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by rhizome 6y ago
> More cynically, would these companies be able to distribute work such that rides are given to drivers with more "buffer" before hitting these ACA payouts? We already know the answer to this, from how Walmart and others sched
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by rhizome 6y ago
No matter the nuances, the 7/8th modification provision is a deal-breaker, period. It casts the whole measure in a crooked light, which history advises us should come as no surprise.
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by rhizome 6y ago
That's the stock-juicing story, but self-driving cars were never going to work. At least not in time to support the company in that way.
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by rhizome 6y ago
This is essentially the argument -- I believe I read it from Steve Albini originally -- for the benefits of analog recording: digital files are always going to be reproduced at whatever bitrate and sampling rate the file was created with (n
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by rhizome 6y ago
Ah, nice. I've been looking for something with which I can sniff my phone's activity, and that provides all of the keywords. And $20 ain't bad neither.
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by rhizome 6y ago
You don't use static IPs for managing systems?
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by rhizome 6y ago
Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash have a chance to offer a more nuanced solution, too.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Facebook lays it out plainly: "Facebook's mission is to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together. People use Facebook to stay connected with friends and family, to discover what's going on
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Anonymity just isn't done anymore. Passive voice alert! By whom? Site/app producers can, with certain exceptions, choose to allow anonymity.
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by rhizome 6y ago
If that's the cause of biweekly outages, shouldn't they be building or acquiring more capacity? I realize complexity plays a role in the rate at which capacity can be added to the system, but every two weeks is very frequent for
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by rhizome 6y ago
It's kind of funny how philosophy is the only topic that gets this kind of analysis. What is the purpose of music? Perhaps most famously (after philosophy): what is the purpose of astronomy?
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by rhizome 6y ago
Who is suggesting "opening the borders to all comers?" Honest question.
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by rhizome 6y ago
The issue isn't "unchecked" migration and a yes/no checkbox on a "livable" wage, you're making a category error and implying every anti-immigrant trope of the past 150 years. Your comment serves as an atte
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by rhizome 6y ago
I'm still running an Ath 64 x2 6000+ for a web server, I think it's from about 2006. That with an old hard drive are running 120W, which would be nice to hack down. I don't remember if I jumped straight to this from my Pentiu
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by rhizome 6y ago
These days, long shore workers are pretty much under the umbrella of stevedores. Another synonym? Docker.
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by rhizome 6y ago
I think it's the kind of mix of inside-baseball and jargon that makes it pretty much impossible to decode for those not involved in creating annual reports and executive summaries.
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by rhizome 6y ago
If you loosen your sense of "MBA"... - Rometty (Chair): Technical degrees, held technical positions for first 10yrs at IBM, then in sales for the 90s, two decades working primarily with finance customers and she worked the PWC acq
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by rhizome 6y ago
There's no reason I shouldn't be able to go to the cookie policy services like OneTrust themselves and opt out of every one of their customers forever.
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by rhizome 6y ago
Once upon a time, we were going to have a Do Not Track setting in our browsers...
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by rhizome 6y ago
I think "enjoy" is the wrong standard to use for David Lynch.
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by rhizome 6y ago
If you're doing what I do when I do something like that, the problem with that method is that it's extremely time-consuming.
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by rhizome 6y ago
The Republicans want one type of change to section 230, which would prevent the suppression of conservative-adjacent voices. On the other hand, the Democrats would like the opposite: greater responsibility of the platform to limit racist,
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by rhizome 6y ago
> Repealing it would only lead to more restrictions on what people can post. ...which so far appears to be necessary. Sure, FB announced yesterday that they are banning "LOL voting machines steal ur 401K" ads, but all of these
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by rhizome 6y ago
These are crimes against humanity that should result in convictions and prison sentences for the entire chain of command/management, up to and including Chad Wolf. Personally, I would like to abolish the death penalty, but as the sayin
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by rhizome 6y ago
How do you propose to determine that a new, never-seen-before URL hosts child porn? In the US, viewing child porn is a strict-liability offense, meaning you are guilty of a serious felony just by looking at a page with the image(s) on it. T
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by rhizome 6y ago
How did you access search terms used to find the site(s)?
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by rhizome 6y ago
I'd like to see what real-world examples you're thinking of when you write this, because the line of reasoning you're pursuing in this part of the thread looks to me more like a terminally cynical description of having a soci
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by rhizome 6y ago
I don't know that "full of" is a fair estimate, but the mechanisms that allow oversight agencies to be limited by whomever is in office at the time (see: USA) should be eliminated. There also seems to be emerging transnationa
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by rhizome 6y ago
Ah, this must be why they added the ridiculous complication to taking screenshots.
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by rhizome 6y ago
This is how you do that: Conflict-free Replicated Data Types (<a href="...">CRDT</a>) ...then you use "CRDT" for the rest of the document.

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