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by redserk 2y ago
ArsTechnica has been resorting to increasingly alarmist headlines to the point where many articles should be regarded as spam as they don't serve to inform nor provoke any meaningful discussion. Their selection of reporting over the la
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by redserk 2y ago
I can’t speak to your experience, but often times I’ve run into this in development teams where there was not a strong level of systems knowledge or not a very strong understanding of exactly what an application needs to run. Perhaps one of
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by redserk 2y ago
I’d argue the cost of western values needs to be split up into two categories. We have the cost of “fair” (non-abusive) labor and the cost of expectations for increasing margins. On the first, my assumption(/hope) is that many consumer
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by redserk 2y ago
I can’t disagree at all with what you've stated, but I’ll toss in a nuclear-take here: As a consumer, the IP theft has been fantastic. Prices for many things stayed high for no good reason and market competition hasn’t been doing what
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by redserk 2y ago
The document wasn’t for individuals. That’s quite the misunderstanding of basic history here.
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by redserk 2y ago
Define “the people”. For works of it’s time, it is broadly used to mean both individuals and an elected government. You’re utilizing one definition of a term that never had concrete meaning, so your reasoning is both imprecise and potential
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by redserk 2y ago
Well no, you’re making an assumption with how a court would rule in this situation. There is nothing mandating that a court has to put careful consideration between what is and isn’t official business.
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by redserk 2y ago
What’s exactly said and what are the practical impacts are two completely different things. It will take many, many cases to elaborate on what defines an official act and what exactly decides immunity, and in the process we could see a lot
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by redserk 2y ago
US-based individuals here are making 2-3x (or higher!) more cash than the median family (not to mention other comp that easily exceeds a year+ of income of other families) If 4 years of school and sitting in an air conditioned home office
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by redserk 2y ago
Curing a disease can easily take tens-to-hundreds of millions of dollars or more and up to decades of research. For most individuals, this degree of personal financial and temporal expenditure isn’t available.
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by redserk 2y ago
Congress could have issued a law in the last 40 years —- where there were opportunities for both political parties —- clarifying this if the legislative branch disagreed. …if we’re going along with the logic this court has been working with
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by redserk 2y ago
You don’t have to have a regulation be declined by the courts. You just need a court to more easily issue months-long stays on a given executive action. My concern with all of this is that a handful of courts will see this as an opportunity
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by redserk 2y ago
I've only used Powershell a little bit on Linux and Mac but it seems reasonably cross-platform. On the surface, it looks like I'd be giving up the decently sized ecosystem of Powershell libraries for a new ecosystem without much s
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by redserk 2y ago
I'm surprised how many people are either forget or intentionally misrepresent the actual real-world scenario of letting people handle medical advice by themselves. We already did this experiment 1-Javascript-Framework-lifecycle-equival
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by redserk 2y ago
I don't think being in that situation with a line of snake oil salesmen promising their unproven supposed-cures will help here.
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by redserk 2y ago
It’s interesting seeing the difference in how solar is usually talked about versus backup generators. Whole-home generators are expensive and get used rarely but are often justified as a “just in case”. Solar doesn’t enjoy this kind of leni
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by redserk 2y ago
The US Treasury practically owned Ally Bank (formerly GMAC) after the 2008 financial crisis with a 63% stake [1]. The government then sold off its stake around 2014 and Ally seems to be doing well now. I’d make the argument that significant
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by redserk 2y ago
GDP per-capita only works if you're comparing places with similar costs to live and costs to produce. It's nearly meaningless to use it as a measure of individual quality-of-life without correlating it to the price it costs to pro
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by redserk 2y ago
> It really doesn’t matter that China is worse. It’s not a competition. The fact that people in other places have even less privacy doesn’t make me feel better. This is exactly the sentiment I wanted to convey. I'd feel far more com
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by redserk 2y ago
To start: I do not trust the CCP, but my trust in the American legal system has been waning. What's the legal recourse for a US Citizen served with a dodgy FISA-related subpoena/warrant? Or if a government agency wants to purchase
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by redserk 2y ago
Once DJI gets banned, a new consumer company will come around and will happily import all the parts from China then slap on a substantial markup. I'm placing bets that DJI will somehow whitelabel the drones. It's funny the lengths
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by redserk 2y ago
Might as well just shut down and ban all RC hobby shops because RC Airplanes can carry heavier payloads than all of DJI's consumer/prosumer lines -- and are much easier to modify.
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by redserk 2y ago
This is assuming only actors with good intent enter the market. A number of coding bootcamps are terrible and saddle students with even more useless debt.
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by redserk 2y ago
Yeah. Realistically I think the best course of action is just assume you’re already using a library that can exfiltrate data. This requires allowlisting egress traffic and possibly even architecting things to prevent any one library from se
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by redserk 2y ago
So just sneak the code in a dependency of a dependency. Who’s diving 3-4 layers deep into dependencies?
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by redserk 2y ago
At least in the US, the arguments against solar and wind are usually not out of concern for land area needed for food growth. The opponents tend to use unsubstantiated FUD.
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by redserk 2y ago
Do you have suggestions for XMPP client libraries (across any language)? I really wanted to do this myself but it seems that the first few results I found across several different languages haven't been actively maintained.
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by redserk 2y ago
The Open Web does not necessarily solve this problem. Someone has to pay for hosting and the time spent needing to moderate and ensure content is legal. While there are a number of enthusiasts willing to put up with the cost and time to run
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by redserk 2y ago
Hard disagree. Healthy relationships include negotiating when potential boundaries are in question, or if things change that require re-aligning boundaries. It's reasonable to give more to the other party from time-to-time, and reasona
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by redserk 2y ago
I usually get a bit above 20% when I get home to when I leave in the morning. My vehicle has about a 70kW battery and ~300mi range. I have relied on this setup for multiple years without stress.

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