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by swells34 3y ago
Ah yes, what I said was toxic because I would have to thank a lot of things for any success I had. Frankly, above a certain amount of income, no one has earned it. That's not toxic, it's just fact. You are welcome, my tax dollar
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by swells34 3y ago
I'm seeing quite a few comments here that hint they'd like to see exactly that, a regression back to "the good old days".
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by swells34 3y ago
Are you aware that other people have provided everything you have in life, or have you really drunk the "self-made" Koolaid. Work the farm? Excellent, now one must purchase and run a farm in order to have children. How much do tho
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by swells34 3y ago
This is likely the stupidest thing I'll read this week, thank you for that. In what way, exactly, are children not expensive? From some research and napkin math, it looks like $300k, not including opportunity cost (so in reality more l
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by swells34 3y ago
Young people paying a massive portion of their income (significantly larger than previous generations) just to have a roof, and gaining zero equity in the process. Hence "renting", as opposed to "owning".
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by swells34 3y ago
You mean, they've refused the delusion that previous generations utilized to do horrible damage to our planet and long term way of life?
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by swells34 3y ago
A funny thing to note, QI only applies to civil lawsuits. So, it only applies in circumstances where they've already decided there is no criminal activity. So a secondary issue here is the legal system has decided that pretty much anyt
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by swells34 3y ago
If you look at the culture of police in the US, the department policies that they enforce, and the laws that they enforce, it begins to make more sense. An intelligent person would not fit into existing police culture very well (because of
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by swells34 3y ago
What do you think the chances are that the police are affiliated with the swatters?
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by swells34 3y ago
I'd like to see her donate half the salary she took back to Mozilla, since she obviously didn't earn it. She doubled her pay several times. Did the engineers doing the work get their pay doubled? No. The only person who did that w
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by swells34 3y ago
The funny thing here is, I'm in the US, I pay a massive amount for health insurance, and have nearly identical experiences.
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by swells34 3y ago
The point isn't that the original commenter doesn't like them, it's that this is a lobbying group. As such, they have no credibility on this topic. So, in any discussion involving them, everything they say needs to be looked
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by swells34 3y ago
Sounds like an unconstitutional ruling to me.
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by swells34 3y ago
Just skimmed through their docs, and still haven't seen a "what this is for" statement. Please, if you are writing documentation, give one solid, end to end use case example, it goes such a long way in promoting your product.
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by swells34 3y ago
I've been using OsmAnd for years now, and it's fantastic. Much more complicated to set up the way you like, but you can set it up exactly the way you like. No ads, search results are what I'd call "sterile", and
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by swells34 3y ago
A different, and likely more productive, way of looking at a possible connection between PATCO firings and USAir 1493 is in the form of institutional knowledge lost. I think a decent argument here is that the mass firing of a large portion
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by swells34 3y ago
I think people get angry when something turns out being different in nature than what they expected, especially when it comes to accuracy. If I start watching a show, and most of the information matches with my understanding of the topic, I
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by swells34 3y ago
Like, aggressive to the point of being nuclear? Because if not, I'm not sure how you expect it to remove a lot of the chemicals mentioned...
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by swells34 3y ago
It's the classic "I have nothing to hide" argument. Which immediately breaks down when you realize that, with enough information about someone, you can implicate them in something illegal. A case can be built against them,
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by swells34 3y ago
It's a pitch. The story has obviously been embellished and polished and condensed, ready public consumption. Being pedantic against it is not productive.
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by swells34 3y ago
I find it funny how many comments in this angry rebuttal section actually endorse a Git replacement.
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by swells34 3y ago
I think you just sold their pitch with this comment... I, like many many people here, have done quite a bit of product design. What do you call it when a bunch of people use your product, and it breaks for several of them? That generally in
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by swells34 3y ago
I found this headline annoying at a visceral level. This wasn't click bait, it was click hate. I vote we just remove the title of this post, leave it blank.
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by swells34 3y ago
This is what I'm thinking too. A number of posts above talked about physical limits based on speed of sound and rotor length. Cool, so add two rotors, or four.
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by swells34 3y ago
I'd much rather implement a maximum wage, would do a huge amount of good for our society. Let's say a cap on any more than $10M a year for total wealth gain for any individual. Everything else is taxed at 100%. Suddenly, we could
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by swells34 3y ago
This is a stupid take. Partly because of the use of acronyms for key terms, but also from the "constantly bothering a person is okay because it makes good security easier for us". There are plenty of good solutions that don't
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by swells34 3y ago
Oh, the Genius of Jack Welch is simple. Lie to investors while dismantling the company you're in charge of. Use the profits from selling off the dismantled bits to cook the books so it looks like you're becoming more profitable, t
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by swells34 3y ago
It's horrifying. The man destroyed one of the most profitable and productive companies in the world to make himself look good, and make huge quantities of money for himself. From a business standpoint, he has no good qualities, as long
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by swells34 3y ago
A decade ago I stopped having problems with both BCM and NVidia devices in Linux. Last year I purchased a very recent wifi dongle and had to manually install broadcom drivers, but other than that it's been smooth sailing with no issues
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by swells34 3y ago
Yes, my comment contained more hyperbole than it should have; I was frustrated at the idea of "hiding information about a problem" as a good design goal, and let that frustration influence my writing. Apologies to jstummbillig for

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