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andyortlieb
andyortlieb @ andyortlieb @lemmy.sdf.org
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YSK: In economics, a negative income tax (NIT) is a system which reverses the direction in which tax is paid for incomes below a certain level.

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  • Thank you

    • D-Link refuses to patch yet another security flaw, suggests users just buy new routers — D-Link told users to replace NAS last week

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  • Commodity hardware & open source software for the win.

    When my Western Digital NAS was never going to get critical security patches, I was so freaking glad to find out that they just used software raid... I threw the HDDs in a Debian server and never looked back.

    It's certainly nice to have things that are turn-key, but if you can find your way around any OS, just avoid proprietary everything.

    • FreeCAD 1.0 finally dropped!

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  • On the contrary, I learned nothing first and I struggled pretty bad.

    After a while though you start to get a grasp on things.

    • FreeCAD 1.0 finally dropped!

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  • 0.8, 0.9, etc...

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  • Isn't building a CRM a sort of rite of passage for tech entrepreneur failures?

    • What are your favorite old-timey and historical insults and incredulous expressions?

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  • That reminds me, I once heard an irritated dad at a kids playground yell "cheese and rice"!

    • What are your favorite old-timey and historical insults and incredulous expressions?

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  • I love it. I've been enjoying "MotherFather" as a soft landing out of habitually cursing when frustrated.

    • What do you use to private watch YouTube?

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  • Grayjay can stream nebula, so there must be a way.

    • Kermit :)

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  • I always hated his pupils.

    • Do gangs "jump in" new recruits? Or is that just for movies and tv shows? If so why do they do that kinda seems anti productive.

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  • Never thought about that before, but now I'm curious: what exactly makes a gang not a cult?

    • How do you actually read?

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  • Moira Fogarty and Ruth Golding

    • How do you actually read?

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  • Do you ever use librivox? There are a few specific readers I found there that are great for me to fall asleep to.

    • How do you actually read?

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  • Utilizing the library is a good idea, I should really do they more. I know in the US they need our support too.

    • How do you actually read?

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  • Lately I have been trying to notice my doom scrolling actually using it as a cue to convert that energy into reading something I'm interested in.

    I'm trying to quit scrolling like I quit smoking decades ago: with intentional anger for being controlled and then redirection.

    • How do you actually read?

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  • I have, on a few occasions, rebooted my reading habit from traveling by airplane.

    I have found that if I do everything I can to feel as good as possible before a flight, and bring a book in my carry on, it's one of the rare situations that there is nothing pulling me away from reading. I went somewhere for work last month and I finished 2 books on that trip. That made me really happy and motivated to keep it alive.

    • What was a time that two adversaries had such different objectives that they were practically playing a different game against each other?

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  • Yeah, I think asymmetric warfare is they key word I was grasping for.

    I guess I wonder what other games, besides geopolitical competitions (or conflicts specifically) represent similar asymmetry

    • Elon Musk Dragged After His Own Chatbot Admits He's A 'Significant Spreader' Of Misinformation

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  • Chatbots can't "admit" things. They regurgitate text that just happens to be information a lot of the time.

    That said, the irony is iron clad.

    • What was a time that two adversaries had such different objectives that they were practically playing a different game against each other?

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  • This is probably true of a lot of covert operations. Thanks for the history, I did not know that!

    • What was a time that two adversaries had such different objectives that they were practically playing a different game against each other?

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  • But those are just different debuffs!

    • What was a time that two adversaries had such different objectives that they were practically playing a different game against each other?

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  • I didn't downvote you, I think you offered a thoughtful critique of the question.

    Even if parties have wildly different objectives or winning conditions, if they didn't have to compete for the same resources then they could cooperate or at least ignore each other. That wouldn't be true if it were a race to finish first, but in that case they've started competing for the resource of time.

    Maybe some folks thought it was a cop out answer, since I was seeking new perspectives rather than a reason to not ask for them? But, I think your response can help guide responses to even more extreme examples than some potentially topical ones by taking you up on your challenge.