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by taborj 7y ago
Interesting, it opened the Amazon page for me without issue...
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Since we're in a free market economy, we really should be forcing companies to be ethical by voting with our dollars (or, in today's online work, site visits). The problem is not enough people give it enough thought. > If Goo
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Once nice thing about DDG is, if you really need to hit another search engine (I've noticed Google does a decent job when I'm searching for the resolution to a highly technical/specific issue), you just use the bangs, like !g
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You might be interested to know that they also nicknamed Rainbow Canyon as "Star Wars Canyon", and the various branches fly their jets through at high speed for training purposes.[0] In other words, the Air Force (and other branch
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You know how you can buy an SD2IEC device[0] for your C64? Probably something like that. [0] https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/SD2IEC
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Incidentally, it's this exact type of situation that caused the founding fathers to include the second amendment in the first place. "On April 14, 1775, Gage received instructions from Secretary of State William Legge, Earl of Dar
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> If you can buy multiple cheap, unreliable PCs for the price of 1 sun server, you still win. Quantity has it's own quality
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For reference, I purchased a Micron system with a dual Pentium Pro slot W6-Li motherboard (but -- and this is crucial -- only one 180MHz PPro chip ), SCSI internals, 64MB of RAM and a CD writer, for $5200. This was in 1996. If I recall co
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> A more modern approach has become the Pre-fab homes. This isn't just a modern approach. See the Sears kit homes of the early 20th century. My parents built their ~2800sq ft (not including basement) two story house back in 1976,
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Which then introduces some doubt that this is truly anonymous. In other words, if the respondents feel that there's a chance that their answers could be linked back to themselves as employees, they're probably more likely to to
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There are numerous cost of living calculators[0] online, but they basically just tell you how much more or less you need to earn to maintain your standards if you move to another city (not neighborhood level). Still, they're interesti
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I actually am thankful for folks who think living outside a major metro area is "mind-numbingly" boring. That means you'll stay in the city with all the other crazy people. See, these low-effort insults work both ways!
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Enjoy life outside of work? Look, I enjoy my work and it's pretty meaningful work that affects people in real ways. But I work to live, not live to work. My job is a means to an end, that end being to have a fulfilling life that does
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Agreed, I want to contribute. So I can direct people away from where I live, so the prices don't skyrocket.
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Cliff Stoll's The Cuckoo's Egg grapples with this a bit. The fine line between open systems that anyone can use, and closed systems that protect your privacy and data. It's obviously a settled question these days, but back
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>if you mistyped your password, it would print the mistyped password, That's incredibly useful. Stand next to someone, casually chatting, while they enter their password. Just before they hit [ENTER], stab a key -- say, a 'z&
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I'm always reminded of Dan Aykroyd's line in the 1992 movie "Sneakers". His character, Mother, was huge on conspiracy theories. "Cattle mutilations are up."
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I think it has to do with the wording of the law passed by the voters. Someone else linked the exact verbiage, but it basically hinges on the wording around having "completed" their sentence. If part of that sentence was repay
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Oregon has a "motor voter" act, where you are automatically registered to vote if you have a driver's license (and are of age). We also do vote by mail, so it doesn't matter when the election day is. Just send in (or d
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But without requiring an ID, how do they validate the name? How do they validate the address? How do they stop someone from giving a completely made up name and a somewhat plausible sounding address? Serious questions, because I'm in
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Shackleton's ill-fated Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914 is an amazing story of perseverance and resourcefulness. If you haven't read up on it, I highly recommend Alfred Lansing's Endurance , or Shackleton's own Sout
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Great video in the comments of that article, from one of the original creators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhM8NAMW_VQ
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Most of the nerds I know - including myself - wear the label with a hint of pride. I've never thought of it as a pejorative, and I don't know anyone who has. Of all the hills to die on, I say let this one pass.
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Actually, it's even more granular than that. Want to shape the future? Get on the school board. Then you get to affect what an entire generation learns.
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We had outdoor school in the (I think it was) 6th grade when I was a kid. This would have been early 90s. 4.5 days, slept in cabins. Parents came to visit on just one of the days. It rained. It was muddy. We got cold. But we learned a
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I would posit that at least some of your feelings are due to the nature of information dissemination by today's highly connected, revenue-driven media. Saying everything is fine, or at least not terrible, has never brought as many e
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that is heavy on one side, and an order or two of magnitude less on the other side I disagree with this assertion. I think both sides are equally guilty of this, but on different topics, which can make apples to apples comparisons diffic
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Articles can be written in such a way as to imply meaning that's not specifically stated, and this is one example.
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I'm mainly asking the question because the article implies[1] that they're mainly archiving Trump stuff, not in general archiving misinformation. [1] yes, I know it doesn't say it outright, but I don't think it's a
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I mention this because of these choice quotes from the linked story: "“We’re bringing up a generation that turns to their screens, without a library of information accessible via screens,” said Mr Kahle. Some have taken advantage of t

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