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by mperham 2y ago
Building a panopticon is always justified as a way to fight crime and then becomes a way to control the population. Tracking women getting Plan B, tracking people buying birth control, etc.
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by mperham 2y ago
Exactly. If the US economy is 10x larger but 90% of the economy is benefiting only the richest 0.1%, what's the point? Too many mainstream media pieces focus on overall GDP when they should be focused on averages. The end of the articl
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by mperham 2y ago
I'd like to see more train cruises, just like we have sea cruises today. Stop in a city, see the area, train travels overnight, etc.
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by mperham 2y ago
> Am I remembering correctly that originally the iPhone only supported AT&T? Yes, for the first few years. Within a year or two, the writing was on the wall and the other providers were dying to get it.
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by mperham 2y ago
Healthcare should be universal and socialized. Full stop.
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by mperham 2y ago
Strawman. No one is talking about pure sodium.
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by mperham 2y ago
A source of very expensive electricity in California.
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by mperham 2y ago
Doesn't the Constitution also say that the military cannot operate domestically?
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by mperham 2y ago
Would this ruling make Nixon’s actions in Watergate legal too?
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by mperham 2y ago
This year the jersey has Thomas’s, the English muffin brand owned by Bimbo.
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by mperham 2y ago
And in fact, Mastodon has a mechanism to migrate your account between servers. It has serious limitations (your posts don't follow you, followers do) but it's the best they can do within the AP spec.
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by mperham 2y ago
Specialized had problems with their last gen of the Brose motor (2.1?), leading to lots of premature failure. I’d not heard of significant problems with Bosch units, it’s always hard to determine what is truly a design flaw vs a few anecdot
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by mperham 2y ago
https://whatispiping.com/cold-box-cryogenic/
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by mperham 2y ago
Any insights on why this component cannot be subdivided into smaller pieces?
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by mperham 2y ago
Indeed, it’s commonly said that the structure of any given software reflects the organizational structure which built it.
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by mperham 2y ago
Try to get an appointment to see a doctor. Food deserts.
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by mperham 2y ago
Theoretically. That’s where zoning comes in and kills any possibility to densify.
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by mperham 2y ago
Using the default 12px text size is a pretty good indicator that a website's entire engineering team is under 40.
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by mperham 2y ago
Every single paragraph contains the word "AI".
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by mperham 2y ago
The sheer number of RISC-V extensions and the resulting fragmentation is blowing my mind. No wonder they can't provide a single generic kernel.
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by mperham 2y ago
They don't care about you or any one individual. They are collecting this data so they can buy/sell shares ahead of the public markets and quarterly reports. Same idea as using satellite photos to determine Walmart parking lot usa
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by mperham 2y ago
I was honestly shocked by this too, I never intended Sidekiq users to left in a lurch like this. It took them over three years from the RESP3 release before their service supported it. I figured any good SaaS should be dogfooding their own
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by mperham 2y ago
The key line IMO: Tretten Bridge was designed while building regulations in Norway were in transition from a national system to European codes. Provisions for this transitional period enabled the project to follow the older nation
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by mperham 2y ago
Based on Ubuntu 18.04, which is pretty old now. Are there any relevant changes for 22.04 or 24.04 or is this stuff stable now?
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by mperham 3y ago
If you can, look into the `sidekiq-iteration` gem.
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by mperham 3y ago
> when you can always pay cash in person. Legally no one has to accept cash except for "debts, public and private". If a business is selling you something, they can stipulate any form of payment since it isn't a "debt
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by mperham 3y ago
Bosch is known to pair their hardware such that you can’t replace a bad element, e.g. replace a bad Bosch battery with a 3rd party unit. The entire Bosch ebike hardware ecosystem is locked down and only approved dealers can repair.
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by mperham 3y ago
Anyone know where I can find /etc/hosts on my Ford? /s
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by mperham 3y ago
They will get sued and lose.
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by mperham 3y ago
Which means we need to consume a huge amount of energy per capita on an ongoing basis to clean up the plastic industry's pollution.

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