kind of free advice devalues the profession and enables bad (rea

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