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by sillystuff 3y ago
California was the leader in deregulation of their electric utilities. AB1890 was passed in 1996 deregulating California's electricity sector. The '90s deregulation directly led to an 800% increase in wholesale electricity prices
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by sillystuff 3y ago
You can reduce the chance of arsenic contaminated rice (and citrus), by avoiding crops grown in former cotton growing regions. An arsenic based pesticide was widely used on cotton crops, contaminating the soil. Texas rice and citrus are mu
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by sillystuff 3y ago
> You could put any MBA school trained flunkie in his position and the result will be the same. Most managers (at all levels) could be replaced with a Magic 8 Ball, and you would get similar results. Although, in some cases, consistency
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by sillystuff 3y ago
> The hardest part is that the majority of companies seem to have no idea how to comply with requests... It's generally incompetence, not malice. After many experiences of broken CCPA compliance I'm beginning to wonder if ther
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by sillystuff 3y ago
> What will work, very few rich people would ever allow: a graduated tax on every additional property you own. Own one house that you live in as your primary residence? Low property tax. Own 30,000 units? Massive tax bill that encourages
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by sillystuff 3y ago
And, the law, in its majestic equality, forbids kings and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread. (apologies to Anatole France)
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Everyone needs a phone for M-PESA (electronic money transfers are huge in E. Africa). In Kenya, I met people with multiple phones-- a phone for normal calling/texting on a cheaper provider, and one with Safaricom just for M-PESA (Safa
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Pixel phones let you re-lock the bootloader using your own signing keys. This is the feature that graphene requires pixel for. Also, the easiest phones to de-google are the google branded ones. I don't use graphene, but all my androi
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by sillystuff 3y ago
I agree with your major point, but just point of fact that 20% of Israel's military budget is from foreign military aid-- nearly all of that paid by US tax payers (although it was France that likely supplied Israel with the technology
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Do the AMD based Framework laptops support proper suspend to ram?
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Will the new judicial ruling in the Vizio lawsuit strengthen the GPL?(blog.tidelift.com)
233 points by sillystuff 3y ago|95 comments
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by sillystuff 3y ago
> Adding a bulk send option is easy. The problem is that you will then get 700 reply emails, each slightly different at which point you will be stuck. Legislative solutions i.e., default to "opt in" for data collection and &quo
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by sillystuff 3y ago
It is great that a free opt out service exists, but, "search for organization..." one-at-a-time deletion requests isn't much of an improvement over doing things fully manually. A way of handling bulk requests would be nice.
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by sillystuff 3y ago
There are 683 data brokers that either completed registration with the California Attorney General's office, or had incomplete registrations as of 2023 [1]. None of the removal services come close to covering all of them. If you live i
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Also, to turn off the (damn) sound effects in e25: install: libelementary-bin run, elementary_config ->audio settings settings->all -> preferences -> elementary configuration (can change colors, font scaling, turn off sound eff
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Depending on your local resolver, you possibly can provide DoH on localhost as well? I'm using unbound, and it was trivial to also provide DoH on localhost with a funky port, so 443 localhost remains available for other things (my mot
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by sillystuff 3y ago
I've run Enlightenment (E) since the 90's. Never had flames or any other BS like that. By default there are some animations (for things like desktop switching), but these are easy to turn off, and I always do. E maintains separa
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Postfix 25 years old today(marc.info)
112 points by sillystuff 3y ago|34 comments
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by sillystuff 3y ago
> Why would Israel do that. Boycott divestment and sanctions. Although, in Israel's case, just losing the multiple billions of dollars it receives every year from the U.S., and loss of its uniquely favored trading status with the EU
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by sillystuff 3y ago
It sounds like the initial compromise is easier than it should be, though (I can't believe that after 20 years of known issues of accepting a password hash as password equivalent in MS Windows, that MS is still making this mistake?!! &
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Even if you are sandboxing, you can do that with X. Just put the sandboxed app into a nested X server. Some sandboxing apps like firejail make it trivial to do this using xpra as the nested X server. I wish Wayland had been more ambitious
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by sillystuff 3y ago
You might want to read the wikipedia article linked as a citation in my original comment. The demographic numbers I cited came straight from that wikipedia article, and they do not agree with your "nearly-empty" claim.
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by sillystuff 3y ago
In the West Bank. And the violence by Zionist settlers (with tacit approval of the Israeli state) in the W. Bank against the Palestinians has only gotten worse since the attack by the Hamas Palestinian resistance forces in Gaza.
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by sillystuff 3y ago
You are simply cherry picking. In the context of addressing the UN, he had to exercise restraint to be taken seriously (it was not an entirely sympathetic audience, and in some cases, like the US, a hostile one)-- this does not negate his
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by sillystuff 3y ago
This would be a good start. Begin an honest conversation of the current situation, and how we got there. The closest thing to a just resolution, at this point, would be for Israel to allow Palestinians to return to their homes in what is n
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Israel is claiming that any male is a combatant. But, even if you accept such an insane definition of combatant, the majority of the casualties have been women and children. The GP is just spreading falsehoods to justify genocide. There i
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by sillystuff 3y ago
I address Mizrahi here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38576719 Zionism is and was a European project. Here is a challenge for you, name a single Mizrahi in a position of power in Israel; it is all Europeans.
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Israeli leaders have been quoted as saying they intend to erase Gaza, flatten Gaza, etc. Their top general has called Palestinian civilians "human animals". The PM has been quoting bible verse to justify genocide. There is no q
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by sillystuff 3y ago
Nelson Mandela has spoken out on the brutal oppression of the Palestinians by Israel[1]. His words are powerful, and worth reading. > To methis is one of the most abohorrent conflicts in earth in this day and age. He agrees with you. h
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by sillystuff 3y ago
The PA have no legitimacy with the majority of Palestinians especially in Gaza. Israel tried to ignore the vote that brought Hamas's political wing into power in Democratic elections in Gaza, and supported what was essentially a coup

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