dhork
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- Comment on How do I make my own internet? 2 days ago:
If you run BGP, yes. You can always just build up huge-ass fixed routing tables that are impossible to maintain once you get more than a handful of networks…
- Comment on How do I avoid enshitification of my keyboard and mouse 4 days ago:
The way forward is to stop looking at those as “features of the keyboard and mouse that I purchased” and consider them as “unlockables” where you have to pay again by handing over your personal info. Then stop buying their stuff, because it’s absurd to have to pay twice.
I prefer my keyboards and mice as dumb as possible. Preferably with cables, so I never have to worry about charging them.
- Comment on Crypto bros have discovered idle games, and the results are incredibly boring 6 days ago:
The big problem is that it trivially easy to make new tokens, and give them the appearance of a market with fake liquidity. I know people think Smart Contracts are a real innovation, but 99.999999% of the time they are just used to make more crappy tokens.
Crypto advocates say it’s security comes from the network effect of all the nodes working on extending the blockchain, but that security is of little value if it enables scams on higher layers.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
Just say it’s for AI and you’ll have scores of people here defending you
- Comment on Did Biden ever release Trump's Resolute Letter? 1 week ago:
Found it!
C U Next Term
- Comment on If Donald Trump was black, would he have made it this far in politics? 1 week ago:
I was gonna reply that Hermain Cain was probably the “Black Donald Trump”, but I looked it up and Cain actually had success in his business ventures. He also was only married once.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 weeks ago:
But he’s always been like this. He had the world’s largest intelligence apparatus at its service, but didn’t believe what they said when it contradicted what his buddies Vlad and MBS told him.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 weeks ago:
Jesus was a socialist Jew. We had one of those run for President, too, but couldn’t make it past the Democratic primary.
- Comment on Seriously, what the f*** is keeping Donald Trump in this presidential race? 2 weeks ago:
Many Conservatives have been conditioned to stop looking for facts and believe what the TV tells them. Trump admitted as much during the debate. When challenged on the cat thing, he dismissed the reporter’s research and said that he believes it because he saw it on TV. His voters will, too.
Roger Ailes was Nixon’s media consultant during Watergate, and the lesson he learned was that if the media was on Nixon’s side, he could have gotten away with it. Ailes went on to run Fox News. That is no accident.
- Comment on What the hell even is Diet Coke? 3 weeks ago:
fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/76916…
INGREDIENTS: CARBONATED WATER, CARAMEL COLOR, ASPARTAME, PHOSPHORIC ACID, POTASSIUM BENZOATE (TO PROTECT TASTE), NATURAL FLAVORS, CITRIC ACID, CAFFEINE.
- Comment on Why do big corporations get to claim losses, but small businesses can't? 3 weeks ago:
Think of someone who makes small crafts and sells them on some online platform. Someone who does this as a business will keep track of their materials costs, and subtract them from their sales cost, only paying taxes on their actual profit.
But the IRS will only let you do this if they determine your intent is to make a profit. If they think you are purposely just selling enough to cover your materials, but using most of the materials for yourself, they can tell you that you never had an actual business in the first place, and that all that deducting of expenses never should have happened.
- Comment on Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election? 4 weeks ago:
Because too many people treat politics like a sporting event. You root for your team no matter what, and against the other team. You have to do it this way, because if the other side wins that means your side loses.
So there are too many people who view Trump as “Their Guy”, and are “rooting” for him. Anything they hear that might portray Trump in a negative light (like a criminal trial, for instance) must be the Other Side trying to cheat to win unfairly.
I remind people that Roger Ailes was Nixon’s media consultant, and the lesson he learned from Watergate was that Nixon could have gotten away with it if the media was more sympathetic. He then went on to be the CEO of Fox News. That’s no accident. There is a direct line from Nixon to Trump, and Roger Ailes drew it.
- Comment on Why do sports have different names for their arbitrating officials? 4 weeks ago:
Each sport has different jargon for their officials, and some sports use them differently than others. Some sports (like football) use them all at once. There are some distinctions that tend to run across multiple different sports, not perfectly, but good enough to discuss.
Umpires tend to make binary decisions based strictly on the rulebook. Yes, sometimes there is some Grey area, like whether a batter “swung” or not. But the decisions are often yes/no.
Judges tend to make more subjective decisions, comparing against some sort of ideal rather than a binary decision. In most sports where scores are not accumulated based on goals but assigned by officials based on how well they perform their routine, those officials are judges.
Referees tend to make broader decisions that impact the overall game. They are also more likely to talk directly with coaches on either side, or the spectators.
- Comment on I don't remember this scene from Indiana Jones 4 weeks ago:
I think OPs point is that if Indy was burrowing a hone in the desert, and some random started talking to him, Indy probably wouldn’t respond by punching his way out of the hole.
- Comment on Who had a tougher bid for re-election? Jimmy Carter in 1980 or Donald Trump in 2020? 5 weeks ago:
Maybe Bill O’Frights is Bill O’Reilly’s cousin
- Comment on Who had a tougher bid for re-election? Jimmy Carter in 1980 or Donald Trump in 2020? 5 weeks ago:
As fucked up as the economy is right now, it doesn’t hold a candle to the 70s. People freak about 7% mortgage rates right now, they started there in the 70s and went up to 13%-ish by the time Reagan was elected. The shit show started under Nixon, but people seem to blame Carter. Probably because of the time he had the audacity to ask Americans to turn their thermostats down. (I was just a bit too young for all this, so this is all filtered through what my parents told me.)
Combine that with the Iran hostage crisis, and the fact that Carter was too honest for his own good, and he didn’t stand a chance in 1980 against a charismatic opponent who wasn’t afraid to bend the truth now and then.
I found this link to a good overview of it all. It seems to be part of some course (there is a quiz at the end)
- Comment on what should I write in a job application for an office job in healthcare away from the bedside that doesn't close the door completely to bedside? 5 weeks ago:
IMHO the most important thing is to always have positive reasons for your desire for a new job. Always present it as moving toward something you want, not as running away from something you don’t want.
You can say that you’ve been working with patients for however many years, and need a change. Everyone gets tired of things after a while, they can’t take anything negative from that. You can also say that you are in the right spot in your career for a transition into a more regular office environment.
You can say that you are detail oriented and like working with data and feel that your nursing background can help you put all that data into context.
As long as you are focused during the interview on how you can use your experience to help that group, you’ll be fine. Good luck!
- Comment on Have had my LinkedIn Profile Deactivated for over a year now, yet still reciving emails from LinkedIn... 5 weeks ago:
I find LinkedIn useful, but absolutely refuse to install the app on my phone. I figure it’s enough to give them access to my contacts and resume to monetize, they don’t need my location also.
Whenever I get an email notification that I have a LinkedIn message, I check it the next time I am at my desktop. Then, without fail, after I check it they send me a follow-up email reminding me that “LinkedIn is better on the app!”
That just reinforces the idea that I will never, ever install their app.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 1 month ago:
From doing some quick reading (instead of work, lol) it sounds like as long as there is a human filling the job as President, when the VP steps in it must be in that Acting capacity. So the President could notify Congress ahead of time that he will be temporarily incapacitated due to a medical procedure, and the VP will act as President for that period of time.
Or, if the President becomes incapacitated without giving that advanced notice, the VP (along with a majority of the President’s cabinet) can notify Congress of that fact, and the the VP can assume the Acting President role. Then the President simply informs Congress when he is better again. If there is any dispute over that between the President and VP, Congress gets to ultimately decide whether the President is still incapable, although it would take a 2/3 vote of both Houses to render him incapable.
There seems to be absolutely no difference in terms of the powers of “Acting President” vs. “Actual President”. However, since the Acting President is normally a temporary role, one would think that they wouldn’t be signing legislation or making appointments unless the President is incapacitated for a long time, since that would piss off their boss.
Dick Cheney just wrote letters to his grandkids while he was Acting President, just to be able to sign them “Acting President”.
- Comment on If Biden died tomorrow and Harris took over? and she won the election also. Could she work full two terms or would it count as one when Biden died? 1 month ago:
You are 100% correct, with the one exception that if Biden dies or resigns today, Harris wouldn’t become Acting President, she would become the actual 47th President, and Trump would have to reprint all of his 45-47 hats.
- Comment on Are there any travel bags that are exactly the size of the spirit airlines personal item bag? 1 month ago:
My experience is that it is entirely on the flight crew to think ahead and “reserve” this space. Sometimes, it’s not really reserved at all, there is just more room for overhead stuff in First Class so they just put your bag there, and then you have to endure the stare of entitled dipshits every time you need to get your bag.
- Comment on Are there any travel bags that are exactly the size of the spirit airlines personal item bag? 1 month ago:
You’re going to have to get some more specifics from your airline. Even with that, though, sometimes you get screwed and have the seat with a little less clearance than they publish.
Personal items typically fit under the seat in front of you, so you can look for “underseat carry on bag” to get a rough idea of what is available.
- Comment on Anyone else feel like Trump has a much higher chance to win then Presidency than Kamala? 1 month ago:
That assumes that the rest of the states shake out as expected. NC and Ohio have been polling a lot closer than expected. Winning one of those would offset a loss in PA or GA.
There’s a reason why we still hold the actual election, and don’t base the winner just on polls.
- Comment on What's the least suspicious way to get OTC meds through airport security? 1 month ago:
Ah, the smaller airports are probably worse, because they don’t have much to do and have to justify the investment in all the fancy machines.
- Comment on What's the least suspicious way to get OTC meds through airport security? 1 month ago:
Airport security, particularly in the US where many airports have international and domestic departures out of the same terminal, will not care about that. I regularly travel with OTC pills loose in a container and no documentation, and have had no issues.
Where you might encounter problems is on entering a foreign country. While they have never ever given me grief over my OTC medicines, I try to make sure two remember to buy stuff in original packaging to bring. But even then, as long as you are only bringing enough for your trip they probably won’t care. Prescription medicines should absolutely be in original containers, though.
- Comment on What exactly was Yotta doing with people's money? Right now they are basically a gambling platform. But from my understanding they were a no lose lottery. But exactly what was going on in that compan 1 month ago:
Yes, similar to government-backed premium bonds, in the countries where they do stuff like that. But they are not run by the government, so they need to be called something else.
- Comment on What exactly was Yotta doing with people's money? Right now they are basically a gambling platform. But from my understanding they were a no lose lottery. But exactly what was going on in that compan 1 month ago:
It seems like the big problem with Yotta right now is that it is caught up in the Synapse fallout. These small financial firms advertised that their customers funds were insured, but didn’t hold them directly, they held them through intermediaries like Synapse who did have the US FDIC insurance. When Synapse collapsed, all the funds held by Synapse’s customers like Yotta got stuck in limbo.
- Comment on What exactly was Yotta doing with people's money? Right now they are basically a gambling platform. But from my understanding they were a no lose lottery. But exactly what was going on in that compan 1 month ago:
Normally, yes, but Yotta looks like a form of “Prize-based savings”
…m.wikipedia.org/…/Prize-linked_savings_account
They are “no lose lottery” in the sense that you don’t put up money directly to enter, you just open a “savings account”. But they pay far less than market rate to fund the payouts. So in a sense, you pay for the entry with reduced returns on your “savings”.
- Comment on UPS has started charging for pickups even if you have a prepaid label 1 month ago:
UPS doesn’t go to every address every day (‘Cept Sundays,) the same way the mailman does.
US Postal Service has some sort of deal with Amazon now, I have gotten Amazon packages delivered by my regular mailman on Sundays. I hope he’s getting paid well for that.
- Comment on My dad fought the Nazi's they lost. The world knows it. What is the deal with their recent resurgence? 1 month ago:
That’s a different movie entirely