shigawire

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by shigawire 8mo ago
Still migrating an enterprise app off WPF to this day.
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by shigawire 8mo ago
>There's not much pushback for social security, for instance, even if minorities get it. The racist moral panic over "welfare queens" seems to be a counter example.
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by shigawire 8mo ago
>I'm not qualified to know who will make a good president. You probably aren't either. Pushing the process further into American Idol territory would make it worse, not better. I reject this premise. I'm not omniscient but
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by shigawire 8mo ago
There could be a world where mineral supplies are exhausted/inaccessible to the point that extraterrestrial metals are needed to maintain the supply chains we need to feed billions of people. Edit to say - that's probably a long w
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by shigawire 8mo ago
I think it is more externally driven as well, a prisoners dilemma. I don't want to keep crapping out questionable features but if competitors keep doing it the customer wants it -- even if infrastructure and bug fixes would actually ma
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by shigawire 9mo ago
Was it US customs or the Canadian TSA equivalent? US customs were less friendly in my limited experience.
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by shigawire 9mo ago
I'm not sure that is true at all. I think the sleepwalkers are just as likely to blame immigrants, foreigners, <insert out group> and continue to hand the current regime more power.
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by shigawire 9mo ago
I'm not sure. If he called them "Freedom Taxes" or "Patriot Taxes" or "Foreigner Taxes" I'm sure the base would have supported them.
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by shigawire 9mo ago
And reporters are not allowed to ask questions of the people inside. And the voting public wouldn't care if those questions were ignored anyway.
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by shigawire 9mo ago
>WTF is wrong with these social apps!?!? Who wants to chat on a tiny screen when they have a computer available. Especially for local apps that function only when you're home. I agree with you personally... But at this point it is c
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by shigawire 9mo ago
Jodel seemed to hurt itself badly with unskippable video ads, at least within the local community I am in that used to have a niche group of users. Similarly, in the US YikYak was also popular at colleges but killed itself by forcing user a
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by shigawire 9mo ago
>Personally, I think Iran is ignored more because Palestine is sucking all the air out of the room than anything else, especially with all the graphic videos/photos. >Sudan on the other hand... there's really no excuse for i
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by shigawire 10mo ago
>How much worse could you get from a society where 80% of people are living in extreme poverty and where in a good year inflation is 250%? That plus a power vacuum. So maybe Haiti?
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by shigawire 10mo ago
The heuristic is that it would be in their interest to trumpet their successes.
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by shigawire 10mo ago
The only plausible avenue I see is Gemini ingesting Google press releases about how cool their AI is. Leave it to the reader to decide how informative that would be.
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by shigawire 10mo ago
Slap Brandon Sanderson in there and they'll be done in 2 years.
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by shigawire 10mo ago
I'm biased since I work for Epic but this part is just not true: >Epic controls who can access this data, when they can access it, and the terms by which they can access it — despite the simple fact that it is the hospitals’ and pat
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by shigawire 10mo ago
Sometimes you just need to move trash around with low accuracy... In that case the excavator swarm is good enough.
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by shigawire 11mo ago
To me it seems crazy to legislate that the UI of software you have licensed cannot change.
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by shigawire 11mo ago
This is a good point and is why I prefer to refer to the genre as Speculative Fiction - not only is it broader but it better gets at the idea behind this type of fiction. Not just space lasers.
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by shigawire 11mo ago
I think I'm asking for the impossible here... But is anyone trying to hedge risk in their personal finances? I'm not a real "investor" (index funds only) but I am feeling more willing to forgo gains to be more risk avers
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by shigawire 11mo ago
The Dems have the progressive caucus primarying moderate candidates constantly. The GOP has Massey and Paul
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by shigawire 11mo ago
Some indicators suggest that, but we don't really know until the rubber meets the road. The real test is how people vote. With this much confusion I think it is perfectly valid to take a few opinion polls with a grain of salt. Much lik
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by shigawire 11mo ago
If you are waiting for the output as an indication that a task completed and you never see that output you may think the task is still running but it is actually done. Has happened to me quite a few times.
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by shigawire 11mo ago
That's an opinion... All multiplayer games are bad.
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by shigawire 1y ago
According to many on this site. All taxation is theft. This desensitize me to this argument.
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by shigawire 1y ago
Seems like this is talking about not allowing the US to own the deposits or processing - as opposed to not selling the output to the US? Anyone know if that is correct?
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by shigawire 1y ago
You should not be posting here if you think that is a serious suggestion. Go play Civ or something
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by shigawire 1y ago
It's because the US clearly is the main supporter of Israel who is the Goliath in that conflict. In Sudan the US is not clearly propping up one side. People are reasonably more mad in the US about Gaza since their taxes directly fund
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by shigawire 1y ago
You seem to think your experience is universal.

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