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by m0zg 5y ago
> The "peace deal" that Trump signed with the Taliban last year literally assumed the Taliban would quickly takeover the country once the U.S. withdrew Actually, no. Trump's Doha agreement implied a 14 month staged, gradua
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by m0zg 6y ago
There never was any real 20% time. It was, as others are saying, 120% time, at least if you care about actually moving upward on the career ladder. Paradoxically, this makes it a good policy _for Google_: if you're an idiot, you'l
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by m0zg 6y ago
Obama ICE did separate families if parents were criminally charged with something. Evidence of this is so easy to find, even partisan hacks can do it. It's just that under Trump illegal border crossings became criminal, rather than civ
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by m0zg 6y ago
And the answer was In-Q-Tel and Facebook/Twitter/Google all along. Three birds with one stone: spying, brainwashing, and censorship.
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by m0zg 6y ago
Actually no, it has nothing to do with Cyberpunk 2077. It's just a fun project by a few people from several Russian VFX studios. Here's an interview with the guy who led the project (sadly, only in Russian): https://www
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by m0zg 6y ago
Apparently made on shoestring budget. People worked for free, the only cost was compute and filming equipment (which was rented). I'm surprised by the quality of the result - this is Elysium/Chappie grade work. The link should rea
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by m0zg 6y ago
I don't get why bikes are so crazy expensive. Maybe you can elucidate. How can a bicycle cost $3-5K? What's in it that costs so much? This is not a US-only phenomenon either, I just checked e.g. UK Bikester store and the prices
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by m0zg 6y ago
To answer my own (inexplicably downvoted) question: https://lvgl.io/ looks intriguing.
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by m0zg 6y ago
A glass of fortified milk (only full-fat milk is commonly fortified, this is something parents tend to avoid due to the FDA fat paranoia) is only 10% of vitamin D needed per day. And it's not clear if that dose is actually sufficient
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by m0zg 6y ago
I'm of the opinion that most people in the US good people who could be convinced not to endanger their neighbor, and wear masks voluntarily, if the messaging is right, and if they aren't forced to do it. If forced, a lot of people
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by m0zg 6y ago
Agreed. Electrics are also substantially heavier, and therefore they cause more road wear, much like light trucks. In the US tax incentives for electrics are also de-facto giving money to the rich. The poor aren't buying electric cars
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by m0zg 6y ago
You could still make the system more resilient to fraud, as well as easier to audit by introducing several levels of integrity protections. For example, it would cost next to nothing to capture pictures of all mail in ballot envelopes, and
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by m0zg 6y ago
Do you have any examples you could point to? A few years back I looked into this and the only real viable option was Qt Embedded, which is expensive for embedded and requires royalties to be paid on per-device basis. I wonder how much thing
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by m0zg 6y ago
The only real conclusion from most of these studies is that nobody knows anything for sure, and had COVID19 been as deadly as the Spanish Flu, we'd be just as fucked as we were back then. If not worse, because of much greater mobility.
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by m0zg 6y ago
> much worse "Much worse" like what? I can't really take his access away, and I can't watch him 24x7. He's 16. I'd expect the brain to turn on by this point.
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by m0zg 6y ago
I'd be happy to support whatever "path" he wants at this point, though it'd of course be much easier for me to support something related to STEM. Best I can tell, he doesn't have any plan or path. He just expects to
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by m0zg 6y ago
It is very easily measurable. In fact many rack UPS units (such as 2.2KW APC ones I use in my garage) even compute the carbon fooprint for you in their management web UI in pounds of CO2. The numbers can be surprisingly high, actually, even
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by m0zg 6y ago
> The only reasonable conclusion is that those lessons were wrong There's another reasonable conclusion: some kids just don't give a shit no matter what you do. That much is plainly obvious to any parent who has such a kid.
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by m0zg 6y ago
This is dumb. Every time you do one of these migrations you lose a non-trivial percentage of your users. I legit no longer know which Google chat program I'm supposed to use on my iPhone anymore. It's even worse on Android. It&#
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by m0zg 6y ago
Spyware or locking down doesn't really work in this day and age if the kid is using a Windows PC. In most (if not all) Windows PCs you have local access to you can create an administrative account not subject to parental controls or an
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by m0zg 6y ago
Case in point: one of my son's classes is video game design . That's one of those "F"s he's going to get. I've looked at it as I was helping him, the class is actually surprisingly good. If this is not suffici
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by m0zg 6y ago
Oh no, I'm not "waiting". I'm trying to convince him that he's making bad choices, that he's making his own life dramatically harder in the long run, and so on, trying to get him to actually think what he wants
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by m0zg 6y ago
> you should be passing on the lessons One thing parents discover is that if it's between dopamine and "lessons", dopamine wins 100% of the time. My 16 year old right now is playing games instead of doing his homework. He&
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by m0zg 6y ago
The Atlantic article bungles this point, too, as do most people both opposed to and in favor of masks. I think it is harmful to say that masks protect the wearer (unless they are N95 or better). This is a big and easily attacked surface t
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by m0zg 6y ago
Reviews (including this one) all say webcam sucks pretty bad though. Why Apple chose to release a laptop with a subpar webcam in 2020 is a mystery to me. This isn't even hard or expensive. Spend a couple dollars more on that webcam,
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by m0zg 6y ago
Because such an explanation will lead to: 1. Near-zero conversions. If you aren't already using ZFS, you aren't going to start just to use this service. And If you do use ZFS, you likely know what `zfs send` does. 2. The few conve
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by m0zg 6y ago
ITT: people who don't have children telling people who do have children that this is not a problem.
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by m0zg 6y ago
Actually, Trump just tweeted that they refused to sign the certification. This being Trump I don't know if it's true or not, but it is possible that they did not formally certify after all. In which case, kudos to them. Audit th
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by m0zg 6y ago
But it's not "mixed up" if you start from the premise that a full land war cannot be won. Consider why Saddam was not deposed in the Gulf War. It's because to depose him the coalition would have to go all the way to Bagh
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by m0zg 6y ago
It's made mostly in China right now though, so it's quite literally "Chinese". Proof: https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-... And yeah, I do think that not pre

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