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jonathanwallace

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About jonathanwallace

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    Comment #41236291

    I'm happy for you and proud of you.

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    Comment #41055983

    https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=aol%20tcl https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/AOLserver

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    Comment #38926225

    The latter.

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    Comment #35405495

    As a software developer who found myself elected to state level public office and had to spin-up my education around the legislative process and all of politics, I concur. Their ar…

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    Comment #34533224

    100% Agreed. Rhetorical question: Now what's the enforcement mechanism? (Also, what's with the downvotes?!?!)

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    Comment #34532695

    > there is absolutely no space for hallucination in a court of law I wish you were factually correct here. We've seen time and time again where courts are mockeries of the ideal be…

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    Comment #31864903

    Disingenuous and/or incredibly naive as to how politics have been impacting cases coming before the courts.

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    Comment #31703557

    Worth noting that someone else usually writes the headline for the articles, not the journalist / the author of an article.

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    Comment #29380275

    And according to https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/40538538 , it always has been. In the referenced book, the author details how the aluminum cartel was dismantled under the t…

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    Comment #29341659

    Depending upon how your brain works, i.e. if you're neurodivergent, you may find value in understanding how your brain processes with respect to neurotypicals. I found value in htt…

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    Comment #29068630

    The second half of this claim is a demonstrably weak generalization as to the source of power. The counter example is Georgia, where the Board of Regents is beholden to the politic…

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    Comment #28949940

    Heh, understanding apache configuration files just made me facepalm harder and wasn't really critical to seeing the impact on the cybersecurity industry if people aren't able to re…

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    Comment #28949880

    I'll take your biggest question first. > In your opinion, is there a way to fix this sort of thing? Yes, it requires patient, reasonable, intelligent people operating in good faith…

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    Comment #28947761

    I served in the Georgia legislature during a portion of a similar story. Without a doubt, the calculations throughout the story were political not technical. In the Georgia version…

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    Comment #27858779

    Politicians aren't "captured," they're "grown." Captured implies a change in behavior or an outside force acting on them, and that isn't accurate. Only politicians that fall in lin…

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    Comment #27505851

    That's why I use https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news . Makes it very easy to see across the spectrum.

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    Comment #27106050

    I closed down my simple account months ago. If only they would stop texting me daily about my account no longer being connected.

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    Comment #25149746

    Your suspicion is incorrect. Twenty years ago, my wife came out of graduate school where they learned about differentiated instruction and inquiry based instruction. The education …

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    Comment #24455067

    Best of luck and thank you.

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    Comment #23803421

    Taking the author's advice, does anyone have a link to the study the author cites about the buffet line?

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    Comment #22804010

    Sounds like mesmerism!

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    Comment #21711776

    > Is there support for playing video? No. That could change in the near future. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTU7iLuv6g4&feature=youtu.be

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    Comment #21240088

    Is there a tutorial on how to do this? Or what would I search for to find such a tutorial?

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    Comment #20942890

    I've negotiated a signing bonus for one (small ~50 person) company. You never know until you ask but I would expect it to be rare.

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    Comment #20644456

    Politics, IMHO, are about applied relationship and applied power. Ignoring the discussion of both relationships and power leads to an anemic understanding of freedom and what it ta…