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phillaholic ,

I wonder if there are some holes in their methodology with regards to how people are paid in the US vs Europe. Like are they factoring in government benefits of teachers and staff that aren’t part of work like they are in the US. Salary and Benefits is a huge part of the cost, as well as land and construction costs.

phillaholic ,

My understanding is salaries are higher in the US in part because of the lack of universal healthcare, and other things that end up coming out of people’s pockets when compared to Europe. I did a little digging on the site, and it does look like salary and benefits are up to 80% of the cost.

phillaholic ,

No one needs Wendy’s. A lot of vocal people are annoyed with all this stuff, but I think it’s not their core customers being vocal. I for one stopped going there when their app started allowing me to order, but the restaurant receives a payment failed notice and never makes my food. Been through support multiple times and no one knows anything. Then I tried to relogin and Google login was down for weeks.

phillaholic ,

In an emergency situation it should be illegal. Because too many people want it shouldn’t be. Annoying, shitty, sure. But supply and demand is not getting overturned.

phillaholic ,

Sure, but that’s a different problem.

phillaholic ,

You’re describing AI. We are in the get rich quick period of AI usage.

phillaholic ,

DRM is mandatory in any spec you expect content owners to support. We don’t have to like it, but it’s absolutely not going away.

phillaholic ,

That’s 99% of the reason we use HDMI…

phillaholic ,

LastPass hack happened due to a developer logging I. On their home PV which had an outdated and vulnerable version of Plex installed. Swap outdated for “maliciously forked” and now attackers have legit code that can run for months before they use what they’ve injected to take over.

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The President does not have the authority to outlaw selling of personal data in general. This is why it’s being limited to a select few countries of concern and not all. There are national security concerns with these countries in particular.

phillaholic ,

The US restricts export of certain hardware for matters of national security too, and doing it through shell corporations would get them in trouble too.

How do you get rid of "wet dog" smell in a dishwasher?

This is a thing with every dishwasher I’ve had, some models seem better than other. You wash the dishes and when they dry, they have a musty odor I can only describe as “wet dog”. Other people often don’t seem to notice this, so maybe I am just sensitive to it. Though if I point it out, then they smell it....

phillaholic ,

So what, nuke it and start over? How do we destroy the bacteria and still have the majority of our walls standing?!

phillaholic ,

NIST are the experts guiding the White House.

phillaholic ,

And they meant men too, not women.

But really they meant White Male Landowners with money.

phillaholic ,

Minorities in general. Some of the first HOAs excluded Blacks, Jews, Asians, etc in literal writing. It took a SCOTUS case to overturn.

phillaholic ,

Find an HOA with conservative leadership and you’ll find all sorts of bs. Worse when they weren’t like that when you bought, but have turned into a MAGA idiot and reject anything green on principle.

phillaholic ,

Most of Apple’s AI will run on device and not online, so that’s something.

phillaholic ,

I don’t think two day shipping is an advertised feature anymore. Depending on where you live, I’ve seen ordering directly from manufacturers is the same or quicker than Amazon most of the time.

phillaholic ,

I’ve had that happen recently too. Last one was clearly lost. It kept cycling in and out of their same warehouse. Happens with IPS and FedEx from time to time too.

phillaholic ,

JPL doesn’t get enough credit. We just taken for granted that most NASA missions succeed. Space is incredibly difficult.

phillaholic ,

They are not even close to the same thing. Russia invaded a sovereign nation. Israel is retaliating against a political and military terrorist group who are the de facto leaders of a disputed territory within Israel’s own borders.

You can talk about tactics, but Hamas attacked Israel in a 9/11esk event prior to Israel retaliating. Hamas, as well as their neighboring financiers have a long history of antisemitism and desire to wipe Israel off the map. Israel didn’t just invade their territory randomly.

I don’t think their actions are fully justified, but I acknowledge the situation is different, and the most complex situation in history. It’s important to remember that doing nothing isn’t equal to peace. Hamas attacked them:

Operation Al-Aqsa Flood". The attack began when a barrage of several thousand rockets were fired into Israel, while around 3,000 militants breached the Gaza–Israel barrier and attacked neighboring Israeli communities and military bases. During this attack, 1,139 Israelis and foreign nationals were killed, including 766 civilians and 373 security forces personnel, while 253 Israelis and foreigners were taken captive to the Gaza Strip with the stated goal to force Israel to release Palestinian prisoners.

phillaholic ,

Israel is occupying and oppressing what WOULD have otherwise been a sovereign nation.

But it’s not, and if your claim is Gaza just wants to mind it’s own business, I’ll remind you this war started with Hamas invading Israel and killing over a thousand people. If you’d treat them as a sovereign nation, they committed and act of war.

it’s clear to anyone with even an ounce of objectivity that it’s actually attacking the Palestinian people as a whole.

Hamas is the governing body of Gaza, and is integrated throughout. It’s impossible to attack Hamas and not everyone. It’s war, not one of the US’s Quasi-Conflict drone strike situations. These attacks back and forth have been going on for more than 30 years. Hamas’ attack last fall was by far the biggest escalation.

By their OWN assessment they’re killing TWICE as many innocent civilians as Hamas and since they refuse to show any proof, the ratio is likely much worse.

I agree with you about the refusing to show any proof point. I think there should be a UN presence and that’s something I hope the US is pushing behind the scenes. However it’s difficult to hold Israel to a high standard when Hamas consistently targets civilians. It’s like bringing a knife to a gun fight when both sides aren’t following the rules. I wonder how many conflicts actually follow the Geneva convention?

They are an illegitimate government and civilians who never voted for them shouldn’t suffer for their atrocities.

This is partially what makes it so complex. The only real way to fix that is to destroy Hamas. Do you have a better idea on how to do that? I don’t.

That doesn’t mean that AT LEAST two civilians needs to die for every Hamas terrorist killed

I’m not defending Irsael’s specific actions. I have no idea if they could be more careful. I know that their overreach is why Stuxnet became public, so I could see them overdoing it. However, just like the US has gotten criticized for Drone strikes killing civilians, it’s incredibly difficult to sort out terrorists who blend into the civilian population and don’t follow any of the internal rules of war.

Because of the aforementioned illegal occupation

It’s way more complicated then an “illegal occupation.” The entire region has been a problem dating back thousands of years, and decisions made by the west at the end of World War II are a key part of it. Israel existing at all is a problem for some groups, and we can see how that went last time.

So civilians should die for the desires of their governments?

That’s War. It’s Terrible. Military service is compulsory in Israel too. And remember Hamas started this particular conflict by killing Israeli citizens.

It’s at least as important to remember that the only alternative to “nothing” isn’t “a laundry list of horrific crimes against humanity”. Stow the false dichotomies, please.

I’ve already touched this point talking about their tactics. Those can absolutely be debated. You can criticize them for not allowing third party reporting, the UN, etc. Those are all valid points. I’m talking about in the broad sense that this is a retaliation, not an attack; And Doing nothing is a kin to welcoming more and larger attacks, because Hamas has nothing to lose.

Which the fascists are using as an excuse to indiscriminately murder civilians including by denying them basic life necessities such as food, water, electricity, fuel, medical treatment and medicine.

File this under tactics too. Completely reasonable to question these specifics.

I hope AIPAC or another Israeli government agency is paying you well for your efforts, otherwise it’s just sad for you to be spending so much time and effort regurgitating all the long debunked genocide apologia of an apartheid regime…

I never said I approved of the tactics they are using. I only suggested that the overall idea that there should be Peace or Israel should stop completely is not possible. It’s way more complex than people here understand. I’m not denying it’s an apartheid regime, I just don’t see any good outcome, just bad ones. Most of the time it takes all out war to resolve, and I’d file that firmly under bad.

phillaholic ,

You neglected to include what should be done with the terrorist group that started the conflict by invading and killing a thousand Israeli citizens. It’s like you’ve read one side of the conflicts view point and ignored the rest. So you know how many times two state solutions have been negotiated and why they fell through? It’s really difficult to compromise when some people don’t think Israel should even exist. I don’t expect you to solve it, it’s impossible. There’s hopefully some good news coming out today apnews.com/…/palestinians-abbas-israel-hamas-war-…

phillaholic ,

Clearly that’s the ideal, but getting that done is next to impossible and many of the surrounding countries that are bank rolling Hamas don’t want to see peace. It’s very difficult to fight a war against terrorism. Afghanistan/later Iraq proved that.

phillaholic ,

Simple solution. Ask the student to talk about their paper. If they know the subject matter, the point of the assignment is meant.

phillaholic ,

I had to do a lot of presenting in college, which is more or less the same thing. There were peers who struggled with that, but they always talked with the Professors and I never came across a hard ass that would penalize them for it. Might not even be legal if it’s a medical condition.

phillaholic ,

Tina looks terrible, I don’t know what you’re talking about. This movie is going to be awful.

phillaholic ,

Cate is good in everything.

phillaholic ,

That’s the legal standard on FMLA. Important to note the pay has to be the same.

phillaholic ,

It should be identical leave for both parents regardless. This is one reason women are paid less, they miss more time than men which delays their career progression.

phillaholic ,

That’s what systemic bias is.

phillaholic ,

Counting the number of women vs number of men affected by a change is not cherry picking data. It suggests that there is systemic bias in the way the change was decided upon. Systemic bias may not be intentional.

phillaholic ,

Any policy that impacts a disproportionate amount of one gender over the other in any group small or large has the highly likely chance of systemic bias. You seem quick to call me an idiot, but you don’t seem to understand the meaning behind the term, or how it doesn’t mean the people in charge are sexist assholes who hate women. It can be completely unconscious.

If the outcome of your decision has consequences like this, the suggestion is you should reevaluate your decision to figure out if you’ve missed something.

It’s been claimed that Dell lacks representation of women in higher levels, so it’s possible those making decisions lack the experience that lead them into this outcome. Again, this in no way means they are an intentionally trying to get rid of women.

phillaholic ,

Pretty sure that’s expensive as hell

phillaholic ,

I was under the impression the yearly fee was much higher, but maybe I was co flaring it with the cycle cost of IVF which can reach 30k.

phillaholic ,

Read the article. It’s not crying. It’s acknowledgment of a new legitimate competitor like Japan and South Korea became. It’s a call to arms for US manufacturers to get better. This is pro consumer.

phillaholic ,

Funny, because the generation who last went to war to fight communism was drafted into it.

phillaholic ,

“Labor unions” are the workers, so it’s everyone.

phillaholic ,

Japan did it. Korea did it. China is doing it.

phillaholic ,

If the US government wants to spy on you, they have boots on the ground. Russia has been involved with ransomeware campaigns.

phillaholic ,

I don’t really agree with that conclusion. Linux is as old as windows and it had ample time to gain market share. Most people don’t want to tinker. I’ve posted recently about trying Linux for the first time in over a decade and how much worse the Ubuntu experience was than a decade ago. Meanwhile windows has gotten far easier to install and get going.

phillaholic ,

I had to take a typing class in college. They can teach basics. It doesn’t take long to go over file systems.

phillaholic ,

I just installed windows 11 in 15 mins on a 5 year old laptop for donation. The one with Linux had an unusable trackpad with no sensitivity setting, and some sort of flat pack installer system that I gave up on mostly because of the trackpad not allowing me to scroll more than a page and a half at a time. U until was easier 15 years ago.

phillaholic ,

Download VLC, use WiFi transfer.

phillaholic ,

I just followed those directions using only my iPhone. Not sure you read that correctly.

phillaholic ,

There’s a good chance you’re left out of separate chats.

phillaholic ,

It falls back to MMS which is terrible.

phillaholic ,

It’s more than that. Apps used to take screenshots of the screen instead of trying to work their way through the camera apis in Snapchat for example, at least in the past. There’s also just bad camera out there. My Pixel 6 Pro is terrible for document scanning given its sensor size. The edges are always blurry.

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