waspleg

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by waspleg 1y ago
The only person I knew who had BTC in like 2008 used it to buy drugs from the Silk Road. They're dead now so it doesn't matter.
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by waspleg 2y ago
How's your social credit score?
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by waspleg 2y ago
Literally a Black Mirror episode.
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by waspleg 2y ago
Top bracket taxed at 90%. Wealth disparity not at worse than 1920's levels as it is currently.
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by waspleg 6y ago
There are famous short-seller investors circling IBM for exaggerated earnings projections. Redhat could very well end up in someone else's hands sooner than later.
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by waspleg 7y ago
The school system I work for has thousands of devices with these. They're basically like an SD card for a camera soldered to the board. They do not have the wear leveling and other shit a real SSD has. They're slow, (comparative
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by waspleg 7y ago
"People often feel marginalised. They feel that they have no influence or position. In these cases, the perception is that meetings do not improve anything, but actually cause even more frustration." Literally the last paragraph h
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by waspleg 7y ago
I have MS. My neurologist straight up said many years ago that vitamin D is not a cure ... but he did recommend taking a supplement, unfortunately the urologist disagrees...
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by waspleg 7y ago
True. They're very much the new Microsoft and Chrome is the new IE. But the general public also doesn't know what it used to be like. I logged in just to up vote you. I wish we had functioning anti-trust laws.
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by waspleg 9y ago
I loathe ads and tracking. I run ublock origin/https everywhere/privacy badger (the latter of those 2 are from the EFF). I run a dedicated pfsense machine (old optiplex 755 with an old ssd) I added a nic to it. All network traffic
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by waspleg 9y ago
26 - 0 vote, now you know who runs both parties; the rich.
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by waspleg 10y ago
a lot of people have an app on their phone. that means no search.
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by waspleg 10y ago
because money source: my dad was a lawyer for 20+ years.
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by waspleg 10y ago
It's not over yet. I want to say surviving but given the spate of celebrity and personal friend deaths and my own health problems there's not enough wood on Earth to knock.
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by waspleg 10y ago
Vouchers also don't do anything for the possible damage/theft. I used to work hotels, mostly 3rd shift, and none would ever have gone for that. They also all always require ID cash (photocopied if cash) or not; even in the ghetto.
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by waspleg 10y ago
Worst browser. Best ad block. Interesting combination.
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by waspleg 10y ago
You could just have a desktop with vastly better specs. My 4 year old full tower still has better specs in almost every way than top end laptops do. I don't understand the obsession with laptops. They have shit keyboards, small screens
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by waspleg 10y ago
Completely valid comment. They've already been told to STFU until the regime change is complete. The FCC has been awesome under Tom Wheeler. It won't last much longer.
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by waspleg 10y ago
There is such a thing as more than one kind of obligation. Are they LEGALLY obligated to share? Likely no. Are they MORALLY obligated? That's definitely up for debate. EDIT: The parent does not deserve down votes because you disagree w
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by waspleg 10y ago
I was very fond of OpenBSD 20 years ago when I ran it (still have the t-shirt). It had a simple elegance that struck a chord with me. I haven't looked at it in a long time, the last time I looked it didn't support VMs at all and d
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by waspleg 10y ago
I read this as "fan boy with too much money replaces every peripheral he owns with USB-C; looks for ways to justify being an early adopter while showboating". Fuck given? 0.
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by waspleg 10y ago
I've had by far the best results with just regular USPS. FedEx is usually the worst, I've had them not even bother knocking and just leave the slip for the next guy multiple times (literally watched them do it on camera). UPS can
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by waspleg 10y ago
I've been sick for weeks and done nothing but read news stories when able most of the day. One of them said 170 million Americans read Facebook every single day. How does that not have a massive influence?
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by waspleg 10y ago
I'd wager a large portion of the readers of this site are too young to know what it as like to not have your entire life under 24/7 surveillance. I hope the back lash is enormous. Security = Privacy = Democracy; you can't hav
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by waspleg 10y ago
This is a great article thanks for posting it. My SO, in her not-day-job is a writer and stand up comic. She has set a self imposed 100 word minimum per day and has been going over 3 months now in an attempt to combat this type of procrasti
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by waspleg 10y ago
^ This. And the race to the bottom continues.
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by waspleg 10y ago
I have MS. People can't/don't/won't empathize with things they can't see or understand firsthand. I could give work examples of being threatened illegally while on FMLA but posting this under this username is d
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by waspleg 10y ago
It should embolden other leakers. The official reporting for these things is corrupted beyond viability. But Obama won't pardon him. He's at least as conservative as Bush and in some ways far far worse (that he's a consider
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by waspleg 10y ago
Oh good USSR style spy on your neighbors is back for corporate monetization. You know, I watched a few episodes of the English show Black Mirror about how technology is used for vile dystopian hellscapes like this but it got too depressing
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by waspleg 10y ago
In my area, I have the highest tier of Comcast service (residential) at 75 mbps.

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