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by pseudo0 4y ago
Messing with the carefully managed status quo is foolish. China cares a lot more about Taiwan than the US does, if we goad them into action on this issue it's going to be a repeat of Ukraine. We will send them some donations and put Ta
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by pseudo0 4y ago
It seems rather irresponsible to poke China in the eye like this, they are definitely going to scale up air, naval, and cyber intrusions in response. Very likely nothing significant will happen, but these heightened tensions increase the li
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Agreed on Yahoo and ISP emails being awful, but Microsoft migrated all the hotmail users over to Outlook years ago. At this point, there is only a cosmetic difference between a hotmail.com email and a outlook.com email. I'm normally no
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Bernie Madoff is the classic example, his affinity fraud targeted wealthy Jewish individuals, foundations, and charities. In terms of relative frequency though, good question. Utah is an oddity where state-level stats are a decent estimate
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by pseudo0 4y ago
There is no point in insuring against a predictable cost of doing business. An insurer would simply charge a premium equal to the expected amount of theft, plus a margin for their profit and the (small) risk they are taking. For the many re
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Yes, the vast majority of residential school deaths were due to endemic diseases. The primary accusation regarding deaths is that the residential schools had a higher death rate than comparable populations, and the state should have provide
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by pseudo0 4y ago
I agree that there is definitely moral hazard when it comes to after the fact "corrections", particularly if the analyst knows the outcome desired by police. The company's track record looks pretty poor in this respect. In ge
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Would results of discovery be public record? If so, I could also see: 3) They don't want their "secret sauce" made publicly available. That would both open them up to commercial competition, and make their product less reliab
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Maybe this would have gone over better with the community if they had made the most popular mods redundant before rendering them unusable? > Finally, we’re aware that many legitimate users install modifications to add features they wis
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by pseudo0 4y ago
This seems like the sort of idea that is perhaps well-intentioned but would rub many workers the wrong way, like the Amazon mindfulness pods [0]. Employees might wonder why they can't have 15 minutes to take a paid break in actual sunl
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Unfortunately the MBA who pushed for offshoring has usually switched jobs before the project inevitably blows up in their face. One horror story I had some tangential knowledge of involved hiring a team of ~20 full-time Indian devs, based o
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Doesn't Canada already have a carbon tax? I thought the whole point of that approach was that it set a price for carbon across all segments of the economy, and then let the market figure out the most efficient way to function under tha
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Foreign entities abusing the DMCA system also adds another layer of impossibility to the system. Good luck pursuing recourse against someone in North Korea or wherever, even if the DMCA claims are in blatantly bad faith. The claimant should
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Unfortunately step one of that process is often convincing people that they have a problem, sometimes through questionable methods. It's easy to make a teenaged girl feel like her appearance is a problem when the basis for comparison i
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by pseudo0 4y ago
What makes it even funnier is that during the period when this article was published, NASA didn't even have a functioning method of getting cosmonauts to the ISS. And meanwhile this guy is spending his time and energy trying to get Rus
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by pseudo0 4y ago
It prompted me to pull up the handy "recent device streaming activity" tab and it turns out my brother is still using it, so I guess the subscription lives another day (at least until they try to start charging per location).
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Rocking the boat is probably a bad idea for Netflix. If they start sparking family discussions about usage, a lot of families will have moments where everyone says "I thought you were using it." And then they just cancel rather th
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by pseudo0 4y ago
I'm sure they just coincidentally have the same machine name, and both happen to have /home/marcan directories.
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Neither did Verhoeven, he apparently only read a couple chapters and had an assistant summarize the rest ( https://www.looper.com/358395/the-real-reason-the-starship-t... ). So I wouldn't assume that the movie stric
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Wasn't there also a controversy regarding alleged theft/embezzlement by officers of the organization? According to their filings with the California government, over $350k in "unauthorized purchases" were made [0] (page
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Professional-managerial class. Basically people with white collar jobs who have more sway than the working class due to professional moats (university degrees, accreditations) and more influence on society due to controlling to some degree
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Now do the stats for people under 24 without gang affiliation... It's incredibly misleading for the Economist to tie that stat to Uvalde when in reality, it's 16-24 year old gang members shooting each other over the drug trade and
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by pseudo0 4y ago
It's legal, at least in the US, if there is a dotted or broken yellow line between the two lanes, the opposite lane is clear, and you have enough time/space to complete the overtaking before it swaps back to solid yellow. For obvi
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by pseudo0 4y ago
They also passive-agressively set the default to a paid shipping option for non-Prime, so every order you have to manually pick the free shipping option. It's very obnoxious, especially combined with the multiple "sign up for Prim
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by pseudo0 4y ago
In some cases that seems entirely appropriate. For example, Bernie Madoff was sentenced to 150 years in prison for ruining thousands of peoples' lives. Or what about someone who traffics a significant amount of fentanyl, leading to mul
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by pseudo0 4y ago
This is a solved problem with modern cryptography. Governments just don't want to implement a cryptographic scheme like this, given the side-benefits of a registry for future confiscation, red-flagging, etc.
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Example #1001 of why gun owners hate registries. The safest way to handle sensitive PII is to simply not retain it in the first place.
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by pseudo0 4y ago
100% accurate, they purged all the feminist subreddits that aligned with JK Rowling a couple years back. Ironically you are now hard-pressed to find a moderator on r/TwoXChromosomes who actually has two X chromosomes. https:/&#x2
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Decent niche subreddits still exist, but there has been significant concentration of moderation power in a small clique [0]. And that doesn't include the widespread use of alts for mod accounts. Multiple times now I have seen good subr
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by pseudo0 4y ago
Monkeys also engage in cannibalism, sometimes even of their own dead young, and lions regularly commit infanticide. Appeals to nature are not compelling in the slightest when it comes to morality.

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