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by pierat 3y ago
> The USA and a few other cultures have unfortunately devalued shame to the point where it holds nearly no cultural power. Wait, are you talking about "personal" shame, or "corporate" shame. Cause if anything, corpor
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by pierat 3y ago
That's the big difference. A breathalyzer tells if you're right now actively impaired. Cannabis tests simply show that sometime in the past 30 days you smoked. Doesnt show active impairment. But the real reason why cannabis was so
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by pierat 3y ago
And this is a perfect time to talk about worker owned corporations. The employees should be able to buy the company. Not only that, but they should also be given first rights to do that. And if government was serious about keeping businesse
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by pierat 3y ago
Well, yeah. Wal-Mart was the first wave, to destroy local, small, and boutique stores: in favor of crap chinesium that is sold 'slightly cheaper'. Amazon moved in, used the agreements with USPS and China to cheaply (read nearly 10
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by pierat 3y ago
Yet another reason to support and use Firefox and forks.
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by pierat 3y ago
If you're a scientist who works for government, toe the party line. Else you'll get your clearances yanked and you'll be out of a job! And secondarily, war hawks rule the roost. You cater to making weapons and tools to make w
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by pierat 3y ago
AND said that there were biologicals on there that were not from the Earth. And also said there were individuals whom were injured in the reverse engineering of said non-human spacecraft. This is all TS/SCI, so the actual hard details
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by pierat 3y ago
Its all hidden behind TS/SCI this, TS/SCI that. The problem is classification, and its abuse. And, in government, nobody is really accountable, especially in over-securing data.
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by pierat 3y ago
Exactly. We put children into a 12 year long institutional dictatorial meat grinder with absolutely no say about anything (well, maybe a few electives in high school). It stems from "children" (aka under 18) having absolutely no r
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by pierat 3y ago
Wow, the meta-analysis of comments versus the actual astrology thread are stark: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36840674 Looking at both side to side shows how much the materialists influence places like this. 1. Astr
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by pierat 3y ago
Christians believe in cannibalizing a human/god chimera, for the sole fact of trying to get rid of sin that you got when you were born.... And astrologers are weird? The basis of astrology is the teachings of Hermes Trismegistus, and &
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by pierat 3y ago
Again I ask: Is it really piracy when the sales, well, aren't?
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by pierat 3y ago
To be fair, I've seen large brained mammals exhibit (homo walmartus) completely inane and stupid behavior. I have a feeling many others here have also witnessed those actions in their natural environment.
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by pierat 3y ago
If they can be used as a punishment, they WILL be used as a punishment. Not too long ago, BDSM was considered a mental illness. We'not talking the 1960s either.. this was 2010 when the DSM-4 had BDSM and similar removed. Prior to 1980,
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by pierat 3y ago
> There's a cost to society to carrying over such a technological deadweight loss and these people are free riders. The same capitalistic analysis can be said for fetuses, infants, and children up to working age. Is your proposal fo
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by pierat 3y ago
Client cert handing at the load balancer level and reverse proxy level are stupid hard to get right. I would burn client certs to the ground if I could.
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by pierat 3y ago
I find this to be a propaganda piece. How many times has the NSA hacked foreign nations' governments and 'assets', and all of those were left out? But we get all over CNN, FauxNews, and NPR the "evil Chinese hackers&quot
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by pierat 3y ago
WOTC C&D in 3....2.....1....
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by pierat 3y ago
I thought that too, but things get weird when you try to separate 'electron-magnetism' and photonics. If you try to understand WHY a metal outer electron shell will shed a photon, you'll come up empty handed. And with electri
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by pierat 3y ago
No, get it right. The VC destroyed the Maker Faire and magazine because it did not make enough profit fast enough. Therefore it was more profitable for the VC to destroy the business and cash in the chunks left over. Venture capitalists are
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by pierat 3y ago
Lets be fair. This is where I buy arduino stuff. https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004305055818.html And yes, the price is $.57 and $1.29 shipping. Its a total of $12.98 for 10 of 'em. And that includes USB cabl
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by pierat 3y ago
> Last year (2022) Arduino took in a Series B funding round of $32 million. [link: https://blog.adafruit.com/2022/06/07/series-b-funding-round-... ] > [quote from the link] “So today, we dial up our visio
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by pierat 3y ago
I personally have a strict sense of "ownership". The easy proxy for it is: "Is there open firmware developed in FLOSS that I can replace the existing with?" Obviously, that's not a 100%. Perhaps something like this
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by pierat 3y ago
Because it was a venture capital backed "bicycle+internet-of-shit". And this bankruptcy has reclaimed all these "shitty bicycles" as the company's property until when or if they send out firmware to permanently unlo
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by pierat 3y ago
During a phishing test at an old company, I was able to: 1. buy a cheap VPS ($5) 2. Buy a domain name with homoglyph unicode similar to the company's name 3. get a full stack of ssl from letsencrypt for the attack doma
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by pierat 3y ago
In my case, my estimation is a simple count. Prior to using my email, I was getting 2 targeted attacks per week to my email. After making an acct on LinkedIn with resume, was seeing 25-30 attacks per week. I didn't make any attempt to
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by pierat 3y ago
Most companies don't permit Linux as a desktop. In most orgs, you'll see Windows and the sysadmins and devs will have LOCAL\administrator, but not LOCAL\SYSTEM. That's usually because developing software(debuggers) or using s
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by pierat 3y ago
> Google is running the program to reduce the risk of cyberattacks, according to internal materials. “Googlers are frequent targets of attacks,” one internal description viewed by CNBC stated. Fair. The higher the profile you have, the w
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by pierat 3y ago
Simply put: why does their religion get money from the state when mine does not? I dont care if you have weird beliefs. I just don't want weird beliefs funded by the state. And that's also including my own weird beliefs.
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by pierat 3y ago
Try visiting the Midwest. Its like my anecdote, but for every city. And the larger the city, the worse the times with public transit vs car. I would LOVE nice public transit where I would call a taxi OR walk to the public transit station,

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