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by secabeen 6y ago
The other weird thing about the standard RAID conversation is the assumption that every bit on your disk is equally valuable, and that losing a single bit is as catastrophic as losing an entire drive. Yes, RAID rebuilds are hard on a drive
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by secabeen 6y ago
All true, but not anywhere in line with your previous claim: >In some jurisdictions there may be 1000s of non-voting registered voters who have moved away, died, or never voted at all (automatically registered voters, etc.) The database
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by secabeen 6y ago
I'm not an expert in this, but I think that the evil VC game plan is to try to make their portal the default first stop when ordering food. If they can get to that point, then they can start transferring the profit from the restaurate
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by secabeen 6y ago
It may be easy to engage in Tax and UEI fraud, and they get away with it because the money has already left the country, but they do get detected, regularly. To follow your metaphor out, if this were happening with voting records, we'
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by secabeen 6y ago
The challenge with platforms is that they have big incentives to push small, regular updates and posts, to increase impressions. Thoughtful, considered content and engaged responses are lost in the noise.
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by secabeen 6y ago
The Adobe Cleaner Tools do a pretty good job: https://labs.adobe.com/downloads/acrobatcleaner.html?PID=408... https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-cloud/kb/cc-cleaner-tool-in...
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by secabeen 6y ago
The big question on Air vs Pro is what the thermal budget is. Generally, I've found that Airs will down-clock pretty quickly when running computationally intensive work for more than a minute or two. Pros have more ability to dissipa
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by secabeen 6y ago
> This comment denotes, strongly, the dissonance that occurs when talking about something so general. > It’s my opinion (as an infrastructure type) that centralised binary logging is an absolute necessity above 20 instances. > But
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by secabeen 7y ago
Which of these expenses do you think they should eliminate? https://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d18/tables/dt18_334.10.a...
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by secabeen 7y ago
> No amount of legal wrangling or tax-offsetting will defeat that. In fact, by increasing tax-offsets for public universities, the apparent price of the service supplied by public universities drops (relative to the market price), which
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by secabeen 7y ago
This is all true. The cost of research is high. And although there are some additional costs involved in educating a more broad student body, it's nothing compared to the disinvestment in higher ed by state governments. Here's
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by secabeen 7y ago
The air is a great machine if you don't need performance, until you suddenly do. I have a user with the top of the line air from like 2 years ago, and it won't run Zoom virtual desktops. Zoom just says the cpu is too slow. So p
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by secabeen 7y ago
Yep, I have a standing rule that I don't buy anything marketed by someone standing at my front door (I will make an exception for Girl Scout cookies). Someone at your front door is interrupting you, and creating a power imbalance leve
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by secabeen 7y ago
I don't think it matters even with all that stuff. The first time you email anyone, it's going to go to spam. Once you have established a mail flow, then it will continue. The best setup is to have them email you first, then yo
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by secabeen 7y ago
I'm thinking more like things like works councils, and other ways that the employees could play more of a role in running the company, rather than the adversarial setup we have now. Here's an article from 1981 that gives some bac
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by secabeen 7y ago
> During a test of a Zoom meeting with two users, one in the United States and one in Canada, we found that the AES-128 key for conference encryption and decryption was sent to one of the participants over TLS from a Zoom server apparent
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by secabeen 7y ago
A lot of the challenges come out of the specifics of the laws surrounding unions. They were written in a much rougher era, where corporations and unions were very much in direct opposition. If we could re-write those laws, we could open t
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by secabeen 7y ago
I've also noticed that if you order multiple items, and one of them has a short shipping time, they'll suddenly ship your other items that are waiting. Presumably if they're all at the same warehouse, and they're alread
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by secabeen 7y ago
> My ideal, would be a strong government that represents the interests of the People and defends them from the Elite and powerful. Related to this, its job would be to defend the Free Market from the Capitalists. (Where the "Free Ma
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by secabeen 7y ago
I'm not an MBA or Business expert, but I think the answer to #1 is probably the same answer to the question "why are big businesses often less innovative and nimble than small ones?" Common answers to this question are not-i
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by secabeen 7y ago
That is delightfully ridiculous.
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by secabeen 7y ago
Interesting. YKK is the highest-quality large manufacturer of zippers in the world. There is a correlation between the quality of a garment or zippered good and the presence of a YKK zipper.
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by secabeen 7y ago
The classic use is after a site redesign or migration to a new domain, due to organizational name change, or whatever. You don't want to break all of the incoming links that are out there, but you want people to get to the page they w
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by secabeen 7y ago
I haven't had that problem with BitWarden in testing, but I can't change to BW until they come up with some solution for having both a work and and personal vault. The ability to link-in your personal LastPass to your work LP wit
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by secabeen 7y ago
> I wonder why it never occurred to them that one of the primary considerations should be that if you've sent me over 3 notifications in the past 5 minutes, and I haven't checked, please fucking stop. Because sometimes reading
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by secabeen 7y ago
Roblox gets a lot of traction with young people right now.
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by secabeen 7y ago
Handling the payment processes was also a big win. When riding a traditional taxi, it was always a hassle to count out the cash, or scan the card and sign the receipt, etc. etc. There's a big win to just getting out of the car and de
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by secabeen 7y ago
While your property tax is high, property taxes in CA are generally low. See Prop 13. Also, feet-deep pot-holes? So how many cars are bottoming out each week? California's tax burden is ~9%, and within 1% of the median: https:/
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by secabeen 7y ago
The big question with any battery replacement is what the core credit is for the expended battery. If the battery costs $20k, but you get an $18k credit for surrendering the used battery, then it's not so bad. In theory, used car bat
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by secabeen 7y ago
The fundamental challenge of any universal health care system is that to cut our spending on health care to the level of other western industrialized countries will take $1 Trillion of annual revenue out of the existing system. There'

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