i_am_nomad

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by i_am_nomad 4y ago
I’ve worked with some truly excellent people who came from Theranos.
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by i_am_nomad 4y ago
Gebru.
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
I’ve never read that quotation, that’s amazing. Thanks for sharing it.
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
I can still remember, on an evening back in the 1980s, newscaster Gerrick Utley commenting on “this particularly slow news day.” Even as a dumb kid, I understood that to be a good thing. But I couldn’t have guessed how much I’d pine for an
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
Part of the issue here is that the military establishment and its peripheral industries in the US are so enormous, that most people who aren’t in the military are close to someone who is, or who does business with it. We’re all already in t
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
Maybe I should qualify that with, “outside of China.” If you’re using Apple phones in China, you should assume your data are available to the CCP. Otherwise, I have yet to see any evidence or indication that Apple collects data in a manner
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
Many comments here boil down to “if you want privacy, buy an iPhone.” While true, this is another exhibit of privacy now being only for people who can afford it.
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
I’m not so sure about that - Zapier has a number of use cases that are completely unrelated to AWS.
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
Fundamentally, your retort to the parent’s (poorly expressed and now dead) reply is sound, though I believe they might have been circling the concept of negative vs. positive rights. It’s an interesting topic and one worthy of debate, thou
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
Agreed, SSH-based remote development could certainly be smoother. But I love the way PyCharm uses pydev to run a Remote Debugging Server - that works for most remote-development use cases I encounter. Once you get it set up and a run config
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
So we agree that mean and racist tropes are bad and should be shunned. I’m glad to hear it.
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
I perceive the "It's okay to be white" slogan as a very moderate and constructive reaction to the propagation and even normalization of anti-white messages and memes. And I specifically mean anti-white as an ethnic hatred, n
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
That’s always going to be a WIP. If artists want to cut out Ticketmaster, they already can, and sometimes do. Ticketmaster exists solely because artists want to charge lots of money but maintain a warm relationship with their fans.
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
Another suggestion: eat seitan, if you can. It’s basically wheat gluten, made into dough and baked like bread, but it has a meatloaf-like texture. Add in spices and nutritional yeast or grated Parmesan, and it’s delicious. On top of that, p
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by i_am_nomad 6y ago
I nominate this: https://github.com/maduce/fosscad-repo/tree/master/Firearms/...
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Except the company isn’t named anywhere, as far as I can tell. So at the moment it’s not any kind of PR.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
That the Wal-Mart sample wasn’t adulterated isn’t surprising at all. Wal-Mart is notoriously bossy and intrusive to its suppliers; it’s sometimes said that if you sell to Wal-Mart, they end up knowing your business better than you do.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Eh, you should meet some of my coworkers.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
I don’t think those people had a binary choice between starving and a Ph.D. program.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
The story of how AWS started is a common misconception. Yes, it began with S3, but it’s just not true that Amazon externalized its internal application hosting technology.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
They’ll pay in exposure.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Be quiet.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Morgan Stanley already is betting on a return to positive growth sometime in late Q2. I won’t bet against them.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
But how much current, organic traffic would this be hijacking?
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
That might be what the other 1.5 million people in my city are counting on. Which means, I’m not going to count on that.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
All of that depends on your power costs. My town has its own municipal power cooperative that buys very cheap hydrothermal electricity. Solar would never make sense for me, except as some kind of disaster-event alternative.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Good lord... those numbers cannot be real, that’s terrifying.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Except the blue check can be and has been revoked for reasons that have nothing to do with identity.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Don’t forget to pay your exit tax.
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by i_am_nomad 7y ago
Nice to get some commentary from GPT-2.

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