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by joesmo 10y ago
So will they stop force upgrading systems now or will we come home to find a ransom note for $119 now and an unusable system? That part, by far the most important, is not even addressed.
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by joesmo 10y ago
I'd like to know how many people here who refuse to hire remotely are willing and can provide a proper working environment to their engineers: ie-> single, private offices, 4k monitors, adjustable desks chairs, etc. Or are these peo
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by joesmo 10y ago
His conclusion about Doctrine and other ORMs eating CPU and being the huge bottleneck in the app lines up with my experience using the same. The MVC framework itself, Symfony/Rails in his case, can indeed also be a huge bottle neck, th
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by joesmo 10y ago
Maybe he's betting on Trump bringing Palantir more business with the concentration camps Trump plans to build. Or he might just be a stupid, racist asshole who can relate to Trump and enjoys others' suffering. Who knows what makes
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by joesmo 10y ago
"We just assume that all cultures and societies will follow a certain trajectory: from reformation, to enlightenment, to secularization, then on to the end of history. There this almost patronizing tone I often hear, which is, well, yo
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by joesmo 10y ago
If the world was an action movie, America would definitely be one of the big bad guys in it. It's time for Americans to realize they are not the good guys in this story, that they haven't been the good guys since the 1940's,
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by joesmo 10y ago
The other way to look at it is that Europe dodged a huge bullet by not creating said path to the EU for Turkey. It's not like Erdogan would have turned away from being an authoritarian dictator simply because Turkey was in the EU and t
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by joesmo 10y ago
How do you find the take-home part of salaries compared to the US? I'm considering moving, but from what I've seen, they're only about half. Still considering as I work remotely, but that may not be the case forever.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Sounds like communist Romania in the 80's. The main difference there was that the state had a near monopoly on violence, which they used constantly. Even people who were starving were mostly too scared of the government to contemplate
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by joesmo 10y ago
There are definitely cases where long term use of benzos is the only viable solution and your sounds like one of them. But this paper just rehashes the same things about benzodiazepines. Are they saying that only some people become dependen
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by joesmo 10y ago
I hope that the EU will stop all proceedings on this now that it's crystal clear Turkey cannot be a candidate. You can't have an EU country that can't even govern itself as part of the EU. Turkey is neither free nor stable. I
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by joesmo 10y ago
I don't think recommending long-term benzo / z-drug usage outright is a good idea. They should be the absolute last resort. I have never met anyone who hasn't used them long term who was aware of their risks. These are some o
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by joesmo 10y ago
This is a new age in customer support, if you can call it that. Amazon and I'm sure many other companies do the same thing. You don't even have to actually violate TOS. That's probably why no one can reverse the decision. The
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by joesmo 10y ago
"If the government did not actively fight this, successful or not, would it cause the markets and illegal drug users to proliferate?" No. We have decades of experience on this from places like Portugal, The Netherlands, California
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by joesmo 10y ago
The "Alprazolam" and "Xanax" bubbles that shoot out of the "Prescription Drugs" bubble should be combined into one bubble with a total of 2.1 as they are generic and brand name respectively for the same drug.
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by joesmo 10y ago
So now I'll have to pay $100 for a headphone with the quality of a $7 one while getting zero benefits and tons of incompatibility issues. That's "progress" all right. Progress for Apple's bottom line at the expense
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by joesmo 10y ago
If you can play CD quality audio, it's hardly a hole. Better quality is only useful during creation/mixing. It's not like DVD audio is better, even if it has a higher sampling rate (probably worse then actually) or higher bit
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by joesmo 10y ago
When it's just tens or hundreds of thousands of people that believe in something ridiculous, we call it delusions but when that number gets into the millions we call it truth. Popularity is indeed the harbinger of truth. In other words
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by joesmo 10y ago
What benefits?
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by joesmo 10y ago
Real foreign terrorists are rare. American terrorists, while plenty, are undesired as media objects so they don't have the scaremongering effect of foreigners. Solution: make up fake foreign-looking terrorists and sell them to the Amer
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by joesmo 10y ago
Having a single non-standard, unsupported (usb c) port for everything isn't progress, it's regress. No one wants this, especially for headphones but Apple and another clueless follower are pushing it anyway because they have the c
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by joesmo 10y ago
The "it works for most people so we won't bother acknowledging or fixing it" defense is indeed Apple's position on this, but when you have a significant number of people experiencing this for multiple years (at least 5)
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by joesmo 10y ago
How about not allowing fantasy ideas that have no basis in reality to be patented? That will solve a whole lot of problems, the least of which is this.
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by joesmo 10y ago
I'd say it's the environment too, but this happens at various locations across the country consistently with multiple types of Macbooks. Also, at these same exact locations, I have no problem using bluetooth with my Android phone,
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by joesmo 10y ago
This should firmly cement law enforcement's status as thieves rather than civi servants. As if civil asset forfeiture didn't do that already, already making police the #1 class of thieves in the US: https://www.washingt
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by joesmo 10y ago
Apple's accessories are already bluetooth. I'm working with a magic trackpad 2 here and it skips all the time, as expected. Magic trackpad 1 did the same. So did my previous kinesis bluetooth keyboard. So does audio. Oh right, it&
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by joesmo 10y ago
Only if your definition of good satire (or any writing) is one that fails to get its point and meaning across.
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by joesmo 10y ago
"Granted, it would take a big program to eradicate poverty in the U.S. According to economist Matt Bruenig’s calculations, it would cost $175 billion." Is that a correct figure? It's hardly that large and there's no excu
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by joesmo 10y ago
That's probably simply because terrible satire. I read the whole thing and had to come to the comments to verify. I actually thought the author was just an asshole. That's just bad writing.
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by joesmo 10y ago
Actually there is one way: civil asset forfeiture. Then it also pays for things your PD absolutely needs to do its job like margarita machines, etc.

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