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by zrail 6y ago
> if you want a system that actually allows politicians to work for their voters The people in power don’t actually want this.
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by zrail 6y ago
The one very notable exception to the two-dimensional flotilla is the depiction of the battle of wolf-359. As I recall the battle played out as a ball of Starfleet ships surrounding the Borg.
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by zrail 6y ago
> in the Watergate era even Republicans found Nixon's behaviour beyond the pale. I am utterly convinced that if that happened today there'd be a strict party-line vote as the President's party would happily look the other
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by zrail 6y ago
This will be toothless. The federal executive has to regulatory power around social media whatsoever, as far as I know, so this is going to be something along the lines of “hereby directs the secretary of commerce to produce a report on soc
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by zrail 6y ago
Ultimately if you’re working for salary your pay is at the whim of your employer. If you want to make real money as a remote worker then switch to consulting.
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Tiller, Ledger, and Sorbet(petekeen.net)
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by zrail 6y ago
> I think we're too hung up on OSI open source licenses. Where "we" is defined as an extremely vocal minority on HN. I don't think most people take issue with licenses like this Timescale license or the BSL.
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by zrail 6y ago
cough kicks the dirt a bit We call it iPad time.
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by zrail 6y ago
There’s really only so much you can do to train small children to be quiet. My oldest is almost 4 and she’s just now getting to the point where she’s able to be quiet on her own for extended lengths of time. My younger kid is 18 months and
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by zrail 6y ago
Salaries are what the market will bear (on both sides). If more companies are remote then first class remote engineers will be able to get more offers when they're on the market and thus will be able to command higher comp. Separately,
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by zrail 6y ago
Yeah, I can see that. And I don't mean to disparage the work. OP clearly put a lot of care and attention into it. As I said in a different thread, I feel that gamification is in poor taste.
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by zrail 6y ago
I get that. I personally feel that playing fantasy politics is in poor taste when the political process is a) so extremely important to the proper functioning of our society and b) relatively easy to get involved with IRL.
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by zrail 6y ago
Gosh. I'm having trouble expressing how I feel about this. I mean, good work I guess, but this seems to fundamentally misunderstand what the political process is supposed to accomplish. It's not about (or shouldn't be about)
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by zrail 6y ago
> Newspapers tend to write for a very low reading level. I see what you did there.
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by zrail 6y ago
The budget is classified. One can assume $texas levels of money.
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by zrail 6y ago
The legions of small publishers making a living on substack beg to differ.
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by zrail 6y ago
I mean...yes. That is pretty self evidently not the correct answer.
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by zrail 6y ago
My last real side project halted when my second kid was born almost two years ago. I likely won’t have time or energy to do another one for another two years, regardless of quarantine status.
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by zrail 6y ago
A new space telescope will not be subject to Starlink interference. SpaceX will be happy to launch it for you at very competitive prices.
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by zrail 6y ago
A semi-permanent shift to more remote work will have large impacts on a lot of different industries. For example, the lunch joints near office towers will have to significantly rethink their strategies. Companies that make consumables like
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by zrail 6y ago
Depends on the job. This is very much the expectation for consulting, at least the consulting that I did. For a lot of places that are regulated entities you're gonna be hard pressed to see IT departments allowing BYOD for anything mor
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by zrail 6y ago
The specific vehicle we'd be getting is a PHEV Pacifica. The pricing can actually come in lower than the equivalent non-hyrbid version depending on the exact incentives in play. Our primary use case is moving kids and groceries, all of
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by zrail 6y ago
We are in the same boat. Had a _lot_ of plane travel plans that are basically all on indefinite hold now. We are likely going to accelerate plans to purchase a more road-trip worthy vehicle (minivan, either with tow package or hybrid, can’
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by zrail 6y ago
This is a question for github customer support, not medium.
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by zrail 6y ago
Yep. That’s most of the country by land area. Someone I follow on twitter just started construction on a licensed wireless backhaul to his house. Took months to even get the time of day from the ISP and it’s costing thousands of dollars to
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by zrail 6y ago
That’s not how the REA works. It provides loans to rural electric cooperatives at reasonable interest rates.
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by zrail 6y ago
Hear hear. We need a new rural electrification act that pushes fiber to every nook and cranny of the country.
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by zrail 6y ago
Lots of areas are unable to get any sort of wired connection for any amount of money.
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by zrail 6y ago
"the Fourteenth Air Force/Air Forces Strategic was redesignated as Space Operations Command (SpOC)." Because of course the Space Force would have something named Spoc(k). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uni
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by zrail 6y ago
This is my understanding as well. The Federal government isn't actually funding the $600/week/worker extra to the states yet and so states are running out of cash. Obviously the only solution is to drop the states of emergenc

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