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So this is basically yet another reason to not let Amazon echo/Alexa on your network.

Well if you play borderlands 3 or another AAA title inside stadia and purchase you are already paying for game + gaming service + DLC...

Vscode runs great on windows and Linux. MS has actually made the remote VScode option so you can click a button and suddenly you are running a WSL2 headless Ubuntu box in Windows. Could be just embrace extend extinguish though then everyone is supposed to use azure in a couple years.

Picked yup a 4k lg from costco last year for around $300-350. This is not a gaming monitor, but running KDE on Kubuntu 20.04 scaled at 150% is just fine. Ubuntu 20.04 is unusable due to buggy GPU/x/? though. Looks like that composited desktop is getting like 10fps. Text and video are just fine, games are horrible but just get a cheapo 1080p 144hz TN if secondary monitor if you're gaming.

The military might be world class and also a mini welfare-state but it has left the rest of the country kinda a shithole (as the president famously described other countries). Literally walked by a huge homeless encampment yesterday where people were shooting up and living in tents.

This government is not of/by/for the people one bit.

We have more people in the military dying from suicide than combat https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/feb/01/us-military-su... it’s a real problem.

“And the answer [to] why we aren’t going faster is simply money. We can push the accelerator down more today because the digital technology allows it.”

Gong to burn some internet points here but this should not be what we are spending money on right now as a nation.

We have >250k (200k official) people dead (excess deaths) from COVID and many more overdosing on opioids or dying from preventable diseases. Handouts to the military-industrial-congressional complex are exactly what we do not need right now.

We need to get Medicare for all and Universal Basic Income passed or otherwise more people will realize that this country does not care about them and only cares about giving the military new toys.

I’ve Deferred my grad school applications due to COVID. This is a huge cash-grab by universities and IMO totally criminal. There is no way you can learn like this and I do not want to teach over zoom.

Kinda looks like universities think they are too big to lay people off or close.

Also charging an 18yo 40k/yr for zoom classes when it’s available for free on Edx is nuts.

The circumstances that led up to this failure of organizational security are a combo of IT apathy and vendor lock-in.

IMO you should not be running windows on hardware whose failure could cause deaths. Maybe windows could be secured to prevent this but that would require IT staff to keep things updated which does not always happen.

A much better solution is to run locked down Linux or BSD.

We have that regulatory capture of building and zoning in the USA so that even if you wanted to just go and build an earthship it would be technically illegal.

If they can’t tax it or control it = not happening.

The real lesson is to install ublock origin and be done with deceptive advertising.

Last time I tried to find nvidia drivers for windows 1st result was an obvious scam/crapware. This is not acceptable that big tech companies are making money while not taking responsibility for advertisements.

This is a great idea. I’d take it a step further and correlate it to the availability of municipal fiber and also a Costco within a 30min drive.

No it isn’t. It’s just doing business see https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/whats-the-difference... you can walk away from a mortgage and lenders are not allowed to go after personal assets.

Wow this is really interesting and a project I’d really like to work on. My grandmother passed away from colon cancer in her late 50s and as a presently 32 y/o I’m definitely thinking about getting a colonoscopy soon. I wonder if they could give me the raw video data to experiment with?

I’m not an accountant or tax lawyer but here you go:

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/investing/102515/carri...

Carried interest is a share of a private equity or fund's profits that serve as compensation for fund managers. Because carried interest is considered a return on investment, it is taxed at a capital gains rate, and not an income rate. Critics argue that this is a tax loophole since portfolio managers get paid from that money, which is not taxed as income. Advocates of carried interest argue that it incentivizes the management of companies and funds to profitability.

Update: Virginia Governor said he’s actually not going to mandate the vaccine.

Healthy is a BMI in the normal range and following something close to the Harvard nutrition plate (USDA one is bought by big agriculture).

Being able to afford a meal service or go to Whole Foods is also much harder when you live in a food desert. Yes we do give people EBT or something but then it is spent on junk food/soda.

So how do you fix that? Maybe if you’re overweight medically speaking pay more in insurance/taxes? That would never fly tho so we are in the current national predicament.

More specifically we need to totally decouple health insurance from employment. This is not post-ww2 anymore. No more Cadillac plans from FAANG companies either unless your paying for it out of your own pocket.

This would immediately solve half of the problems with healthcare in this country if everyone had to use the health insurance exchanges to buy insurance.

This is bullshit and is designed to enable Amazon to allow Toyota and its insurance “partners” to extract more money out of the average American driver.

Remember how Kroger/Safeway/friends started their loyalty programs? Just give us your purchase data + a unique identifier and we will only charge you the normal price not the jacked up price. This is the same thing. 20 years from now this will be normal because most older cars will be off the road.

My guess is Give it 5 years and we’ll find out that the algorithm is unfairly targeting minority neighborhoods and jacking up insurance rates too.

Microsoft ergonomic keyboard 4000 is what I use. Usually around $20-50.

I was a business major for a year and a half before switching to biology. It is worth it to go over case studies and learn accounting, IMO lots of the value gained is through instructer-led group discussion which doesn’t really work over zoom. This led me to actually making a startup and learning much more about how businesses is done than I would have.

Cutting the Seattle police departments budget by 50% would be the perfect way to provide an argument for Trump Republicans that the alt-left/Antifa are out to get you .

This combined with the portland protests will get Trump re-elected and keep the GOP majority in the senate.

This is what you call a diversion from the real issue which is COVID, that republicans have not managed well at all.

The CHOP was a nightmare that was not shut down soon enough. There were armed gangs patrolling the entire thing who would try and make you delete cellphone footage. There was also rape/Iv drug usage/trash all over. I was literally there back in June.

That is NOT what I want to deal with on a daily basis.

We need to hire more police and private security to stop the crazies, make cal Anderson a gun free Zone and stop the chaos.

Had a 16” and sold it for the same reason. Maybe an arm MacBook would be good but also having a 64core threadripper and decent graphics and just remoting in seems better at the minute. You can also upgrade and fix things if they break.

Wow saw that video, maybe someone got into their API?

What if someone from a non-USA location started selling access to the best batches in prime USA locations e.g. SF/LA/SEA/NYC/DC then we could start trading and packaging up those batches and trading on them in crypto exchanges, maybe even make a new coin?

Also having someone put in a SSN is not any kind of verification if you’re trying to subcontract out to people not in the country legally/documented. The ssn algorithm is known and it is easy to generate, it just don’t get fixed because politics.

Maybe we have finally found a decent use for eth?

Yes this pattern of data-driven decisions on our loves is troubling. However if we understand what these corporations are looking for it is easy to exploit them for fun and profit. If you get a decent credit score say hello to multiple $500 credit card opening balances, free plane tickets, free hotels.

Don’t take financial/tax advice from random internet people.

Go to a fee-only financial advisor something like this https://www.feeonlynetwork.com in your state and take their advice that is a fiduciary. It will cost you a few hundred dollars but that is entirely worth it, we don’t know your whole tax and risk situation.

The government response in the USA might have failed. The response by by other governments [TW/NZ/ROK/JP] are keeping the virus under control without a vaccine, and if we had a national mask mandate along with a new CCC-like program for contract tracers then we could also have much less than 50% infection.

However Trump will probably be re-elected, Obamacare will be overturned with a new SCOTUS pick when RBG dies in a couple months, and corporations will get immunity to COVID lawsuits from employees. Just my prediction.

Pretty much any animal except pangolins and bats that does not carry COVID & friends...

Hah go to a rural area and find bidirectional gigabit fiber optic internet for $60/mo and a decent house for $200,000.

I got a paperlike screen protector from Amazon warehouse. When it arrived it had obviously been ripped off another iPad Pro and set on the floor. There was a pubic/pet/?? Hair under it and it was obviously unusable. Of course it still had the factory inspected seal though bc amazon drones dgaf.

Amazon did refund, but made me resend the item rather than throwing in the trash. Proof: https://photos.app.goo.gl/f1jxjvooWAPVuh4DA