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by ponker 6y ago
Hoping that some colleges pull a fast one, like having one in-person lecture a week that are widely known to be shams and not for actual attendance, perhaps a lecture about a Simpsons episode, to maintain the “in-person” eligibility while h
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by ponker 6y ago
I live in the Bay Area suburbs and Sonic brought fiber to my home in 2 weeks with no installation charge or minimum contract and charges $40/month for it. I guess their penetration varies widely.
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by ponker 6y ago
Most of Luxottica’s value is in the monopoly control of the eyeglass business. A pure Lens manufacturer can be had much more cheaply.
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by ponker 6y ago
I don’t, I just recognize them as commenters and can tie their comments into their previous comments.
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by ponker 6y ago
This site is a bit of an in between. There are definitely recognizable names here like JacquesM, DoreenMichelle, etc. that I don’t know IRL but recognize here. Then there are the users like WalterBright where I can correlate to an IRL ident
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by ponker 6y ago
Isn’t it amazing how many products get shipped these days, where products with this level of polish are barely noteworthy entrants into a market of hundreds.
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by ponker 6y ago
Why? As in, how would their lives be better if they did?
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by ponker 6y ago
The Supreme Court has merely ruled that Congress must first tear up the paper before violating the promise written on it.
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by ponker 6y ago
Not a great comparison since outside of rural Mississippi and similar, the cost of barebones living is much higher, so people on minimum wage have much less discretionary income today.
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by ponker 6y ago
I do not feel that "Cops are natural aggressors" needs further litigation but agree on the rest. However, how do you find Ring cameras protect your packages from theft? Do package thieves notice the camera and avoid your house, or
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by ponker 6y ago
In general, cops directly prevent almost no crimes. Their job is basically to respond to crimes and either stop it in progress or find and punish the perpetrators. If they have a prevention effect it is from deterrence.
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by ponker 6y ago
The Russian Duma could revoke the sale of Alaska to the United States and declare that they still own it. What stops them from doing so? The fact that the US military would stop them from trying to repossess the land. The "promise&quot
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by ponker 6y ago
I mean, the only reason that Congress can revoke a promise to the Creek Indians is that they have a stronger military. It's not about justice, it's just about strength.
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by ponker 6y ago
Because they’re lazy and can afford it.
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by ponker 6y ago
Yes, but the restaurants have been put out of business by government order. This is effectively a Fifth Amendment “taking” and should be compensated.
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by ponker 6y ago
What Gorsuch's opinion does directly imply is that the "promise" to the Creek can be revoked by Congress at any time, i.e. it's hardly a "promise" at all.
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by ponker 6y ago
That’s not really the AWS MO. There is enough genuine demand for computing out there. AWS isn’t really trying to make you accidentally waste money on AWS as much as shift real workloads there.
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by ponker 6y ago
Wow, I was completely wrong. Thanks for the info
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by ponker 6y ago
Lol. “Communities that have borne the brunt of surveillance” and then a list starting with “women.” Men are surveilled at vastly higher rates than women, and a huge majority of police brutality is against men (specifically, poor and black m
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by ponker 6y ago
The Church knows how to draft behind power. Hong Kong’s is receding, Beijing’s is burgeoning. No doubt onto whose teat the Church will hungrily latch.
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by ponker 6y ago
Keep in mind that that strip referencing Donald Trump was from 2011. He was a contemporary douchebag but not yet a contemporary politician.
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by ponker 6y ago
You really nailed what I hadn't been able to verbalize. Dilbert is still stuck in a world that no longer exists. The open hostility, hierarchy, etc. of the corporate world has been replaced with this kind of generic feel-goodyness that
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by ponker 6y ago
Well it's also that you adjust your "magnitude" of a reading based on the extremeness of the expression. So if you see someone smiling at a toy you think it's a fun toy but if you see someone MANIACALLY CACKLING at a toy
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by ponker 6y ago
The big requirements for enterprise use are: single-sign on, compliance with regulations (e.g. a multinational company needs to know that you are in compliance with the laws around data retention, data locale, etc. for their own data, in ev
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by ponker 6y ago
Because my academic friends have almost never gotten a top-tier private university (Ivy-class) without also getting state school offers but the reverse has happened many times.
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by ponker 6y ago
I don't think you'll get a better education at a state school. The state school has hiring criteria similar to Harvard but at a lower bar. You'll get a better education at a four year teaching-focused college.
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by ponker 6y ago
Lot of people here complaining that grocery delivery sucks because the shoppers pick bad produce. That's because the current business models treat grocery shopping as unskilled labor. I certainly don't think that picking a good
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by ponker 6y ago
It’s somewhat ironic in that the US and UK are close allies but the US’ ongoing experiments with regime change created mutiple wars for the UK. Not that the UK hasn’t done its own regime change experiments.
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by ponker 6y ago
It may be New Yorker style but it’s also the style of a lot of pre-1950 travel writing. Travel writing at the time assumed that the reader would never visit the destination being written about, or for that matter any other destinations fart
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by ponker 6y ago
The thing is that Harvard’s actual instructor to student education is far worse than many universities like liberal arts colleges that focus on instruction. Nobel Laureates are just very hit or miss on teaching while colleges like Amherst o

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