BrandonMarc

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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
While true, I'm kinda wondering if that's even possible ...
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
Hiding from surveillance is not the same as planning to do something illegal. ... but it benefits the state if people think it's the same ...
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
I expect the company sees them as private, so that they'll only share capacity with competitors when they want to and for the right price, untilllllll .... Some other country decides to pull shenanigans and cut / hack the cable, i
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
See also this image from the article. The design of the Aldebaran is a giant flying boat, with air intakes in the wings to help create the nuclear exhaust exiting the reaction chamber nozzle. https://up-ship.com/blog/wp
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
I believe that was the commenter's point - that the designers described patronizingly virtue signal about their accessibility priorities, while their other decisions are troublesome.
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
Sounds like the asylum process is an alternative stream, and the entire border has become a "port of entry." When asylum is the low-friction way to enter the country and acquire a legal status, economics suggests fewer people will
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
Unless I'm missing something that does sound rather HCOL ...
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
I assume the 900°F part had a lot to do with making this a viable consideration. Of course, I'm with you - wouldn't want to be behind it either. That said, in the 1970s cars left a cloud enriched with lead so ...
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
Consider also how common leaded gasoline was in the 1970s.
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
The universities and loan compaines win. Who loses? The chump who gets left holding the bag ... taxpayers. As usual.
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
When former students need the federal government to bail them out of their debt, it's clear the value of higher ed has plummeted.
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
The corporate press went out of their way to solidify this notion. Because of course.
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
This reads like a story from the daily wtf
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
Fission company, eh? Wonder when we'll see the first stock split.
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
"Mosquitos have been present in Scotland for millennia" ... now let's bring in climate change for click bait.
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
... If that's the which case, "2024" makes this post title misleading. Submitter likely didn't know, but still.
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
... and for that kind of rumination, we have therapists to help out.
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
I can personally vouch for this. In Morocco cats were everywhere. Cafes, high rises, farms, University, everywhere I went. Even the airport! As we queued up to the ticket counter (this was decades ago) i saw cats wandering independently. I
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
Brings to mind this quote from the film The Big Short: "Tell me the difference between stupid and illegal and I'll have my wife's brother arrested." (based on the book of the same name by Michael Lewis, a name I've
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by BrandonMarc 2y ago
Rather abrupt end to the article. Lots of ethical questions left unanswered .... which i guess is the point.
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by BrandonMarc 3y ago
> the most profitable thing to do is unfortunately to drag a problem out ... which is why our medical intitutions would rather manage chronic conditions than cure or prevent them ... and also why our "defense" institutions woul
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by BrandonMarc 3y ago
Unless clean free toilets are a big part of their advertising. See: Buc-ee's locations.
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by BrandonMarc 3y ago
Google Search's customers are companies who advertise on the SERPs. Google Search's users are people who do the searching. If a service is free to use, you are the product.
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by BrandonMarc 3y ago
I've tried that. One by one the stores near me stopped accepting batteries. Even the municipal recycling center, where I sometimes take bags full of paper or plastic bottles, refuses to take batteries. The local Batteries+Bulbs store i
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by BrandonMarc 4y ago
IF being rhe keyword. If programmers as a whole do not tolerate such conditions, or if they are less productive, it won't be inescapable.
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by BrandonMarc 5y ago
"A booming industry of cybersecurity consultants, software suppliers and incident-response teams have so far failed to turn the tide against hackers and identity thieves who fuel their businesses by tapping these deep reservoirs of st
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by BrandonMarc 5y ago
Scanning is pretty inexpensive. Maintaining a complex system that passes the scans? That's something different altogether. If I take a clunker to a mechanic, how much will it cost me to hear everything that needs fixing? About $150. Bu
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by BrandonMarc 5y ago
Reuters really thinks the world is stupid. You know search engines won't make this error on the anniversary of Jan 6th. But just a coincidence this "error" works in favor of the CCP. Are we really that dumb?
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
You have encountered a Grue.
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by BrandonMarc 6y ago
This. Plus, it's unambiguously human readable, for users, bystanders, platform developers, everyone. There's a useful usability principle in there.

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