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by slantedview 2y ago
Kaiser had its own very sordid history of denying people mental healthcare which has led to deaths, fines by the state of California, and new legislation.
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by slantedview 2y ago
> Venezuela has no sanctions applied to it by the US Actually: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanctions_during_the_Venezuela...
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by slantedview 2y ago
No, because they are under heavy sanctions that threaten any country that dares trade with them. The origin of the sanctions goes back decades, to Cuba's land reform, where the government took back land from private corporations, such
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by slantedview 2y ago
Those things are not mp3s.
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by slantedview 2y ago
> but they lose customer (advertiser) confidence if the content isn't accurate The content isn't what it should have been, which is why the previous commenter rightly assumes that no editor looked at it.
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by slantedview 2y ago
Homeless people need housing, it's not rocket science. The rest of this proposal is fluff.
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by slantedview 2y ago
> I was seeing spam to one-off addresses as possible indications of a data breach For the uninformed, how does spam to an address on your domain indicate a breach of someone else's system?
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by slantedview 2y ago
The legal threat letter from the vendor is among the most insane examples I've read. They only consider something a valid vulnerability if the reporter can demonstrate they obtained the equipment through a legitimate recorded sale? Wha
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by slantedview 2y ago
> What would it take for the US to lift sanctions If you understand the origin of the sanctions against Cuba, you know the answer to this question is that the US wants control over Cuba and their resources.
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by slantedview 2y ago
> We have sanctions on Cuba for the same reason we have sanctions on Russia and Venezuela Many senior government officials over the years, including then Vice President Cheney, have plainly said that our interest in Venezuela is their oi
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by slantedview 2y ago
Relevant reminder that Cuba has been under a brutal economic embargo and sanctions regime by the US for decades, which is the primary driver of Cuba's economic situation. The sanctions began during an era of land reform that saw Americ
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by slantedview 2y ago
In general, you might cross reference with other object mapping libraries (including in other languages) to get ideas on how they approach this problem. Caching mappings is just one common strategy.
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by slantedview 2y ago
I'm curious if the author of Quartz has seen this proposal and could provide a comparison?
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by slantedview 2y ago
"The United Fruit Company (UFC), whose highly profitable business had been affected by the softening of exploitative labor practices in Guatemala, engaged in an influential lobbying campaign to persuade the U.S. to overthrow the Guatem
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by slantedview 2y ago
> it is somehow NATOs fault. NATO continued to expand right up to Russia's doorstep despite repeated promises not to, and refused to rule out expanding to Ukraine. Russia clearly called this out as a problem for years. Whether or no
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by slantedview 2y ago
> Chomsky, for some weird reason, chose to take Russia's side. This is a mischaracterization. He explained Russia's stated motivation for invading Ukraine, that it felt threatened by NATO's continual eastward encroachment
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by slantedview 2y ago
They refuted it based on select documents handed to them by OpenAI.
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by slantedview 2y ago
This headline should be _some_ records show.
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by slantedview 2y ago
Really cool - I'm looking forward to reading through this. Since you mention, Crafting Interpreters, how would you compare this guide to that?
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by slantedview 2y ago
These protests aren't about Hamas though. There are other protests about that, and surely those are valid. These protests are about Israel's campaign of what UN officials say is genocide. Most attempts to change the subject to Ham
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by slantedview 2y ago
Yes. Unless you can find a counter-example, it defies common sense, let alone, facts on the ground.
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by slantedview 2y ago
> Has anybody noticed that whenever the protests pop up. Major news outlets tend to spin them as some sort of haven for “anti-Semitism” or cite them as the “violent protests”. Yes. The reason for this is that people who oppose the protes
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by slantedview 2y ago
> where the most prominent voices in the movement support Hamas This is absolutely not true. This is a perception being spread by the media who don't like the attention being drawn towards the US' complicity in potential war cr
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by slantedview 2y ago
> They have no policy. They have no plan for governing; they don't like governing. > This is an unfair analysis, and is either naive at best or disingenuous at worst. It's fair given that the party literally produced no plat
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by slantedview 2y ago
Get out of consulting and get into product development. It's much better.
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by slantedview 3y ago
Is the test setup for this available anywhere? I’d love to compare performance against our existing load shedder.
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by slantedview 3y ago
It wasn't in this post, but it was a separate rumor that the site would be deleted. This sounds crazy, but is exactly what other digital publications have done recently.
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by slantedview 3y ago
You think Apple should allow other people to enroll in find my for your device?
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by slantedview 3y ago
Even in normal times, Microsoft does stack ranking. It's not great.
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by slantedview 3y ago
Strikes are generally non violent, and the majority of times that they become violent, it's instigated by strike breakers hired by the company (including police). There is over a hundred years of history of this - plenty for you to rea

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