comatose

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by comatose 9y ago
While the unemployment rate may have "improved" it doesn't track people "leaving the workforce " due to giving up or running out of benefits. It was a considered a somewhat jobless recovery actually. With regards to
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by comatose 9y ago
It doesn't necessarily follow that the most profitable path will be taken by middle managers, they often have perverse incentives, real or imagined, to cut costs short term even when the company would be better off if the insured stay
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by comatose 9y ago
well, safari, chrome, osx, iphone, iPad, amazon, android, appletv, and a large number of routers and car systems all use gpl under that license singly. the fact that it's mostly due to linux and khtml seem unimportant when you say so m
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by comatose 9y ago
While working at a pharmaceutical co I was backing up a drive onto the os drive of our local pc for general it support / utilities when I got a call from the user. She forgot to tell me she was on legal hold. I stopped the backup, went
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by comatose 9y ago
Dan Rather, one of the last anchors doing his own reporting, got fired after reporting a bogus GWB story. A staffer was somewhat responsible for airing it, but that was the price of letting the staffer vet the story. I could probably think
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by comatose 9y ago
robin hood didn't steal from tax collectors only, and it's an interesting but unsupported claim that the ultimate accumulators of the wealth in his day stole less than the perpetrators of pyramid schemes, pump and dump stock schem
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by comatose 9y ago
I use ff on my galaxy s5 and the ui isn't noticibly slow, but I'm on lineageos (cyanogen) and keep apps from running when not needed so ymmv
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by comatose 9y ago
come on , this isn't complicated, don't over think it-- a woman (or man) meets someone and sends a nude; regrets the next morning; fb im the image to themselves and flags it their partner uploads it, a fb employee sees a nude that
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by comatose 9y ago
can we set experiments.enabled to false? if so that's a severe difference, albeit a questionable default, there should be a popup on install, or at least a message on install
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by comatose 9y ago
Your use of 'free' here is correct from the perspective of a developer working for intel, but as a user with a cpu running modified and previously opensource, but now closedsource, software it isn't applicable to me. GPL woul
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by comatose 9y ago
it's a little reductio ad absurdum but what about defaulting to popup blocking? blink? marquee? It's not the same thing but maybe worth considering when defending web author's intent being ignored.
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by comatose 9y ago
If I saw that behavior in a manager who was not in my direct reporting chain I would probably let hr know. but having worked mostly govt contract, pharma, and finance I'm used to rfid badges-- not exactly top security tech-- but it, an
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by comatose 9y ago
Imagine your pc vendor shipped windows with remote desktop enabled, you can't disable it, and you can't see if there are any local accounts in the group, and also they could be administrators, and also it was far worse than even t
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by comatose 9y ago
pxe booting loads a lightweight os, ime can access the networking later when the full os is loaded but has generic or specific drivers for low level net access. ime doesn't use pxe though, afaik
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by comatose 9y ago
Asking the rich and powerful gatekeepers of the majority news sources of the public to filter content for us in a way they have been relatively reticent to do, mostly out of pure altruism, is asinine. I have no love for Facebook or Google,
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by comatose 9y ago
I like it, kind of, but it's a shame because the story of Tesla vs the big auto makers seems to have a parallel with Tesla and Edison and many tech enthusiasts may already be on team Tesla. I do like Ford's work on technology thou