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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Obligatory sourcewatch link on FIRE: https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_I...
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> Sorta related: What is the current situation regarding testing for being actively under the influence of marijuana? For better or worse, breathalyzer tests have been generally accepted for testing being actively under the influence of
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Many drugs have common prefixes and suffixes: https://nurseslabs.com/common-generic-drug-stem-cheat-sheet/
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
IME, it’s less about POS systems and more about what the merchants are willing to give up in fees. Amex charges significantly more than the others, to the point that multiple businesses I frequent offer a sliding scale - par for cash/c
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
When I've heard this argument advanced before, it's had the subtext that "limited capacity is not a problem today but becomes one in other contexts" I made the assumption that's what you were hinting at.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Healthcare capacity in the US is a function of your ability to pay for it. We contend with limited supply today, we just kick the limited supply to groups of people who by and large aren't posting on this website.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
What I have started to do is to block an hour every other day, and when someone sends me a Slack message that feels like I am just their crutch, I snooze it until that scheduled block of time. It works like a charm. I still keep an eye on
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
When W32/Blaster[0] came out I worked at a small ISP doing tech support and computer repair. A tech and I imaged an old box we had in the corner with a clean XP, assigned it a static IP in our /24, plugged it in and started a stop
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
“Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.” - Chuck Noll, Pittsburgh Steelers head coach (69-91)
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
In the "quasi-DIY power generation space", take a look at Lister engines & their clones (Listeroids)[0]. You end up with a surprisingly efficient[1] engine when you run diesel that drives any belt system you want: flip from a
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> In the typical case, you can continue to collect those pennies. Top notch comment, considering options trading is often described as "picking up pennies in front of a steamroller." > Loss aversion and all that, but it feel
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Scroll down and learn about FVEY+3 and friends.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> But now I'm thinking: Is it better that the US is spying on me in Europe, vs. having EU governments do it? I feel like I'd be somewhat more safe from the US, compared to if my own government decides to spy on me. https:&#x2F
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> My "randomized emails" all use my personal domain, so it's trivial for people who have access to the email to know it's me, but probably not trivial for dumb ad networks to link my accounts back to me. This bothered
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
This strikes me as the same as saying “but the homeless person might take my $5 to buy whiskey instead of a hot meal.” Or, possibly more apropos to your example, “how do I know my medical debt relief payment goes to someone who truly Deserv
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
I always liked this quote on officers which has been attributed to dozens of different generals throughout history: > I distinguish four types. There are clever, hardworking, stupid, and lazy officers. Usually two characteristics are com
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Not necessarily: that email reported a legitimate bug and identifies a buffer overflow. They don't mention anything about it being exploitable or try to work towards this. Then the CVE was published >20 days later. It's very
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus Modern cars do it with two wires.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
My conspiratorial read was that these could be an effective way to raise the noise floor. Make it difficult to impossible for a security team on a project to ever "catch up" and get to zero reported risk, get them acclimatized to
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> $1000/hr Oh, give over. It's a basic fraud case, you're not hiring a white-shoe firm to represent you. A few hundred bucks gets a lawyer to look at the case and make the phone calls - or send a letter or two - on your b
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
This was related to a criminal case. Threatening any kind of litigation or trying to defend yourself without an attorney puts you in the category of pro se litigant , the territory of jailhouse appellants and sovereign citizens. Even if yo
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Yep, it absolutely sucks. And while the average person in this circumstance has some limited recourse, they certainly have no guarantee of being made whole. But here’s the rub: I’ve seen very intelligent people run up against the legal syst
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Part of the reason you call a lawyer early is so they can help steer things away from the point where you need a lawyer to mount a criminal defense. Cheaper that way, too.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
I feel like this story could be titled “In Which a Smart Person Overestimates Their Competency With The Legal System” Always get a lawyer.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Annoyed? I’d love it: it would be an incredible door opener anywhere you went.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
You missed one of the biggest, one so important it has its own, separate, overriding privacy law: Substance use disorders. (Though perhaps you can argue it’s in psychiatry!) Addiction treatment falls under 42 CFR II, colloquially known as “
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
One of the easiest questions to ask of someone who shouts “HIPPO violation!” is “covered entity or business associate?” “Yes, Dunkin Donuts can give you a free donut if you show your Covid vaccination card. No, the donut shop is not a cover
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
Lawsuit. Tesla's service center might be willing to say "within spec!" but I suspect they'll have a much harder time finding an engineer willing to put their license on the line in court.
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
> Most managers understand that it's business, you're showing them the data and they don't want to lose someone who's doing a good job. Yeah, exactly. If a 150k engineer brings me an offer for 175 and asks me to match
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by owenmarshall 3y ago
If you enjoyed this, you'll love reading about Juan Pujol Garcia, a Spanish double agent who was so successful at fooling Nazi Germany on behalf of Britain that he was awarded both an Iron Cross and a MBE for his service in WW2 https:

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