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by rekabis 5y ago
All it takes is one large drone with a briefcase nuke to take out everything. Or if they wanted to do it more covertly with a more plausible cover story, a weather balloon. It wouldn’t even have to take out the infrastructure with physical
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by rekabis 5y ago
I’ve been using BookCrawler (iOS) for the last decade-plus to keep track of what I get (to avoid accidentally purchasing multiple copies), but I’ve discovered that at around 3,000 entries both the search functionality as well as all interna
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by rekabis 5y ago
> Many people already successfully employed as senior engineers cannot actually implement FizzBuzz. The f*ck?? * For loop, int 1-100 * if int%3 == 0 && int%5 == 0, print fizzbuzz * else if int%3 == 0 , print fizz * else if int%5
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by rekabis 5y ago
> “On the one hand, there’s this sense of ‘Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.’ There’s a natural inclination to think not that they got what they deserved, because no one deserves this, but that they have some culpability because of t
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by rekabis 5y ago
Thin profit margins? Oh, boo hoo! So frickin what? The free market runs in both directions. When labour is available, businesses use it to cram down wages - “if you don’t like it, find another job”. But why is it, now that there is a wage s
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by rekabis 5y ago
And here I’m looking at those restaurant prices with envy.
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by rekabis 5y ago
Honestly, it is you busting at the blackjack table that makes those prices so low. These restaurants are subsidized by the house via the majority of losing gamblers. About the only reason why they even charge for the food in the first place
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by rekabis 5y ago
You don’t. There are about a dozen major tipping points that are slowly coming together that will make the planet unlikely to support more than a billion or two - at best - by 2050. And likely no more than a few hundred million by 2100. B
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by rekabis 5y ago
If this trend keeps accelerating as it has been, most of the lower 48 will be largely uninhabitable and hostile to agriculture at scale by 2050 or 2060. Even large chunks of lower Canada will be similarly affected. I fear for the habitabili
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by rekabis 5y ago
One big WTF in my mind is the default lack of feedback with tarsnap. The -v should be implicit and automatic , and should need a flag to turn OFF, not on. I mean, that’s just UI/UX 101. _Always_ provide feedback on progress, unless ex
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by rekabis 5y ago
If you expect “high-skilled” workers to work for the minimum wage for that industry, or not much more, then it’s not a worker shortage, it’s a wage shortage. There was ferocious and copious competition for each and every well-paying job I h
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by rekabis 5y ago
The Chinese, in particular, have access to human organs and body parts at rates that are much higher than even opt-out organ donation countries (where organ donation after death is nearly 100% due to the opt-out nature of their system). Thi
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by rekabis 5y ago
I not only block images from loading, but I go a step further and default all eMails to plain-text display only. Which is really fun when a sender uses only HTML eMail, and has nothing at all for the plain-text portion. Those tell me that t
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by rekabis 5y ago
Except that in America, the political right has now joined the alt-right in a state of “high conflict”, and are not only _actively preparing_ for civil war, but in many cases are _actively pushing FOR it._ The political right believes it is
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by rekabis 5y ago
What mask debacle? Masks have been shown to be quite effective against aerosolized viruses, and the “5nm limit” has been shown to be a historical error of interpretation - droplets up to 100nm have been shown to be transmission vectors even
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by rekabis 5y ago
The fact that these SSDs have to “phone home” in order to do some of their tasks is what gives me the really big heebie-jeebies. Thanks, but no thanks. That’s about as bad as eMailing password reminders because you stored them in plaintext
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by rekabis 5y ago
No hardware Dvorak option? For shame. There are dozens of us! Dozens!
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by rekabis 5y ago
There is only one relatively easy, safe, cheap and responsive way of reducing atmospheric CO2 left to us: oceanic seeding with iron. Phytoplankton represent 80% of the carbon cycle, in terms of converting CO2 to O2. Problem is, they are res
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by rekabis 6y ago
> for witnessing a senior manager repeatedly mute the conference call to make racist remarks about overseas staff. This sounds like the perfect opportunity to have your phone in your shirt pocket such that the camera just barely peeks ab
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by rekabis 6y ago
Everything I have read appears to be entirely self-inflicted. Had he been working through a flesh-and-blood Dell salesperson in a meatspace storefront, at least fault could be placed at their feet. But no. Pretty well every single mistake a
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by rekabis 6y ago
So… a third-party service that you need to rely upon? Thanks but no thanks.
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by rekabis 6y ago
This is a genuinely nifty article, in how it goes into clear and well-explained details. With that said, sometimes it’s the fault of the shoelaces themselves. Loops that are too large (overly long shoelaces) can snag on items in the environ
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by rekabis 6y ago
The product’s naming conventions make me think this would have been an ideal post for the first of April. It certainly gave me a good chuckle. With that said, we need more independent web browsers. Good for them.
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by rekabis 6y ago
Anything will “sell” if it is at the right “price”. If it isn’t selling, it isn’t at the right price! Simply put, the market is what determines the wage employees will stick around for. The free market doesn’t give two shits about what any
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by rekabis 6y ago
The problem, I think, is the blanket assumption of no difference between professional landlords and those who are not. Which is to say, if your activities as a landlord bring in more than a small fraction of your income, or actually constit
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by rekabis 6y ago
> over the course of three days, he burned most of the books he had collected over his lifetime, one by one, in a barrel in his front yard. Oh, that _heathen._ There are better ways of disposing of unwanted books; a classifieds listing a
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by rekabis 6y ago
As a Canadian, I have zero problems with this setup. I have no problem paying a little more to ensure stable incomes for small farmers. I would rather see a dozen small farms with happy cows in the field, where the farmer personally knows e
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by rekabis 6y ago
The fact that you can buy Mein Kampf on eBay (along with thousands of things far more objectionable than a few children’s books) is what makes eBay’s actions that much more hypocritical and reprehensible. If eBay was already a place clean a
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by rekabis 6y ago
Does it come in stick? If not, then hard pass. I need the control that a dedicated stick and clutch pedal can give me. Using an automatic transmission - or worse, one of those fake-standards without a clutch pedal - is like trying to do bra
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by rekabis 6y ago
Matthew 6:5-8. If you are hurting from lack of in-person church activity, it’s not the religious aspect you are missing; it’s either the social or communal aspects, or both. Christianity was originally an entirely private and non-public, no

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