mostlyskeptical

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Comment · 8 years ago
"I'm right, they are wrong, and the ends justify the means".

For as horrible as I hear the right is, it seems to be only the left advocating explicitly for violence, while I'm told that the right simply arguing for something such as stronger borders is actually committing violence.

Comment · 8 years ago
Mine go down fairly regularly. I have even been cut a check for adding cars to my insurance.
Comment · 8 years ago
I won a silent computer 5+ years ago as a prize at a lan party. SSD drives, two of the best passively coolable gpu at the time (ATI I Believe?), passive CPU cooler, and the whole case was lined with musicians sound absorbing foam. I think it did have an optional 240mm fan but I never heard it even when I turned it on. It was so nice that I have built my newest computer in the same way (though I did put some big storage drives in it).
Comment · 8 years ago
At least some of their other stuff is a nightmare. I still haven't figured out how to use their oauth correctly, or use their iot stuff at all.
Comment · 8 years ago
Sounds like ether or one of the many projects built on it (golem?).
Comment · 8 years ago
There's a non insignificant number of people who plead guilty to murder for that same reason (to avoid death penalty) but are later exonerated via DNA evidence.
Comment · 8 years ago
Doesn't the house of Lords have some members appointed by the church, others by birth, women weren't allowed to be Lords spiritual until 2015, and women still aren't allowed to inherit some seats today?

Hard to take that seriously in any regard, much less as 'experts'.

Comment · 8 years ago
Companies will always be shamed for not being diverse enough. Tis the call of outrage culture.
Comment · 8 years ago
Thanks for this

A thread full of people talking about how bad working for yourself is had me questioning my upcoming decision to quit and try to do something for myself, and what you said is the biggest reason why I want to. I love hard work, but I don't love pointless work. I already do some low pay contracting on the side, but it's with a couple of small companies that trust me 100% so they never tell me "no". Don't get me wrong, they will question the hell out of my decisions and I've changed quite a few in response to the questions, but at the end of the day they trust me to do what's best for them.

I already have the house paid off, have no other debt, and have low 7 figures in reasonably liquid investments. Working for myself has been a dream of mine as long as I can remember. I don't need much money, just enough to get by.

Anyway sorry for the rambling. Just wanted to say thank you, you made me feel better about going into work today. Maybe I'll make today the last?

Comment · 8 years ago
You probably have multiple plug types in your house. Single phase, two phase, maybe three phase, groundless, etc. They might have similar requirements.
Comment · 8 years ago
As someone that lives outside of the state, it's almost a hobby of mine to collect prop 65 warnings.

I've seen it on everything from food to juices and hammers to cars.

The running joke about my friends is "I'm sure glad I don't live in California or all this stuff would give me cancer"

Comment · 8 years ago
The placebo effect is still an effect.
Comment · 9 years ago
>neither of those issues are reasonable to expect no matter what your opinion of Apple's software is.

Neither is your password showing up in a password hint field (or anywhere for that matter... why is it even stored unhashed?).

Neither is logging in with a blank password enabling a disabled root user.

Comment · 9 years ago
> That's to prevent leaks from driving the stock price up, and causing the buyout cost to increase. That's a little different than using it to hide the fact that they were knowingly breaking the law. Do you understand the difference?

You're making the assumption that they did it for that reason. It could be that covering up the crimes was just a side effect.

Comment · 9 years ago
As we say when teaching new riders to ride a motorcycle, a crash is often an intersection of factors. If you remove even one of those issues it likely would have prevented it.

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