ruthmarx

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by ruthmarx 2y ago
A laptop lets you leave your work at your desk and have entertainment on the go at the same time.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Graphene might be great, but the Google specific hardware that is the only thing it will run on might not be as trustworthy.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Why could this be? latest iOS? Regional difference?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> For example, in a city, only the mayor and its advisers are elected, and they do not have any control over the administration of the city. But the administration cannot refuse to work with a specific mayor. The mayor can still dictate
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Have you never worked at a large company? People don't always have their billable hours fully booked.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> exactly correct. No it isn't. What nonsense. Cities have been doing things themselves all around the world for decades because it generally makes more sense. > Nowhere in this loop should a city be keeping employees on hand in
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> city lacks external motivators like "competition" which drive increased efficiency / reduced cost. Which is negated by the city not trying to make a profit and marking up the cost.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> it is almost certainly neither cheaper nor faster to do so yourself, even if you have experience baking bread. You are severely underestimating how much a company will mark up the cost to make a profit. > Do you make your own cloth
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Not at all. Assuming a city has a mix of people with database, web and security experience is perfectly reasonable. You can definitely find someone capable enough to run manage the project, and as I said what needs to can still be outsource
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Because they have bake muffins, pizzas, cakes, pancakes, pasta and pies regularly. Turns out when you have experience in the general area of baking bread, learning to bake bread isn't that hard.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
It's not that hard is the basic answer. They have plenty of people with IT experience capable of managing the project to develop and in house implementation. Even outsourcing what they need to will be cheaper than going with what a com
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> That's... not how it works. If often is. Organizations with preexisting staff and knowledge frequently implement things instead of outsourcing. > Experience and existing infrastructure and solutions actually matter, and can mak
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
That's just true for people in general, nothing specific to capitalists.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
No, it's with both. Enforcement should be relative to the problem.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> which means the city would need to pay above the existing wage for those people, since they're _already_ employed and would have no incentive to jump. What? I'm talking about salaried employees already working for the city. &
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Capitalism ho! The problem is inept government, not capitalism.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
First with a social credit score most likely.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Speeding is a major safety problem Fines are even more lucrative relative to the extent that speeding is actually a problem.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
They could draw from a lot of people already employed, and they have no incentive to mark up the price.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
A city should be capable of rolling its own competently at less cost than it takes to engage Cubic to do so. Cubic is setting things up real nice to have exact data about a lot of peoples travels in cities all around the world. That could
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you are at a birthday in Ecuador. It's amazing! The same as if you just used a website or extension to play random youtube videos?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I work at an ayahuasca retreat center In peru?
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
The info will be made public eventually. There is no reason it need be public immediately.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Just my thoughts—your mileage may vary. Curious if anyone else feels the same way? I sure do. The default MacOS interface, to me, feels like it's for children. It's too much work to use it for serious work. These days I&#x27
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
So they've given up on hardware and are now looking for insecure phones to try and access banking apps. Interesting.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I know mobile networks keep lists of stolen devices, but they can't be used at all? Like all possible recovery modes demand authentication? Newer phones for, I want to say maybe the last 5 years, yeah. If it's turned off and
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Are thieves really even stealing phones anymore? You can't pawn or sell them anymore because they can't just be reset and setup with a new account, batteries are becoming impossible to remove...all you can really take is the scree
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
Savvy thieves would just use a faraday cage case/bag I guess.
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> I have to confess I really don't see the appeal of edge workers in general outside of specific applications where latency is of high concern. Such applications do exist, of course, but this kind of offering is treated so generally
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by ruthmarx 2y ago
> Preventing exfiltration of any data outside of the downloads dir. Except for all the data it needs access to. I'm not so sure torrent programs will continue to function correctly if they can't re-read their config file, in my

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