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by ansmithz42 1y ago
Having lived overseas, the US isn't a "veritable wonderland of consumer choice". There are 5 grocery store chains, for the great majority of the country there is one way to travel: car. At the store (Kroger), I can buy 2 kind
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by ansmithz42 2y ago
They are not executive employees, they are Musk employees, not the same thing.
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by ansmithz42 2y ago
Simple answer: No.
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by ansmithz42 2y ago
Nah! I think the CEOs should be the first ones sent into the combat front line zones.
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by ansmithz42 2y ago
I agree completely! My favorite weed killer is my own two hands and a weeder. Having said that, I live in Arizona and the dominant landscape design here is trees and bushes planted with rocks for the ground cover. A leaf rake is real good a
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
Don't trust the "Cloud" for your backups.
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
My impression on both is that they are US/European centric. Not very true to their "scouring the world for newspapers" line. So, they only show events that impact or are reported on in those areas. I know that newspapers.com
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
Very True! It is about choice of transit. The US has NO Choice of Transit. It is either Car or nothing. How very free that is to be limited to 1 choice!
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
I worked at BEI Electronics and one key position there was the Industrial Automation role who defined how things got built. Another one to look at is Process Control.
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
Remember: Bigger is Better Economies of Scale They both benefit the few and sacrifice the many but are sold as ways to "reduce" costs and hence prices for the masses.
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
Oh but remember: "Bigger is better!" and "Economies of scale"/s
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
I do so wish we could stop using the term "backdoor". When it comes to computer systems, there is really no "front" or "back" and so any access granted is just another door. This then removes the idea that it c
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
A post like this pops up every few months arguing one way or the other. I have lived in absolute nightmare monolith systems with so much cyclic dependency that you couldn't move without breaking something. So monolith isn't the an
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
What!?!?!?!
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
What explains the "communist" countries behaviour is "Animal Farm". The "communist" countries are just a variant of Monarchies. They have replaced some of the birth-rite of monarchies but it is still the same w
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
You need to visit Taiwan. Tea drinking and tea buying is still practiced in many stores. They have even made the bags of tea leaves traceable to where the tea was grown. It may be the tea experience you are looking for!
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by ansmithz42 3y ago
The infamous "fungible resource".
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Ask HN: Could you rig the US Elections?
2 points by ansmithz42 4y ago|11 comments
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by ansmithz42 4y ago
This is exactly "Fahrenheit 451".
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by ansmithz42 4y ago
I received a settlement from the case because I worked at Intuit, also a party to the cartel.
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by ansmithz42 4y ago
You're not alone in this feeling. I left the industry because of the "trendiness" or "shiny object syndrome". Then put on top of that the change from serving people to spying on people and that was all for me.
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by ansmithz42 4y ago
I would love to look at Mullvad. Every time I try to connect to their website using Firefox 101 it fails with Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG. Is anyone else experiencing this?
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by ansmithz42 4y ago
Excellent advice! I wish more programmers paid attention to this than just the 2-3 rules. The 2-3 rule tends to create unintentional tight coupling between things that becomes an iron bar that is even more evil to rectify.
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by ansmithz42 5y ago
Give Krita a try, it is done in a similar manner to blender.
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by ansmithz42 5y ago
Can anyone else who is using Firefox read their main page? All I get is a white screen even after refreshing.
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by ansmithz42 5y ago
And surveillance advertising...
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by ansmithz42 6y ago
Here let's do some numbers since this group likes numbers: Population of China: 1.4B Population of USA: 330M China Population/USA Population ~= 4.5 Case Count China: 81250 Case Count USA: 19285 China Case Count/USA Case Count
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by ansmithz42 7y ago
I think the unfortunate fallout from this is that China now has confirmation that they are in a dominant position world wide and likely will start to exploit that fact. This isn't a statement on the country, as any country in that posi
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by ansmithz42 7y ago
I think the unfortunate fallout from this is that China now has confirmation that they are in a dominant position world wide and likely will start to exploit that fact. This isn't a statement on the country, any country in that positio
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by ansmithz42 7y ago
I think this should be sent to the government officials that they were able to find in their research, it might get them to wake up and stop treating it so lightly.

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