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by knz 10y ago
I don't understand why a librarian needs a master's degree? Is it just due to competition for a limited number of positions? Or are there skills gained from post graduate study that are essential to being a librarian?
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by knz 10y ago
ADS-B transponders are a good example of this. They are mandated for most aircraft by 2020 and I've read/heard that the cost can be in the thousands.
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Australia as well.
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by knz 10y ago
My pregnant wife was bounced between clinics a few years back and subsequently spent several weeks in a hospital bed. We had the same experience of having to repeat the story every shift change (at least for the first week) and ultimately b
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by knz 10y ago
> So they support policies that sound good to the uninformed. And here we are :) It's too simplistic to put the entire blame on voters - I don't think the US has a monopoly on "low information"/uninformed/ap
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by knz 10y ago
Visitors and Permanent Residents. I would love to know the rationale of greater scrutiny of PR's - I suspect it would be quite hard for someone to forge a "green card" (it has a lot of obvious security features built in) and
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by knz 10y ago
> A small tangent, but what's the most compelling use case for an Alexa? An excellent question especially in the context of adding another always on audio device to a private space. I think for many people the value has to be more
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by knz 10y ago
I was going to make a comment about the context of this being Europe but then remembered the current state of the Middle East/cradle of civilization!
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by knz 10y ago
Hence "attack".
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The Gulf of Tokin involved an actual "attack"/rounds fired not seizure of equipment. It's a different order of magnitude.
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by knz 10y ago
> Because tens of thousands of Americans are being killed every year, including children being massacred? Incidentally, those crazy Democrats were only asking for a ban on assault weapons, which was in place from 1994 to 2004, and suppor
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by knz 10y ago
> Never mind as the viewing generation moves further and further from the old west era, the effects of being shot becomes more and more outlandish. Agreed but there are also many exceptions to this especially in the military genre (Hacks
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by knz 10y ago
> I'm pretty sure guns have featured large in movie posters long before 9/11 ... I think a strong case could be made that the impact of the Western genre from the 50's to the 70's (I was born in the 80's so am ju
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by knz 10y ago
Isn't being able to directly speak your mind the whole point of "fuck you money"? Page, Bezos, Musk etc can hold critical views of Trump and still be cordial in a direct meeting. Frankly I hope they do - respect is earned not
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by knz 10y ago
And well paying isn't even necessarily a measure of your ability to participate in the consumer economy. In this day and age it's whether you can afford health care, child care, and education - all of which are essential for a hea
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by knz 10y ago
> "Cheap business owners" couldn't be a more accurate byline. There have been a number of headlines recently about how corporate profits are near record highs. Isn't paying employees enough to buy the product consider
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by knz 10y ago
Github brings additional value that just being a DVCS - I manage all of my external consultants through it (assign work through issues, often review/approve PR's via the UI, able to easily share a link to a specific line of code,
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by knz 10y ago
> This is an option in the client settings - "Enable Tabbed Conversations" Which client? The OSX client appears to have very limited configuration options.
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by knz 10y ago
That actually looks quite good! Thanks for the recommendation.
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by knz 10y ago
> I can't say MS is better at everything, but overall I definitely prefer it. My employer is trying to roll out O365 to the enterprise. Some of us have been using Google without official IT blessing (due to needing to get shit done
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by knz 10y ago
> Add an "expires" field to the token, this should contain a date after which the token is no longer valid. Now all token s auto-invalidate after a certain period. Doesn't JWT already have this - "exp" is a reser
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by knz 10y ago
> But, how do you even know what really happens? Mainstream news is ridiculous in its intent because it literally is "if it thinks it stinks, if it bleeds it leads". There is nothing good to get from mainstream news. Nothing. S
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by knz 10y ago
The downside of this approach is that if we all did it then the world would be a much worse place. Paying attention to current events and bearing witness to some of the darkest aspects of human history is important at a societal level and
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by knz 10y ago
I don't disagree re the Hue bulb. Personally I went for the GE link ($10-15 on sale for a z-wave LED bulb).
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by knz 10y ago
It's probably closer to $700. Considering this includes a home security system without any monthly fees, it's not expensive at all.
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by knz 10y ago
For sure. But the implication from these articles if often that ALL "smart" systems are a waste of time/money.
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by knz 10y ago
>The water sensor one is a good use case but the others seem a bit weak. They seem like the kind of technology I could have developed or even bought off the shelf in 1980. I was talking to one guy who says the security sensors to detect
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by knz 10y ago
> with Google level service. The one Google exception that I have seen is Project Fi. They have (24/7?) live chat and email/phone support available. They also have CSR's on /r/projectfi who seem responsive. I&#x2
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by knz 10y ago
The title is a bit sensationalist. I have < $1,000 invested in home IoT (security sensors, a couple of light switches, garage door opener, thermostat, and the hub) and have been very happy with it. Personally I see IoT as augmentation no
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by knz 10y ago
I didn't downvote you but personally I feel conflict can be justified - stopping the Holocaust and defeating the nation that committed genocide and atrocities such as the Rape of Nanking were enough justification without considering th

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