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by sobkas 4y ago
> Suppose you had a guy whose only job was to flip through millions of photos until he found someone he thought looked like the photo of the suspect. Would you accept his word as sufficient evidence to arrest someone? I certainly wouldn&
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by sobkas 4y ago
> I don't like it but without SA, what allies does the US even have in the area? > I wish Iraq would have turned out differently. US doesn't have allies, like every empire it has interests. Sometimes this interests overlap w
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by sobkas 4y ago
> He should start buying some cheap tools of his own (to start with) and do weekend/night jobs for himself. If he's working on 1.5m homes I guarantee you there are a ton of homeowners who need electrical jobs done. Get on Yelp,
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Yes, because they are liberal only by name not concept. Liberalism is based on tolerance and civil society as the space of freedom. Liberalism is no more. It was replaced by neoliberalism. Under it you have as many liberties as you can
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by sobkas 4y ago
> A lot of well meaning people are seriously damaging the country by injecting politics into spheres that the public broadly needs to perceive as “neutral” such as law and medicine. This is usually accompanied by efforts to reframe conte
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Playing devil's advocate, I'm honestly not sure how I'd behave if I dropped a $10 million personal fortune[1] (1986 dollars; $27.2 million buying power today) for controlling stake in a venture and execution wasn't
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Can we maybe focus on the technology and not ideology? It's not ideology to see that applying certain inventions in particular domains will bring more negative consequences than in the others. Even if former are more lucrative tha
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by sobkas 4y ago
Midnight Commander, I love it so much. It's easy to use, have nice command history, and for some reason I got into habit of using ESC+NUM instead of F-buttons(any ideas why, I myself don't remember why).
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Before that happens, the whole world would need to be under continual observation. Then we would have to realize that it always takes more people to observe the people than there are people to observe, and turn the eternal watch over t
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by sobkas 4y ago
> The thing is that prosecutors and courts are supposedly harboring some of the sharpest knives in the drawer, yet they cheerfully accept and often pass on BS at face value when it's expedient to do so. Court system have one basic g
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Even when applying to companies that are LGBTQ friendly? I sometimes self identify on applications if the company has a good reputation with that kind of thing because I’d expect It would give me some diversity points. But maybe that’s
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Because it sounds like OP was doing that: making something useful for the customers, just not for the other engineers. Hence the engineers couldn't vouch for the system and secure OP a promotion. For internal customers. Not real c
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by sobkas 4y ago
> I am not sure it is realistic to expect that all the good engineers never get promoted and that there would still be something good coming out over time. I have heard lots of stories about how the only real way to get promotion/re
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Of course we’d have code to cross-pollinate; an entire ecosystem of liberally licensed code exists. > The GPL absolutely prevents you from making your own derivative unless you adopt the same coercive, viral license. And what incent
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Well, the Russians weren't attempting to genocide a country/culture at the point that we contracted with the Russians. Do you really believe that Russia grown to be the biggest country on Earth by playing nice with natives? O
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by sobkas 4y ago
> When you hire an expert on a subject, listen to them about the subject. When someone hires an expert, they hire scapegoat to take all the blame for their mismanagement. As expert best you can do is to fix as much as you can, before shi
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Sounds like you just need to retire earlier (: > What's the alternative to investing in the US economy? Are you investing in foreign stocks? Gold? Cattle? A paramilitary organisation, so when governments finally collapse, you w
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by sobkas 4y ago
The beauty of Commodore 128D(CR) is astonishing. If only there were reproductions of this chassis and it was possible to cram modern (and rather beefy 7950X, so no dinky arm boards).
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by sobkas 4y ago
For example I use https://github.com/ergoemacs/ergoemacs-mode , with some commands that I have acquired as muscle memory from using Emacs/mg for long. And still I use nano when I need to do small edits to a file. I
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Tether's 'market cap' is like 60 billion or whatever, I think most of that was just created out of thin air, but I think some of it was exchanged for real dollars, like a few percent, maybe a couple of billion dollars. I
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by sobkas 4y ago
> My friend: "I can't pay my rent." > Me: "Whats your venmo". > 4 minutes later.... > My friend: "wtf I can't pay this back" > Me: "Good i don't do loans" > Put in the
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by sobkas 4y ago
>the defense finds experts defense finds nothing because it's a public lawyer and he barely can afford paper for photocopier, so no highly paid experts for you if you are poor
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Ending the crisis by creating housing supply is the way to stop exploiting the crisis. > If you stop "this one company" you'll just have someone else making profits and still have people homeless. And this new homes w
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Furthermore my understanding is they ushered in an amazing era of translation and learning where great state resources were directed to supporting linguistic, cultural and pedagogical achievement and were explicitly pluralistic in term
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by sobkas 4y ago
Nothing. If they want it open sourced they are not your target audience. Ignore them and continue advancing your app. You might get open source clone but if you are in niche market probability of getting a competent one are low.
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by sobkas 4y ago
> I'd feel proud about that. Whichever way you slice it, reducing work is good. Humans shouldn't waste their time doing stuff that robots or computers can do just as well. Problem is not reducing work, problem is that people ne
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by sobkas 4y ago
> Nah, legalize poacher hunting. Most dangerous game and such. Yeah that would totally not endanger(more than they already are) indigenous people living there. After all everyone knows how poachers look like.
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by sobkas 4y ago
I don't use ad blockers, I only block trackers. So if you want me to see your adds better not try to track me. If your site complaints about it, then I don't see any reason to use it.
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by sobkas 4y ago
You can use KoReader built in Calibre remote push, or you can try https://github.com/fsantini/KoboCloud/pull/35 There is working tgz but you will have to find it on your own.
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by sobkas 4y ago
>the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule But it doesn't use any of the above. It's just a factual description of conditions under which people enslaved by hunger live and how we* benefit from their misfortune. It&#x

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