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If it helps, those guys treat other guys the same way.

Also if it helps there are women who treat other people this way too.

This seems akin to racism to me. My favorite quote about this is from President Lyndon B. Johnson. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

My dad isn't this kind of guy, but he is an old white guy that watches Fox News. And it's the same thing with them. He has bought any number of supplements advertised on Fox News, and believes wholeheartedly that one day the world will finally understand the deep wisdom he believes in.

I don't believe you can categorize people as a simple either or. "You're a red piller or not." "You're a conservative or a liberal." But I do think you can apply a personality type to people. And it sounds like you sussed out a guy who really needs to feel superior to other people. I fucking hate those kind of people. So good for you, there are a lot of people who may have never figured it out, or weren't socially aware enough to see it. It sucks this turned out to be what it was, but celebrate the fact you're a strong enough person not to put up with it

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-repudiation

Legally you have to be able to prove someone received a thing. It's why you get served when you're sued. An agent physically hands you the complaint (or whatever they're called). If the papers were put in the mail the person being sued could say they never received them.

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Generations aren't a monolith. It's reductive to say "these people are leaving because they're from a different generation."

The best thing you can do is perform an exit interview and ask them why they decided to move on. If they're good people they'll give you an honest answer.

And remember, young people in the workforce now have had adults in their lives who were likely laid off during the 2008 financial crisis. Those adults were, correctly, teaching their children that companies are not loyal to their employees, so do not be loyal to your company.

They are probably leaving for more pay, better benefits, or a promotion of some kind. The only way you'll know for certain is if you ask.

It's good.

There are people who are arguing it's bad. They are either doing so in bad faith, or have the luxury of either never experiencing the racism that made affirmative action necessary, or never looked into the historical reasons for it.

A good place to start to understand why laws like this we're enacted is Redlining

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redlining

The TL:DR here is maps would be drawn that we're used to determine how risky it was to loan people money. These maps would be drawn based on the ethnicity of the neighborhood (this can be verified, there are poor white neighborhoods). If an applicants address was in a neighborhood that was Redlined, they could be denied a loan.

A modern example is the NFL. In 2021 they were ordered to pay a billion dollars to retired black players. The reason? The NFL were "race norning" cognitive tests designed to see if players had suffered mental decline over their career.

https://www.npr.org/2021/06/02/1002627309/nfl-says-it-will-halt-race-norming-and-review-brain-injury-claims

Essentially if a white player suffered mental decline and was reduced to the cognitive ability of a 15 year old (this example is made up, I don't know the exact metrics) that player would be paid for their injuries.

If a black player suffered mental decline and was reduced to the cognitive ability of a 15 year old that player would not be paid for their injuries. Because the NFL was working under the assumption that black people are fundamentally less intelligent than white people, so for them to be "damaged" they needed a higher level of mental decline to qualify.

This was happening in 2020.

The US needs affirmative action. We're a wonderful country that does many things well. We also still have a fuckton of racists at all levels of government and business. We're simply not there yet.

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The real issue here is backups vs disaster recovery.

Backups can live on the same network. Backups are there for the day to day things that can go wrong. A server disk is corrupted, a user accidentally deletes a file, those kinds of things.

Disaster recovery is what happens when your primary platform is unavailable.

Your cloud provider getting taken down is a disaster recovery situation. The entire thing is unavailable. At this point you're accepting data loss and starting to spin up in your disaster recovery location.

The fact they were hit by crypto is irrelevant. It could have been an earthquake, flooding, terrorist attack, or anything, but your primary data center was destroyed.

Backups are not meant for that scenario. What you're looking for is disaster recovery.

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He bought Twitter.

There are plenty of people who were affected by that

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Tell me you have never worked in IT security without telling me you never worked in IT security.

To give you an actual answer, instead of pure Internet snark, the concept you're proposing is called "security through obscurity" if you want to research it.

The TL:DR of it is it doesn't work. If it did, all software would be proprietary and things like viruses wouldn't exist. The source code for Windows isn't available, but Windows gets exploited constantly.

I have worked for 5 different companies that needed to be PCI compliant and every one of them will fully decided not to do certain things. Not all of them were even hard, a lot of times it was simply the person making the decisions just didn't want too.

So that's mine. Credit card security is not taken seriously but the vast majority of places that accept credit cards

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People are also missing that this extra bandwidth will help with mesh systems.

Not everyone is savvy enough, or has the ability to run Ethernet to every access point. The additional bandwidth here will help people who need better Wi-Fi, but are only going to buy an easy off the shelf solution

Even if Meta doesn't do it themselves there are likely hundreds of companies that do, and Meta can pay them for the data they want.

The best thing you can do is treat her respectfully. Say hello when you pass and be courteous when you talk, but putting up the professional barrier to any kind of personal relationship likely is your best strategy.

Your coworkers also see these traits. They will see you treating this person with respect, but also not participating in her drama. That's the mentality you should have to forming a winning workplace presence. People will see you treat her kindly, but also do not participate in the drama.

Everyone respects that person

You're getting downvoted, but I'm not picking up the "just asking questions" vibe.

In context that quote is about race mixing. I had never read the book until I searched for that quote, and the author is, essentially, claiming human achievement is the result of a few hyper capable people, and everyone else is simply benefiting from their ideas.

Leading up to that quote the author is saying "species" (and I'm assuming in earlier chapters the claim is made that humans are not a single species) shouldn't interbread because one is always better than the other, and therefore the offspring won't be as "good" as the better parent.

So in context this is essentially saying the death of every culture happened because less "quality" humans started breading with the "quality" humans.

Which is hilarious, because after reading a handful of pages from this book I can only assume Hitler is the dumbest mother fucker whose ever existed.

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The methodology here is suspect at best.

Simply dividing the amount of debt by the number of people does things like decrease the debt per person if there are children in the house.

There are other weird scenarios like non married people who own a house together. When you purchase a house with someone both parties are responsible for the debt, so 100% of the balance shows up on both their credit reports.

There may be some broad trends that can be gathered from this? If anybody has any idea what they are I'd be interested in hearing. Right now I can't think of any

Don't let the media portrayal of the current times affect you reality. Most of the stuff going on now has been going on forever and will continue to go on forever.

Take the faithless electors. There have been a total of 58 elections in which 165 electors have not cast their vote as the state prescribed. This first Wikipedia quotes was in 1835

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faithless_elector

That's the whole point. They can force you to agree to updated TOS before they allow you to access their app.

I can't tell. Do you use Arch or are you a vegan.

My guess is Arch. I'm confident it's not CrossFit

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I don't get it

I worked in retail on and off for 7 years and every store charged markup. Some products were marked up 70-80%. One place I worked was Best Buy. I regularly sold USB cables where the store cost was $2 for $32.

Amazon fees are essentially their markup. It's impossible to run a store without it

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How would that even work?

You're hand waving how it's actually implemented.

Like if you want to tap a wire you can do that. It's not hard.

If you want to selectively listen to communications happening on that wire you still start by tapping the wire. Then you listen to everything and filer out what you need.

I'm unfamiliar with how this is currently done, obviously. But if the difference here is the FBI not using their taps, or the taps being completely removed when this expires that is a meaningful difference. And should be discussed.

I'll agree with the other commenter here.

Also there may not be any difference between the consumer and enterprise drives. The reason the enterprise cost more is the better warranty. But because they have different components.

Monitor the drives, modern drives are pretty good at predicting when they are dying, and replace it necessary.

Is there another app on your phone that can manage your calendar?

If desktop is ok the changes aren't syncing back to Google, so it's got to be something on your phone.

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Which economic system, in your opinion, would produce the highest quality products? And you can use whatever definition of quality you like

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You can buy a model 3 that goes 0-60 in 3.1 seconds, right now, on their website under 40k after tax rebate. Go look. Under existing inventory. All prices exclude the 7500 credit.

Are you claiming GM never made a lemon? That no car, ever, in the history of their company, was sold with a bad motor?

And stop it. You're comparing the cost of a new battery now vs what the cost of a used battery will be in 8 years. Claiming that technology doesn't get cheaper is absurd. You can buy a used Nissan leaf battery for $3,700.

https://www.partrequest.com/catalog/electric-vehicle-batteries/nissan/nissan-leaf

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You missed the point by so much it's amazing your neighbor didn't lose an eye.

Civilians will be raped and murdered by an invading military. Towns will be bombed and burned. Children taken from their families and sent thousands of miles away to be enslaved in factories or worse, a toy for an oligarch.

And ALL of that you're fine with. Hand wave all of that away, because, by your own argument, a draft is more morally outrageous than all of that. Rape, murder, child sex slaves, ALL of that is worse than forcing people into the military.

If we're really going to make an outrageous argument then here's one for you. If society really has no right to an individual, then taxes and welfare should also be abolished. Who cares if the poor or mentally incapable starve? That's not your problem. Individuals have no responsibility to society. They should just move if they can't succeed.

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It really isn't.

The whole point of the crate motor vs battery pack was it's ridiculous to compare the cost of a new battery vs a used engine. If you blow an engine in a regular car it's replaced with s used one, even if it's covered by warranty. Used battery packs will get cheaper with time, especially 8 years from now when the warranty on a new EV is done.

Good for you that your car hasn't broken yet. I have a friend who got a bad transmission in her Subaru, it was replaced after something like 500 miles. Are you claiming that every new ICE vehicle that had ever been sold have had 100% working drive trains for the entirety of the restraint period?

Or are you comparing your anecdotal experience with a FUD news story about one person who had a lemon of a vehicle that happened to be electric

I swear, everyone on Lemmy have their heads shoved so far up their asses about how everyone should go full internal combustion and that they're great and have lower maintenance costs just down vote me to hell when I bring anything like this up. I know the tech and work on vehicles and combustion engines. It's dumb to buy a $40,000 vehicle with a 300 pound engine, 200 pound transmission, mechanically complex 4 wheel drive system with upwards of 3 independently locking differentials. The resale value when the head gaskets is blown is next to nothing, and the great 5 year 60,000 mile power train warranty doesn't even cover the average mileage people drive in 8 years. It only requires you mosty pay off the average loan length for a new vehicle. My Tesla costs 13 cents to drive about 4 miles, where the equivalent combustion car, with 400 horsepower and 400 foot pounds of torque, costs upwards of a dollar to drive the same. The high strung powerplants in performance cars require regular, expensive, maintenance, and if you actually push them will blow up in under 10,000 miles. An LS3 crate motor costs more than the car is worth and that doesn't even include the transmission or any of the other drivetrain components. No one should buy and keep a combustion engine for more than 10 years or you risk "being the bag holder" and stuck with a cancer emitting 4,000 pound paperweight.

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Yeah. And that's fine.

Cost is a concept in retail that gets manipulated a lot. In my previous example there is no way the actual "cost" of the USB cable was $2. When you factor in employees, rent, bills, logistics, customer service, etc etc the cable was likely more like $5. Best Buy made have paid $2 for that cable, but the actual cost to sell it, taken as a whole, was more like $5.

That other $3 is essentially what Amazon is making. If you sell on Amazon they build and maintain the website, logistics, warehousing, etc etc. You can create an online store and have exactly 0 employees or logistical infrastructure. Amazon has spent literally billions and billions of dollars building all of that.

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Twitter always sucked, and always will suck. Explain to me, in pornographic detail, how this is some huge conspiracy, what the end goal of that conspiracy is, and who is perpetuating it.

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Dumb people say dumb things. My guess is there are a lot less dumb people now than there ever has been. But dumb people will always exist.

I've never read any of those authors. Sociology has never really interested me, but good for you for learning history and studying what interests you.

Like, if you're looking to engender yourself to someone common hatred is surprisingly effective. People inherently trust others who agree with them, and shouting loudly you hate Nazis is a cheap and easy way to gain points to the crowd they're trying to gain favor with.

My take is if you're so unconfident in your ability to discuss you resort to shouting you hate Nazis, you're probably a moron. It's like saying "I disagree with anyone who even SUGGESTS drinking rat poison."

Like yeah, no shit.

What cloud backup solution are you using? A lot of them offer additional protection that would keep a history of your files. You can essentially say "once a week create a point in time recovery of all my files" and then you could recover your files from that point in time.

This usually costs extra, and it makes sense why. They're essentially keeping extra copies of your data for you.

How that is configured allows you to determine your RPO, or recovery point objective.

https://www.imperva.com/learn/availability/recovery-point-objective-rpo/

So you can decide how much data you're comfortable losing by determining how often those point in time recovery events happen.

Did that make sense?

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That's just not true.

What is true is trolling is done by insecure pseudo intellectuals who think they're smarter than everyone, but are too afraid to intellectually compete on a topic

Ok. Let's switch to six nations.

That definitely answers my question

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Be real. You don't have a copy of the Constitution

By definition a disaster recovery solution needs to be geographically separate. You're protecting yourself from catastrophe, and some of those scenarios include your main location burning down, flooding, being hit by a tornado, etc etc.

So you either need to collocate systems with a friend who you trust, purchase colocation services from a provider, or use a cloud service to achieve what you're looking for to truly have a DR solution.

As far as how to do that, the main idea is to have that point in time available on a system that, even if you get compromised, the backups won't. The old school method here is to use an external hard drive or a tape device, and physically store that offsite. So like use your regular backup mechanism, and in addition to what it's doing now schedule a daily/weekly/monthly job that backs up to this other device, and then store that away from your main location.

That's essentially the idea though, and there are any number of solutions you can use to do it.

Because that's a thing capitalism is great at? If the connection between capitalism and ruthless efficiency and iteration isn't apparent to whoever is reading this then it's really not worth the conversation

No. You can confirm the server received it. That's different from a user opening it and reading it

Exactly. Amazon is essentially running a huge chunk of a retail business for their customers, the people buying and selling products. The reason you pay these fees is so you don't need to run a website, build and maintain warehouses, pay staff like HR, etc etc

Yeah, so oppressed people should be compensated. I'm glad we agree

It's still funny to me your solution to centuries of systemic racism is "ok, ok. That absolutely did happen. But now we're going to treat everyone equally. No need to give the people oppressed for generations any kind of additional benefit '

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Let's assume that's true.

Let's also assume Twitter collapses under its own weight within the next year.

How does that further Elon's secret goal of spreading his brand of fascism and racism.

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