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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Homicides (a small portion) are up, but all over the place, not cities in particular. https://abcnews.go.com/US/12-major-us-cities-top-annual-homi... Cities are hitting RECORD homicides though. Does the dat
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by post_from_work 5y ago
"One colleague apparently even came over to her house and tried to touch her multiple times, despite her pleas to stay professional." Wait, what? How does a colleague just end up at your home? I'd love to see the message traf
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>> I find it's cheaper[1] to buy low quality clothes than to buy high quality ones in the long run. I'd buy shoes that would last only 6-9 months, but paying double wouldn't make them last twice as long, etc. This d
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by post_from_work 5y ago
I'm totally ok with starting the Butlerian Jihad a few millennia early. https://dune.fandom.com/wiki/Butlerian_Jihad
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Nuking Pinterest off of the Internet is what immediately came to my mind as well!
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>I think that's true for White and Asian folks. I think it's true for people from households that stress STEM, the utility of higher education, and asset management. My mother grew up in North Philadelphia, graduated fr
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Saddam's selling in Euro's had nothing to do with anything So rather than comprehend the second and third order effects of a major oil exporter not adhering to the US's strategic imperative in the oil markets, you
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Iraq was already destabilized with daily NATO air missions overhead for a decade Air missions which didn't prevent Saddam from switching from dollars to euros.[1] Clearly a more permanent solution was needed. General Wesley
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Why did you invade Iraq then plunging it into total chaos and support ISIS in Syria against the Assad regime? Why did you overthrow the Gaddafi regime in Libya. Both of these governments were attempting to sell oil for something
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>At least, that's what it looked like when I saw it in '98. It doesn't sound like it's gotten any better. It's 10x worse now. Now there are half-a-dozen different browser-based apps that all do the same t
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Still do. You'll call someone and ask for their email "Well right now I'm ashore, but next week I'll be on ship, so you need to email me at john.doe@{$shipname}.navy.mil, I won't have access to my john.doe@navy.mil
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>I think one of the big things hidden in here is that auto makers are allowed to and incentivized to optimize for the safety of the passengers inside the vehicle and not pedestrians outside the vehicle My understanding is that th
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by post_from_work 5y ago
You mean the country where half the population might starve this winter because the only money they have is frozen in our banks? https://acaa.org.uk/blog/frozen-assets-and-freezing-temperat... The threat of devastation
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Yeah, when I read a white paper for the next Combat Operations Center and saw they wanted to "run AI applications on a local server at the tactical edge" I knew the document wasn't worth the paper it was printed on. You can t
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>So it's not an edge case for female, uneducated, poor people from third world countries? When a Philippine friend of mine lacked capital to purchase inventory for her business at the start of lockdowns last year, I sent her
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by post_from_work 5y ago
The toilet paper is backed by nuclear weapons and the world's most offensively-capable Navy and Air Force (arguably no longer the world's largest Navy so I clarified the metrics).
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by post_from_work 5y ago
I knew a guy a few years ago who was dropshipping like this, making ~$4k/month as a side hustle. He had a couple employees in the Philippines handling the ordering. Basically using Amazon FBA to leverage Amazon's UI/UX to sel
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>It feels like the military's historical solution to a lot of problems (forced, regular duty station rotation, with assumed interchangeability based on rank) isn't suited to the types of technical project it's now
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>his overall record was similar to other recent presidents That's kinda my point, he wasn't significantly different from the other idiots we've had in office but CNN et al. certainly didn't spend 8 years calli
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Just consulted on a project that was able to raise $20m on their own through a yield farm Jeez. Over how long of a timeframe, and how much did they start farming with?
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>how can we take anything seriously like that especially after their uniform design so clearly ripped off of scifi We have all sorts of neat things because people with real jobs "ripped off sci-fi". Plus I'm glad t
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>I don't think temporarily stopping us from spying on them justifies potentially killing people Interestingly enough, Trump took the same position when the Iranians shot down an expensive spy drone, and Trump called off the
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Kinda like how Allsides functions for news/political bias. https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>every kid over the age of 7 when I was in school knew what a google was or better yet, a googleplex. This was also in the 90s so it predates the search engines popularity by a good bit. Same here, as someone who was in high scho
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by post_from_work 5y ago
From the outside looking in, that story is hilarious. This whole thread gives me pause to ever rent out my mother's property via AirBnB though. I think I will look for a reputable property management company and long-term renters inste
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by post_from_work 5y ago
I'd love for some combination of Armitage/Metasploit/Ghidra/Gyoithon/Shodan but aimed at exploring blockchain smart contracts for vulnerabilities. Put a nice little GUI list of contract addresses and associated wall
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by post_from_work 5y ago
Soooo, basically a standard SV SaaS company?
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by post_from_work 5y ago
>>>Show me an ICE-powered car that does the same without exhibiting a petro-mechanical temper tantrum nobody sane wants to be near without wearing at least ear protection. The mechanical cacophony is part of the fun . A good sound
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by post_from_work 5y ago
You were doing fine until you said "slow". It's trivially easy to tune a decent ICE[1] for ridiculous power. The speed differential between ICE and EV is even more severe over longer performance-driving distances; no one is s
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by post_from_work 5y ago
The combination of constantly running long distances and constantly walking long distances with ridiculously heavy loads is one aspect that I find totally obnoxious about military training, and particularly the Western/NATO approach to

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