mtrower

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by mtrower 6y ago
Ornery and irritable - not really that technology moved on, but mostly for what could have been but wasn't. Additionally, bemusement - watching people go crazy over Reddit and Slack, when all I can see is glitzy, more newbie-friendly,
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by mtrower 6y ago
I'm neither rich nor powerful. I'm also not comfortable with broken/crippled/backdoored/otherwise false encryption.
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by mtrower 6y ago
> Even this just doesn't fully explain away systemic oppression that impacts people on a day-to-day basic like Black people not getting job interviews due to their name sounding Black or job offers because the interviewers have unco
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by mtrower 6y ago
> that causes racism. Elaborate?
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by mtrower 6y ago
> People have gotten in serious hot water over Internet traffic that was accidentally sent to them. You've piqued my curiosity. Any examples to share?
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by mtrower 6y ago
This link is not at all working for me (brings up the Lancet site with no content). Is it possible to get a link to the actual file?
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by mtrower 6y ago
No way to categorize your expenses? Could you elaborate and compare to KMM? I've used both programs, so I'm curious which of us is missing something.
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by mtrower 6y ago
I've seen it from time to time. For a while, Dell was accepting BitCoin transactions, so you could, say, purchase a laptop with BTC (they seem to have since shut it down)[1]. More recently (last year) I came across a VPS provider acce
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by mtrower 6y ago
>>> We know they don't have full reserves because we know 30% of them were seized. [1] You suspect they don't have full reserves because you know 30% of them were seized. Presuming "full reserves" means 1:1
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by mtrower 6y ago
> I think it's fascinating a single transaction expends 700kWh (enough to drive a Model S from SF to New York) and produces 87 grams of e-waste -- and yet somehow costs less than $0.50, which is due to the socialization of costs in
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by mtrower 6y ago
Same, but s/high/elementary/
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by mtrower 6y ago
But the actual words were removed. It sounds as if it was presumed from the start that those words were without value, and that colored the whole presentation. The removal of the "valueless" words removed any chance of you infer
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by mtrower 6y ago
I suppose it depends on what you consider valuable. Some details will matter more to some people than others. Essentially, those details you're removing are flavor. Alright, so you don't like the particular flavor here. I'm
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by mtrower 6y ago
Kind of curious, isn't it? It gets around filters, but I assume that's not what you're talking about. I imagine some people have psychological aversions to "filthy" words like this; and that seeing such substitute
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by mtrower 6y ago
Ya bloody prairie hat! ...I'm saving this one ;)
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by mtrower 6y ago
Does it make sense with "shits"? I mean really, if you stop to think about it, what does it mean to do things "for shits"? Is there a sensibly apparent meaning, or is it like the word "cool", where people atta
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by mtrower 6y ago
> It shows a lack of vocabulary more than any sort of moral failing. Here, now, I call nonsense on that one. I (probably?) swear more than most of my friends in private, casual communication circles. I also have a much greater vocabula
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by mtrower 6y ago
Emphasis. Am I suggesting you should do this with all your sentences? Absolutely not. However, I would certainly not read the two sentences the same. (Food for thought: spices do not generally add nutritional value to food. Yet, each has
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by mtrower 6y ago
Just how close to your monitor do you sit? I have no problems with my 24" 16:10. The nuisance for me is actually rotating the monitor, particularly if OS support for detecting such and automatically rotating the view is missing. So w
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by mtrower 6y ago
What are you saying, that the font was rendered too small? This is a configuration problem. You might consider setting your browser's default font size to something appropriate for your DPI.
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by mtrower 6y ago
This is the fear. Increased automation will come whether we resist it or not; what hardships will the breaking point bring?
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by mtrower 6y ago
Underpaid, undervalued, exceedingly stressful, and often poorly managed at the shift level. Turnover and variable quality in co-workers aside, there's intense pressure on shift management to cut labor, such that stores are usually und
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by mtrower 6y ago
Now that's just unreasonable. Please don't lump all McD workers together and assume they lack integrity as a whole...
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by mtrower 6y ago
I sure did. Harder than I worked at some better paying jobs, for sure. Wage itself does not seem to be the determining factor in motivation. I'd say it's more about barriers to entry and the work environment itself.
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by mtrower 6y ago
> You don't know... Do you? I've worked in plenty of these "unskilled" environments. It's absolutely the reason for these rules. Is every low wage worker like this? Certainly not. I assure you I've encou
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by mtrower 6y ago
I don't love them. They're useful/convenient if you need to support older or edge-case browsers. When I can get away with it, I'd rather use plain CSS.
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by mtrower 6y ago
Hmm, pulling from past experience from the fast-food industry... I never saw our commercial dishwasher[0] break down in year after year of service. It really seemed like a simple, reliable machine to me. The kind of thing I'd be sho
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by mtrower 6y ago
Anywhere I've lived in Wisconsin is free* residential, contractual for business. Basically what PhantomGremlin said, minus the mafia. I'd always assumed it was this way everywhere in the U.S. Whereabouts do you live, and what is
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by mtrower 6y ago
Could you elaborate on how the NIMBY attitude is detrimental to mom-and-pop establishments? I thought generally the point was to protect such businesses from chain competitors.
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by mtrower 6y ago
They exist as described (family owned/operated restaurants; owner is the cook; relatively small building with small dining area). I personally know a family which owns/operates one in my hometown, and also know of a few here in W

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