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Comment #31971402
I haven't been in a position to proscribe process, I'm just a consumer. We have tried leaving messages in Slack but that process always ends in a matter of days from disinterest.
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Comment #31971343
I think it's mainly that was is messy and hard to report on in the moment. There's propaganda coming in from all angles, of course, muddying the water further. FWIW Washington Post…
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Comment #31970670
Slack huddles have poor ergonomics what with their use of global keyboard shortcuts. I avoid them whenever possible.
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Comment #31965557
It's too bad we don't know the names of the other companies that bid for the rights, not the amounts. They might be just as bad as the winners.
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Comment #31961727
Further, people are too quick to dismiss the culpability of engineers in the design and implementation of these technologies. It was programmed by software engineer; people like ma…
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Comment #31959803
To me it sounds like a 70 year old talking the way they think 19 year olds talk.
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Comment #31959314
> Soon your bill will be linked to how much you make. So if you're in the top half of income earners, then you'll be charged more. That's already the case where I'm at (not Califor…
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Comment #31954627
I'd be interested in reading more about this. A lot of the cost of medicine is overhead interfacing with insurance providers and all the layers of profit therein, but I don't know …
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Comment #31952741
Have you read the relevant research on the subject?
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Comment #31947274
We're using Bitwarden for this, on the free two-person organization. It works pretty well when we remember to save passwords to shared folders.
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Comment #31939917
In addition to all that you said about key management -- if you do manage to leak your keys and you chose a bad passphrase good luck proving to anyone that any correctly signed tra…
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Comment #31934402
Your citation doesn't entirely support your argument. The court said "[vast] economic and political significance." This seems like a power grab by the court because now they and th…
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Comment #31934085
I haven't found it yet, but Twitter only shows me two or three replies at a time. Seems like this post should have just linked to that.
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Comment #31933274
I think I'm missing all of the context. Who is this person? How do we know he was fired (or worked for the company)? All we have here is a video of someone talking to camera and no…
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Comment #31927826
If I got banned, I don't know what I'd do first -- open a bottle of champagne or dance a little jig?
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Comment #31927810
I'd love to have multiple windows. At some point in the last few months Slack broke the command-up/command-down shortcuts that would take you to the next conversation with an unrea…
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Comment #31927762
That does make sense. Of course it's the result of lobbying and not some high-minded concern about privacy or espionage.
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Comment #31927751
I didn't like Trump but that wasn't why I was opposed to the TikTok ban. I was opposed because it was pointless and stupid. If we want to ban Chinese businesses because of human ri…
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Comment #31924512
IME it's a sign of one developer doing their best to get a system up and running well enough for business to get by (basically a MVP) and business not providing the staff necessary…
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Comment #31922375
If China really is as bad as all that (and I think it probably is) why are we wasting any time or energy on TikTok? It'd be a lot more effective to sanction China over those human …
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Comment #31914580
> > did Trump win in 2016 by fraud too? > This is the consensus opinion among Democrats. This doesn't jibe with the facts: https://news.gallup.com/poll/197441/accept-trump-legitima…
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Comment #31910049
And then there's Mary Miller (R-Ill) who celebrated the ruling as a victory for white life. She claims it was just a mistake, but she's also the person that used a quote from Hitle…
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Comment #31909687
Alternatively it's "we would have made a profit this month but a bug in this one service chewed through our budget in one hour". Sure, you might be able to get a refund, but that's…