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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Exactly this. I'm not installing anything on my phone, and I don't answer phone calls that are not from my contacts. I've never been tested because I don't trust the testing companies. If I'm sick, I'll stay ho
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Health departments can order you to quarantine. In practical termss that's like house arrest.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Lawn mowers are safer today than they were 30 years ago. Still potentially dangerous. You point out to the kid: never let your feet go under there. Never reach your hand in here. Maybe throw an apple in to illustrate the effect. They get th
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
What percentage of the world's car-owning population lives in the USA? I own 6 cars, myself.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
You think that domineering, alpha, type A people are not more or less born that way?
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
I tried the demo, and could not come up with a 12-character password that got a good score and was not just impossible-to-remember random jibberish. I'll stick with generated pseudo-random gibberish and a password manager.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
So even then we could not believe the media? Good to know. And sad to know.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
> some people (cough cough) never actually do. Guilty. Since WFH started I get up at about 12:00 - 13:00. This has been my natural unregulated pattern since I was about 14 (40 years ago). I have no set hours at work and basically zero su
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
> Where did all the intellect go? It's hard to have an intellectual debate in 120-character snippets on platforms that promote outrage over reason.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
What do "observers" normally do? How close are they normally allowed to be? Can you read a ballot from 6 or 10 ft away? Does that affect the ability of observers to observe whatever it is they are responsible for observing? Does C
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
The electoral college moderates the effect. The big states still dominate. Just not as completely. The small states have their voice instead of being completely irrelevant. It's not that they "win" or even have an equal say.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
He's nearly 78 now. He'd be 81 next time around, and his campaign this election cycle could hardly be called vigorous. The electorate will be younger also. I don't think there will be much appeal even as an incumbent unless h
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Because the constitution says the states elect the president. That's how it works. In modern times this means the people of each state decide, by popular vote, how their state votes.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
I'm curious, what do you find inspiring about Joe Biden?
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
I'm saying that both elections were decided based on hate of the opponent, not support for the winner. That's backwards from what it should be.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
I don't disagree but I also think that the best way to expose a lie is to push it into the full light of the sun, not try to stuff it into the basement. If someone is going to make a fool of himself, let him.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Maybe they should. Something needs to restore faith in the process. If we lose that, we lose everything. And a not-small minority believe that the election was fradulent. There's always a fringe that feels that way, but it seems to be
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Biden says the right things, as experienced politicians do. Let's withold judgment until we see what he does.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
I said that he lost the popular vote. My point is that many of his 2016 votes were "anyone but Clinton." If he had a more appealing opponent, it wouldn't have been close.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
The constitution declares that the president is elected by the states, not by the people directly. The electoral college serves to moderate the influence of dense population areas. On a straight popular vote basis, the large urban centers i
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
To me what this election (as well as the 2016 election) illustrates, is what a poor set of choices we have had. In no sane world should it have been difficult for the Democrats to defeat Donald Trump in 2016. He had no history in political
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Gang violence is prosecuted, if the perpetrator can be identified. Gangs and people in gang-plagued neighborhoods are very reticent to name names, in fear of retaliation. Every police shooting is investigated. They are often found to be jus
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
And it was stepped up by Clinton/Biden in the 1990s with the crime bill. There is plenty of blame to pass around for the situation we are in today. Arguing about who started it decades ago is not very helpful.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
A lot of the draconian laws and mandatory sentences trace back to the late 1980s/early 1990s when crack cocaine hit. If you were too young to remember or not born yet, it was absolutely devastating. At least the equivalent of today&#x2
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
Yes a kernel update would require rebooting. But that happened maybe once a year, or even less often. The update was delivered on tape and it was probably a multi-day project for the admins to prepare for the installation.
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by throwaway201103 6y ago
As we've seen recently, with cloud providers you are at the mercy of their "sole discretion" judgment on terms of service violations. You could be shut down tomorrow with no recourse. So you still have to do all your own back