will4274

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by will4274 26d ago
Many businesses have a notion of partial delivery. If you hire a contractor to build an extension on your house and they get sick halfway through the project and hand off to another contractor who completes it a few weeks or even months lat
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by will4274 2mo ago
It wasn't shot down due to politics. It was shot down because it solved the wrong problem.
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by will4274 2mo ago
Was it really Microsoft or was it Mojang? There were two account transitions, and in my experience, most customers use Microsofts name, but are complaining about the first (Mojang, not Microsoft) transition.
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by will4274 2mo ago
Yeah. And when you don't configure your TLS certificate correctly, people can't connect to your webpage. The anti-email authenticity standards gang has always smelled like the anti-TLS gang to me.
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by will4274 2mo ago
> No, the democratic electoral base is consistently and loudly complaining that after the primaries, most democrat candidates become moderates in the general election Actually, about the same number of Democrats say their candidates are
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by will4274 3mo ago
Enough to convince a jury of their peers.
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by will4274 3mo ago
? He moved them because his wife asked him to, because his wife didn't want the police to find them, because they spoke to her motive. So it would have obstructed the investigation by making it harder to prove her motive. Like how is t
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by will4274 3mo ago
In this case, the roommate conspired to setup an ambush of police officers, an ambush which resulted in one of the police officers being shot in the neck. The roommate didn't "attend a protest" except by the broadest possible
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by will4274 3mo ago
It's a crime to deliberately conceal another crime, whether you do it by raking leaves, deleting Internet posts, or setting your car on fire. It's called accessory after the fact.
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by will4274 3mo ago
Being aware that he was moving the zines to obstruct a federal felony investigation is surely relevant. Intent is an important aspect of crime.
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by will4274 3mo ago
Yes, you ban some legitimate customers with v4. But the span between the smallest allocations and biggest allocations is much smaller, so simple strategies (like banning the bad address) scale further.
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by will4274 3mo ago
It's difficult for servers to know how big client allocations are. With v4, pretty much everybody got /32s, but with v6, sizes vary. So you've got to start with small bans, and then switch to big bans later, but not too aggre
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by will4274 5mo ago
It's not possible, technically, to run effective anti-cheat server-side. Clients need precise enemy location data for things like sound effects. The server can't tell if the client is using the data for unfair purposes or not.
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by will4274 5mo ago
Did you restore Internet Explorer from Windows 7? It seems uncontroversial that the state of web browsers is improved since Win 7
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by will4274 5mo ago
> What people realy want: as little OS as possible to let them run just the things on their computer they want to run. The truth is - it's more complicated than that. People want three contradictory things: 1. To not be nagged for t
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by will4274 5mo ago
> I recently got locked out of my machine because logging in with the mandatory Microsoft account-backed primary user of my machine didn't work anymore. It said I was offline and I had to use the "previous password" even t
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by will4274 5mo ago
> when you look at the whole of human political history When you look at the whole of human political history, the vast majority of politican systems have been authoritarian. Anybody who supports a system of government where average peop
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by will4274 5mo ago
You'd be better off if you stopped seeing groups of tens of millions of people as enemies. That sort of thinking is how genocides start.
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by will4274 5mo ago
You forgot to include an argument in your comment. I cited specific positive impacts (tax revenue) but you just talked about negative impact in the abstract, without citing anything specific, and then went on a rant about how the world work
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by will4274 5mo ago
Why? Datacenters have smaller effects on neighbors than other industries. No runoff like farming, no pollution like factories
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by will4274 5mo ago
One out of three. Datacenters use small land and water compared to just about any other industry. The power consumption is significant.
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by will4274 5mo ago
The French are just arrogant enough to believe themselves major players on the world stage.
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by will4274 5mo ago
You're right about the values disconnect. In America, we believe in democracy and individual rights. In Europe, y'all still have kings and queens and authoritarian governments.
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by will4274 5mo ago
In 2025, USA GDP grew by 2.0%. In 2025, EU GDP grew by 1.5%. Government spending (a proxy for government power) is a fraction of GDP, usually between 10% of GDP and 30% of GDP. So, while the US may not be doing particularly well right now,
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by will4274 5mo ago
If Europe didn't have America as an ally, Europe wouldn't exist in 50 years.
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by will4274 5mo ago
The data center jobs are middle class. With progressive taxation, those 30 middle class jobs generate about 100 average people's worth of revenue. Presumably Lewiston has schools which could use the funds. And presumably everybody in L
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by will4274 5mo ago
- Datacenters don't use tons of water compared to just about any other business. - It's not really fair to blame datacenters for using the municipality's electricity and then blame them again for being loud and generating ele
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by will4274 5mo ago
> Datacenters might not be as potentially destructive, but they're also a massive net negative for the community in many real world ways No they aren't. Datacenters are air conditioned buildings that consume a moderate amount o
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by will4274 5mo ago
In this case, it was the opinions of the politician who would receive more votes than anybody else in the history of the USA just a few years later.
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by will4274 5mo ago
It's a bit more like a physical business with a "public welcome" policy like a coffee shop going viral and then having tens of thousands of people walking in and taking pictures but not buying coffee. It's disruptive, bu

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