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by smsm42 3y ago
I think the genius in this scheme is that it doesn't show up as debt anywhere in the papers, and they can whine that evil capitalists are gouging the poor citizens while enjoying the money that seemingly came out of nowhere. And simult
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by smsm42 3y ago
I'm not sure why it's insane. It makes it more like a loan than a risky investment, and with 3.2% return one must be crazy to take the deal without some kind of guarantees. I mean if you are promised a 3.2% APY investment and then
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by smsm42 3y ago
Selling of leases is a traditional way to pad budgets short-term, and then whoever did it retired and it becomes somebody else's problem. If you budget is leaking and you urgently need $BIG_BUCKS to plug it, just sell a 75-year lease a
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by smsm42 3y ago
Well, "the money" already went to the city, and has been spent. Whether it has been on "publicly beneficial cause" or not is for Chicago voters to decide, but the investors already put the money in, and Chicago already s
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by smsm42 3y ago
Worth watching for whom though? The critics have no idea what my tastes are. But I am pretty sure they are different from a film critic - I don't even know anyone who is a film critic or who knows anyone who is a film critic (and is no
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by smsm42 3y ago
> That is the power of solidarity: when the high profile actors say they'll go on strike to get AI banned, their voice will be heard If you think there is a world possible where there is a working AI generating technology that can p
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by smsm42 3y ago
Poisoning people is exactly what FSB is known for.
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by smsm42 3y ago
Yeah a mistake like working for an insane dictator known for murdering people who crossed him. Common thing, could happen to anyone.
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by smsm42 3y ago
It is true that there are "twins" but they are not the commonly foraged ones. Common ones are quite easily distinguished from the poisonous ones, and those that have bad twins, the twins also taste pretty bad (extremely bitter, et
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by smsm42 3y ago
Mushrooming is common, poisonings are quite rare, because there is no reason to take mushrooms you don't know - there are enough ones that are clearly good and you can easily throw out anything which is even a little doubtful. Common
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by smsm42 3y ago
So your claim is that when the FDA says this: > ISPs could alternatively roll such discretionary fees into the base monthly price, thereby eliminating the need to itemize them on the label. they are lying and flat rate pricing is prohib
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by smsm42 3y ago
> ISPs could alternatively roll such discretionary fees into the base monthly price, thereby eliminating the need to itemize them on the label. That's right from the article. I don't know what "people" want, I just wa
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by smsm42 3y ago
I don't need to know how the sausage is made, I just need to know how much does it cost. If I'm given a fixed all included price upfront, I don't care how much of if goes where inside of ISP. Now, if they quote me one price
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by smsm42 3y ago
They don't have to pass on the fees, it's their choice. Too hard? Charge fixed price, eat the fees and save the troubles. Want to nickel and dime instead? Disclose it then.
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by smsm42 3y ago
As a remote worker, given the choice I'd probably choose to go to the office 1-2 days a week and work remotely for the rest (I worked like that before and it was fine). Occasionally, being in the same room is very helpful. It's no
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by smsm42 3y ago
"just following orders" implies doing something inherently immoral, but refusing to take responsibility and laying it on higher authority. Nothing like that is happening here. RTO is not inherently immoral - while I prefer remote
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by smsm42 3y ago
Called by whom? Two dudes in Berkeley? Never heard anything like that.
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by smsm42 3y ago
> If the social order is racist, then these laws will be used to preserve racism That's a very convenient "if". I just declare social order is racist, so the laws no longer apply to me and any lawless action I take instead
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by smsm42 3y ago
Please check out: https://www.cve.org/ProgramOrganization/CNAs
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by smsm42 3y ago
Looks like cURL team is not in the list of CNAs: https://www.cve.org/PartnerInformation/ListofPartners - maybe they should be. The measure of the last resort for bad CVEs is https://cveform.mitre.org/
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by smsm42 3y ago
As far as I know, there's no "CVE grading people". The submitter of the CVE decides on the severity. You probably can appeal to MITRE folks if it's hilariously inaccurate but I think that's how it mostly works.
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by smsm42 3y ago
It used to be that anybody could issue CVE for anything, which lead to some pretty bad CVEs. But now there's a CNA program in place, and has been for several years, where the organization can register as a CVE source for a product or a
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by smsm42 3y ago
It's more like panhandling. They don't have anything to threaten with, the most they have is some minor complaint on a test scan, like Apache version being reported by some server, so they just try to score some money for nothing.
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by smsm42 3y ago
It's not unique to India, they are everywhere. The best thing is just ignore them, usually once they are sure there's no money to be made here, they move on quickly.
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by smsm42 3y ago
If somebody is using a laser in a protest, we can be pretty sure they're not doing it to highlight the main points in their powerpoint presentation "How to Peacefully Protest for Fun And Profit". Trying to blind cops & he
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by smsm42 3y ago
It violates the rights of other people to free movement and causes them economic damages. It may also lead to catastrophic consequences if emergency vehicles are blocked (happened many times) and since the highway is a common property, regu
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by smsm42 3y ago
There are time, place and manner restrictions on assembly. If you decide to peacefully assembly in the middle of a major highway, the police will be there to explain that to you pretty soon.
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by smsm42 3y ago
So your point is the laws prohibiting people from blocking major traffic highways are racist and should be abandoned, and people should be granted free pedestrian access to the highways, while driving should not be performed on them at all?
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by smsm42 3y ago
If you are disruptive to the point of violating the law, then you should get arrested. That's the point of having laws. It's not "it's normally the law but if you feel your thing is important enough to violate the law, t
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by smsm42 3y ago
McDonalds sells billions of hamburgers, but you don't see any Michelin stars on it.

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