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by mmaunder 4y ago
The trouble with our current system is that the answer to environmental catastrophe is to make more stuff. And the entities that make the stuff have an incentive to pursue models that see them continue to make that stuff and sell it. Creati
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by mmaunder 4y ago
We had a derivative system in South Africa from the mid eighties onwards called BELTEL. It included a live chat where I met my first phone phreak friends and learned how to blue box and dial US BBSs free, along with hacking the phone compan
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Reminds me of eToys vs eToy in the late 90s. Hacking groups targeted eToys and caused many late nights for the ops team. I joined eToys shortly after as a Perl dev and decided to nmap scan ToysRUs and eToys cybersecurity team was on a hair
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Giving a company your real identity and trusting them to keep you anonymous isn’t a good idea. Either keep yourself anonymous online using your own open source toolset, or consider yourself identified when doing anything.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Joining a group that believes in magical sky dwelling beings that grant eternal life in utopia provided you worship them enough isn’t the only path to community and purpose.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
“Research shows that attending faith-based services 4 times per month will add 4 to 14 years of life expectancy.” Well shit.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Not in narrative.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
While the methodology may be flawed, the point remains that we’re in an epidemic of artistic risk mitigation, where pre-sold franchises (sequels, reboots and remakes) combined with name brand artists are gobbling up an inordinate amount of
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by mmaunder 4y ago
The underlying tech is pretty cool: https://www.misappliedsciences.com/home/technology.html Those concerned about privacy should consider that you’re already on camera being captured and having algorithms applied to y
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by mmaunder 4y ago
What makes me optimistic about our ability to adapt, recover, heal and improve is neuroplasticity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroplasticity
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Question for you both. I’m using ForeFlight in sim and real. Does Navigraph replace FF in sim or supplement it? Visited their site and it’s not immediately clear. Thanks.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
On a related note, Foreflight integrates really well with MSFS and when you combine that with PilotEdge it's a great learning tool. Works with Prepar and X-Plane too.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
I wonder if the NGIA might release their radar mapping of the Earths surface at some point. Kind of like the mapping databases available from the census dept.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Those are games that can be used for training. Prepar is a military and civilian training tool that can be used (against its license terms) for gaming. It’s the only direct to consumer product that Lockheed has - so it’s basically their mil
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Kitchen confidential? Substack is rapidly becoming the Experts Exchange of feature writing. Perhaps it’ll go to the same graveyard as EE did when StackOverflow killed it.
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Securing Port 443: The Gateway to a New Universe(wordfence.com)
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by mmaunder 4y ago
The way any weather event is associated by default with climate change has harmed the credibility of those reporting on it, and made it harder to have the urgent conversations we need to have to solve climate change. I suspect journalists t
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by mmaunder 4y ago
It’s projects like these that continue to make it feasible to run an entirely open source productivity stack. And that is very important, or a proprietary internet will become the only Internet.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
AWS is also proprietary which I failed to point out - but it’s so widely used and has such great market share that it’s not a bad life skill at this point.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Pilot license is great because it gets you into thinking about how we make data driven decisions under pressure. And actual flying solo after you get your license helps because you do a kind of self analysis every time you screw up - even t
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by mmaunder 4y ago
I strongly recommend reading Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s thoughts on Roe v Wade in 1992 - expressed about a year before she became a Supreme Court justice. She describes Roe as a “breathtaking” decision and as interrupting a process already under
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by mmaunder 4y ago
> Important to remember that combustible cigarettes are terrible and e-cigarettes are a slightly less terrible alternative to those. In a world where cigarettes are so terrible however, e-cigarettes end up saving billions in health care
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Notable that the gas price doubled in 3 years. We’re almost at that point today. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=e...
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by mmaunder 4y ago
With what looks like a global stock market crash in the works this morning, it’s going to be tough to maintain that peg with a run on crypto withdrawals. Bit of a perfect storm unfortunately.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Overall things are shaky this morning. VIX up, euro markets getting pummeled, NASDAQ, S&P and DOW futures plummeting and crypto across the board down by as much as 18% in past 24 hours. Setting up for a rough day.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Any large profitable public companies doing this? These guys raised $56M less than a year ago. Just curious who has proved the concept is sustainable without burning VC money.
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Don’t confuse investor sobriety after an epic party with strategic miscalculation. Zuck is taking a gamble. Good for him. It’s extremely rare for a big co to have the balls and for leadership to have the autonomy to do this these days. He h
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by mmaunder 4y ago
This is bullshit. “Context” has to be the most vague and abused word in English. The article contradicts itself when they say “ One way to create a shared context is through shared struggle” which is a shared activity. Friendships are forme
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Since you’re asking from a job seekers perspective, this only applies to pre revenue companies and companies running at a loss. There are profitable small, medium and large tech businesses (like mine) that have not changed hiring policies a
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by mmaunder 4y ago
Or make money. Even a small cashflow can extend a pre profit startup’s runway significantly.

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