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by olefoo 7y ago
If only the Portland Police Department would do something about people coming from another state to create confrontations with Portlanders... Groups that have already been linked to the murder of more than 6 Portlanders. This is not a both
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by olefoo 7y ago
It's worth noting that in previous years an American businessman publicly attacking his rivals as treasonous would be regarded as engaging in unseemly conduct more appropriate to a citizen of more authoritarian nations. The conclusion
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by olefoo 7y ago
Just a hypothesis, but often intelligence is a proxy for the mental and social stimulus a child is exposed to in their formative years. So you would expect that to grow and then taper off as the useful limit of childhood well-being is reach
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by olefoo 7y ago
Citus is a fork of Postgresql and you would need to run it on it's own infrastructure. AWS Aurora Postgresql regular flavor does support some of the popular extensions but that may not be the case with this flavor since it has some mem
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by olefoo 7y ago
The use of concentration camps as part of a planned ethnic cleansing campaign originated with the American governments efforts to relocate and exterminate the indigenous populations of the Southeastern United States see https://e
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by olefoo 7y ago
> That is balanced by the strictly superior American rule of law The rule of law is looking pretty tattered and worn in the US of A right now. What with the President committing obstruction of justice in plain view and his AG declaring t
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by olefoo 7y ago
Hmm. I have a Dell laptop, but replaced Windows 10 with Ubuntu. I doubt I'm vulnerable to that... but my security stance is probably not as strong as it could be.
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by olefoo 7y ago
That we can identify potential school shooters, identity terrorists and other bad actors from their network traffic. If Joe Bloke suddenly starts tunneling a lot of crap to 8chan... might be time for the constable to drop by for tea and per
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by olefoo 7y ago
> This is a private company Alphabet is a publicly traded company. Which means it is expected to uphold certain standards of behavior.
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by olefoo 7y ago
> That manager is the one who ought to be fired. True, but I wouldn't hold your breath waiting for it to happen.
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by olefoo 7y ago
Today, it's for Joe Armstong ( author of Erlang and computer scientist ). https://ferd.ca/goodbye-joe.html Sort of like a black armband, for the website.
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by olefoo 7y ago
The health care system in this country is a crime. It is structured to take advantage of people at their weakest and most helpless. We spend 3 times as much per capita as most other industrialized nations and get worse outcomes overall.
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by olefoo 7y ago
Yeah. If the phytoplankton goes and stops renewing free oxygen; it becomes pretty hard to be a mammal in a relatively short time.
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by olefoo 7y ago
That thing where you click on the box that says "I agree to the terms of service." during signup. Technically you are giving facebook all rights to reproduce and monetize any content you put on the platform... thus has it always b
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by olefoo 7y ago
The meritocracy was always a sham. The "natural aristocracy of talent" is just an attempt to gaslight those cut out of the opportunities so that they will acquiesce to their exploitation.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Are you referring to investors in penny stocks? I was thinking more in terms of seed investors and self-funding entrepreneurs; of which there is a real dearth at present.
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by olefoo 8y ago
It does have a relationship to wealth inequality. On the one hand you have money seeking returns and getting caught up in zero and negative sum games while doing so. On the other you have a lack of small investors with lower risk tolerance.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Do you have a smart phone? A telescreen by any other name...
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by olefoo 8y ago
Among others, perhaps.
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by olefoo 8y ago
The proper metaphor here would be "controlled descent into terrain"; where everything is fine, until the terminal event.
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by olefoo 8y ago
It should be noted that Matt Taibbi has considerable history in Russia and may not be particularly objective about the American media establishment. To wit https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-two-expat-bros-wh...
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by olefoo 8y ago
Just the things that are public about Trump should be disqualifying for an American President. * failure to disclose tax returns * failure to divest of his business interests * blatant nepotism ( including issuing his son-in-law a security
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by olefoo 8y ago
Shipping containers would be a good starting point for standardization. RVs have standard fittings for evacuating the black water tanks and taking on water. It seems like the parts are there for building a relatively cheap format for people
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by olefoo 8y ago
Ten years from now millions of people will live in all electric mobile homes that allow them to move from place to place and bring their apartment with them. IF there is a plug and play standard for such things.
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by olefoo 8y ago
It's in a fuzzy gray area; it's more an accounting unit than a separate currency. The main advantage I see is that JPM does not have to spend as much on internal controls if txns are recorded in a multi-party ledger. The benefit t
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by olefoo 8y ago
This is not Bitcoin, it's a stablecoin with a guarantor. The failure modes of DLT are going to be interesting. But the currency risk is far lower than with regular bitcoin since it's not an independent currency but is pegged to th
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by olefoo 8y ago
Yes, because everyone who gets into one of our elite institutions gets there on merit and there is absolutely not a predatory aspect to the way the elite networks have arranged society that steals advantage from everyone else. It's jus
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by olefoo 8y ago
In the interests of a functional global order where everyone is held to the same standard? It's very hard to claim the moral high ground when you are not willing to be subject to the same rules as everyone else.
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by olefoo 8y ago
Now that this has gained wide attention the Tufts university counsel and administrative layers are preparing themselves for the inevitable lawsuit. Defamation, actual damages, pain and suffering etc. I doubt the public will learn what actua
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by olefoo 8y ago
Some of the very first automobiles were electric vehicles. And Tesla's vehicles inherit a lot from the existing automobile industry. The fact that Tesla is trying to kill aftermarket/modder culture around their vehicles is just a

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