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by m000 4y ago
The starting points between Europe and USA may be different, but the methodology to contain reactions is the same: The boiling frog method [1], and playing the long game. If the introduced change is subtle enough, only people directly affec
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by m000 4y ago
> Student loans are an American thing. Unfortunately, they're also becoming an "American export". E.g. Netherlands granted a study grant to all students up until 2015, when it was converted to a student loan [1]. The requi
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by m000 4y ago
I had compared a couple of coreutils with their BSD counterparts for a personal project. Anecdotally, the BSD versions had much more readable code and less compiler/preprocessor black magic. Which also makes them easier to build with n
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by m000 4y ago
From what I gather from Greek news [1], there was no separate freight track. But there is one track per direction under normal conditions. One direction was knocked off by a power failure at the time of the accident, so both directions were
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At least 36 dead, scores injured as trains collide in Greece(cnn.com)
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by m000 4y ago
> How many are the examples when the federal government was more efficient (as in effect per unit money) than a commercial company? Here is the thing: commercial companies have incentive to stay efficient as long as there is viable compe
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by m000 4y ago
A CAPTCHA sounds exactly what a man-bot would send as a first message, to weed-out its peer woman-bots.
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by m000 4y ago
> Most of them were constantly flooded with contentless messages like that, which makes it very hard to get a meaningful conversation. From my dating-app days, a lot of women profiles were also contentless: A few pretty pics, and a catch
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by m000 4y ago
Good question. Just goes to show the value of a DIY Web Framework to anyone else except its author.
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by m000 4y ago
Is this news at this point? Last year there was a whole episode of Last Week Tonight with main subject "Police interrogations and false confession" [1] documenting exactly how innocent people are coerced into guilty pleas. [1] ht
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by m000 4y ago
The problem with ImageMagick is that its scripting language sucks. I had tried using it a couple of times but it's too obscure and sparsely documented to get it to work for you. In the end I gave up because I realized that the result w
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by m000 4y ago
> - Most train accidents are caused by human factors, track causes, or equipment. I.e. cost cuts across the board. We just don't want to point to those that decided the cost cuts and reaped the benefits, but to those that had to imp
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by m000 4y ago
Author: > It is often stated that people who lie have a tendency to add too much superfluous detail to their accounts. Goes on to provide too much superfluous detail to his own account. /s
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by m000 4y ago
The problem is that lowering security expenditure is a good gamble for managers/executives: Chances are it will take a while before things blow-up. In the meantime, you get the credit for "saving money", you will get promoted
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by m000 4y ago
It sounds like you consider it as disruption only when people change their vote from A to B? That's only one type of disruption. Reinforcing polarization is also a disruption.
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by m000 4y ago
> was ready to stop many of these creators and companies from sharing podcasts on Apple and Amazon, and keep the content exclusively on Spotify Then should we bash Spotify for this, the specific creators, or just stop behaving like entit
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by m000 4y ago
A number of rescued foxes and other wild animals were also affected in the nearby area [1]. [1] https://www.newsweek.com/fox-dies-owners-arms-after-ohio-tra...
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by m000 4y ago
Given the existence of bcc, this is as much a sysadmin failure as it is a tech illiteracy failure. This mail should have been bounced by the outgoing SMTP server.
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by m000 4y ago
The question is: would this still work today?
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by m000 4y ago
> Why are companies putting up with them? There's always the human factor in capitalism. And with the human factor comes ego. IIRC, Graeber roughly compares CEOs to feudal kings. You want more people under your rule as a metric of s
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by m000 4y ago
I think it is complicated because a large number of management jobs are "bullshit" (see [1]). I.e. they could be eliminated, and productivity would not be affected, or it could even be improved. Remote work does an exposé on the u
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by m000 4y ago
Elections are around the corner, and Erdogan's approval ratings have been dropping even before the earthquake. Just saying...
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by m000 4y ago
Can you explain then why our private bank accounts didn't see the biggest annual growth ever? There is more money in circulation than ever before!
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by m000 4y ago
One would expect higher-ups in the Netherlands would be more careful when using tools they don't fully understand. Not too long ago, there was also a notorious case of statistical conviction failure [1], where nurse Lucia de Berk was g
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by m000 4y ago
> We should stop arresting hackers. We should pay them instead. This like advocating, "We should stop arresting people for gun violence. We should pay them instead." The vast majority of these "hackers" just happen to
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by m000 4y ago
I find it noble. It would only be sadistic if we bring them back just to see dodo meat farms in a couple of decades.
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by m000 4y ago
An attractive option, or a reasonable certainty?
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by m000 4y ago
I would argue that the industry may stumble upon a security-related issue first. But stumbling, and being aware of something is not research. Anecdotally, I vividly remember industry people showing up in academic conferences, bragging how t
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by m000 4y ago
> a feudal practice of wealth transfer Quite fitting description. But since we are no feudal lords, I would also describe tipping as the daily power trip of the plebes.
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by m000 4y ago
Did anyone actually bother reading TFA? Most comments are about writing a thesis. But OP is mostly complaining about not making progress in research that will end up in the thesis. OP mentioned of an elephant in the room: not having any

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