joecot

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by joecot 5y ago
NATO was formed to defend against Russia . All letting Russia join NATO would do is make it very confusing for NATO to respond if Russia attacked another member. It's already been pushed to its limit by the war in Syria. Russia joinin
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I come for the tech discussions. When political topics come up I try to remind myself I enjoy the tech discussions here.
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This looks great, but if I can make a suggestion, a guide in your docs on how to use this with Matomo[1] would go far. Growthbook provides Feature Flag and A/B Testing, but you have to bring your own analytics. Matomo provides those an
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The President is Jewish, yes. But there are Nazi elements to the Ukrainian military. For example, the Azov Battalion[1] are very clearly neonazis. But they were also one of the main forces fighting Russian separatists in the east, so they w
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I've never had an issue with B&H Photo Video
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Larping. I've been playing Vampire the Masquerade Larps for a decade and I'm working on my own larp about the Huldufolk. Between the two I've gotten a lot of mileage out of being a larper who knows how to code and run servers
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Unfortunately one of those onerous bureaucracies involves having an actual education in how to educate, or a teaching certification. Which is how my private catholic high school had a baseball coach as a history teacher who didn't real
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I was at a party in Western PA where some friends of family were hosting a UFC party. At the party was a guy with a JRE shirt. While Java's not my favorite, I was happy to at least meet another developer and talk about tech stuff. It t
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On the other hand as a male in my 30s spotify recommends Joe Rogan and Jorden Peterson to me approximately every 5 minutes.
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I don't think AWS or GCP will go away any time soon. But I'm going to continue to steer companies I'm involved with away from them. For AWS the cycle always seems to be new product comes out, has a great presentation and whit
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I personally agree that our goal should be not having to work to live. Making a "living" should not be a thing. People should work because they want to work, or because they want a higher amount of resources and comfort than the
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When your enemy is making a mistake, don't interrupt them. If the mod had coherent sensible arguments, I'm sure the host would've done the usual Fox News tactics of talking over them, misstating their points, etc. But he didn
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It's not so much that the problem is being a dog walker, it's that she's a dog walker who only works 20-25 hours a week and believes people should work even less . And that her response to Fox News's question about whet
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If he could, I'd be doubtful South Korea would want him. Looking at some work visa requirements [1] they'd need a sponsoring company in South Korea. If they're working remotely for an English company it sounds like SK would s
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> How tightly does Facebook lock their stuff down to barely get a mention here? Pretty hard. There are some extensions (FB Purity being the most popular), but they focus on trying to modify the facebook site in your browser, and they bre
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He's deeply bought into the Apple ecosystem. He noted his Macbook arrived while he was fighting his account ban. I'm guessing iphone, ipad, thousands in music and movies on itunes, at least hundreds in apps, and an apple account r
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There's also a massive undervaluing of the naturally occurring fungal network that exists between the trees. The mushrooms we see on the ground are just the reproductive organs. If you dig into the ground (and you've probably seen
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If you use Cloudflare for your DNS (which is free) they will allow cnames for the base domain, and when someone requests your domain Cloudflare will just query for the result of the cname themselves and return the IP as though you put in an
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You have time between the offer acceptance and the closing to move out. You usually can buy a new house on the contingency that your current house will be sold. And you can of course get your mail forwarded for quite a while by the postal s
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Whenever I've done it I've always gone with #2, wireless non buds. I've gotten multiple pairs. While they don't get lost, I have always ended up with two fundamental problems with them #1 Bluebooth connectivity to comput
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Phil Murphy ran for governor of NJ essentially on the promise of legal recreational weed. He did so beating out the NJ Democratic Machine, lead by the Norcross family. Knowing that weed was Murphy's #1 campaign promise, the NJ Democrat
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How about another inverse. What about instead of former coworkers, current coworkers? This doesn't really specify. I bet there are a lot of folks that would happily pay $50 to not have to deal with one of their coworkers ever again. Re
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Columbus thought India was closer than it was because birds could be seen returning to the West Coast of England with twigs and leaves from somewhere . Portugal, Spain and anyone else he asked thought he was wrong because that would'v
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Different strokes for different folks, but I immediately dismiss any job posting that mentions contract to hire. Even if it's a 2 week trial. I have a mortgage to pay and regular expenses, and given I've had secure full-time devel
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Many of the land trusts form because the tenants get so pissed at their landlord that they make their landlord's life miserable, until the landlord gives up and sells the building to them for a land trust. Peace is a lie.
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My alternative would be to establish a land trust to manage the apartment building. Then you can provide housing for 3 other families without also making a profit off of them. Here's an example of a Land Trust: https://www.s
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It probably depends where you are on your career path. For me, those silicon valley startups were offering less than my target salary and I was going to try to negotiate up. For the small company I ended up at, I gave my target salary range
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That's why people are looking for a new job that will specifically let them work remote. Like anything else, it's easier to get the change you want from a new company than your current one, and you work that out as part of the int
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This. The WeWorkRemotely posting silicon valley type companies are getting flooded and are quite picky currently. But once you apply to a few jobs elsewhere that have recruiters, you get flooded with small to medium size companies looking f
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One of the reasons I went with a 99% remote job. I'm an hour from the office. There's nothing I can't do from home a vast majority of the time, but the proximity to the office means that when there is value in me showing up,

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