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by ratsmack 4y ago
Interesting and creative way to drive traffic to your site.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
I read most of the document, and even if a fraction of it is true, Twitter will have a lot of explaining to do in front of the SEC. It sounds like it would be easy to find criminal intent.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>This kind of dangerous logic... Different or opposing opinions are neither dangerous or violent.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
It only becomes a problem when employees start to view it as an entitlement.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>While I agree almost anything can be art It's kinda like porn, though. I know it when I see it, and a banana taped to a wall isn't art.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
It's not just one chemical we're talking about here, as there is over 9,000 variations of PFAS chemicals[1] identified to date. [1] https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/pfas/default.html
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Why do we have to flag it instead of eloquently and politely discussing it?
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>Seattle-based Arrived claims that it is different from others in the category in that it is “fully SEC-qualified,” meaning that it has approval from the Securities and Exchange Commision to offer shares of individual homes. I don't
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>Hola is a freemium web and mobile application... When the service is free, you are the product.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
It's the free phone tax, where you end up paying double the cost of the phone by the time the 2 year contract expires.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Vacationers usually return home at some point, though.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Amazon is becoming a garbage dump of fraud and junk knock-off sellers. A majority of these sellers are in China, so I don't know why Amazon would have any difficulty auditing them. They need to do a clean sweep of these garbage sellers
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Carpet bombing has a tendency to kill a lot of people, especially when it continues for 70 days.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
There is plenty of reading material[1] if you're really interested. [1] https://www.bing.com/search?form=MOZLBR&pc=MOZI&q=the+WHO+pr...
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>... compared to the other shit the US wastes federal money on. You mean like roads, bridges, and other infrastructure? I like to view nice pictures of space as well as anyone else, but I can't agree that it is money well spent. If
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by ratsmack 4y ago
>... while simultaneously handwringing over every incident ... And then there's those Tesla accidents that must happen thousands of time a day, because they're always in the news.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
The picture of the VT100 brings back memories. I had one at home and would connect to our Vax 11/780 to program in FORTRAN using the EDT editor... using a 1200 baud modem. (about 1981 or so)
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Hopefully you're joking... :-), if not, it means Extended Support Release. (The first time I saw it, I thought the same)
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by ratsmack 4y ago
My bank (B of A) started complaining about Debian's firefox-esr being too old and out of date, so I loaded the bleeding edge version just to access my bank account, but use the esr version for general browsing.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
By the time all of the litigation bills are paid and the negative sentiment caused by ignoring an obvious problem, I wonder if it would have been far less expensive to just fix the damn keyboards... what is the thought process that brings u
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by ratsmack 4y ago
That's odd, I used that link several times from that comment, but now it's changed. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32120246#32121248
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by ratsmack 4y ago
I made this point today, but it was summarily dismissed as "not a problem". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32120246&p=2#32121248
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Pretty much, yes.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
The argument being that when you just replace one type of pollution with another, I'm not sure you're benefiting as much as many people believe. I worry that some of the toxins produced with modern technologies may be worse than w
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by ratsmack 4y ago
I don't have a problem with wind and solar, but I do have a problem with the enormous amounts of toxic waste produced making solar panels and wind mills. Then there is the problem of what to do with the huge amount of waste material on
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Three years ago I built a house to sell (I was general contractor) on a city lot my family owned. Before a single shovel of dirt was turned over, we had to pay around seventy thousand dollars for plan review, power connection, water, sewer
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by ratsmack 4y ago
The problem is that they are spraying it on the product that is consumed, such as soybeans and wheat. It should only be used to eradicate weeds before the crop is planted, where the residual glyphosate is consumed by soil bacteria after eig
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by ratsmack 4y ago
It's good to see that everyone agrees on the definition of NULL.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
The limiting factor would be the memory chips themselves and any firmware required for them (if any). I also don't know how well they are spec'd and if full documentation is available without NDA's and lawyers.
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by ratsmack 4y ago
Nothing they do is unique or substantially different than many of the Asiatic religions that have existed. People tend to fear what they don't understand.

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