adestefan

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by adestefan 14d ago
It was GW Bush winning the election that allowed Microsoft to a settlement.
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by adestefan 2mo ago
The Postal Service is one of the few entities directly authorized by the US Constitution. From Article 1, Section 8: > The Congress shall have Power… To establish Post Offices and post Roads With that one of the hallmarks of the USPS is
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by adestefan 3mo ago
This court doesn’t care about precedent.
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by adestefan 3mo ago
And Google will exit at 12 months when the S&P seasoning period and 4 quarters of profitability are satisfied.
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by adestefan 3mo ago
This is exactly how the dot com crash happened. People point out this like pets.com, but that wasn’t the issue. It was the musical chairs the played with the fiber telecoms. Today it’s data centers.
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by adestefan 4mo ago
That icon is a "close Carplay/Auto" button. My Subaru has a Subaru button; my wife's Mazda has a Mazda button.
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by adestefan 4mo ago
USDS and 18F proved that strong, internal technical leadership and dedicated teams make this work.
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by adestefan 5mo ago
All our bookkeeping is now in YAML. Watch the spaces on your way out the door.
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by adestefan 5mo ago
> pro-energy administration Very far from pro-energy when you give companies money to cancel energy projects that are not burning green house gases.
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by adestefan 5mo ago
New England colonists had a habit of ransacking and burning down the houses of government officials throughout the 1760s and during the Revolutionary War. Got bad enough that most did not sleep in their government housing.
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by adestefan 6mo ago
That’s juicy coming from the current Republican Party.
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by adestefan 6mo ago
It’s right at the top of the linked bill. The attorney general or a district attorney may bring a civil action on behalf of the state against a person that violates the prohibition against individualized price or wage setting based on surve
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by adestefan 8mo ago
What makes Anthropic the most money.
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by adestefan 9mo ago
It’s as random as any other UUID.
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by adestefan 9mo ago
The problem isn't only papers it's that the world of academic computer science coalesced around conference submissions instead of journal submissions. This isn't new and was an issue 30 years ago when I was in grad school. I
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by adestefan 9mo ago
The entire thread is people missing this simple point.
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by adestefan 11mo ago
There's a better word for it.
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by adestefan 11mo ago
We've taken the one task that computers are inherently good at and somehow made it worse.
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by adestefan 11mo ago
It's become worse since 2017 when they changed the 1040 to make it "shorter." All they did was move everything to different forms so now it's an insane process of shuffling numbers back and forth across many forms.
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by adestefan 11mo ago
They helpfully send you letter when you screwed up, too.
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by adestefan 1y ago
But that uses TPM backed keys only protected by the TPM PSRs. Someone could still swipe your box and unlock the disk.
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by adestefan 1y ago
You don’t. You can’t even serve ads in search without issues. Even when ads on Google were basic text not inline they were an intrusion into the response.
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by adestefan 1y ago
Rick Scott made his money by being the CEO of a company that paid a $1.7 billion fine for Medicare fraud.[0] He’s one of the most corrupt people in Congress. [0] https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2014/mar/
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by adestefan 1y ago
The language lets you get around a bunch of pesky laws by declaring it a "national defense emergency."
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by adestefan 1y ago
They did it. The Republicans rolled it all back.
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by adestefan 1y ago
I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters.
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by adestefan 1y ago
That's the last GPLv2-only version of rsync.
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by adestefan 1y ago
It's unclear if you'd win this case right now.
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by adestefan 1y ago
Adam Mastroianni talks about this a lot. His best example is at: https://www.experimental-history.com/p/things-could-be-bette...
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by adestefan 2y ago
It wasn't just the search that was amazing. You would go to google.com and be presented with only a Google logo, 1 line input box, and 2 buttons. No portal, no news, no header, no login, no advertise with us, no punching monkeys. It wa

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