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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
I regret using firstnamelastname.dev as my main personal account It’s uncommon, and causes confusion if I have to dictate it out over the phone. You have to optimize for the non-technical people scheduling appointments that don’t realize th
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
The deregulation of passenger airlines happened during the Carter years: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airline_Deregulation_Act
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
The one nice part of the wasteland plaza is that it can hold large outdoor exhibitions in a way that no other space in downtown area can. Inside the NBA was held live there recently, Boston Calling (the only largish music festival in the ar
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
I believe Mycroft was killed in part due to a patent troll: https://www.theregister.com/AMP/2023/02/13/linux_ai_assistan... Hopefully the troll is no longer around
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
To be a little more charitable, I don’t think the average non-technical newspaper reader knows or cares about the difference. Most non-tech people I know treat a router as a black box system - you plug it in, and then when you have issues,
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
The NY Post is just reposting original reporting by the Wall Street Journal: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/us-ban-china-...
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
This is not a good argument for MAID, and I think there are countless dystopian sci-fi stories that exhibit this reasoning that I’d like to avoid (The Giver, Logan’s Run, Soylent Green, etc) If we start looking at people who use MAID as sel
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
Here’s one recent example in Virginia: https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/drones-milita... A graduate student in Minnesota flew to a naval base in Virginia, used a consumer drone to photograph the are
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
It was specifically Eric Adams who sort of implied that - but it was a bit of a cagey response, and NYPD later stated that day they had no ID: https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5028239-mayor-adams-sa... Given
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
Something about that image of the spinning coffee cup with sailing ships is giving me severe trypophobia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia It’s a like a spider’s eyes… and also not what I would expect a latt
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
I’m all for second hand, and have gone in this direction myself for use cases, but you do need some bare minimum level of technical competency, or someone to guide you. I’ve purchased several SFFs on eBay, and had some experiences with brok
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
It’s frustrating to see that the US added architectural copyrights in 1990. There’s an explicit exemption for photographs, but not models. What problem did this actually solve? If there is one, we managed to live with it for the prior two c
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
The Wall Street Journal version of the OP article seems to indicate that the ruling did not apply to Polymarker due to it’s settlement with the CFTC in 2022 - but the language used is a little unclear: > Polymarket has blocked access to
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
They can’t - they agreed to a no strike clause in their contract. https://www.threads.net/@astor.maggie/post/DB813Z2RNBs
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
> NYT Games and Cooking are BEHIND THE PICKET LINE. Please don’t play or engage with Games or Cooking content while the strike lasts! If I pay for a service, I expect it to be available. It’s not my job to track the status of labor dispu
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
I think a start would be to stop saying the phrase “I take full responsibility for this decision” if you aren’t also publicly taking a pay cut. There’s no need for a CEO to bring themselves and their feelings into the conversation. It’s thi
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
Ok I’m going to withdraw because I’m a bit confused what you are advocating for. I initially read: > Wikipedia should take this out on average Indian citizens, and make them pay because Wikipedia was found to be at fault in a court of la
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
…yes it does make sense? They’re complying within the rules fully, but if they decide the rules are too onerous or compromising on their core mission, the legally correct thing to do is to take their ball and go home. The rest of us not in
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
> The benefits weren't "stopped" You left out where I specified the pension. They were stopped. I personally prefer a 401k - it enables greater career mobility, but also requires greater knowledge and planning by the emp
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
They are quite famous for using capital punishment for drug trafficking offenses: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_Singap... Usually by hanging.
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
The pay raise wasn’t the only thing they were looking for. They wanted pension benefits back, which were stopped for new members a decade ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/24/business/boeing-union-str.
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
Additionally seals have 40% body fat, but walruses have 20%? That seems suspicious.
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
Isn’t this exactly what happened with Boeing, where the FAA delegated its authority, on the assumption that Boeing knew what it was doing?
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
You’re right that Congress has the ability to pass new directives that could stop a private strike. My original comment was assuming that Congress in its current state would be unable to pass such legislation.
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
The difference there was that PATCO was a union for government air traffic controllers. Every government employee swears an oath not to strike against the federal government: https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdfimage/sf6
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
The Ivy League is a northeastern athletic conference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
> which will punish institutions that flout the law by publishing their names on a California Department of Justice website Important to note that this is the only enforcement mechanism. You get put on a naughty list. Will be interesti
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
You seem to be looking at environmental impact based on carbon footprint, or whether the bags end up in the ocean- but that’s not the limit of the environmental impact. The plastic bags break down into microplastic particles, which makes it
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
> “There has been a subtle but very significant shift in power in favor of the tech companies,” Professor Mittelstadt said, with algorithms created to benefit the bosses at the expense of workers. Bike Angels face “a very fundamental pro
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by tacticalturtle 2y ago
That’s true, they also can circumvent restrictions. But give the historical relationship between the government and the Native American organizations, I can’t imagine most tribes would politically get behind using their limited reservation

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