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by saxonww 6y ago
Well the simple answer is that they do contribute something back. Payroll taxes fund social security, medicare, and federal unemployment insurance. And of course they contribute indirectly by paying wages so that people can buy things and w
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by saxonww 6y ago
I have less of an excuse not to be more personally productive, but I can't help anyone else (easily) if my primary method of communication is down. Not only because it's harder to contact you, but also because it's impossible
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by saxonww 6y ago
Think about this alongside the network layering models (e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model ). A pi-hole operates (usually) by intercepting DNS requests and returning bogus results if the request is for a known
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by saxonww 6y ago
Adding some context: in Steam on Linux, you can right click on a Windows game you've installed and in the properties, you can select various alternative runtimes for the game. If you select a compatible Proton runtime, then you are abl
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by saxonww 6y ago
This is not true, they publish the code at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab . If you want to use premium features, you do have to pay to unlock them, and depending on your deployment you would need to get the gitlab
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by saxonww 6y ago
I immediately wondered if the controversial Manifest V3 changes would render this a non-issue. https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/338 https://developer.chrome.com/extensions&
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by saxonww 6y ago
The original 4-clause BSD had an advertising clause that is basically what you're asking for. It was considered impractical.
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by saxonww 6y ago
Because it's not about being able to say what they want on a particular platform, it's about saying what they want where everyone else will hear it. A lot of people look at this issue and see two groups fighting over it. There are
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by saxonww 6y ago
First: I apologize for not reading your original post closely enough. I agree that "curl | sh" is no worse than "git clone && make"; I think both are terrible. I will say that I can't recall ever seeing anyo
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by saxonww 6y ago
It's much worse. At least with `git clone` you can verify that the code you're building matches something you trust. You have to trust the code and your make tool. You can inspect the code if you're concerned and validate tha
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by saxonww 6y ago
If it never changes, generating the headers during the build is just wasted time for whoever/whatever is running that build.
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by saxonww 6y ago
I'm seeing slow performance switching/joining channels, and it's not clear whether DMs or @mentions are working consistently. Messages I send are frequently coming back as 'could not send message'. I'm not deli
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by saxonww 6y ago
Not a poor solution, but one that was likely to (edit: administration feared would) result in lawsuits.
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by saxonww 6y ago
You realize that microwave is doing ACR on everything you cook, and selling it to your insurance company, right? (Sorry HN)
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by saxonww 6y ago
Every job application I have ever filled out asked whether I had been convicted of a felony. All the way back to my first job bagging groceries.
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by saxonww 6y ago
Relevant to this discussion: Compaq had to reverse-engineer the IBM PC BIOS instead of just copying it because of this decision involving... Apple Computer : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Frankl
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by saxonww 6y ago
I had no idea what Ruqqus is/was, apparently it's a game community site. The other threads right next to this one are people making fun of 'lefties'. I'm guessing those are not about handedness; I expect this is abo
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by saxonww 6y ago
This has not been my experience, at least not flying domestically in the US. In order to get to the gate, I have to get past TSA and the security checkpoint, which involves presenting my boarding pass and ID to an agent. If I've not ch
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by saxonww 6y ago
Isn't this just an actual use of the RealID for its (purported) intended purpose? Don't get me wrong: I don't like this at all, and I think the TSA is at best worthless, but this seems like a complaint that the inevitable hap
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by saxonww 6y ago
Having arbitrarily many segments is an improvement. In particular, we have some tooling that depends on a calculated image name, and we have to pre-pull and rename images locally if we store those in GitLab's registry. I think for an E
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by saxonww 6y ago
It's not immediately clear from their documentation, but do they enforce a naming scheme on images pushed to the registry? This is an annoyance with the GitLab Container Registry, which mandates that the repository part of the image na
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by saxonww 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chicken_and_the_Pig
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by saxonww 6y ago
Having worked for a company producing software like this, the EHR and Practice Management/Billing components were essentially separate products. Analytics was separate as well. Those were the three big tentpoles, and they would all tal
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by saxonww 6y ago
RTGs are only really useful with particular elements; plutonium is used because it emits a lot of heat for a very long time. People freak out about plutonium. I think these betavoltaic cells can use elements which are less likely to get peo
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by saxonww 6y ago
These aren't RTGs though, they are betavoltaic. Instead of using thermocouples to capture part of the decay heat (of plutonium, in Voyager's case), they generate current from beta particles hitting a semiconductor.
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by saxonww 6y ago
The MIT Press site implies there might be a Kindle edition for this, but the Amazon store page doesn't mention one. It also offers etextbook rental, but the link goes to a page with no options for that afaict. I see where there are epu
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by saxonww 6y ago
That may happen here in some areas, but it doesn't happen anywhere I've lived. Garbage collection in the US is increasingly mechanized, with trucks grabbing cans and dumping the bagged trash into a hopper vs. a person handling the
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by saxonww 6y ago
This is very similar to what's done today for car batteries in most of the US: you pay a deposit or core charge when buying a new battery, and it's refunded when you return the old one for recycling. https://batterycoun
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by saxonww 6y ago
Edge supports PlayReady in addition to Widevine. PlayReady is what gates the higher quality stream. No idea what the technical reason is for this.
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by saxonww 6y ago
> Also, Medicare/Medicaid are cheaper primarily because they pay providers a lot less than private insurers for the same service. Do you have numbers to back this up? I'm not saying you're wrong, but my mom worked for a GP

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