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Tsagadai

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About Tsagadai

I came for the potato salad but stayed around anyway.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #33648475

    It's a pure resourcing issue. How many resources are allocated to improving linux desktop experience on laptops? A tiny fraction compared to Microsoft and Apple. Linux paid develop…

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    Comment #28056160

    Automation? You don't necessarily need infinite population growth, Japan and other nations with low immigration and population growth may be able to make things better than it seem…

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    Comment #23151259

    Probably also worth noting that there are [stories of it happening before]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methuselah ).

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    Comment #21698666

    Nah, those are charity superyachts. They help poor people by showing them how good it is to be rich.

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    Comment #20610077

    Consider it from a bureaucratic efficiency perspective instead then, if the rules are too broad and there are too many exemptions then the cost of gathering taxes increases. The go…

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    Comment #20571335

    Power curves are one reason lead isn't more used (they spike a fair bit). The other one to look at is how the tech itself scales, almost all batteries all catch fire easily due to …

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    Comment #20511146

    Only if you are not good at process. If you have solid practices, documentation and system design skills you can make yourself removable, then you can go on leave whenever and thin…

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    Comment #19925915

    A 360 on a children's swing can definitely be done. I've done it as a child and as an adult. It usually needs to have a much longer rope/chain on it to get the momentum up.

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    Comment #19805217

    Location: Brisbane, Australia Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes, but would prefer not to. E3 eligible. Technologies: Keras, Tensorflow, Python, R, Ruby on Rails, C, JS, React, S…

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    Comment #19082537

    Also important to consider that your taxes are already paying for streets as well so whether it is in a taxpayer funded house or a taxpayer funded street is irrelevant.

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    Comment #18062817

    It could be that further up the network they are dropping HTTPS packets, or that they plan to in future. It isn't unheard of to simply deny encrypted protocols at the ISP level for…

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    Comment #18021424

    All ISPs, as a rule, oversell. They oversell at a ratio of usage in part due to how networks are structured (8-10 times bottleneck bandwidth is seen as "good" service, source: I am…

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    Comment #17771362

    I'm a grad of the OMSCS program. The "netsec" subject covered all of the "things that would help" and some in detail with practical projects.

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    Comment #17027650

    Why not just a pattern of umms and arrs that it already seems to add into output. Easier to detect for it and harder for a human to recognise.

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    Comment #16624880

    Especially when Dutch East India and South Seas were actual states in almost every way except name. Once you have an army, provide services and collect taxes you are a state.

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    Comment #16489586

    Politics is how people organise and group. There are always ploys for control and expansion. Politics is practically biology, there is a pecking order and it is inescapable. What d…

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    Comment #16254607

    You are about 5 years too late. Skin trading is already actual gambling, there are many sites that allow you to buy skins then gamble with them and cash out money. This isn't a hyp…

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    Comment #16254482

    You would be surprised. I've issued chargebacks before after offering every chance for an issue to be resolved with major firms (over the phone) and within 10 minutes of making a c…

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    Comment #16228588

    Which has no bearing on what she is saying at all.

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    Comment #16173142

    My editor, in his mid 60s, uses cromulent quite regularly.

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    Comment #15841436

    Learning that any sufficiently advanced system is usually inconsistent and breakable is one of life's most important lessons. Rules are contradictory, both in meaning and applicati…

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    Comment #15821525

    Redmi 4A. There are some very interesting low end phones coming out of China.

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    Comment #15701183

    More to that I think some advertisers benefit from a known gullible community. It would be quite easy (and unethical) for someone to make money out of targeted ads piggybacking on …