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by sverige 7y ago
I agree with your statement as far as it goes. I met several people irl that I had known only on Usenet back in the 90s. My question is, what are your relationships with relatives like? What about friendships with people who live nearby
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Late reply, but here are the bullet points: * Offered expensive incentives to my employees during one particular crunch time -- incentives that were to come out of our pocket, not his -- then lied about it * Used insulting, demeaning langua
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This is the money quote for me: "I shut myself up in my room. The further I removed myself from the people I knew in the real world, the further I descended into the minds of people I’ve never interacted with and would never meet again
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You can't be serious comparing Pilsudski to Hitler. Poland had very good historical reasons for having an aggressive stance toward her neighbors, since it was still within living memory that their neighbors had carved them up and made
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Say, "Yes, you're right. It's insane that we're about to add lots of EMR to our immediate daily environment at a huge expense just so Google and Facebook can harvest more of your data faster. Here are some low-tech metho
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Uber loses $1B in quarter as costs grow for drivers, food delivery(reuters.com)
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The storm cells are typically many miles wide. Tornadoes not infrequently will cut a swath a mile wide. I could repeat many stories from family and friends who have witnessed such things, but after a bit they all start to sound the same to
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by sverige 7y ago
I don't know anyone who relies on man pages for Linux. I know a lot of people who use man pages almost exclusively for OpenBSD. Yes, they are there for system calls, but also for applications -- depending on your definition of end-user
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I had a horrible experience with the site director for a Fortune 50 company that lasted almost two years. I tried most of the techniques mentioned by others here to protect my team. In the end, the only way we were able to deal with the sit
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by sverige 7y ago
No one wants an ongoing debate about any difficult issues that the government has already determined the answers to. That would be messy and perhaps force them to change their plans. The exposure of this also makes more plausible the claims
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It's popular to make fun of Excel in some circles, but it really is a nearly perfect tool for innumerable real-world business tasks. It's intuitive enough that newcomers can do some work with minimal instruction, and powerful enou
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The statement that "We have access to all human knowledge at the palm of our hand" is a profound error that I'm seeing repeated more frequently of late. Getting a search result with the text of some learned document is not eq
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by sverige 7y ago
Everyone is wrong about long haul trucks, frankly. It will be easier to get fully autonomous cars than trucks. They're much longer and wider. They're at least twenty times heavier. They require much more room to maneuver, to start
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by sverige 7y ago
Reading this really renewed my appreciation for the sophistication and ease of use of pf(4) and related networking utilities in OpenBSD. What a tremendous amount of work has been done in 30 years! https://man.openbsd.org/pf
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What's funny is denying that social media use by teenagers is more damaging to their health than, say, smoking cigarettes.
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Your assumption is that the government is not controlled by the very wealthy already, so that their disapproval of the very thing they are engineering is possible. It's not designed to target them. It's for their benefit. There&#x
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> Of the three Rs drilled into our heads in school—reduce, reuse, recycle—recycling is the only one that most of us regularly practise. This is the most salient point of these discussions, I think. I've found it much easier to reduc
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by sverige 7y ago
Bitcoin: 1990s Vancouver penny stocks, modified to use a blockchain instead of mystery mineral deposits.
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I remember when their clothing line came out decades ago. These days I have what is essentially a Gore-Tex aorta attached to my heart. I'll bet they make a difference in eye repair. They're a pretty interesting company.
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It's definitely the company's business, since unions add another layer of management to their business processes. And these days it's generally assumed that a union is opposed to the company's interests because unions by
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by sverige 7y ago
I don't see any aggression. What is "aggressive" about pointing out that for the cost of paying a union boss to negotiate for you, you could buy a video game system instead? Maybe more to the point, what's wrong with a
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My 83-year-old mom is running Manjaro now. She hated Windows 10 enough to try it.
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Surveillance by Google.
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This was upper class resistance to the Nazis. The members of the Solf circle were aristocrats and included some members of the former Weimar government. There was other resistance centered in those social circles. There was, of course, also
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That is an incorrect statement in many states. [0] I voted by mail in Colorado in elections that were held at least 20 years ago. [1] [0] http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/all-mai... [1] https:
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Yes, but what is the difference between the two? That's really my question. Sorry if it wasn't clear.
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The children are being victimized by their parents' bad decisions to break existing law, not by the law itself. Whatever happened to the idea of personal responsibility and the accountability of parents to make good decisions for their
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John Lukacs, iconoclastic historian, dead at 95(apnews.com)
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archive.org works fine with 1^4. What is the advantage of using archive.is?
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> Over the course of the 19th century and 20th centuries, these older senses of vanity, of the vain futility of life, fell away. And as a result, what we see today is that when people post on social media, there’s no sense of their own l

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