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by bdavisx 8d ago
>each side has their own legal name. I think there's some question as to whether the President can just rename things with an EO - what's the legal name of that lake right now from a US standpoint - there isn't a 100% answ
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by bdavisx 8d ago
>probably a good argument to not allow random cameras in. About as good of an argument as the prisoner who insists that cell searches for contraband must be announced a day before the search. Do you think the people running the jail woul
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by bdavisx 1mo ago
Here's my thoughts on how Flock and related tech should be handled. Nothing gets stored unless there's a specific judicial warrant. They can take a pic of my license plate, I'm in public, ok. But unless they have a warrant
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by bdavisx 2mo ago
I wonder what it would cost in the US to have a pint of blood taken - I can't donate. Guess I could do it myself...
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by bdavisx 2mo ago
>I still haven't figured out how he's profiting from Trump Accounts yet I would guess that he could have been paid in many various ways (TrumpCoins anyone) by financial institution(s) that were set to benefit from the accounts.
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by bdavisx 3mo ago
This is a serious answer, even though it sounds smart-assish: How likely is it the resolution was money flowing to the correct people? and a follow-up: How likely is it that the block was put in place just to get that money flowing?
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by bdavisx 3mo ago
They also at some point purchased Pivotal Cloud Foundry and increased the licensing costs by incredible (order of magnitude) amounts. They are completely destroying their customer base for these products.
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by bdavisx 4mo ago
>The ones deeply interested in the subject would likely skip college anyway Spoken like a true software engineer ;), there are jobs where you have to have a degree to get the job. "Real" engineers with sign-off responsibiliti
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by bdavisx 4mo ago
>In hindsight, I would definitely declare today that we WERE winning it when we were fighting it. Now that we don't, we're getting massacred. LOL, no, we've never even been in a winning position. Were we winning when the C
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by bdavisx 6mo ago
> they have managed to bake in more toxic features Twitter ever did in such a short timespan. Not arguing, just curious - what toxic features are you talking about?
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by bdavisx 7mo ago
>While I don't personally support the examples that I am aware of, I also recognize that in those specific cases the executive branch appears to be within the bounds of the law. I don't even object to the executive branch havin
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by bdavisx 7mo ago
And if everywhere they went would do the same thing, then they wouldn't be able to leave. Too bad people have been convinced that unions are bad.
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by bdavisx 8mo ago
>It is much cheaper to pay a small monthly fee to a SaaS company. It's not that cut and dried - it all depends on what your company needs from SaaS and how big it is. SaaS companies like Salesforce don't charge a "small mo
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by bdavisx 8mo ago
I haven't used Scala for quite a while now - but a while back they had a serious asshole problem with a lot of the community.
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by bdavisx 8mo ago
I don't want to nitpick, but they didn't say "healthy", and I think the current situation wrt news ownership should be called out at every opportunity, because not everyone is aware of it.
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by bdavisx 8mo ago
>It's much easier to successfully bribe/coerce/undermine a single individual running an independent newsletter like this than it is an entire newsroom. Except the problem in the US now is that newspapers are owned by corpo
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by bdavisx 8mo ago
The problem with your statement is there's no way to know - the reality is it could have been a bribe or lack of a bribe; it could have been an actual foreign policy decision based on facts; or some other reason. It's not hard to
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by bdavisx 10mo ago
I don't think anyone would argue with that - the problem here is that the requirements are being changed thru a process that involves no public or congressional input. The other issue is that the vetting will likely not just look for t
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by bdavisx 10mo ago
Debuggers are great when you can use them. Where I work (financial/insurance) we are not allowed to debug on production servers. I would guess that's true in a lot of high security environments. So the skill of knowing how to &quo
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by bdavisx 10mo ago
>if you can rent cheaply enough for 10-20 years the boomers will start dying in sufficient numbers that if there is somehow no reversion on home prices in the mean time there should be insufficient buyers at that point and prices will ev
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by bdavisx 11mo ago
A GUI can be as effective as a TUI if it's designed to be 100% usable from a keyboard - the problem is very few applications take the time to do that design.
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by bdavisx 11mo ago
This will sound like I'm joking, but I'm not. It seems like with this administration, having the regulators reverse their decision wouldn't be that hard, especially with a "donation" to the ballroom or something alo
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by bdavisx 11mo ago
Serious question - it seems that many of this Administrations activities are illegal in some way or the other. I know that government officials are shielded from a lot of actions so they can not be prosecuted. What actions that have been ta
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by bdavisx 1y ago
For the curious, I checked some prices on the maytags - a little less than 3,000 USD for the front loader, the Speed Queen commercial ones were cheaper.
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by bdavisx 1y ago
That's an insane amount - how old is the dryer? I've replaced two heating elements in my ~9 year old Samsung dryer, I think the heating elements were less than 50 USD. I did the labor myself so I don't know how much that woul
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by bdavisx 1y ago
Unless you try to cheap out, then you end up costing yourself more in the long run, lol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/161_Maiden_Lane
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by bdavisx 1y ago
I'm not going to waste my time looking up sources, but I remember that Starlink actively worked against Ukraine at one point - so yes, indefensible.
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by bdavisx 1y ago
Trying to what-about this just shows that you're either being deceitful or don't understand the differences. Biden Jr. was taking advantage of his dad's position - and everything seems to point that Biden Sr. was not involved
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by bdavisx 1y ago
Yes and no - there's an argument to be made that you can't pardon someone for doing something illegal on your orders.
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by bdavisx 1y ago
>If you ask a US citizen who to blame for this trade war, it'll be trump. Not the MAGA/Fox News Watcher, they simply don't live in reality. Luckily the "swing" voters aren't that dumb, they will realize they

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