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by mbgerring 6y ago
I have — Linux was my daily driver for three years ending in 2018, and I tried to use it for everything from print design to video editing to software development. I was even using it on two different generations of the Dell XPS machines th
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by mbgerring 6y ago
Linux is also like the United States in that you are in some sense free, but everything just barely works, sometimes things don't work at all, and there is no hope of many well-documented problems ever being fixed. If you have a proble
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by mbgerring 6y ago
Just to be clear here: You're saying you don't personally have a problem with people making money from publishing specific and credible threats of violence (which is the case discussed in the original post), or from publishing int
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by mbgerring 6y ago
No matter how you feel about AB5, allowing an industry to write laws and then coerce its workers into acting as campaign volunteers whether they agree with the law or not is a horrible precedent. This is not how our laws should be made, and
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by mbgerring 6y ago
Effective for the voters who approved the reforms
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by mbgerring 6y ago
Who's working on expanding electric vehicle infrastructure in rural California? This will become increasingly important late next year when electric trucks begin hitting the market.
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by mbgerring 6y ago
I can't reply to the below comment, but it's worth pointing out that we also have an open primary system in California, where all the candidates of every political party are on the primary ballot and the top two vote getters advan
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by mbgerring 6y ago
Part of the reasoning for this move is to create an incentive for battery researchers and manufacturers to serve the massive California auto market by or before 2035.
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by mbgerring 6y ago
This is an important and timely call to action but I think the more important audience here is ad tech professionals. The difference between my processor fan turning on or not is frequently ad tech.
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by mbgerring 6y ago
I've met several people involved in union organizing at household name tech companies who have been disciplined by the companies they work for for exercising their "free speech" rights. You don't mean "tech left&quo
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by mbgerring 6y ago
In what sense are Amazon warehouse workers, who are not paid enough to do thing like purchase a home in the area where they work, “middle class”?
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by mbgerring 6y ago
Hi there, extremely interested in your company but not willing to move to Boston. Are you considering remote employees? I'm in California with lots of experience working East Coast hours.
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by mbgerring 6y ago
> The facility could see plasma generated in the machine - a notional start to operations - shortly after the assembly phase ends in 2025. So you're saying it's... 5 years away?
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by mbgerring 6y ago
I assume you're paying for a static IP from your ISP, or is there some other way you're routing traffic to the server?
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by mbgerring 6y ago
This is incredibly irresponsible advice in an age of weaponised, persistent misinformation.
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by mbgerring 6y ago
I feel like the ship sailed on this one like 5 years ago at least
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by mbgerring 7y ago
> It's easy to look down on people lower on the socioeconomic ladder. That's not who's protesting with assault rifles demanding that their hairdresser show up to work. People who are "lower on the socioeconomic ladder
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by mbgerring 7y ago
What do you suggest as an alternative? What would you have done in the situation where Facebook was used as a platform to incite pogroms against Muslims in Myanmar[1]? If we have a better solution in an emergency than censorship, I haven&#x
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by mbgerring 7y ago
There are armed groups at state capitols spreading dangerous misinformation about COVID-19 that will almost certainly cause people to get sick and die. That misinformation effort is coordinated and well-funded. Whatever hypothetical you wan
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by mbgerring 7y ago
Location: San Francisco Remote: Yes, with several years of experience Willing to relocate: Yes, for the right job, see below Technologies: Python & JavaScript for full stack web application development, data visualization, data processi
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by mbgerring 9y ago
I don't think "very wrong" is a fair assesment. Here's a summary of current law (as of 2016) concerning cell phone passwords: https://consumerist.com/2016/05/03/can-law-enforcement-force...
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by mbgerring 9y ago
No, now you have an additional problem, because they might ignore the advice to use a password now that they think their device is secure by default
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by mbgerring 9y ago
I and others I know have faced this problem often enough that it is a primary concern for me. Political dissidents are the group I'm concerned about. Police are very interested in extracting contact lists from activists' phones in
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by mbgerring 9y ago
That's the thing -- the police can't legally compel you to provide them access to your device, but if they can get it without you having to give them anything, by, say, pointing the phone at your face, it's fair game. I don
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by mbgerring 9y ago
It all depends on your threat model. Police are perfectly capable of breaking into my home, but it doesn't matter, because if they do it without a warrant everything they find is inadmissible in court. Whereas with FaceID, if I'm
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by mbgerring 9y ago
They sure buried the lede there "Let me catch up with you. What we're seeing here is the research shows if workers get paid more, to earn the same profit , businesses need to cut on something and where they're cutting is aro
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by mbgerring 9y ago
All of these articles only ever focus on commercial bee populations. I'm a lot more interested in what's happening to wild bees.