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andyburke

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About andyburke

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/andyburke; my proof: https://keybase.io/andyburke/sigs/mC0lN88Vj5STTqaHJAhWLcEL-dGkfmKik8mnHFa28L8 ]

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    Comment #21413488

    Here are just a couple of recent examples that invalidate your claim. They were pretty easy to find: https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/aclu-defends-article-l... https://www.cnn…

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    Comment #21413116

    Children are generally not separated from their parents when their parents commit non-violent minor offenses. Crossing a border is, at the least, non-violent. How major or minor it…

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    Comment #21358851

    As an android user who left iOS some years ago, this sounds absolutely awful.

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    Comment #21274728

    Build a cost model. Set prices that would make them profitable based on that model. Offer the service at that price. See if people are willing to pay for it. Verify that costs and …

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    Comment #20823577

    ^^ this. Southwest has one of the best, if not the best, safety records of all major air carriers.

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    Comment #20579332

    Entertainment and relaxation are not unnecessary. Especially in our late capitalist civilizations.

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    Comment #20520069

    I would encourage you to think on this some more until the discomfort diminishes. Just because things are deterministic (at a level of complexity that is difficult or even possible…

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    Comment #20502423

    I've had good luck with pCloud on linux. And you can exclude file patterns, which has been a big improvement for storing my code (ignore all node_modules directories).

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    Comment #20502317

    Same. I moved when they wanted me to unencrypt my home directory on linux. I've had good luck with pCloud. In particular, I can exclude file patterns, which has done wonders for my…

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    Comment #19914422

    As a relatively long-time Keybase user, I went in and set up my Stellar wallet on my phone. There does not appear to be any way to fund this wallet, though. Reading the comments he…

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    Comment #19640808

    Can you point an EdgeQL 'server' at, say, an Amazon RDS Postgres cluster?

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    Comment #19610044

    Hello fellow 40 year old. I run DDG as my daily, but similarly have a hard time finding exact matches for error messages. I am suspicious, however, that I've learned how to use Goo…

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    Comment #19315917

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_products#Discon... They seem to discontinue a lot of products, including ones with fairly large user bases. It seems like a valid conce…

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    Comment #18711064

    Not calling them a pedophile? Additionally, what kind of hubris is it to imagine you can help with a rescue you know little to nothing about, especially in a way that could be view…

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    Comment #18659061

    I'm with you. But many people do not agree with us, and the last I heard, the ROI on each dollar spent at the IRS is higher than almost anywhere else in government. Hollowing out t…

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    Comment #18498982

    Isn't it more susceptible? The structure of Romaine is such that contaminants can fairly easily get "inside", but are not easily washed away.

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    Comment #18498963

    Limiting the text box will protect you against the most naive DoS attacks, but you need some kind of limit at the API level (request size, etc.). Never trust the client.

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    Comment #18498870

    Maybe we should form a union?

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    Comment #18204834

    I was never a Salesforce fan, but Benioff is making me take a second look.

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    Comment #18126002

    Not to mention that, based on some of the Reddit threads I've seen on this from actual Amazon warehouse employees, they're often not even getting full-time hours. Lots of people se…

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    Comment #18029042

    Not sure if you've seen these trends: https://news.gallup.com/poll/237137/republicans-positive-rel...

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    Comment #18019979

    Yeah, the author's take is myopic. What they call bloat, people from the 70s would call wondrous: ubiquitous networking with and without wires, beautiful graphical interfaces, encr…

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    Comment #17230817

    I'm not the person you're responding to, but I am turning 40 this year. I was also around for the terror that was Microsoft in the 90s when they were competing with Oracle for "com…

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    Comment #17198247

    Not sure why you think Carter closed the mental institutions: "1980 President Jimmy Carter signs the Mental Health Systems Act to improve on Kennedy’s dream [JFK wanted to create a…

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    Comment #14674287

    Where are you working that you can reasonably imagine this happening? The risks of someone making this claim are so, so high, yet you believe someone would do this just to 'settle …