lordalch

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by lordalch 4mo ago
Burning Man itself does not sell VIP tickets. Since 2022, the organization has significantly pushed back against camps trying to package and sell "VIP packages" by restricting them from getting early setup passes, water deliveries
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by lordalch 2y ago
I'm not trying to sound snarky, but the armed forces does have a category of employees who can't be involuntarily deployed: civilians. There are already many civilian employees of the DoD that work in the tech roles discussed in t
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by lordalch 2y ago
I've been looking at this personally. It's not stated in the article, but the initiative is known as constructive service credit for cyber direct commissions. The way it works is basically the same as reserve officer recruiting, b
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by lordalch 3y ago
When I moved and was looking for a new vet and dentist, I specifically asked each one about their ownership structure and didn't choose any that were owned by a PE firm.
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by lordalch 4y ago
There are several redundant tracking systems on an airliner, but the pilot deliberately turned them off. That hadn't been an issue before.
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by lordalch 4y ago
Title should reflect that this was published in 2006. And moreover, I don't think the article's point is true today. Python and JavaScript are both mature languages with massive libraries of online example code for anything you co
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by lordalch 4y ago
My understanding is that due to Webb's location at L2, it can never point back at the Earth, because that would basically be pointing directly at the sun.
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by lordalch 5y ago
They're privately held. You're probably looking at a different Kronos's stock.
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by lordalch 5y ago
I'd say this is essentially an instance of the sequential monopolization problem and imperfectly aligned incentives due to a difference in the shape of each party's cost/demand curve. The classical example of sequential monop
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by lordalch 5y ago
The employees (or any group of them, even less than half) are free to join a union and attempt to negotiate with Amazon. However, Amazon would just ignore them. Union votes like the one described here are about triggering protections of US
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by lordalch 5y ago
I'm personally of the opinion that 418 shouldn't be considered a joke response, but would actually useful as 418 "Unsupported Device". What response should a printer give if you asked it to send a fax, but you have a bas
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by lordalch 5y ago
I use the BlockSite extension for precisely this- preventing me from opening social media on my work profile
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by lordalch 5y ago
How were you able to take the GED exam at 16? I looked into doing this while I was in high school, and found that I wouldn't be able to take the exam until I was 19, defeating the point. Perhaps it varies by state? If so, I applaud Ore
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by lordalch 5y ago
I remember reading about some folks who wanted to open a bank that wouldn't make any loans, but rather just take store all their deposits as excess reserves at the federal reserve. They would take a few basis points for themselves, but
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by lordalch 5y ago
What a waste of human effort. If the landowners were adequately compensated for having arbitrary use restrictions added to their property after they bought it, they would have had no incentive to bulldoze it in the first place. Cities chang
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by lordalch 6y ago
Since I got my driver's license over a decade ago, I've had to parallel-park less than ten times. I've probably changed a flat tire more often. I think you would find that the vast majority of drivers in the US don't par
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by lordalch 6y ago
Once you clone the repository, you can search locally using Git Grep, Git ls-tree, etc.
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by lordalch 7y ago
Isn't that just how you get `const ONE = 1` cruft?
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by lordalch 7y ago
The last-search thing is configurable, depending on your version of Jira. You can have it open to a specific RapidView, or your user-configurable Dashboard page, where you can add a Widget for a a specific JQL like "Assigned to me AND
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by lordalch 7y ago
I actually worked as a production electrician & lighting designer for a couple years, and I can say from my experience that IATSE is a cancer on the industry. I wouldn't join or support a union for computer technologists. My main c
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by lordalch 7y ago
Valar Dohaeris? Wait, nevermind...
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by lordalch 7y ago
Collin Creek is utterly bizarre to walk through. it seemed like 80% of the shops were shuttered, and I saw maybe a dozen other customers while walking the length of the mall. One of the 15,000+ sqft units was leased out to a model railroad
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by lordalch 7y ago
This is why California's property tax system, in which taxes don't increase until a property is sold, is often cited as a major factor in its housing dilemma.
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by lordalch 8y ago
> What new wealth is being created by purchase with intent to rent vs purchase with intent to occupy vs the builder offering the building for rent? There is value being created here in the market for risk, flexibility, and capital alloca
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by lordalch 8y ago
I don't have the fatalities stats, but their safety ratings have been perfect. [0] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/20/tesla-model-3-earns-perfect-...
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by lordalch 8y ago
Since I see links to WSJ pretty frequently, I installed https://github.com/danielmichaelni/let-me-read-wsj to bypass the paywall
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by lordalch 8y ago
My understanding was that BLM limited the number of tickets they could sell, and they decided to make the tickets go by lottery rather than raise the price. If I were planning to go to Burning Man, I would just plan to buy the $1,200 ticke
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by lordalch 8y ago
I really liked it. I may be borderline "cryptobourgeoisie," but this article really captures the life of the college grad millennial who hasn't been as lucky.