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   by kyuudou 7y ago

   Another bit from the article of great concern is the use of this new protocol on active duty personnel! Of course, as you noted, this is not a new thing as all branches have treated rank and file active duty as potential guinea pigs.
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   by kyuudou 7y ago

   Why are militaries rarely mentioned as GGG contributors?
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   by kyuudou 7y ago

   While I'm a big believer in this kind of saving, inflation is a reality and a huge deterrent for long term savings that doesn't involve some kind of interest, compound or not. But then there was that 2008 economic crisis... sigh
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   by kyuudou 7y ago

   NRL (Naval Research Lab)
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   by kyuudou 7y ago

   Have had this same scenario play out several times myself on CL. The other most common scammy post is a roommate.com one where when you get in touch with the poster, they have you go to a roommate.com link which basically requires you to si
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   by kyuudou 7y ago

   A lot of that loss is water weight, though.
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   by kyuudou 7y ago

   Be careful with this. I've actually done this and it's not an easy path.
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   by kyuudou 7y ago

   Right - I'd expect this in Japan where space really is a premium and the collective work attitude is much different but... why here in the States?!?
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   by kyuudou 7y ago

   >I’m willing to be t silent environments are more conducive to productivity. It's always worked for libraries, I think. Why not offices?
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    As has been alluded to in previous incarnations of this article topic and subsequent HN commentary, for a typical IT/software job the ideal I think is to either have functional teams in their own closed open area or to have such an are
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    Something to consider: http://milesmathis.com/lift.pdf
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    Audience Member : Negrodamus, why is President Bush convinced there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq? Negrodamus : Because he has the receipt. - from Paul Moody's "Negrodamus" skit on Chappelle's Show More serious
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    I think I got confused with local browser history and browsing on Amazon but: https://www.popsci.com/erase-browsing-history/ "However, this mode won’t erase everything you do. If you log on to a site like Facebook
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    So... when does the music stop? Some kind of debt jubilee or currency reissue?
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    EXCELLENT synopsis. Also, some consider inflation outright theft from the middle and lower classes or in the least morally questionable.
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    I heard there was quite a fire sale on pretty Greek islands during that time.
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    >I lived in EU during the financial crisis, and when cash got scarce prompting places in Greece to issue their own local currency [1] to do basic transactions (kids in school were passing out due to a lack of food, hospitals were running
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    The kicker for me was when I realized my browser history was being accessed to serve up product suggestions. Gross.
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    > Seriously, if you have that kind of power, what's the incentive to let everyone else live? Ethics and morals, maybe? Basic human empathy? I think I get where you're going with this. There are those, sociopaths and psychopaths
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    All part of the modus operandi of the Plato's Republic crowd, IMO.
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    >Also, from my econ classes, isn't capitalism fundamentally just property rights and freedom of trade? The core concept of capitalism, multiple individuals pooling their financial resources together for a unified purpose, seems quit
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    One of my roommates is a triathlete and while he's not amazingly successful, his body is clearly naturally athletic and simply completing a triathlon is in my mind quite an accomplishment. In his mid-30s, serious alcoholic and smokes a
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    Vaping + BJJ helped me finally stop. I finally stopped vaping after a few months when I realized I was hitting a plateau with conditioning for BJJ. I smoked for 23 years and was diagnosed with COPD at about year 17. I still have serious lun
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    Yea but if you've ever been a regular smoker then successfully quit, the smell is infuriating because 1) it smells SO disgusting unless it's something like pipe tobacco or American Spirits 2) the temptation to have one, while brie
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    yellow-on-black usually
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    Yep I'd use ZFS for archival and tier-2 storage and use expensive SSD for I/O that needs to be fast and nimble.
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    For similar reasons I default to yellow text on black bg. High contrast but low-fatigue.
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    I actually got these somewhat obscure references immediately: https://xkcd.com/378/ still very funny
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    GNU screen and tmux have screen sharing. That should be enough, right?
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    by kyuudou 7y ago

    True but it's more scrubby. Soap usually has an emulsifying agent that breaks up fat molecules but there's still a physical component to it. If you want your cold showers you can keep your cold showers!