rdiddly

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by rdiddly 7y ago
Sidestepping for a moment the illness itself, and whether you call this panic or caution, or whether the panic/caution is well-founded, or how inconvenient it is... I love this and all the other examples of it. Greatly increased number
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Another day, another new outrage. “I would think the majority of citizens in the world would love the fact that we are putting violent offenders in jail,” Armbruster said. Remind me to bust that one out the next time anyone disagrees with
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Is it too early to jump to the conclusion that keeps nagging at me, which is that all the various attempts at reputation management that try to mitigate the basic inherent detachment/uncertainty of the remote, network-enabled business
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by rdiddly 7y ago
People have written about it from that standpoint, sure. Summary: The Democratic Party in the days of Bill Clinton started building bridges to the rich classes, and betraying the working classes, and it snowballed from there. Now millions o
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Yeah nothing is actually what it claims to be anymore. Still, I'd hardly say that makes the people you mention stop being Republicans, much less conservatives. If the party leadership traitorously turns against them, then it's the
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Are you comparing being a Republican to being a flat-earther here? There can be two or more competing opinions about how to run the government.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Website still says they're hiring. They signal robust growth, you pay for it in wasted time. I wonder how many jobs I've applied for have been like that.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Favorite sentence: "After a tough interview with Google and several interviews with small start-ups and companies, I have concluded that employment is not for me." Me neither brother, me neither!
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Wow, apparently JavaScript was 100% great and there was nothing at all negative about it ever, according to people in tech!
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by rdiddly 7y ago
That's okay because asset forfeiture is about denying the convicted party access to the fruits of their crimes, and not about the incredibly conflict-of-interest-riddled idea that the state should be able to plunder those assets and pr
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I mean it's not so much that it's a bad place to quarantine people, it's that they put both sick people and well people inside the quarantine. (i.e. taking for granted what seemed obvious to me all along, which is that the bo
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I challenge you to ignore previous history and reputation, and evaluate this essay in isolation and according to the very principles it lays out. Do we agree with the apparent presupposition that this person has valuable instruction to give
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Corner case? I would have thought sending secrets via email was more than just a corner case of encrypted email. I don't actually use encrypted email though myself.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Sounds like security absolutism again. Encrypted email, even using a weak algorithm, is more secure than unencrypted email and will deter some percentage of attackers. Yes, PGP is weak, metadata is exposed, email wasn't designed for an
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by rdiddly 7y ago
That's hilarious, this happened to me right before I saw this was my top story. (I use the hide feature a lot.) Anyway I guess no one's targeting me personally, so I'll just wait for the post mortem.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Good insight. So yeah I guess it's the perfect combination of large, powerful, authoritative and inscrutable!
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Well, better to take part of the money you made storing carbon in the atmosphere, and use it to mitigate carbon in the atmosphere, than to use it for something else..... riiiiight?
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by rdiddly 7y ago
I messed with them. They were actually downright friendly to work with once I came in from outside. Granted I didn't make them chase me down, maybe they appreciated that. But basically they just want the money. And they get more of tha
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Just can't figure out the enduring appeal of these IRS scams. Is the IRS the scariest bogeyman people can think of? Seems like "I'm a violent criminal and I'll kill you if you don't pay" would be scarier. But t
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Tangent, it bugs me the degree to which Google is thought of, by people including this headline writer, as being in charge of the internet.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
No mention of it in the English Wikipedia Munich article, but there's one about LiMux, their custom distro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LiMux German Wikipedia's München article does mention it: (Deutsch) h
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by rdiddly 7y ago
If anything, a mention (a real one) should be thought of as free publicity for their shitty who-cares show! Like if you had a mind to firmly put an end to any possibility of a viral word-of-mouth campaign (which is the fondest wish of most
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by rdiddly 7y ago
What's the biggest obstacle, that's good information from your direct report. How can I remove it (or CAN I even remove it?), that's kind of up to you to figure out.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Yeah or if, as non-technical people, bad and good are indistinguishable to them!
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Small communities - you might as well say community communities. Not picking on you, just agreeing, to the point of asserting that "community" can't exist past a certain scale. Dunbar's number and all that.
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Throw in "commerce" (on both lists)!
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by rdiddly 7y ago
a-DOIIIII!! of course
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Anybody know how he made those treemaps?
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Let's not even think about the heat generated by friction from all those fingers swiping and mouse wheels spinning!
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by rdiddly 7y ago
Layman's Explanation Greatest Hits right there. Except I was actually curious so I converted it. Assuming a 30-gal tub, it's about 267 tubs/field-hour.

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