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by splithalf 6y ago
Or Microsoft is failing. Why would any semi informed person expect our government to be competent at cyber security? Why is more government the answer to every question? Isn’t that how we find ourselves here in the first place?
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Cost savings for carriers and more precise tracking of users for marketing and other purposes.
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by splithalf 6y ago
The 4 options is already 3 lies too many. You want more?
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Peer review is “social media.”
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by splithalf 6y ago
Fire retardants in general are pretty terrible. Great example of unintended consequences of overzealous regulation. Now we don’t have fires but are killing ourselves with pfoas on our pillows, mattresses evetthing.
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by splithalf 6y ago
You’re right. I misread the original to be general criticism of open source, but the author made his statement specific to FreeBSD release 13. “Neither Netgate's responses, FreeBSD Core's, nor the off-record responses we heard fro
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by splithalf 6y ago
To say nothing of the universities.
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by splithalf 6y ago
People talk about the lump of labor fallacy but never the lump of real estate fallacy. It is as though land were a finite resource. I know that’s a deeply unpopular opinion.
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by splithalf 6y ago
Not netapp and I don’t use or endorse their products. I just don’t like angry mobs or journalism that uses angry mobs as a business model. Too much anger and retribution in the world, not enough forgiveness or compassion. If this code was u
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by splithalf 6y ago
Ars seems to be calling all open source software insecure. I’m not saying they are wrong but what’s the value in their article? Is it gotcha journalism, or are they warning us not to trust bsd based systems in general. The article starts
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by splithalf 6y ago
I’m with you and personally dislike guns to a degree that many find weird but I think the issue is that gun violence is illegal in the first place and so making laws seeking to prevent it is ineffective at best and really just smacks of l
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by splithalf 6y ago
This still occurs.
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by splithalf 6y ago
Can’t think of many recent movies that portray pedophilia in a sympathetic light but I’m not a big movie guy. To me, it seems a sort of puritanical zeitgeist operates cyclically (inquisition, Salem, mccarthy, dr Seuss) and we might be near
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by splithalf 6y ago
Can’t imagine his films being accepted in today’s cancel culture, for sure, but never thought of them as conservative per se, anti-Marxist maybe.
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Couldn’t find the paper but I believe it was from NBER or one of the feds. It looked at how graduate school impacted wealth accumulation over the lifespan and found that graduate school, this is from my fuzzy memory based on a quick skim, d
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by splithalf 6y ago
People call when they want something. If I wanted something, I would be the one to initiate the call.
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That is the fraud. A higher education degree doesn’t increase earnings for most people once you factor in the costs. There was a nice econ paper on this sometime in last year. Student loans of any sort are on average a bad choice in terms o
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by splithalf 6y ago
The focus should be on preventing this “fraud” in the future, but that actually runs counter to the goals of those who are issuing the debt, the same federal agency that is now forgiving the debt, debt which mind you they should not have gi