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by oooyay 2y ago
An advisory counsel may not get paid but they submit findings to the Secretary. There's a long tail where the government becomes more aware of long standing and emergent issues. Industry associations have no such reach unless individua
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by oooyay 2y ago
Curiously, the contrast ratio wasn't a good signal for me. The white on black text didn't strain my eyes but this did: > However, light gray text on a dark gray background is easy on my eyes. Here the background is #666 and the
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by oooyay 2y ago
> The national security risk is the US military apparently not being able to convince its own soldiers to be thoughtful about cybersecurity. That's not really a new problem. The problem is as old as time, even before the internet:
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by oooyay 2y ago
Please link back when you do, this is really cool.
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I really like reading these because they come with annotations: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt1-9-1/ALD... Also, more directly for those in the back, the actual first amendment: > Cong
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by oooyay 2y ago
Most of the complaints I've read about Django on HN have to do with ASGI support - which Django added. They're valid but outdated complaints.
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by oooyay 2y ago
Huh, I actually do some of this but I'm planning on doing a bit more that I'd like to get their feedback on. For background, I live in the PNW among the trees. My soil is part of a long dead riverbed and thus is mainly silt and sa
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by oooyay 2y ago
> I'm close to someone who teaches at a university, and they're making heavy use of in-room essays written in blue books. This ensures that the work is purely the students, but I think it also has the side-effect that the grade
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by oooyay 2y ago
I mean, also > Our family made eight $1 million donations to nonprofit groups working to support those most currently in need Color me cynical but he's quite literally part of the problem, writing about the problem in abstracts.
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by oooyay 2y ago
An IDP is not a secrets management tool or vice versa. IDPs are more like connectors of your internal tools/platforms. Their key metrics have more to do with toil reduction and velocity, but they can certainly solve the kinds of proble
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by oooyay 2y ago
I'm not sure why it's either/or to you. Seems to me like we're talking about the same problem but stated from two different perspectives. Politics has historically incentivized job creation.
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by oooyay 2y ago
I work in internal tools development, aka platform engineering, and this is interesting: > That's part of the problem. But companies also are unwilling to pay to do any of the things that you've described. There is no punishmen
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by oooyay 2y ago
My elder female dog loves to play and the way in which she plays has only gotten more nuanced over time. She's even adapted to play with me, play with other dogs, play with smaller dogs, and play with puppies. The basic semantics of
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by oooyay 2y ago
The hyperfocus on shareholder returns is also worth mentioning. It's tangentially related to a monopolistic trajectory. Instead of a company being really good at solving problems in a particular domain they attempt to serve many me
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by oooyay 2y ago
You do pay to exercise your right to vote. There's a certain party that loves the color red that requires an ID to vote. They also require you to have up to date residency information in order to vote. Changes like that require money
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by oooyay 2y ago
There is no federal registry, that's why the FFL system exists. They track who they did transactions with and if the federal government needs to know about a transaction they can approach the FFL holders. The system works as designed t
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by oooyay 2y ago
That's not really the qualifier you think it is. I've been coding and hacking stuff up since I was nine. Corporate programming is a great perversion of the kind of stuff I find fun to do in my spare time. In order to be successful
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by oooyay 2y ago
Yeap that's fair and truthy.
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by oooyay 2y ago
Gun control laws certainly aren't settled. I'm passionate about them, but I'm also passionate about people taking an attempt in one state and broadcast it as the standard. Especially when that standard term is also defined fe
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by oooyay 2y ago
Voter fraud is exceedingly rare in the US: https://www.npr.org/2024/10/11/nx-s1-5147732/voter-fraud-exp... I understand it was used as a talking point by a certain person in this last election, but it wa
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by oooyay 2y ago
I updated my comment before you commented and added: > Brady I don't have much of an opinion on. I do know, as a value, that I buy all of my firearms through a licensed FFL. It's at most $50 + shipping. I don't think that&
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by oooyay 2y ago
Most of what I'm following here is existing state based CHL checks. Those are reasonable, provide benefits (expedited sales), and are effective in that CHL holders are not typically the people that those people are trying to prevent sa
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by oooyay 2y ago
If think you're following some revisionist history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magazine_(firearms) . Magazines predate the military's use of them. The earliest form of a magazine was the repeating rifle and
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by oooyay 2y ago
Yeah, very much agree. My point moreso was that the truth also needs a good narrative. I think we missed that this last election cycle. Isolated facts are not enough to convince people of a story, even if it will clearly play out as true.
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by oooyay 2y ago
If detachable magazines are your issue then New York still allows them with 10 rounds or less on both pistols and long rifles. Phrasing that as "reasonable people" is a bit of a trap. I'm a leftist, have been all my life, tha
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by oooyay 2y ago
Ah, let's be specific about what you're talking about: Handgun modifications are more tightly controlled. For instance if I try to turn a hand gun into a long gun. That was always true of federal law. What I'm pointing out
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by oooyay 2y ago
"Assault weapon" doesn't mean anything outside of New York and New Jersey. For New York it's an arbitrary combination of "features". For instance, threaded barrel + removable magazine. The M1A I'm looking
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by oooyay 2y ago
Since this election has unfolded I've been thinking a lot about narratives and what they mean. Progress is largely based on narratives. They're the stories we tell ourselves to stay focused, motivated, and aligned. The narrative d
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by oooyay 2y ago
How is a story that tells the story of someone who was a slave and the brother of a famous American author "flamebait", "political", or "ideological"? Frankly, take a look at the juxtaposition of your comment t
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by oooyay 2y ago
> But my understanding is that a diagnosis of anxiety or ADHD is not a career killer and will not usually result in a medical discharge. I was in the Marines. In general, you cannot be lifelong dependent on medication. If you are, then y

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