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by nimbius 4y ago
this isnt the only player to basically hit the pause button when things dont go their way in the unregulated crypto market; Solend is playing a similar game as well. Had this been, say, Robinhood, punishment would be swift and effective.
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by nimbius 4y ago
as a tradesman mechanic, seeing an old-timer like Fred at work makes me swoon. in the states due to OSHA regulations, there are quite a few reasons why this sort of work would never get done, but Freds attention to safety and detail cant b
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by nimbius 4y ago
for commenters assuming the US Government would step in, absolutely not. the death of Crypto is inherently in the interest of US foreign policy as it strengthens regional soft power in denied spaces by gutting uncooperative states (iran, v
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by nimbius 4y ago
the united states, in its 246 year history, has never operated without slavery. as other posters correctly note, we just move the goalposts and add a potemkin wage in what can only be described as a bad comedy, a facimile of a real marke
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by nimbius 4y ago
"It could run out of people to hire in its US warehouses by 2024" yes, by 2024 the number of people willing to piss in bottles for peasant wages in unconditioned warehouses with no healthcare or time off will certainly become prob
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by nimbius 4y ago
god this article sounds like a writing prompt. "im making drugs for cats!" I shreik in my underwear as the FBI raids my derelict RV full of cat clozapine and TV dinner trays. "im making drugs for cats" I calmly explain
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by nimbius 4y ago
not that it honestly matters. the whole cabal of private healthcare has become such a teetering house of cards post covid that credit reporting agencies no longer count medical debt in your score. https://www.forbes.com/adv
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by nimbius 4y ago
>It's easier to make a weapon that takes out a tank, than it is to make a tank that can defend itself to it. This has been a fact of warfare for almost a century. in fact it was so easy the US Government published a warfighter trai
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by nimbius 4y ago
reminder: biometrics are not protected by the fifth amendment. use strong passphrases. https://www.eff.org/dice
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by nimbius 4y ago
while i do appreciate good anthropological work, the simplest answer in this case is always the most direct. Kindly ask her majesty the queen if she fancied a swim that day, or if the mood suited her more for a brisk walk.
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by nimbius 4y ago
What does this even mean? do you believe C levels and board members personally mope out of the office with dog-eared pockets each time the business loses a customer? do you assume the losses arent already gifted to the workers in the firs
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by nimbius 4y ago
assuming the kernel is compiled with support for subuid and gid framework and proper namespace support...sure? I'd be suspicious if the pod networking would function properly though
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by nimbius 4y ago
correct! PE was more of a fever dream at sears as well. capex and opex was the most visible and agonizing part of his "vision" but certainly the 5bn in stock buyback he instituted makes harley davidson look like a food truck in c
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by nimbius 4y ago
many may be too young to remember but Eddie Lampert did this with Sears in the 80s and 90s as a thinly veiled attempt to turn the company into some kind of obscure land broker. It did not end well, and serves to this day as a textbook exam
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by nimbius 4y ago
key statement at the top of the bill: "UNLESS GASOLINE AND DIESEL FUEL FOR MOTOR VEHICLES IS PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC AT NO CHARGE." At best this is legislators upset about missing tax revenue from fossil fuels, but its more realist
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Markets tumble worldwide, bear market growls on Wall Street(apnews.com)
2 points by nimbius 4y ago|0 comments
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by nimbius 4y ago
after some thought on this i guess im optimistic. Thunderbird always seemed to avoid the more hair-brained crap stuffed into Firefox to turn a profit like voice chat. Thunderbird on the desktop is over 200mb these days, so it will be inter
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Crypto lender Celsius pauses withdrawals, transfers citing extreme conditions(techcrunch.com)
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by nimbius 4y ago
so...whos got the recipe for Linux beer?
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by nimbius 4y ago
This is a dangerous position to hold. this vulnerability aids in reducing the overall security posture of the OS so its quite valuable. it improves an adversaries opportunities and however limited, still advances the potential for system
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Dropbox?
10 points by nimbius 4y ago|13 comments
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by nimbius 4y ago
speaking as a mechanic, hell yeah we depend on it every day for old and weird formats at work. -the report generated by our laser alignment machine is in a 1993 ms write format. o365 says its no bueno. -the diagnostic tool we use on some
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by nimbius 4y ago
I work on heavy diesel engines and old timers know Eisenhower grease. its a nickname for cosmolene, a water resistant grease family used for anything in unforgiving environments. it comes in weights from wax to jelly. you'll see it
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by nimbius 4y ago
friendly reminder: 400k is an apertif for a competently configured production postfix server. its about 14 seconds of mail, and about 8 seconds optimized at hw and filesystem level. the real issue here is shitty projects from shitty compan
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by nimbius 4y ago
"he found that Tesla’s commitment to transparency was not all that it seemed" til in 2018 Tesla had a transparency commitment
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by nimbius 4y ago
or just use podman skopeo and buildah because thats gonna let you investigate pod issues you'll get in K8s and makes you conformant with things like rootless, or your companies devops blessed load balancer container config in your pod.
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by nimbius 4y ago
us public: ubm is making us miserable FTC: pay this company no one but us know about $2 and it will fix the problem for 10 years in no legally binding way and with no government oversight penalty or enforcement.
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by nimbius 4y ago
I'm sort of surprised Intel is still an option. since they never revamped the fundamentals of their hyperthreading technology their spectre/meltdown/etc mitigations still send every new chip they make to the barber for a 15-
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by nimbius 4y ago
SPF dkim and dmarc aren't exclusive to ipv6. I think what the author is bemoaning is just how exhaustive the requirements are to send to one of googles cloistered mailservers in the first place. check senderbase and the rbls, you migh
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by nimbius 4y ago
colour me unimpressed. VMWare cheerleaders haul out openstack as their touchstone example of how hard VM's are in linux but forget that VMWare pales in comparison to what Openstack is, which is an entire full-stack cloud hosting provi

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