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by whatthesmack 2y ago
> the J6 rioters that broke into the capital I would encourage you to learn more about that day. Most people that were charged did not go into the building. And the few that did were literally waved in by police, including many being esc
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
> exploits loopholes in the law This is a very interesting way of saying "following the law."
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
It's also unprecedented that a current president's administration would collude to charge the primary opposition of it in a presidential election across multiple jurisdictions, including with an unlawful special counsel appointmen
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
Are you sure that doesn't apply both ways?
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
> "its celebration of stupidity" A large number of voters seem to think it works. > “exert your second amendment rights” The second amendment is a prohibition on the government, so it is not a right to be exerted, but rather
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
I had to scroll past too many "free speech" takes to finally get to this well-thought analysis of the saga. It has nothing to do with free speech. The US was always going to wind up owning TikTok and influencing speech on the plat
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
It does seem a bit ridiculous, doesn't it? However, you're describing what the "basket of deplorables[0]" and half of America have experienced for the last 3+ years: tilted views on all major social media platforms in co
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
It's not empathy when a person is passed over for a role because of their skin color due to unwritten HR policies, and people using the word "woke" are generally referencing the unethical and illegal aspects of such policies.
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
The people who claim to be "actually qualified" are the same people who run (ran?) the show at the NIH that have been actively covering up their own opinion that the lab leak of the research they were funding is the most likely so
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
> The point is that when you control for these factors, a woman with the same title and responsibilities as a man will earn less for the same work. That can't possibly be true, because in a market economy, the more-expensive workers
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
I think the important element is that terminal.shop's use case (likely SAQ D, likely level 4 or level 3 volumes) allows them to comply with relatively minimal expense and complexity. Sure, there would be a non-zero time investment requ
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
Exactly. For Twitter/X being so irrelevant/toxic/whatever, they sure keep talking about it a lot. Which is fine, because it helps keep it relevant. I see a way broader set of opinions shared there than on any other social med
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by whatthesmack 2y ago
GLP-1 agonists have been around for a while. They're just gaining popularity lately, it seems. The first one was approved in the US in 2005 (exenatide).
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by whatthesmack 3y ago
As great as reducing complexity is, I just don't see how it's possible to avoid implementing a service mesh in a FedRAMP moderate or high impact level environment. You essentially need to implement mTLS to meet SC-8(1), and to i
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by whatthesmack 3y ago
An interesting reason I became intrigued with Postgres in the early 2000s was the license it was/is distributed under. The situation involved some work for a customer that needed to distribute an RDBMS along with their software. The cu
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by whatthesmack 3y ago
https://archive.is/wI6dQ
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by whatthesmack 3y ago
https://archive.is/vc5Bl
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
This is not unregulated capitalism. This is crony capitalism or corruption. It is government regulation that allows a monopoly of large corporations to remain the powerful health insurance companies they are, and ObamaCare gave them even mo
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
There's no free market for healthcare in the US. What you mean is crony capitalism and corruption. If there was a free market for healthcare and health insurance in the US, it wouldn't be so expensive.
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
Sure, if GP is in the US and the European is paying 2-3x the income tax rate & earning half the salary.
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
What you're bringing up--particularly the actions of the Senators, Representatives, and lawyers--are legitimate and legal avenues to pursue if one disputes election results. Democrats have used those avenues in the past, too. Don'
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
This really rings true! We had an outage that was essentially due to errant use of the keyboard shortcuts and default read-write settings in k9s. "Bye bye super important deployment" is a bit too easy.
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
I'm right there with you on PostgreSQL's impressiveness... I love it and use it everywhere. However, having done a decent amount of database performance analysis, there is a very good reason I've seen to use Oracle instead of
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
Everybody does. But--speaking from the US perspective--most taxes don't go to those things.
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
Practically, though, politicians determine how, when, where, and why the money is spent. Just because it sits in a bank they don't directly control doesn't mean they don't determine the fate of those collected taxes.
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
Can you point me to any studies that show masks filter airborne SARS-CoV-2 in any meaningful way? My understanding is that there are only studies of areas that had mask mandates (or not) and the assumption that such mandates (or not) actual
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
To add anecdata, I've been seeing the subject behavior on Meraki equipment across various firmware versions. I'm inclined to think this is an Apple-initiated issue.
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
*BATFE (HN won't let me edit)
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
BATFE comes in a close second. "Oh no, you might make a suppressor out of that and help save people's hearing! Can't have that without paying $200!"
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by whatthesmack 4y ago
And unsurprisingly they're some of the best roads on which to drive. Also, I've never been able to drive faster than I have on a toll road in Texas. Also, the idea that the people who use it are the people who pay for it is pretty

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