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by zugi 4y ago
Not just you, Yahoo News remembers https://news.yahoo.com/kamala-harris-says-she-wont-take-covi... : Kamela Harris: "But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it. I’m not taking it." Mike Pence: "So th
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by zugi 4y ago
What's that age-old expression? Something like: - Those who can, do. - Those who can't... Lobby government to prevent others from doing.
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Aren't we supposed to write unit tests before we build too? The benefit of that is that if you have a CI system the tests have to stay current with the code. Whereas documentation quckly gets out of sync with the actual code.
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Visiting museums of communism in Prague and Berlin was an eye-opening experience. When everything was "provided" by government, those daring to criticize the government in any way soon found themselves with the worst jobs and hous
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Even worse than being asleep at the wheel, that may have been a political power play between the FCC and the FAA, each trying to increase their power and budget, with consumers getting the raw end of the deal...
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I love that "Don't talk to the police" video and recommend it to everyone I can. But it doesn't look like his words led to his arrest or incarceration here. The warrant was from a distant jurisdiction, so the police who
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by zugi 4y ago
Agreed, I too was surprised to see such a fact-deprived article from the Economist. While reading it I wondered if the Economist had started a public "blog" section or something, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
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> The other was licensing their CDMA patents to all of the players in the market, and this org was run entirely by lawyers. The U.S. Constitution empowers Congress to issue patents "to promote progress in science and the useful arts
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> change all state laws to nuke the practice Even that's just a start. According to https://www.forbes.com/sites/nicksibilla/2018/12/19/cops-can... , when one state banned civil forfeiture, i
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Even without this new Chinese missile, the amount spent on US carrier groups is insane. They're something like $15 billion each to build, and that doesn't even include the cost of the aircraft. We used to have 11, while our neares
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by zugi 4y ago
The idea that every piece of trivially copyable information should have an "owner" is the root problem here. No one needs to "own the copyright" to these images at all. Copyright is for "creative works" and sho
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Lots of folks suggesting groceries and cooking, but I prefer the old "go to a restaurant and order and eat." It takes time, but so does cooking, and it's probably cheaper and hotter than delivery.
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Nice, will they also let me view their site without Javascript? Displaying 144 character messages should not require Javascript, and it didn't until a year or so ago. Which not coincidentally is when I stopped reading Twitter.
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by zugi 5y ago
Good point, to keep up the game how about: "Women and people of color constitute the majority of Trump supporters" or "The majority of Trump supporters is comprised of women and people of color"
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This is such a clear and obvious way to store energy that I assumed it had long ago been analyzed and assessed to fall short of other options in terms of energy efficiency, capacity, and cost. Those and other numbers are what matters, and t
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> Why do we even need 5G Everyone complains about the lack of choice and competition and quality among internet service providers (ISPs.) 5G is fast enough that you can use it to replace your wired internet, just as cell phones displaced
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Can anyone find any sources indicating whether this interference has been tested or measured? The FCC decided to auction off the 5G spectrum for fast data usage almost 5 years ago, one would think there'd be a study or experiment or tw
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In 1942 the leaders of the US, UK, France, and Russia had agreed that unconditional surrender was the only acceptable end to the war - for a variety of reasons including partly that no ally would negotiate surrender terms separately from th
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Of course! Just a few years ago people called that "free speech". Now the enemies of free speech are trying to win the terminology war by convincing people that stopping "hate" and "lies" is more important than
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Maybe we're envisioning different scenarios here. If someone just committed code yesterday and is still working on it, absolutely discuss with them first. I'm imagining a scenario where someone comes across duplicated code months
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When we don’t feel confident in our code, it is tempting to attach our sense of self-worth and professional pride to something that can be measured. I don't think assuming people who disagree with you lack confidence and are "co
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Economic reality should surprise no one. Price controls diminish supply. Worse price controls cause worse supply shortages.
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Thanks for posting the article, it's pretty well summarized by: > ... it is not surprising that many members of the general public presume that noncitizens do not deserve the same rights as citizens. But the presumption is wrong in
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Assange was a non-U.S. citizen working outside the U.S. - I don't get what gives the U.S. jurisdiction to try him in the first place. If China tried to extradite a U.S. citizen acting within the U.S. who published leaked information al
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> TPM by default in Windows 11 is the latest in a long line of changes that's made it harder to take over an ordinary person's computer Interesting, I think of TPM as being for holding keys for bitlocker encryption or personal
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> you've found yourself in a situation where your business is no longer viable I mean to be fair here the government instituted a policy that basically took her property and allocated it for someone else's use for free, deprivi
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I mean it doesn't really matter all that much, but I think I read elsewhere that she broke up with her long-term boyfriend and had to move out. Normally that wouldn't be a problem for someone who owns 3 houses. But her tenants are
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Teslas are the safest vehicles on the road, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. ( https://drivemag.com/news/how-safe-are-tesla-cars-5-facts-an... ). Teslas crash 40% less than other cars, and
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This should really be "Apple Regrets Clarity over 'iPhone Scanning'". "Confusion" is what they're trying to sow now.
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> "Technical debt is the burden that implementation choices may place on future development" True, provided we understand that those choices are not always conscious. I more commonly use the term looking back: some code technic

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