mcv

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by mcv 10d ago
Possibly. The content can be saved and posted on a variety of other platforms. While this is very heavy handed censorship, there are plenty of ways around it.
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by mcv 10d ago
Yeah, but do you control international banking the way they do? That's ultimately how they're able to do this.
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by mcv 10d ago
I planned for this year's eclipse two years in advance, and it was a bit disappointing: the eclipse, just before sunset, disappeared behind some wisps of clouds just before the totality. Now I'm wondering if this is as good as it&
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by mcv 10d ago
Is that an executive order overriding a law? Is that possible? I thought executive orders only affected the federal government. I'm all for breaking the stranglehold of those big 4 meatpacking companies, but make it an actual law, not
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by mcv 10d ago
Expect the meat industry to lobby against being allowed to call it meat, if it didn't involve real living animals. In Europe they managed to get words like burger, nugget and sausage to only be legally applicable to meat. They'll
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by mcv 11d ago
I've never heard of WJS being center-left. But then I don't read it, I only come across what is occasionally shared online, most of which sounds insane.
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by mcv 11d ago
I've heard that even experts can't tell those superclones apart from the originals anymore. Are they equally reliable?
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by mcv 12d ago
I'm afraid the only ethics some of them believe in is the Friedman Doctrine.
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by mcv 12d ago
Yeah, it feels it might be a bit skewed to produce interesting results. My first attempt, despite a life expectancy of 31 and a 34% chance to reach 40, lived a glorious 65 years. Then again, my next two attempts died at 4 months and 4 years
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by mcv 13d ago
I'm fast. I've been clocked at over 40. 40 is crazy fast. Most cyclist go 15. The fast ones 20-25. The very fastest maybe 30-35. 60 is a wild exaggeration. That's what sprinters do in the Tour de France.
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by mcv 13d ago
You don't need to move furniture every week, so you can always rent a van for that. Using a car for the 500m to my nearest supermarket seems a bit silly, but these days our groceries are delivered to the front door. All of this is a ma
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by mcv 13d ago
Halved? So you could go 60 on narrow city streets? In Netherland, the speed limit in cities used to be 50, and even in the 1980s, people were complaining that that was too fast. Most residential streets have been 30 (or less; the street I g
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by mcv 15d ago
It's an executive order, not a law. There is absolutely no reason for Google, MapQuest or anyone else to change the name of the lake in their map. Google chooses to do so, MapQuest chooses not to. That says nothing about the speed of t
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by mcv 15d ago
I was also a fanboy once, but a straw broke that particular camel's back a long time ago. I already wasn't planning on ever giving Google any money, so they're not losing any income from me.
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by mcv 15d ago
That doesn't make it any less disgusting, though. And there are also companies that aren't quite so eager to comply.
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by mcv 15d ago
That's exactly what every executive order is: it's what the federal government uses. It's not binding for anyone else. It doesn't have the power of law. Google is under absolutely no obligation to do this. They do it exp
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by mcv 15d ago
Disgusting. At the very least drag your feet a bit. Just goes to show how on board those corporations are with this sort of narcissistic authoritarianismm
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by mcv 15d ago
It is a valid question, and the many, many answers to it are worth reading. In short: he's made it very clear that he's a racist who doesn't like that there are non-white people living in London, doesn't like Roma, and s
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by mcv 15d ago
I'm not familiar with Gnome's politics, but there are many open source projects that are not calling for anyone to be killed, Roma or otherwise.
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by mcv 15d ago
It doesn't seem to be working. I've never seen this many people spread the word about what he really thinks.
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by mcv 15d ago
So much money to spend and no one will take it...
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by mcv 15d ago
A script that gets 10 million dollars. That's some amazing marketing.
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by mcv 15d ago
What also matters is how severe firing is for you. It's not the same for everybody. > And if you don't build that leverage within the company you pretty much have no option but to go somewhere else if put in a bad situation. I
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by mcv 16d ago
You always have the power to accept timelines. And they have the power to fire you. Instead of trying to accept the impossible, I would persist in explaining the reality. They can reject your message, they can reject you, but they can'
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by mcv 17d ago
Absolutely. Sometimes executives need to feel the impact of their own poor decisions. Do not accept timelines from people who have no idea of the issues. If they fire you, they're firing the person who best understands their code. Don&
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by mcv 18d ago
Yeah, I'd be reluctant to commit to a hard timeline for a mess like that. Be extremely clear about what they're up against, that it's going to take a lot of time, and that there will probably be unexpected surprises which wil
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by mcv 19d ago
I know a guy (not quite close enough to call him a friend, but I know him from non-tech activities) who's member of the w3c, tech researcher, great and interesting speaker, and has tons of interesting insights to share. He talks a lot
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by mcv 19d ago
Yeah, so many sites bug me to install their app just to read their web page. I'm not going to install every app, so just make the website usable. LinkedIn, Instagram, too many others to list them all. I'd rather not use them at al
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by mcv 20d ago
Goodbye? Or maybe hello to a new platform.
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by mcv 21d ago
I'm pretty green, and opposed nuclear power back in the 1980s, but I now consider that a mistake. We've remained far too dependent on coal and oil. If nuclear power would have prevented more coal plants from being opened, that wou

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