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by nimbius 4y ago
at the risk of a downvote or three, this is a crackling log in the dumpster fire of twitter. major brands and advertisers jumped ship a month or two ago and very few have returned to see how elons checkmark 2.0, sink-dragging, maximum-hard-
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by nimbius 4y ago
two tenths of a percent decline is barely a remarkable, let alone laudable achievement. This might be a sobering sentiment but US inflation is still out of control. ideal inflation is 2% and policy handbrakes like increases in the prime rat
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by nimbius 4y ago
the "good old days" were a time when capitalism itself was made to capitulate to the post-war reality of an America that very much distrusted the idea of the free market itself. Major companies like GE and Dow Chemical bankrolled
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by nimbius 4y ago
the average pi costs about $200 these days (if you can find one)
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from the perspective of someone who did time for cannabis its real simple. crimes are and always have been for the poors. rich people do profound esoteric actions with unfortunate outcomes that merit long study and rumination with post m
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by nimbius 4y ago
piping curl to bash is a heresy, an abomination that cannot be tolerated. it is an affront to my intellect and sensibility. it is an ethical turpitude and degeneracy that cannot be understated in its depravity. It reduces the user to noth
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by nimbius 4y ago
Intelligent people see the truth of the world, the universe. If the truth, if it were good, that we lived in a wonderful society with wonderful people in a universe that cared about us, smart people would be so happy. But being smart is mer
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by nimbius 4y ago
youve got it all wrong now. Ever since I read an article about farmhands and astute svelt businessmen who stand at 18th century lecterns conducting traditional old fashioned business I learned our modern diet is causing everything from cli
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by nimbius 4y ago
so no pricing and its offered by inquiry only which i can only assume means we have serious reservations regarding the salability of this 'new' product versus, say, a $24 a month vultr instance or something... if you had 60 devs u
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by nimbius 4y ago
a raspberry pi is currently selling for north of $200 due to its scarcity. The smartest thing I did was buy a $60 used chromebook, convert it into an LXD "server" and run pi-hole there. better performance. I sold my five pi'
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by nimbius 4y ago
the video surveillance bans all seem to target billion dollar companies, so its safe to say this is just your friendly lobbyists at ring, nest, and amazon getting an early christmas gift. the security argument is pretty flimsy considering
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by nimbius 4y ago
holy cats. the only thing that might send you away longer is tax fraud and thats only because the us tax code was never demilitarized after we crushed the mafia. 18 months was never going to happen.
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by nimbius 4y ago
i think youre right and i think the market will adjust, but the current application is just trying to take what works on local and regional beer haulers and ups vans and scale it up. very myopic and leads to a lot of frustration when logis
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by nimbius 4y ago
as a heavy diesel mechanic the only application i can see is heavy trucks. current slushbox automatics in the latest series of long hauler over the road rigs is absolutely useless on grade and costs triple to replace and service compared t
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by nimbius 4y ago
Not to put too fine a point on it, but this is the sort of damage control id expect to see from someone only peripherally aware of or involved in their businesses accountability or strategic operations. This concern from advertisers has ex
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by nimbius 4y ago
"in enterprises where Win/Mac are the only options." Why does that happen? It feels like the only reason WSL exists in the first place is to help sidestep the monumental bureaucracy in fortune 100 companies that see Linux as
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by nimbius 4y ago
id assume a billionaire heir to a diamond mine with an econ BA parsing various different models of printer logs for fifteen offices late into the evening would have discredited the quote entirely, But the cult of personality implores me to
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by nimbius 4y ago
"and will help the US economy grow in more sustainable ways going forward" how? capitalisms defining hallmark is a ten year cycle of boom/bust. the last solution in 2020 was a bailout and forgiveness for virtually all comme
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by nimbius 4y ago
>These systems that actually works, should be controlled. Why? to know your enemies and friends share this technology is to succor temperment in your foreign and domestic political and military policy. in other words: Parity encourage
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by nimbius 4y ago
whats interesting to consider is that while russia had no interest in sabotaging their nordstream pipelines, the US absolutely did. conversely russia has great interest in fouling up the gas markets the US relies upon to profit from russia
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by nimbius 4y ago
this article is sensational and unproductive. a better question is: what is the standard required in Sudbury that one may secure a warrant to investigate a home, and what elements of Sudbury and Canadian law may preclude law enforcement
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by nimbius 4y ago
in the case of Los Angeles its a combination of factors hobbling rail at any level. First, NIMBY suits every now and then that threaten minor stretches of the project and require significant funds to combat, or restructuring the program en
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by nimbius 4y ago
Laika is memorialized in the form of a statue and plaque at Star City, the Russian Cosmonaut training facility. https://dynamic-media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-o/08/b... The Monument to the Conquerors o
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by nimbius 4y ago
friendly reminder for those in the USA, or visiting it: face, blood, fingerprint, and other biometrics on your mobile device are not protected by the 5th amendment and can be secured from your person by force if necessary and compelled by
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by nimbius 4y ago
podman/skopeo/buildah and systemd managed user services are an absolute game changer for dockerless rootless containers. pod and service defs are supported and can be exported to k8s when or if you ever need it and theres even a
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by nimbius 4y ago
Im a bit of a Doctorow fanboy, but I think hes hit the nail right on the head. The reason most American trade sanctions seem so poorly defined or defended as of late is because we're not actually fighting to keep china from gleaning ye
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by nimbius 4y ago
"Afterwards, he offered me a six-figure settlement to never speak about it." Mick, thats not a settlement, thats a payoff for taking a hit so the boss doesnt take the fall. Marty wanted this to go away so he could continue ladde
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by nimbius 4y ago
Give me 25lbs of easy mix Dexpan and a hammer drill, and ill show you a gravel pit in about three hours.
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by nimbius 4y ago
same. unless Signal has public metrics to suggest its reached a real critical mass, the lack of basic SMS functionality kills the app for me.

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