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by indymike 3y ago
> His time in prison (in Texas) may have been what changed him, but he will never stop stealing. This is the attitude that needs to change. There is no proof that one act of theft results in a person having an uncontrollable urge to stea
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by indymike 3y ago
Often the damage from fraudulent takedowns is relative to timing. For example (and this is just an example): Let's say I put up an expose of bad behavior by a politician two days before an election. Something awful that will get covera
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by indymike 3y ago
> This does not solve the problem that many of us do not want to hire convicted criminals. The issue that keeps people from hiring ex-offenders isn't hard to solve: One part is social. This one requires a little leadership and a lit
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by indymike 3y ago
> What has changed in our society that these things are no longer valued? Utility. Not much else. > it feels like fundamental values in society have changed, and the lack of interest in these items is symptomatic. Not really. I think,
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by indymike 3y ago
Between a family of 8 and owning a business with 12 employees, I can tell you conclusively: Least fuss: * ChromeOS * Kubuntu or Neon Linux * MacOS * Windows Enterprise * Windows Most Fuss ChromeOS is great with kids and people who don&#x27
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by indymike 3y ago
Look at how Russia uses their old heavy bombers for an idea: they use them to carry missiles that can be released outside of air defense range. The larger plane reduces the fuel required by the missile (meaning more explosives) and allows t
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by indymike 3y ago
Not correct because of physics. Ground based radar is still blocked by terrain and the horizon, meaning that low altitude attacks are still quite effective against only ground defense. That is why Ukraine's air force still exists and i
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by indymike 3y ago
At one time low altitude was the best way to evade air defense as fighters didn't have look down/shoot down radar capability. They do now, so the low altitude mission might help with ground based radar (by using the earth and geo
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by indymike 3y ago
"Does our code work?" is a different question than, "is the service working?"
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by indymike 3y ago
Turn on Krohnkite under Kwin scripts and you have exactly that.
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by indymike 3y ago
Bitflips aren’t a new thing. I’ve been rarely but painfully bit by them since at least 1986. This. Excludes serial and modem communications where it was a way of life.
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by indymike 3y ago
Child care results in GDP being created. From a certain point of view, government gets a cut of GDP to fund itself.
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by indymike 3y ago
The issue, I think is SV has lost touch with its inner kid. A few years back, before covid, I spend two weeks in SV. I saw one kid. And she was in a stroller that mom was pulling into a dispensary.
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by indymike 3y ago
Not really, I can't think of a better product to highlight everything that is no fun about Silicon Valley than the Metaverse.
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by indymike 3y ago
Massive amounts of user tracking.
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by indymike 3y ago
I had a car, that was in fact evil incarnate. It ate four transmissions, three engines, and managed to destroy six CV joints before the manufacturer put a lemon wood stake through it's black, little, mechanical heart. It had a sixth se
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by indymike 3y ago
> Wouldn’t you get the same benefit by singing up to YouTube premium? I'm a YT premium user. I'm always shocked when I see how many ads are forced on non-premium users.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Blocking people who are harassing you seems like a reasonable balance to free speech. We're not talking about private people or private enterprise. We're talking about appointed, elected and employed government officials acti
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by indymike 3y ago
> This is what you get when you pick your company name out of a dictionary in an attempt to be trendy/minimalist. Trademarks are exactly for this situation: to allow people to establish brands, and protect from imposters and goodwil
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by indymike 3y ago
> Meta verse is a long term play, Metaverse is old. It's literally the dream of the 90s and 00s. Linen labs, second life, every animated live in a village game ever. There is no log term play for the "metaverse". There is
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by indymike 3y ago
> paid GCP customers get the same I think paid may be relative with GCP.
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by indymike 3y ago
> Or better yet. What do I do next? Do something. Break that object at rest inertia. It's hard. And risky. Start trying to make it real in real life. Talk to others that have started similar things. Learn. Grow. You might have to go
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by indymike 3y ago
1. I'm pretty sure that background checks work beyond doubt. I'm pretty sure that skills tests work beyond doubt. I'm less confident in AI resume/profile analysis and skills matching tools - both are getting better. 3. A
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by indymike 3y ago
> Having a long initial process is a feature. Reality is: 1. Screening tools (background check, skills analysis and testing) are really good. There's really no reason to put someone through a six-week gauntlet just to find out if th
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by indymike 3y ago
> I read half way through, enough to get the sense. What the guy is missing is the difference between “it bothers me” and it matters. It bothers me often means "it matters to me." Sometimes it is a signal of something bigger. O
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by indymike 3y ago
You are correct. They may act like they have the right to do so, but you can always say, get a warrant.
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by indymike 3y ago
There's a school of thought around comp where what someone's made in the past should inform what you offer in the future. Some use comp history as an indicator of quality. Some use it as guidance for making sure they don't of
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by indymike 3y ago
> COBRA doesn't guarantee that there is a plan from your former employer, it just gives you a right to pay for it yourself if there is, for a certain period of time. When a business close, if there is no money to pay the insurance c
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by indymike 3y ago
Inkscape is not a diagram editor, but can be used to create diagrams.
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by indymike 3y ago
Of course.

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