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Mark Atwood

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19 days

If you are in a regulated industry, you are required to install something like Crowdstrike on all your machines. If you use Crowdstrike, your auditor checks a single line and moves on. If you use anything else, your auditor opens up an expensive new chapter of his book.

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@realchrisrufo Wait, the ACLU is suing for journalism sources? They were one of the advocates, creators, and defenders of Journalism Shield Laws in the first place! I guess this is proof that the skinsuit is rotting and falling off.

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The real culprit here is regulatory capture. Notice that everybody getting hit hard by this is in a heavily regulated industry: finance, airlines, healthcare, etc. That's because those regulations include IT security mandates, and Crowdstrike has positioned themselves as the only

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The xz attack was not because it was open source. The attack failed because it was open source. The way this attack works for non-open source is the attacker spends 2 years getting an agent hired by contract software development vendor, they sneak it in, nobody finds out.

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@robkroese It gets better. "Hickory Dickory Dock" are a warped and mutated and trapped in amber way of saying "eight, nine, ten" in a now extinct British regional language.

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2 years

@RebeccaforWA So, it's not really about his money, you are just upset that he has more freedom of action than you do.

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8 months

@GaryWinslett @AlecStapp because... "cop"

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2 years

@TheRealKeean This is actually literally textbook DSM narcissism. The diagnostic tell: everything is always someone else's fault, always. Nothing is ever the narcissist's fault, ever.

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2 years

@whstancil Dude. Close the laptop, go for a walk. Have a drink of water. Not booze, water. Leave the laptop off all weekend.

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2 years

Overheard: "A lot of good security engineering goes into Chrome because the privacy team can look at all the shit their adtech coworkers are doing and then figure out how to keep their competitors from doing it too." 1/2

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6 months

@ellegist I wonder if the founder of an internet dating app can ever have a sane opinion about long term relationships.

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2 months

@lionel_trolling Screw that. I live in the Pacific Northwest. Shoes Off is common here. I have brazilian cherry hardwood floors. Take your shoes off.

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Mark Atwood

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6 months

@ErinStuvek The correct reaction to such a statement is "Bless your heart".

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Mark Atwood

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3 years

@LethalityJane @orthonormalist Demonstrating everything everyone ever needs to know about "official instructions". Officials care about process, policy, and their careers. Not actually about if anyone actually lives or dies.

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Mark Atwood

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8 months

@MorlockP Closely related, the only axiom of morality they have left is "consent". Which is why they are not so great at having and raising kids, or dealing with addiction, or dealing with people who need institutionalization, or dealing with lumpenprols on the streets.

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Mark Atwood

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2 years

The Cloud is not someone else's computer. The Cloud is someone else's pager on-call rotation. If you want to do that yourself, feel free. (This realization shamelessly stolen from @_msw_ ).

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@QuinnyPig I'm told there are good parts to systemd. Over the past 12 years of trying to find them, I've still not found them.

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4 months

@CovfefeAnon It's too bad that every VP in charge of "search" on their company's platforms don't understand that very simple reality.

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4 months

@tomfgoodwin "Enshittification" is a real thing, and its driven by A/B testing for engagement and for prompt revenue. The corporate executives do not care that they are burning down the foundations of their own value. The few that do care, get replaced with ones that do not.

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4 months

I just fastread the "Florida bans social media for kids" law. And as expected, the press is completely misrepresenting it. It doesn't regulate content or speech. 1/

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28 days

@sp6runderrated I was a tenant just like you. As Seattle kept adding "tentants rights" laws, all they did for me was make it harder and harder to rent an apt, because property owners were no longer allowed to just look at me and my history, and just choose me.

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Mark Atwood

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2 years

"""The 9th and 10th amendments have been left silent for centuries, because everyone knows what they actually mean, and they don’t want it to mean that."""

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19 days

Self-updating third-party kernel drivers are such an insanely stupid idea that only a commercial proprietary security company coasting on regulatory capture would even think of building it.

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Mark Atwood

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2 years

When you realize that our national "elites" are mostly all spun up methheads who think that because their speed is legal, it's ok, then many things make so much more sense.

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3 months

@paulg Most of the people who complain that "the experience has deteriorated" what they really mean is "the people I don't like are not getting kicked off for saying things that I don't like".

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8 days

@SeanEcom The Amazon Marketplace. If is not counterfeit, its been shoplifted. It's now the world's largest stolen goods fence.

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2 years

"And then all Brave has to do is pull out the loopholes they leave for themselves." 2/2

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1 year

@BarneyFlames Nordic people and nordic governments *hate* it when people dont "fit in the box". They literally send newborns home with the box they are supposed to fit in.

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4 months

The "tech" industry has spent the last 20 years hiring people who study addiction, and then paid them to cause it, not cure it. And then acts all innocent when people get upset about it. 3/

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4 months

@CharlesCMann And yet, as the California cultivars get more and more engineering, the less and less flavor they have. Until today, where they have the mouth feel and taste like sour soggy styrofoam.

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Mark Atwood

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6 months

@hyugalegends @starsandtigers @Sprocketguys Thus, in fact, making the point.

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19 days

@digibruce This.

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Mark Atwood

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2 years

@eigenrobot Someone of us were given the "opportunity" to take that ticket, and do it in secret. I did not take the opportunity when offered. It fucked my career for a decade. I have nothing but sneering disgust for the people who I think took that ticket.

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6 months

@StompittPensy @yashar @KlasfeldReports How many people could Hamas release right now?

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Mark Atwood

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2 years

@pmarca Once you know what you look for, you see it [Adderall face] in 99% of the talking heads on cable news, 95% of TED talks, 80% of CSPAN, 80% of universities, 99% of Stanford, 80% of every meetup in SF. Adderall is the Pervitin of the 21C.

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2 years

Once you know what you look for, you see it [Adderall face] in 99% of the talking heads on cable news, 95% of TED talks, 80% of CSPAN, 80% of universities, 99% of Stanford, 80% of every meetup in SF.

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4 months

@HandNF If xz was managed by a corporation, it would have either outsourced development to a third world IT services bodyshop, or it would have passed responsibility around to team after team, while the IT helpdesk and backup service had been outsourced to a IT services bodyshop.

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4 months

@lorenc_dan I tried to get some of that money for some projects that I PM. The money wasn't even personally for me. And Google kept silently pocket veto'ing it.

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7 months

@mccormack_chad @BigSteve207 "wielding a machete against". What a interesting passive turn of voice, right up there with "a weapon was discharged".

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7 months

@kitten_beloved No, from the 50s to the 80s, everyone overboiled things, then froze them, then boiled (later microwaved) them again. Which makes brassicas disgusting, slimy, and bitter-sour.

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Mark Atwood

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4 months

I will be direct: Matt is incorrect. OpenTofu has not "misappropriated". Infoworld needs to issue a retraction. I looked at the code, the ways they are similar are entirely functional, and the ways they are different tell me it's a different implementation.

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Well that's awkward. 😳 OpenTofu seems to have misappropriated @HashiCorp 's IP by using Hashi's removed block code, removing the BSL license notice and replacing it with MPL. Folks, that's not how open source (or forking) works.

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Mark Atwood

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8 months

@jonnytickle Jeez. I've seen better art drawn by 13yo boys with prismacolor pencils on school paper.

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Mark Atwood

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1 year

@HarmlessYardDog @BlueBoxDave The Boomers never planted a damn tree. Anything of value that happened during their tenure, the Greatests and the Silents actually did, and then the Boomers stole the credit.

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Mark Atwood

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6 months

@wanyeburkett I use the VW emissions scandal as a setpoint and example for an org keeping a criminal secret.

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4 months

Bluntly, if your business economic model is dependent on inducing addictive self-hating dopamine drips, especially into kids, you should go out of business. 4/

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Mark Atwood

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2 years

It looks like W3C is about to collapse. It appears the story is: they were umbrella under MIT, and accumulating both assets (mostly grants from donations and member orgs) and some debts, with an agreement to cut over to independence on 2023-01-01. 1/

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@wanyeburkett Most of my landlord interactions have been problem free. They were sad to see me go, because I was a good tenant. The more "tenants rights" laws that got passed, the harder it got to rent an apt, because landlords wanted to just rent to people like me instead of the ones who

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4 months

@NielsHoven The members of the board of Seattle Public Schools have been caught on hot mikes complaining about the annoyance of "high-achieving kids from low-income families".

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3 years

"If you asked a panel of 10 cryptographic engineers what messaging system they'd recommend, 9 of them would say Signal. The 10th wants you to use something else because they're working on an attack for that something else."

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Mark Atwood

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6 months

@ArmandDoma @dr_professerson You are factually wrong by observation of revealed preferences.

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5 months

@videolan What is Google's reason or excuse for "we give them our private signing keys"?

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3 months

@kitten_beloved He would rather keep his friends and his polyhouse housing, than speak the truth. It's understandable.

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4 months

@acruiz @jeffwilcox The mechanism and goal is not to get a specific job on a specific team. It's to get many people to jobs in IT, devops, or innersource-dev that can touch many components of many codebases. Then opportunistically discover and pick targets to inject "accidental" faults.

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@lorenc_dan As I keep explaining to people, handing out money ends up handing all the money to people who are skilled at writing grant applications, which almost by definition are not the maintainers we need to support. #xzbackdoor

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@JesseTinsley I saw that, and it caused me to commit to myself to try to curse less.

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Mark Atwood

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3 years

The conversations that will change the world are not on Slack. They are in unindexed rooms on unindexed nodes on @matrixdotorg

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Mark Atwood

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3 years

@royaltourcaddie @Cernovich That's the really disappointing part: discovering that all those trusted institutions of smart honest brave people... were not trustworthy, not smart, and not honest. And not brave.

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Mark Atwood

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2 years

@FreeStateNH Honestly, I'm getting more and more tempted to buy a house there.

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2 years

@wildplumbay @GreatGramGreen @TheRealKeean What's the difference between you and a member of the Chinese "five cent army"? They get paid and may keep their soul.

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7 months

@Scott_Wiener Why not just allow the cops to ticket for speeding and unsafe operation, and just impound vehicles with unpaid tickets? I'm sure I know why you don't want that, but I want to hear you say it.

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Mark Atwood

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9 months

@PstafarianPrice Shes a better mom than 80% of other moms. She's a better mom than 99% of the women who are "child free".

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19 days

The Navy tried using Windows servers as hardware controllers on a new test ship, leave it dead in the water. Nobody learned a damn thing. 20 years later, Windows servers running factory machines, HVAC, 911, medical devices, hospital records, ... Every public corp CTO and CIO

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Mark Atwood

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4 months

Personally, I think you should go to PRISON, but I will compromise on you going out of business. 5/5

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2 years

@The_Kyle_Mann @TheBabylonBee No, I wish you all would stay in California. You did this to yourselves, and when you leave, you bring your bad ideas with you to whereever you land.

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Mark Atwood

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8 months

@Altimor Africa doesn't pretend it's rich. India is proud of making the transition from being poor to being better to getting rich. Europe pretends to be rich, yet every time I visit, I see signs of material poverty everywhere that would not be tolerated in the poor parts of the US.

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4 months

@kendrictonn The grown up mature loving thing to have done would be to take the gift in the spirit it was intended, express true and heartfelt gratitude, and then use the fine dishware every Sunday for family dinner. All things that are out of reach or understanding of the hurtful withered

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2 years

@TheRealKeean ISTR that a lot of US money funded all sorts of environmentalist groups, activists, protests, and direct action blockages in Canada. Did the Canadian national government complain about that then? No? Curious....

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@Empty_America That's because progressives banned boarding houses, and then made it too dangerous to sublet. Because of "housing rights" or something.

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4 months

@burntsushi5 damn it. That is *specifically* why I use Brother printers and recommend them. Especially after being an HP employee.

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2 years

@SciWhitehouse @RubinReport How does it feel to be the baddie?

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@wanyeburkett "Disgust is not fear". Remember it. Internalize it. Understand it. Say it.

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4 months

Instead it focuses on addictive features such as bottom scrolling, content selection algorithms, adtech, and timeline displays, etc 2/

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@mjasay @HashiCorp Matt, you know better than that. That is exactly how forking works. The fork keeps the old project's copyright statements. And I looked at the code, the ways they are similar are entirely functional, and the ways they are different smell like "different sde" to me.

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2 months

@QuinnyPig AmEx charges the merchants quite a lot more, both percentage and flat. Years ago I had a barber stop taking AmEx when they realized they were actually losing money every time they took an AmEx payment. I don't know why any merchant takes AmEx at all.

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4 months

@russnelson @johndrewmarkley @MorlockP I smell the stench of envy from all those teachers. I was the standard hypersmart kid: read the entire textbook in the first two weeks, read my way though the dusty pile of "supplemental reading", couldnt be bothered to do most of homework, blew the top off every test.

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Mark Atwood

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2 years

@s_pect_re @Graphiteshores @justinboldaji That's not true. That's the *second* sharp corner in that exit, the bend between is really tight, and there are flashing signs on the approach. If a driver still screws it up, they were speeding and not paying attention, and need to removed from the road immediately.

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Microsoft didnt buy Crowdstrike years ago, despite getting deeply in bed with it, and despite allowing it to bypass all the safies in Windows Update, because they didn't want the liability. THIS liability.

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8 months

@kitten_beloved The T in IoT stands for Trash.

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2 years

One reason I go to tech events is about every other year I see a tech demo that I see is utterly transformative. This year it was at the Open Source Summit - Austin, and the project is @fermyontech

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@lmrwanda Having servants take care of the mechanics of living makes a different kind of person. A worse kind of person. A MUCH WORSE kind of person. Anyone who can make a mess because The Help will take care of it is morally crippled.

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2 years

The lesson I am learning as a professional open source policy wonk: never ever umbrella under an .edu! Always start under a c3, c6, or PIC, from the very start. 3/3

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3 years

Keeps getting more and more true.

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@shylockh I "recycle" because I get a significant service fee discount from my garbage utility for "recycling bins", but they won't give me the discount if the "recycling" is obviously "contaminated" with "garbage". So I continue to "recycle".

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1 year

@albrgr @lukeprog "Make sure that only militaries and hyperpower governments get this".

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1 year

@paulg The best ones don't want or need VC.

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2 years

Adderall is the Pervitin of the 21C.

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@Simberg_Space Both SpaceX and Tesla as much as they can pull raw materials in one side and push finished goods out of the other, with as little vendor and subcontractor complexity as possible. Which is one reason that unions and politicians and incumbents do not like them.

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1 year

@lena_camilletti @LabPadre Pay him for it. Why should anyone do work for you for free? He doesn't need your reach or amplification, he's already got it here.

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@mbacarella @RichardHanania When I was young and naive, I would have picked C. Today, I would pick D, and then hate the person administrating the test, the people who wrote the test, the people scoring the test, and the people looking for my results.

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@wanyeburkett The US has spent so much on "trying to help poor people" since 1960 that it would have funded NASAs more outlandish wishlists for a moon and mars colony, and installed a nationwide high speed rail system.

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@A_tothe_Z_Amber @Andrew87229442 "harm". There is your problem, and your weakness.

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2 years

Most "open source contribution metrics" are too much like counting LOC. Easy to measure, and will turn everything to trash if you make them a target and a measure. And if you publish them in a leaderboard, that *will* turn them into one.

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@MrTelecoms @WholeMarsBlog Your incorrect is incorrect. If @Starlink absolutely knew they were about to add 140 million paying customers over the next 3 years, they could capitalize and then launch the necessary capacity.

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@wanyeburkett Some of their favorite "orders" are *always* unlawful. When they order you to turn your camera off, keep recording.

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@meghaverma_art If you were in a hurry and you *knew* the flight you needed to catch, you could go to the airport, go to the gate (no security), board the aircraft, and ask FA to seat you in an empty seat. You paid the fare on arrival!

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2 years

@Ipeedinyourpool @Cassandrasquips @RealJamesWoods You are not helping your case. Is that really the way you want to frame that?

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@meghaverma_art It was a huge huge breakthrough when you could use a credit card and purchase a ticket via a phone call, for pickup or to have it mailed to you! The licensed travel agents hated losing their monopoly on that service.

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@Molson_Hart It's pretty obvious thats why The Enemy opened those floodgates. Because blue collar skilled tradesmen who didn't work for giant corporations to keep them controlled and subservient "vote wrong".

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@kangminjlee Sriracha is *mild*. It's barely a step up from ketchup.

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