mikejb

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by mikejb 7y ago
I'm wondering how one gets stranded before leaving on a trip (and that group makes up 75% of stranded people) It's 150k UK vs. 600k total holidaymakers.
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by mikejb 7y ago
The detail is in the title: 150k UK holiday makers vs. 600k total
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by mikejb 7y ago
You don't even have to go that far - imagine China flying combat drones over US territory. The US is a military power house, and they use and abuse this power to maintain their ways of life, no matter the costs to others.
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by mikejb 7y ago
> There comes a time when YOU would strap on a bomb belt. Just imagine that They killed half your family and then goes on telling you they will continue doing it... It's not that hard to imagine - after 9/11, people did enlist
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by mikejb 7y ago
"World police" sounds nice, but the US military is what it is: the military force of a country, ensuring that countries interests, and little else.
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by mikejb 7y ago
Correct, though there are multiple interpretations of what a "regex" is. In the theoretical sense you're correct, though some (most programmers, I'd say) mean "PCRE" when they say regex. And PCREs are pretty po
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by mikejb 7y ago
I don't live in the US, and the consequences of this aren't 100% clear to me, but am I correct in assuming - Members of the NRA are now 'domestic terrorists', i.e. when entering the US they have to tick the "I'
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by mikejb 7y ago
Maybe the silliness of your argument can be highlighted with a small modification: > How awful of the Confederacy to fight for a right to slaves. Societies change and evolve. The desperate clinging to ancient, outdated concepts won'
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by mikejb 7y ago
The judge from the Google vs. Uber litigation referred the case to the US attorney. Looks like they found enough evidence to charge him. Not sure how Google is involved in this "harassment".
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by mikejb 7y ago
> All the claims are strictly true. They just carry a moral judgement some people disagree with, and most people don't care about. This is a poor standard. For example: > Kim Jong-un is an elected leader It's technically cor
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by mikejb 7y ago
Probably to understand motive, and check for potential involvement of others. And whilst they have a metric shit-ton of spying capabilities on US civilians, those are not really intended to avoid crime. (Maybe the shift of perception of wha
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by mikejb 7y ago
> If Google had more business in China, the CCP could blackmail them into censoring their results in other countries as well. It's easily forgotten that the nation currently lead by Donald Trump already has this power of internation
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by mikejb 7y ago
Whilst I understand where the author is coming from, I'm not sure the companies are to blame here. > Two years ago, under the guise of complying with American sanctions against Iran — sanctions that have existed for decades — Apple
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by mikejb 7y ago
I'm not sure what the comparison is on Chrome vs. Firefox. I've had the pain of these slow animations, with a follow-up captcha, and it's infuriating - On Chrome. Is it better on Firefox?
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by mikejb 7y ago
Some posts in that thread suggest[1] an application called Gramblr could be responsible for it - an application used to upload content to Instagram. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/comments/ap6brw/gr
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by mikejb 7y ago
The argument was that the NYT article is not talking about blue-collar jobs . The NYT article is talking about 121000 contractors. Either Google has 121000 white-collar contractors, or the article also talks about blue-collar jobs.
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by mikejb 7y ago
They talk about one example from 121000 contractors - are you sure they don't include blue collar jobs?
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by mikejb 7y ago
I think EASA doesn't trust the FAA here because the FAA had less involvement in the original certification than some are comfortable with. So rather that asking the FAA to certify the entire plane and maybe risk a similar procedure (Bo
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by mikejb 7y ago
> If you decide to browse the web without uBlock Origin or if you decide to use Android, you know what you're being exposed to. Time to step out of the bubble of tech-savvy people and talk to everyday users. It's unrealistic to
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by mikejb 7y ago
> What exactly are they afraid of? Exposing the level of detail in the data accumulated. This starts at "opened the messenger app at this location on this date&time" and goes to "visited this Facebook-unrelated website
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Ex-NSA official charged with leaking classified drone documents(theguardian.com)
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by mikejb 7y ago
Yes, Waymo has paying customers that ride in cars that have demonstrated the capability to navigate populated city streets without a driver. I think calling Waymo the market leader is a fair assessment.
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by mikejb 7y ago
I generally agree with you on the Tesla marketing issues, but it's not entirely as black and white: The driver reported issues at that very location multiple times, and complained about AP not working reliably. The driver definitely wa
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by mikejb 7y ago
And this is related how to your original post? (To be honest, you give the impression to blame the rejection on your skin colour when the alternative option is less comfortable: Someone thought you're not qualified to do the 'f#*c
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by mikejb 7y ago
> Google did not hire me because I'm a Black Man. Can you elaborate on how you got to that conclusion? We don't have insights on how the interview went (not from your, nor the interviewers' perspective), so it's hard
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by mikejb 7y ago
Because it doesn't rain tons of water in less than a second.
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by mikejb 7y ago
Just as a Side-note: that video is from the Falcon Heavy demo launch last year. The recent launch was the first commercial Falcon Heavy launch (Arabsat 6a)
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by mikejb 7y ago
> The Apollo 11 command module is there, too Temporarily though. Normally it's exhibited at the Smithsonian in Washington DC (Which is also absolutely worth a visit).
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by mikejb 8y ago
>But loaning money, doing the work with your own employees, suggesting infrastructure that they can hardly afford ( and definitely not maintain), burying the country in debt is something new. Is it? Having your own companies build infras
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by mikejb 8y ago
Amongst others, yes.

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