wintogreen74

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by wintogreen74 3y ago
"Oops, I didn't know" has never been a valid defense for anyone; should definitely not be for lawyers, aka "people who are paid to know".
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> does not necessarily equate to more work and less connection. On the contrary, it can lead to a deeper understanding and mastery of technology, fostering a sense of empowerment and self-sufficiency. Those are not alternatives thoug
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
They hired with someone else's money though, now they're looking to cut when it's their own.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Why would you think it's a "one of" situation? In my experiences the company lays off X% AND cuts salaries YY%. This is quite effective because the subtext is "if you still have a job you're lucky". I suspect y
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
The alternative of lay-offs is a false one, IMO. This is an independent action because the current environment and tech skills situation says they can probably get away with it. Collusion will spread across other major employers, in paralle
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
just to clarify; you don't have to do it, but I'm not sure the alternative is less intense and charged. There is a related payback moment later in the game though, and it feels pretty good.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
This workplace sounds like a scary environment; this person presents themselves as someone who takes a lot of effort to try and make happy. Frankly it sounds exhausting. I don't get it; I manage 15-20 people and this stuff never comes
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
You're in the bullseye of the law enforcement pitch then. There are lots of ways to address armed robberies without mass surveillance. They'll pitch this as "one more tool to fight crime <x>" but you wait, it will
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Except (at least where I live) the cars are stolen and used in crimes immediately, well before they're reported stolen and entered into the database. The rightful owner is more likely to be shot in their own home by some trigger-happy
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> Mark Shull, a Palo Alto resident since 1983 ... Until last year, he had never experienced property theft ... "Palo Alto has a serious and growing property theft problem," Shull said. I wish I lived in a city where 2 conve
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
GoPro had no real advantage in the drone world; they made/make a cheap, good-enough quality camera for a pretty selective use-case. As a layperson it would look significantly easier to catch up in the optics vs autonomous & semi-au
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
As a Canadian, right next door, I'm continually amazed that we can have two polar takes on healthcare and both get it so wrong. In Canada it is an incredibly expensive way to pay for a universal public system in case you personally nee
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
This is already happening. Banks report all transactions above a very low threshold under various justifications and laws, plus the government is always going to be the front-of-the-line creditor and can trivially find out your entire net w
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
how does your entire post square with it being "noticeably better"? Everything you describe is worse than before.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
"If you're on Windows click here". OS > Avoid: Windows. I get it, but not very helpful. The premise of making it "uneconomical" for a nation-state to perform mass surveillance is a bit naive; at best we can make
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
My wife sells a lot of stuff used and has good luck dealing with the flakey-nickel-dimers (the same people are typically both) by giving them a price concession of $N if they show up in M hours, where N is typically 5-10 and M is 1-3
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> You can point to any instant, and even any decade in time, and point major inaccuracies in the public's collective financial thinking. Examples: today Halliburton and GE Health both posted numbers that be the market and saw bi
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
You can buy all the dirty, old fashioned stocks that still pay dividends like oil & gas, banking, integrated grocery, even Microsoft - at least until the activist investors push them to fundamentally change their business models.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
and the rest of the hits by white performers were either "heavily inspired" or literal re-performed versions of black songs that wouldn't be played or broadcast by white-only radio stations and TV shows.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> Remote work levels the playing field, and normies hate it because they can't bully and abuse us as easily online as they can in person. I'm not sure how remote somehow replaces social interaction in your world, but it sur
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Th "protection" from home safes is a joke: typically 30-60 minutes at temperatures less than the heat generated by a house fire.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
or a little water damage, or a fire lasting more than 30 minutes.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Uhm, really? Company punts on how to actually secure it by saying "store in a safe place" so now it's all on the user? Aren't we back to writing your long, complex PW on a post-it note then, with the extra step of "
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
This also highlights an extreme imbalance between ability to do great harm and bearing the brunt of said harm.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
>> At what point of scale do people start imagining they have a right to make demands on how something somebody else built and owns should be run? This is a pretty weird take. Do you apply the same logic to citizens of a country? I me
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
I think a really important aspect is keeping the logic in your head (and others learning it) is helped by mirroring this single source of truth with your implementation.
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
the keyboard is loads better than the Atari 400 keyboard though!
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
When I think about what clueless Atari execs did to the machine and company, driven by ignorance and greed, it makes me really mad. It was such a good machine and they were desperate to not let any 3rd party make money, hence software, for
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Even framing it as "nothing to hide" implies that hiding is the exception. Shouldn't it be the default?
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by wintogreen74 3y ago
Is it irony that doing this (or even your comment) would likely land you in really big trouble under the purpose of this act?

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