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by mcny 6y ago
> Some people should not have a voice in society - like raping murderers. But why? If murderers should be disenfranchised then why not jaywalkers? People who leave the shopping carts in the middle of a parking lot? I would like to see pe
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by mcny 6y ago
My reading of this thread is hlieberman thinks your usage will eventually go up when (if?) people's habits change. > I wonder if the utilization/customer is in part because of people's habits still being leftover from the
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by mcny 6y ago
What is the bottleneck here? If it is the uplink (not sure about the correct terminology, I mean the connection from the local box up to the Internet) maybe we can use local caching for stuff like the Netflix OpenConnect? https:/&#x2F
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by mcny 6y ago
I'll agree with you when Stadia free tier includes free to play games like league of legends like nVidia's GeForce Now does.
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by mcny 6y ago
> Huh, TIL I’m a sexist and/or racist. I think the meta is we have to understand we are all *-ist at some level. This is the world we were born and raised in and it is incredibly silly for me to suggest that I am somehow above my nu
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by mcny 6y ago
Iran, Israel, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia... There is so much going on there. Are they all at conflict with one another? Who are allies? How does this work?
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by mcny 6y ago
Personally I'm a fan of zero touch where I as a developer submit my code repo to app store like play store, apple app store, flathub or something and they just build it using a standard definition that the store defines and make it ava
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by mcny 6y ago
Postgresql automatic reindex identified as cause I think? Database load spiked and this has dramatically increased error rates and degraded times on responses. Automatic re-indexing was enabled over the weekend. A re-index of the routes t
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by mcny 6y ago
and to add to mmcclure's point I do all my shopping in the shopping container. I have the deals website I frequent set to the shopping container so if I open slickdeals.net in any tab, I get to the shopping container. One quality of li
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by mcny 6y ago
> It is likely that prop 22 will pass because majority of people care more about ride-sharing than about freelancing. Then the popular Focus will be shifted away from the problem, and freelancing will remain difficult in California in pe
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by mcny 6y ago
Worse, the corporations have to meddle with their own regulation because they know other corporations will. My understanding is AT&T basically wrote its own consent decree. Who in their right mind decided that the solution to a national
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by mcny 6y ago
> breakup If you look at the breakup of Ma Bell, I think you’ll doubt the government’s ability to break up a company properly.
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by mcny 6y ago
Did this change recently? I remember my database professor in college was adamant that when they talk about databases, I am to assume some things as a given (going by memory, am probably not completely accurate): that the data set is large
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by mcny 6y ago
Did you know that accepting credit card payments could mean you have to pay three percent (maybe more?) in charges and fees? It is insane. Maybe FedNow will change things?
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by mcny 6y ago
> That sounds like maybe we split up work differently. 3 years of development for me or my team would likely have hundreds+ of merge/squash commits, not 20 large ones. With the people I've worked with, I'd say most don&#x2
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by mcny 6y ago
> I have 150/150Mbps which seems more than sufficient Yes, that should be sufficient if you consistently get the advertised rates. Comcast (and all coaxial cable spectrum/cox/...) infrastructure, from what I understand is
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by mcny 6y ago
> Deficits are abound even in good times. I can't wait to hear from "conservatives" who "care deeply" about deficits to come out of the wood works and teach us the virtue of "not spending money we don't
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by mcny 6y ago
> 1. Do you miss these conversations? I worked as a contractor in the office and never really thought about it. Like I had conversations with people in the break roomwhere they know me maybe because they see me talking to my boss but I
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by mcny 6y ago
Here means Germany? Or EU in general?
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by mcny 6y ago
I was thinking about getting "better" bluetooth headphones than my current cheap one ear one mic headset Sennheiser headset but between your comment and the article > (~$100) Buy open-back headphones, which let you hear your ow
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by mcny 6y ago
I think Martha Stewart was a classic example of "do not talk to the police" but maybe I was wrong... woeirua said it best https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24622010 > This family will likely be ruined by the
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by mcny 6y ago
here's a portscan.me if you are getting forbidden and just want to see what a result looks like Scanning {ip} for interesting ports on 2020-09-22 20:14:00 CEST…
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by mcny 6y ago
Things are a little different When you have multiple people trying to work from home. Even if a single connection is limited to 8Mbps a fatter pipe helps because you have more than one connection at any given time. Oh and fiber can do xMbps
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by mcny 6y ago
> They don't need to cover the entire US to cover some local news The New York Times does cover New York regional news (examples below) but I doubt even the New York Times could do this nationwide (even with the famous slogan "
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by mcny 6y ago
I don't know how we will put a cap on options but yes that is the general spirit.
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by mcny 6y ago
The goal is to increase minimum wage to fifteen dollars an hour which will allow USD 1.5M annual compensation (15 * 2000 * 50) I think a fifty times multiplier is already too high though so I don't know if I can agree to pushing that u
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by mcny 6y ago
The trick to not have gnome 3 crash (at least when I was on Ubuntu 18.04?) was to NOT connect it to heavy online accounts like if you have three google accounts all of which are perpetually teetering on the edge of your storage capacity of
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by mcny 6y ago
I have not looked into these things too much but I like how gnome keyring unlocks when I login to my fedora machine. After a simple initial setup, all my git commits are automatically signed by my gpg key. I don't even have to think ab
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by mcny 6y ago
I still believe capping executive pay is a necessary (though not sufficient) part of any practical solution. At least for publicly traded companies, we must cap compensation at no more than 50x minimum wage or something. No, executive compe
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by mcny 6y ago
I've been thinking about getting an iPad. However, I can't imagine paying extra for a cellular model Apple Watch. Would you be able to get emails, messages, calendar stuff on a Wi-Fi only Apple Watch paired only to an iPad when yo

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