psivchaz @ psivchaz @reddthat.com

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I think this is generally true, probably for the rest of my career. I don't think it is true forever. Asking "what happens when this stops being a career" or at least "what happens when there are less jobs to go around" is important, and something I would rather we all sort out long before I need the answer.

Whether it's happened or not, you're also running into two big problems America has:

• People who act without thinking
• People with a hero fantasy, and also often a gun

It doesn't have to have happened for people to fear that it will. In a nation where too many people carry guns, act rashly, and want to see their face on the news as a local hero, it just sounds too damn possible and risky.

When you phrase it like that, it sounds ridiculous. But for me, social events are a lot like going to the gym. It makes me anxious, I don't want to do it, I find reasons to avoid it, and then I'm glad I did it.

It's hard working up the motivation. It's easy to make excuses. Ultimately, it's good for my physical and mental well-being to get out of the house and see people. Having another way to weasel out of it guilt-free would be a net negative on my life for sure.

For literally every reason except height and some very limited accessibility uses, we had station wagons and they worked fine. The real reason is an arms race over height. People liked being able to see over other cars. Except then everyone got an SUV, so the advantage was erased and everyone who didn't buy an SUV was screwed, and the only people who actually gained anything were the ones making more expensive SUVs.

In theory, I'm centrist. In subjective terms, the right thinks I'm a commie and the left would think I'm basically a Nazi. In practical terms, I think that the rights of individuals should be maximized, while the rights of groups (like companies, organizations, churches, etc) should be restricted, and I don't think that taxation is theft but I do think we should be getting a better return on our investment.

The thing is, I pretty much only hang out in leftish spaces because the things I disagree with the left on are also less important to me. It's easier to get along.

That takes your multi factor and gives it a single point of weakness again, undermining the whole point. If your password safe is compromised, the attacker now has both the password and a code.

I think the problem here was using Google as the account email, the password vault, and the TOTP sync. If they at least had separate services, such as using Microsoft Authenticator for TOTP instead of Google, it would have been harder to compromise everything.

I mean wouldn't it be better that they don't want children in their sex abuse organization?

It's got to be people, right? All I can think is maybe he has a personal chef, personal trainer, staff like that that he has to pay?

It was pretty vanilla sex between a married couple without a condom, the only kind of sex God likes. You'd think the Republicans would be thrilled.

I've always been pathologically unwilling to be part of a community. I miss out on a lot, I'm sure. It's not a healthy way to be, and I'm not saying it's a good thing.

It's just that I'm into things like anime and video games and all that nerd shit. Every community has Those People that I don't want to be associated with. They aren't even the majority, but when a person who doesn't know much about anime hears "anime lover" they think of a dude doing a Naruto run in public. When they hear "Star Trek" they think of the comic book guy from Simpsons. Etc.

Find me an American conservative that even believes women are capable of something they would call "rape" and I'll be shocked.

You're thinking of Gillette. Gilead is a 3D modeling API that came before Direct3D.

I agree completely with the sentiment, but I have to disagree with one part: "Any reasonable person should be able to surmise..."

If we take "reasonable" to mean "average" then you are dead wrong. It's been my experience that most people have no clue at all about supply chains or how products make it to them. If they buy a thing at a store for $50, they believe that the store has made $50. Retail is a terrible place to be.

This is the correctest answer imo. Make the cameras optional but that any liability coverage the department has will only kick in for interactions that are recorded. All officers accused of unnecessary brutality or breaking the law in an unrecorded interaction will be put on unpaid leave until the investigation is concluded, and any officers involved will split any civil liability.

Level 5: Handle cookies, a local key value store, and a local database internally in a secure way.

Level 6: If you can't watch Netflix on your browser it's probably a non-starter for some users so better figure out a way to include DRM compatibility. But if you do it, the privacy minded will get really upset, so ideally you'd figure out a way to do it in some way that can be easily turned off or removed.

Level 7: alright, so implementing all of that was hard. But if you don't implement it in such an insanely optimized fashion that you can win arbitrary script tests that are meant to strain modern CPUs, the audience most likely to use your browser (geeks) will immediately move to something else and say your browser sucks. Get optimizing.

Just sort by date added to library and then filter by "never played" and voila, you can sort by how bad you should feel.

Yes, there are legitimate uses. However, trucks and SUVs account for 80% of car sales in the US. 80% is NOT representative of the number of people who actually need a truck or SUV.

Trucks and SUVs kill more people, because they are bigger and heavier and have less visibility. They run over more children, because the hoods are so high you could lose track of a whole kindergarten class standing in front of them. They are more efficient than they used to be, but still drastically less efficient than a sedan or station wagon.

I don't judge someone for having different tastes. I judge someone for letting their aesthetic choices cause them to do more harm to the planet, and endanger more people, and risk the lives of their own children (because that's who they're most likely to run over because they can't see them).

If you need a truck or SUV for your job or because you actually haul a lot, or maybe because you have accessibility needs for a bigger vehicle, great. Enjoy. But that is NOT 80% of people.

It fucks me up that we have this limited substance that can produce an amazing material with so many extremely valuable uses for technology and medicine... And we burn most of it and use it to make disposable shopping bags.

Especially the shopping bags. We already had those. They worked fine. Why?

A big part of it is logistics. Amazon lets sellers stash things in their warehouses for matching buyers to products and getting it in their hands quick. This is a role that a forward-thinking UPS or FedEx or, if God were real, the USPS could have filled in America.