kls

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by kls 4y ago
I will say this, I grew up in a time of asylums and I lived thru their gutting of them with the Reagan administration and back then law enforcement was very different it did not become militarized until the LA bank shootout and some other e
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by kls 5y ago
Right, I will second this, our law enforcement shut down the Florida Keys at what we call he 18 mile stretch. No one that is not a resident was allowed in. for a good deal of time it worked and to be honest, I am thankful that they did, as
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by kls 5y ago
I personally appreciate this approach, I tend to do a first pass read on ebooks and if I find it of high value and the subject is not temporal (e.g learn Flash development). I always purchase the physical book for my library. I don't m
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by kls 5y ago
It really was the prevailing wisdom of the time. I entered the job market in 92, a few months after CERN released their browser. I knew what was coming when I saw the web for the first time, but the only jobs at the time where custom deskto
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by kls 5y ago
*1) Massively increased libido. The stimulants can increase sex drive, but can also make orgasm more difficult while also sometimes making it more difficult to maintain an erection. While these last two can be frustrating on a personal leve
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by kls 5y ago
My doctor actually prescribes a regime of holidays from the stimulants. It is becoming a fairly common practice.
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by kls 5y ago
I call it not being able to put one foot in front of the other. You will find all kinds of distractions to try to not think about it, because to think about it is almost physically painful.
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by kls 5y ago
Would second this, if the though of doing the dishes is equivalent to someone shooting your dog emotionally then you have an issue. It just seems like life cannot go on to get yourself to drag yourself to the sink and start washing them. No
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by kls 5y ago
With the exception of MDMA, MDMA has show to have effective outcomes on depression and PTSD in short term studies. They problem is they have to be interleaved with SSRI's or the down state is far worse. That has been the issue with MDM
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by kls 5y ago
I had horrible physicals side effects with Adderall, I was switch to Desoxyn and I get no physical side effects from it. I just get clear headed with no speedy feel in the body or cramps. Adderall always made me clear headed, but also jitte
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by kls 5y ago
I just don't see how people become physically addicted to these drugs. I am on Desoxyn have been for years and at a pretty high dose for a clinical dose. 35mg twice a day. I have went weeks without taking my medication with no ill effe
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by kls 5y ago
I was brought on to the other company as a CTO, they where a profitable startup but had used contractors and had a bad tech stack due to no internal technical direction. I entered her company as a consultant and interim CTO. While I did do
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by kls 5y ago
I don't see it that way, she was a friend, she built a company from the ground up and she took care of people. At that time (2002ish IIRC) she was paying me fair market rate which in full disclosure was about $150k USD a year. She knew
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by kls 5y ago
So the article resounded with me, because being raised by my grandparents on a family citrus farm during the transition thru the NAFTA years and watching my family loose what little land wealth they had. It left an indelible mark, a mark of
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by kls 5y ago
Worse than that the article is riddled with fallacious reasoning. It basically amounts to: I am a scientist, a really awesome scientist, I slayed Rand because of my awesome sciencey authority, Rand was wrong. Oh BTW rand was right about fic
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by kls 6y ago
Back in the day if you played a audio CD from Sony, you got a rootkit for your added enjoyment. To this day I have never bought a Sony product due to that debacle and never will until someone goes to jail for hacking millions of computers.
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by kls 6y ago
I still have my great grandfathers Farmall Cub, it was the first tractor he and my grandfather bought for the citrus farm they homesteaded in FL, when he passed my grandfather restored it. When my grandfather sold the farm it was the only t
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by kls 6y ago
This is true when you get to smaller tractor classes, but when you get up to the big specialized tractors like combines, Kubota and the others just really are not in the game in the US, it's dominated by a few players and they all have
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by kls 6y ago
And if you did not you where usually only 3 links away from Goatse.cx .
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by kls 6y ago
Unless a boat will sink, a plane will fall out of the sky, an unstable chemical will detonate or someone will die or lose a limb, there is nothing in the software world that necessitated me being on call. Oh the systems are down and we are
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by kls 6y ago
Cannot upvote this one enough, I once worked for a company where not only did you not have root, you had to remote desktop to a jump box, to remote desktop to your in-datacenter workstation (which so happened to be a standard image that eve
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by kls 6y ago
The only piece of advice I can give on this is that having entered the tech industry at the end of the desktop revolution and the dawn of the web. I left school for the money that was flowing, it was a smart move, but my regret was years la
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by kls 6y ago
I don't disagree with you, just highlighting the frequency of use as of late, and that for me personally the use of them causes me to take a more critical look at what the person utilizing them is actually saying. I personally refrain
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by kls 6y ago
I know you have been on the site a little longer than I have, but I have always assumed we where of around the same genesis of digital nomads that arrived here in the second wave. Which leads me to have made some assumptions about over the
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by kls 6y ago
Funny I have a new red flag word, it used to be on the internet when you saw the first reference to someone being a Nazi you knew to start taking a critical look at what the accuser was saying but we have invented so many of them now to try
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by kls 6y ago
This is in no way an endorsement of the Soviet Union but it does need to be noted that the Soviet Union was in most parts of it's history, far more moderate than the Soviet Union under Stalin, Stalin has a higher body count than Hitler
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by kls 6y ago
Good suggestion, I will utilize it in the future.
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by kls 6y ago
I tend to use the term battle rifle as representing rifles utilized by world militaries, I fully yield that you are correct, but I tend to try to stay away from the word assault rifle when trying to convey what I am saying due to it being a
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by kls 6y ago
It is not a misleading impression, the south as a territory was fairly wealthy for much the same reason that todays California is fairly wealthy, that does not mean that the wealth distribution was good, nor does it mean that I advocate for
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by kls 6y ago
was the number 1 reason why the South had a garbage economy I am not sure what the implication of garbage economy is, but the south was fairly wealthy antebellum. So much so that they supported a large tax base for the federal governmen

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