shiroiushi

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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Exactly. A parasite would be a company that adopts an open-source solution, then "extends" it in an incompatible way, pushing their own proprietary extension that no one else is allowed to use.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Especially from someone who doesn't know all that much about the VPN business beyond seeing ads for it in some public locations and the very basics of what it is.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Netflix costs a lot more per month than 5 euros. Plus you can use the VPN for countless other things.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
NYC is one of the most expensive place in the world to live, so of course they need to spend more on students there. How much of that money actually goes to teacher salaries though? How much are teacher salaries there compared to other
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>NYC spends about $40,000/student >So, how much more money should we pour into DOEs to achieve better results? How much of that money is going to teacher salaries, and how much to administrator salaries? I'm hearing crazy
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Yes, the name is a corruption of a Chinese name for Japan. So what's your point? Japanese is not the same language as Chinese; it isn't even related linguistically other than borrowing part of its writing system. It's bas
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>Years later it still takes a week longer than it used to for my doctor to get blood work back because they are still short staffed. As they should be. Lots of American medical workers quit during and after the pandemic because the Amer
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Not necessarily; he might just mean that parents who did poorly in school are more likely to raise children who also do poorly in school. Some people and cultures value education, and some don't, and they tend to pass that on to their
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>I think a lot of racists (or race realists, depending on your perspective) are today a lot more concerned about the influx of southern natives than about the blacks. Don't forget, American Black people speak American English (albei
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
None of that stuff is going to happen. Just look at the recent election results: Americans don't want any of that stuff.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>Japan is roughly as close to Nippon as doitsu is to Deutsch. This is seriously ignorant. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Japan "The English word for Japan came to the West from early trade routes.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
While Japan indeed has only one national language, in practice it has many different dialects of that language which are not very mutually intelligible. I live here, any my girlfriend says she can't understand lots of people from vari
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
It's too bad there were never any good movies made about the code-talkers. There was one movie by John Woo, starring Nicholas Cage, named "Windtalkers", but it was terrible; coincidentally, I was just reading an article this
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
English speakers don't call anyone by their own name. "Japan" is another good example here. Interestingly, the Japanese term for other countries/languages are frequently much closer than the English versions. So whil
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
I'm sure they can find outsiders happy to review code contributions. Any decently-run OSS project would already do this, after all, so it wouldn't be hard to just contact them and find a person already active in that organization
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
A fair amount of the shittiness comes from people actively enabling that shittiness, such as by throwing large sums of money at fly-by-night companies selling products dependent on cloud services and then getting mad when the fly-by-night c
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
I hate to defend them, but at least with Philip Morris, they warn you outright that their products cause cancer, right on the package, yet people keep buying them anyway. (Yes, I know they had to be forced into this years ago by the govern
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>Corporations in particular have insulated themselves from any accountability whatsoever and there are literal serial killers who knowingly sold products and took actions that they knew would kill people who have never and will never see
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
There's a lot of comments coming out now that both he and his mother suffered from some kind of terrible chronic back pain, and he himself had some kind of surgery on his back and that he and his mother both had big problems with UHC i
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>the channel name and handle were updated on Monday following news of Mangione’s arrest to appear as if it belonged to the suspect. That channel on Monday posted a cryptic countdown video that said, “If you see this, I’m already under ar
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
People who are good at coding frequently aren't very good at teaching or lawyering.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
He sounds very confused, and reminds me of the kid who tried to shoot Trump.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Their picture quality was also much worse.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
"...terrible loss for ... the healthcare community" sounds like they're claiming that UHC actually provides healthcare, or is somehow integral to the provision of healthcare, and certainly seems to paint the company as a resp
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
That's understandable, but perhaps they could just give him an isolated PC, and let him pick some github projects he wants to clone, download those (after approval of course) and put them on the PC, let him work away on it for a while,
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>Both support the current private health insurance system that most people are angry about. Notably, Tim Walz (VP candidate) praised UHC in a press comment after the shooting: "a terrible loss for the business and health care commun
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
>If you want better healthcare you don't need to invent anything new or "disrupt systems of oppression". Just pick another country where it's working and do what they do. This is completely impossible. We're tal
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
Don't forget, the insurance company here (UHC) didn't bother to offer any reward at all.
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
It's not Dunning-Kruger, it's because engineers have a very black-and-white view of the world. When they're engineering something, either it works according to specs or it doesn't. Also, engineers tend to be more relig
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by shiroiushi 2y ago
It's too bad: they really should give prisoners like this computers with some limited access so they can work on coding projects. What else are they going to do with their time, after all? Perhaps they could spend it contributing to

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