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by kyuudou 6y ago
On an unrelated note, thrilled to see Xah Lee is still around and kicking!
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by kyuudou 6y ago
The income tax just barely services the national debt, IIRC. None of it goes to pay for any services. The whole thing is very ugly. There's a great infograph "Death and Taxes" that shows where the budget goes (not what pays f
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by kyuudou 6y ago
I'm sure the Linux kernel would never be compromised by state actors, even if a retired US Army general was on the board of directors[1] of the most popular Linux distro, or that the US' most infosec oriented intel agency didn&#x2
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by kyuudou 6y ago
e-symbiosis! e-harmony!
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by kyuudou 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sousveillance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience
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by kyuudou 6y ago
Odd The Atlantic is publishing this. I guess a veiled warning to upper middle-income folks.
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by kyuudou 6y ago
They must've died of COVID-19
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by kyuudou 6y ago
In a way remote work removes a lot of the "kiss my butt for rewards" crap. Funny how that fleshes out.
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by kyuudou 6y ago
Wow, if there was one good takeaway from this whole COVID-19 mess, getting rid of open office layouts would be grand. Or at least having a hybrid of small pods of teams and a few larger meeting areas for less frequent, larger meetings. When
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by kyuudou 6y ago
Take a week off, step away from the keyboard, find some humans, animals, get a hobby or go back to the one you had. Watch that Naval Ravikant Joe Rogan podcast.
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by kyuudou 6y ago
Which unfortunately means the most productive and creative years of their lives are spent piddling about in libraries. Woohoo.
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Also, chemistry/biochemistry. How would the labs work? I mean, get real. For anything software, sure, that can be taught almost totally remotely. But most actual engineering disciplines just aren't going to have effective remote c
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by kyuudou 6y ago
Great, here comes another flood of douchebags to Austin.
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Human terrain: Visualize the world's population in 3D(pudding.cool)
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by kyuudou 6y ago
HP Officejet $(<array of existing officejet model #s) naughty!
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by kyuudou 6y ago
>Wanted: redshirt volunteers for an away team to the surface of Venus I'll do it as long as I get an unlimited R&R budget with total legal immunity for the last month before unidirectional egress
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by kyuudou 6y ago
People get food trucks instead to get around this. At least until that becomes a thing rentiers monopolize, too.
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by kyuudou 6y ago
>Bars however are a dream. As long as the location is good and the clientele are don't fight, get unruly or drunk drive. Ideal would be somewhere like NYC that's mostly walkable. Can't just open up a bar at the end of the
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by kyuudou 6y ago
>Never ever underestimate what people will do for even mediocre amounts of money. or even just for thrills or for nefarious purposes! Reminds of me of that backdoor in Notepad++[1], an app many developers I've worked with used. [1]
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by kyuudou 6y ago
I still use hushmail for "throwaway" type emails where I have to sign up for something I'm pretty sure will be used as an email marketing platform. Then if one alias gets compromised I just delete it. hushmail has decent anti
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by kyuudou 6y ago
9/11 happened, basically. All the money went to surveillance and merging ISPs to make that easier.
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by kyuudou 6y ago
Lonely and stressed people are the best consumers and communities of family and friends generally don't need much from a state.
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by kyuudou 6y ago
This is less a reply and more for everyone else in the thread and page: I give you the parable of the Mexican fisherman[1]. There are some variations but the basic idea stays the same. [1] https://bemorewithless.com/the-story
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by kyuudou 6y ago
>Hospitals are now FINANCIALLY INCENTIVIZED In case that sounds outlandish, the supposed numbers according to USA Today:[1] "Jensen said, “Hospital administrators might well want to see COVID-19 attached to a discharge summary or a
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by kyuudou 6y ago
Not to spoil your fine analogy, but as you probably know forestry services and farmers have engaged in controlled burns[1] for quite some time as part of sound wildlife conservation methods. In keeping with your analogy, what may be wrong w
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by kyuudou 6y ago
Keynes, to my knowledge, never had children. The future for one's offspring definitely extends one's field of cares to give, in my opinion.
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by kyuudou 6y ago
One of my early jobs, I worked for a group of remote sensing scientists that analyzed weather satellite data and the equipment I was responsible for was in an improvised raised floor room with probably the smallest unit Liebert produced. I
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by kyuudou 6y ago
Oh sure, of course! - just as with a rental situation where the landlord does a last inspection to make sure everything is in reasonably good condition.
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by kyuudou 6y ago
Similar here and I leased a car once . Never again. Always used. There was a poster higher up the thread who flips cars that knows what they are talking about. You don't have to be at that level but just some common sense and research
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by kyuudou 6y ago
And our middle-class is typically just a few, if not just one, paycheck away from abject poverty.

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