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by scottyah 10mo ago
USA has many different people and most try hard allow everyone to speak their mind. That is what is being preserved for others- the ability to escape oppression (that seems to just be a built-in human thing), no matter where you are.
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by scottyah 10mo ago
As long as starlink isn't forced to geofence an area, anyone can buy a terminal anywhere and smuggle it in as any other drug or contraband. The mini's are about the same size as a laptop
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by scottyah 10mo ago
Isn't it crazy how the media can do that? It really doesn't matter how much good you do in the world if your enemies speak louder. At least in the public's perception.
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by scottyah 10mo ago
It's how you use the tool that matters. Some people get bitter and try to compare it to top engineers' work on novel things as a strawman so they can go "Hah! Look how it failed!" as they swing a hammer to demonstrate it
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by scottyah 10mo ago
I think they are similar to FedEx. FedEx knows that millions of packages per day are transporting illegal goods, any bad enough accident shows it. However, FedEx would absolutely go bankrupt if they tried to open every package and make sure
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by scottyah 10mo ago
To be fair, working late doesn't have quite the same effect when nobody is going to judge you for not coming in on time or at all the next day.
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by scottyah 10mo ago
If you ever get to talk to people who are more than laborers trading time for dollars, it is great fun. When dollars are just one of the many rewards from their career (where a person spends like 80% of their life energy), you get to hear a
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by scottyah 10mo ago
Same! I love the pregnant pause after "What do you do..." as they start to mentally draw up their usual work spiel before adding the "...for fun" to flip the conversation around and actually get their brain thinking and
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by scottyah 10mo ago
Define foundational? The concept was heavily discouraged and only came about from personal feuds between Hamilton and Jefferson. They were never included in any official founding documents and Washington was right about them leading to &quo
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by scottyah 10mo ago
I am very much in the same boat. I still browse every now and then, and now it feels like I can spot a redditor from two opinions/values in a conversation. It's definitely turned more mainstream and more indoctrinating. If Fox New
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by scottyah 10mo ago
It's just a cat and mouse game. Some intern comes up with a brilliant way to shaft people, a VP takes that idea and forces devs to work overtime on it, it generates a lot of revenue (and fat bonus for the VP), then the lawyers on both
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by scottyah 10mo ago
We already live in a world where we don't let companies behave in the most abject ways possible. You just want to force your own values on everyone, and we've already seen that people are at odds with them. You replied to someone
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by scottyah 10mo ago
Yes, they've always had a model of "people in the know" being subsidized by others. Didn't pre-print out your ticket? 100 euro fine. Your bag is too large at the gate? Same thing. It's the airline of Compound Intere
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by scottyah 10mo ago
True, I think these things are hard because they don't scale easy. You really need some passionate "boots on the ground" for it to work, you can't just send money over and have it work out most of the time. Finding the p
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by scottyah 10mo ago
Yes, especially for a short flight I do not have high expectations. I don't want to be charged an extra $10 so I can get a "free" half sized water bottle or tea hat's been brewing since the late 90s. I don't need ex
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by scottyah 10mo ago
Did they eliminate the competition because people chose them over the other providers, or are they the only option because no other airline chose to offer that flight segment?
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by scottyah 10mo ago
This is the true advantage of a competitive marketplace, your parent commenter votes yes to dark patterns where the person who can dodge them wins, and you vote for honest, open checkouts for a higher price. Luckily, you two don't have
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by scottyah 10mo ago
It is something odd about their branding or something, because people's perceptions do not match the reality. Somehow everyone knows Temu is going to be highly likely to sell you very cheap stuff, and it's ok because the expectati
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by scottyah 10mo ago
hooray for technology! Multiple lifetimes of thousands of the most brilliant engineers collaborating, sharing algorithms, protocols, mining, smelting, developing tooling to create tiny rocks that can think and blasting them to hover over th
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by scottyah 10mo ago
It's heavy, I'd say sqlite3 close to the client and postgres back at the server farm is the combo to use.
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by scottyah 10mo ago
There are plenty of GUIs for managing kubernetes, from k9s to redhat's Openshift gui, rancher, Lens, etc
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by scottyah 10mo ago
If I had money, I'd start to set up free after-school tutoring/play areas. I'd love to open a new business of a dog park that sells coffee in the morning, and beer in the afternoon/evening. A small amount of nice worksta
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by scottyah 10mo ago
If you're willing to take the paycut, there are still plenty of software-based jobs where you're still slowly building useful things.
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by scottyah 11mo ago
yup
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by scottyah 11mo ago
I sleep better at night thinking it is just a battleground of astroturfing bots fighting each other (at least on the main pages). Everything from massive Russian state-actor bot farms testing newly trained LLMs popping out AI-generated meme
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by scottyah 11mo ago
I started out very anti-ai at work, and I still think it was reasonable at the time. I have completely changed my mind now (as models have improved drastically), and I think you now need to provide a valid excuse for NOT using it in some wa
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by scottyah 11mo ago
It's the semantics of "can", where it is used to suggest feasibility. When I moved and got a new commute, I still "could" bike to work, but it went from 30min to an hour and a half each way. While technically possib
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by scottyah 11mo ago
I think it's the same problem as the past administration and most members of congress- they're just too old to care about 50yrs from now. I don't think they're actively against the 50yr+ future, it's just that the w
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by scottyah 11mo ago
huh well TIL, thank you. My definitions of Sports Utility Vehicle are outdated. They have almost no clearance, and the suspension is not tuned for anything more than small washboards.
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by scottyah 11mo ago
No, they're crossovers. Closer to a hatchback.

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