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by valdiorn 4y ago
I just checked what my pixel 6 has installed. I have something called "Duo", which, when I click it, shows me something called "Meet". Is it different from the other "meet" on my phone? Seems to be but not sure
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I always thought this is the only future-proof way of dealing with "censorship". Leave it to the different governments to handle. Social media has been having problems enforcing censorship by different cultural standards for years
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by valdiorn 4y ago
1. Protect the public. 2. Deter crime. 3. Rehabilitate. 4. Punish. These are the four pillars of incarceration. How different countries weigh the different elements varies greatly between cultures. Us system is basically 90 percent punishme
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by valdiorn 4y ago
uh, canon DSLRs have been around for 20 years. I was rocking my entry level 400D until earlier this year. I got it as a high school graduation present in 2007. It's been to 10+ different countries, been dropped off a camel, stolen by a
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by valdiorn 4y ago
"right now, I have an account at my bank, and I need to meet certain requirements to have that account." Hello, my name is money laundering. Why do you think the bank has those "requirements"? Do you think they just hate
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by valdiorn 4y ago
So, can someone explain to me why I can't get ANY chips for anything at all? Everything is out of stock that I use in my designs (Audio processing equipment). microprocessors, microcontrollers, ADCs, DACs, audio codecs, memory. Even br
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by valdiorn 4y ago
I absolutely love "Music for REAL Airports" by The Black Dog. An obvious poke at the original, it features a darker, moody and slightly unsettling ambience, with some minimal percussive elements in a couple of tracks. It's me
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The latest one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmRrT_vhUG8
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It's an air rifle. It's also clearly a joke.
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Wow, someone has not been keeping up with the news coming out of the UK. Lots and lots of people been arrested and charged for saying, not actually hate speech, just "mean things" on Twitter. Usually it's just obvious jokes,
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by valdiorn 4y ago
Stalin killed millions and the worst that happened was some hushed grumbling. Don't underestimate russian apathy and the government's iron grip on the populous.
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by valdiorn 4y ago
Ah yes, the companies with bimodal tenure distribution; it's either 3 months or 13 years, and nobody with 3 years. You either accept the bullshit and stick around, or you get out of there fast.
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Anti money laundering laws forbid banks and facilitators from disclosing the true reason for freezing the account. If PayPal told them they'd literally be breaking federal law. So a money laundering flag seems most plausible given the
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Like Web 3.0, it is whatever you want it to be.
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This post has quite literally made me change my mind on buying a new Tesla, which is something I've been working towards for the last few weeks. Back to square 1 looking at the competition.
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The point is, if he can see the needle out his window right now, he can just look out the window to look at the building next door.
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by valdiorn 4y ago
For me, it's YouTube and site: Reddit.com Not sure what content people would be searching for on tiktok and IG... any theories? YouTube has product reviews, educational videos, instructional, recreational content, news, vlogs. Reddit h
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by valdiorn 4y ago
How are companies like Blizzard being discussed in congressional hearings for having too much laddish culture, while Amazon is literally driving it's staff to suicide, and everyone in power is like "yeah whatcha gonna do, it'
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Malice, incompetence, all that jazz...
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You'll still be the person named in the lawsuit when actual, physical property gets destroyed and someone decides they're not going to adhere to the decision of some random internet strangers. Given you (or your company) is the on
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Paranoid much? That would never happen! Oh wait - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM
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Snowden revealed that you're in danger if you're "an interesting person". Politician? Journalist? Civil rights advocate? These people have all been encrypting their emails for a decade. It's the first time in, well,
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by valdiorn 4y ago
Someone's been watching The Critical Drinker - but I totally agree with him as well :) The lack of obstacles to overcome and the general saint-like presence of protagonists these days is miserable. It's the same thing you see in p
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by valdiorn 4y ago
My old neighbour was one of the lead designers of hovercrafts for the largest UK manufacturer (I think BHC). He also worked with the crew of James Bond "Diamonds are Forever", which features a hovercraft from the company, as an ad
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by valdiorn 4y ago
You game nft example absolutely does not need nfts to work. Heck even old school serial codes would work just fine for this scenario (steam accepting serial keys to allow access in their system). It also does nothing to solve the fact that
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by valdiorn 4y ago
But when tether goes up in smoke (or there's a perceived risk it's about to), there's a "bank run" on the exchanges, causing further disruption on tether, which is used as the go-between, fiat-equivalent by a whole
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Dude, you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about. I fucking loathe crypto but to say fund managers are "recklessly endangering the funds" shows you have no knowledge of how a hedge fund works. Source: I work risk m
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I used to work for Reykjavik Energy as a junior analyst about 12 years ago. One of my tasks was using their geo database to pull out cable and transformer data for every neighbourhood and use it to generate load models (using Siemens PSS mo
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"you’re skewing the data with somebody’s ability to prepare for the interview" And I love it, and use it to my advantage. It's so much easier to prepare for a round of interviews, than it is to actually be good at your job. S
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the steep learning curve? It's probably the simplest simulator ever built. You can learn it in like an hour and be effective.

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