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Does MSFT still use smartcards everywhere?

People can't see who's contagious in the early stages, so they're gambling with their lives by not taking proactive precautions before it's a widespread problem. COVID-19/SARS-cov-…

Haven't had a problem with VRBO yet. Had a place in Paris in the 1st arr. the last time.

Cool. Fruit cocktail trees are also awesome because they have multiple fruit varieties on a single tree via grafting. If you know how to do grafting, you can add additional fruits …

Awesome. Columbia says they have a lifetime warranty, but a $300 running rain jacket I bought at their flagship store sometime ago they refused to repair or replace it when all of …

Nomad is much simpler. https://www.hashicorp.com/products/nomad For slightly larger teams, Cloud Foundry (PaaS) is like local Heroku and it supports Docker too. If you need actual …

A Mac Mini expanded with two SSDs with syncthing is superior to sneakernet because it provides replication. And, if you really want to, add a 14 TiB HC520 placed in an external USB…

Try them all and then pick one (or two): - SpiderOak One - Mega (very cheap) - Syncthing (open source)

I don't particularly care about what Tesla, SolarCity or Silevo does or doesn't do. What is concerning is handing over hundreds of millions in socialist corporate welfare that goes…

I guess it's American-made propaganda with export controls because it's considered "munitions." Try this instead: https://outline.com/BdaeZq

Caregiving, in-home nursing care, rehabilitation and long-term care (assisted living/nursing home/hospice) should be provided by a different social safety net department because of…

I'm sorry but that's wrong because that's trying to twist the meaning of words. No money, no healthcare isn't universal obviously. With no single-payer, government-funded, healthca…

Wow, that's cool. I wonder if vision, dental, medical, hospital, prescriptions and mental are all covered without fees? The very poor in the US only get Medicaid (rarely Medicare, …

I don't want to crap all over Koreans or Korean culture, but there's one element that profoundly bothers me: the abandonment and shunning of the elderly. Many are homeless or live …

Yes, but it will take time because the acceleration is proportional to the amount present until it reaches a carrying capacity and burns itself out, or it slows in deceleration bec…

Definitely. And this other one has more stats but not as much detail: http://arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/bda7594740fd...

The same company that poisons poor residents downstream in Crosset, AK and subverts democracy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_Brothers_Exposed

Some certs like A+ are a game to get the candidate to memorize useless, obscure trivia that is found in someone's test prep materials. The exploitative training/testing racket is a…

Yup. My boss had an MCSE but could only operate a Windows desktop as a power user and install Windows (server). He got this cert because of the "bootcamp" where they only taught to…

Get an A+ certification and see how far you get. :) I could be wrong, but you come across to me on the negative-side, like cognitive distortions or inexperience. "Some job markets"…

Hacker's Delight a zillion ways to do bit population count or over/underflow detection efficiently Introduction to Algorithms MIT Press Numerical Recipes algorithms for science TAO…

Clickbait, misrepresenting or exaggerated headlines and weak, stretching statements anger / disappoint me because they demonstrate a lack of integrity. Also, free speech has absolu…

The internally-inconsistent premise FB is based on, keeping in touch with friends, ultimately leaves nothing new and no mystery to talk about.. and no point to ever meet, effective…

For me: Newspaper: late 70's-2002 Friendster: 2003-2005 TV: late 70's-2006 Myspace: 2004-2006 Orkut: 2005-2006 Facebook: 2003-2007 /.: 2004-2007 Flickr: 2004-2010 Radio: late 70's-…

So: 1. There are cases in over 80 countries now. 2. Evolutionary studies suggest it's been spreading about 5 weeks longer than the first recognition phase discoveries suggest. 3. T…