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softjobs

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    Comment #49118969

    Thank you for posting that, saved me from doing so. Ignorance and stupidity are the greatest threats to human survival - but perhaps it's for the best.

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    Comment #47560876

    As pointed out by Rosa Luxemburg, the choices are socialism or barbarism. In the US, barbarism seems to be a far more likely outcome.

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    Comment #46363107

    It's called the abscopal effect; see e.g. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8537037/

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    Comment #44400989

    In Gregory Benford's novel "Timescape" a diatom bloom features as a crucial plot element. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timescape

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    Comment #41921622

    You probably mean BitKeeper. BitWarden is a password / secrets manager.

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    Comment #41872607

    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... perhaps?

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    Comment #41207630

    https://www.audiothing.net/effects/moon-echo/

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    Comment #40730486

    Ask Julian Assange or Edward Snowden, to name a couple.

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    Comment #40020180

    Initially I read that as "Exploiting others"...

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    Comment #40006274

    Only Stalwart supports JMAP, which imo is the future of mail/calendar/contacts client-server communication. https://jmap.io/

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    Comment #39576312

    Upvoted for the pun, with the sad caveat that also it feels like a human tragedy unfolding. :-/

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    Comment #39460903

    "My building is bigger than your building."

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    Comment #39317994

    Two words: regulatory capture.

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    Comment #39084611

    The colon sigil denotes a Symbol class literal, and a trailing colon here denotes a Symbol used as a Hash object key.

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    Comment #38273312

    Ah, the assumption we always need some rent-seeking middleman.

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    Comment #38208748

    https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/

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    Comment #38199667

    And not even that. https://consumer.ftc.gov/consumer-alerts/2019/10/sim-swap-sc... https://pages.nist.gov/800-63-3/sp800-63b.html

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    Comment #38017091

    Which is especially bizarre because of the US being monetary sovereign. #MMT

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    Comment #37463672

    I wonder if their diet affects this somehow, see for example https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8990249/ which discusses endocrine disruptors and fertility, among other t…

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    Comment #37462060

    Does this mean that most young Canadians can certainly financially afford to have kids without going into debt, but for some reason (worried about the future? Lazy? Other prioritie…

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    Comment #36604527

    The problems with First Past The Post voting explained. https://youtu.be/s7tWHJfhiyo

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    Comment #35464350

    Excellent service!

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    Comment #35464188

    Qualified Immunity needs to go.

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    Comment #35464155

    Or government-sponsored healthcare. But no #M4A for the proles, because that's SOCIALISM.

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    Comment #35463260

    I'm talking about https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1976 . I didn't say it would be a silver bullet, but it would be a large improvement over what we have now…