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by zentiggr 5y ago
So what happens when the tracking / fingerprinting / data mining that your industry keeps doubling down on, provides enough data for -- your next health insurance change to triple your premiums because of that previous bill you ha
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by zentiggr 5y ago
That sounds a lot like the old Gentoo stage 1 / 2 / 3 build system... Makes me a little more interested, in general.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
You said "accrual of income". Everyone has been trying to clarify to you, that the change in value of an unsold asset is not income, it is not a gain or loss as far as taxes are concerned.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Pretty obvious that insurance companies would make a killing here, providing "asset retention" riders. You get to declare a reasonable value, and if someone wants to buy, but you're not willing to sell at that time, the insur
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by zentiggr 5y ago
You think the IRS works for us... that's cute. Unless you are a large corporation / billionaire yourself, in which case I apologize, yes it works for you.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Assuming anyone can get the AG to actually investigate, file charges, and get a conviction. Notoriously more difficult as the amount of financial leverage increases.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Go ahead and lobby Congress to pass that. See how easily you can get that done against the lobbying from the holders of that wealth. Now how do we change the system? Put it in front of the entire public how much higher a percentage of the
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by zentiggr 5y ago
The flaw here is that they're not following the laws that we the people have enacted. They're following the laws that they themselves have lobbied for and bought the legislators to pass for them. If you only condone taking legal
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Are you also opposed to the Watergate leaks? Snowden's leaks? the Pentagon Papers? and a lot of less famous leaks of restricted information that have led to exposure and sometimes even justice for people who otherwise would have hid be
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Hooray, we can refit some of them and rebuild our own decimated sealift capability, and sell the rest for scrap only. Or start using a bunch of them to sink for reef seeding.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
So suggest a solution that won't inflame anything? "Dealing" with China is going to get a lot hotter. Period.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
I'm pretty much done citing anything mentioning IQ since it's been so thoroughly 'debunked'. And I'm at least partly a victim of the "but your IQ is so high - you could do so much!" expectation trap. At l
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Ok, counterpoint again. The support contract for a huge multinational I was a small part of a while back, was bought out by an Indian-based company, who wanted the prestige and new line of business, but bit off WAY more than they could chew
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by zentiggr 5y ago
The pre-WFH work 10-15 minutes away from home routine had, for me, the same hidden benefit. Now that I've been 100% WFH for 14 months, I've realized how easy it is to just get caught up even deeper in the assumption that "you
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by zentiggr 5y ago
I commuted 45 minutes each way to a prior job for a couple of years. Yes, I ate my breakfast in the car on the way there. No, I didn't sleep, read, or do anything distracting on my drive because when you're in deer country, dawn a
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Another story of Anyone can get involved in just about anything on the internet Some of those people are misguided or unstable or actively malicious Chaos ensues in all its various forms We humans are just an interesting bunch
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by zentiggr 5y ago
When I served on a submarine, tagout procedures were followed to the letter. A typical maintenance period might require 100 or so separate tagouts, each of which could require anywhere from one to dozens of tags. Each duty watch was requir
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by zentiggr 5y ago
This goes back to the basic point of safety work: Even the best trained, most attentive and careful operator can get into dangerous situations. There's no way to anticipate the moment that their attention might wander or some external
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by zentiggr 5y ago
There are much-safer-by-design reactor plans out there now. Hopefully the "nuclear is horribly unsafe by default" opinions will consider the new options.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
This comes across as "If you haven't read every word of all the terms of use, privacy policy, and any other legal documents of not only the initial company you interacted with, but of all their second party companies, and their se
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Your thoughts remind me a bit of the Gabriel character is the end of the movie Constantine - (paraphrased) Since you humans can't seem to appreciate what God's granted you in this free will thing, I'm going to help bring hell
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by zentiggr 5y ago
And yanked them out from underneath the adopters whenever it wasn't fun anymore. I don't trust in anything Google anymore except that internal politics and profit motive will override anything beneficial eventually. Look at Chro
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by zentiggr 5y ago
Unfortunately, every new project coming from Google now has a couple of decades of baggage, directly caused by the unexpected / manipulative cancellation of projects. While I am not Google-free at the moment, especially email, I have l
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by zentiggr 5y ago
If I'm curled up comfortably with my SO, and don't want to take ten minutes of unwinding, doing whatever, then tucking back up together...
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by zentiggr 5y ago
I think in this case it would be called an alarm clock.
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by zentiggr 5y ago
If your position was independent enough, you could maybe get by with a "show me a mistake, and I'll acknowledge and fix it and eat crow. If you are just guessing, go look for an error." Or if there was storage space enough,
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by zentiggr 5y ago
I don't think it's insecurity all the time, although I have run into people who refuse to trust an automated process because they can't see the work getting done... I think a lot of resistance is due to, like others have said
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by zentiggr 5y ago
When I remember getting BBS results faster... sigh. while (true) { Every available channel will fill with every available amount of content until the SNR gets so low that a different channel is created. }
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by zentiggr 5y ago
div id="ad" but not containing an actual ad, seems like a pretty obvious unintentional overlap, and one that's not going to go away. How difficult would it be for you to change the div name to not coincide with the characters
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by zentiggr 5y ago
What I was trying to convey is more "Regardless of what's going on outside you, you can choose how to respond. And as of recently, I'm choosing more positive reactions, instead of cynical and self-defeating." stoicism, a

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