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nednobbins

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  • How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL?

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  • Yeah. And the fix for that has nothing to do with "de-duping" as a database operation either.

    The main components would probably be:

    1. Decide on a new scheme (with more digits)
    2. Create a mapping from the old scheme to the new scheme. (that's where existing duplicates would get removed)
    3. Let people use both during some transition period, after which the old one isn't valid any more.
    4. Decide when you're going to stop issuing old SSNs and only issue new ones to people born after some date.

    There's a lot of complication in each of those steps but none of them are particularly dependant on "de-duped" databases.

  • Bernie Sanders launches high-profile offensive against ‘the oligarchy’

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  • The Democratic party, as it stands, is dead and the Greens are stillborn.

    There's nothing but hopes and prayers to support the idea that the Greens will ever get anywhere in the US. They have neither a policy platform nor any individuals who inspire broad support.

    It is absolutely possible to take over parties from within though. We've seen it happen twice with the Republicans. They tried, and failed, to keep the Tea Party from taking over. Then they tried, and failed, to keep Trump from taking over.

    History suggests we have a better chance getting AOC to take over and clean house with the Democrats than we do waiting for the Greens to make any headway.

  • Bernie Sanders launches high-profile offensive against ‘the oligarchy’

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  • I agree. Her speech on the Monday after she got picked was great. She came out of the gate swinging. She laid out a solid initial vision with a realistic warning that it was going to be a hard fight.

    Then she didn't.

    Somewhere along the line she got cold feet and decided that not rocking the boat would be a safe option. She thought that pushing too hard would galvanize her opponents. Instead she tried to play nice with them and alienated large chunks of her base.

  • Bernie Sanders launches high-profile offensive against ‘the oligarchy’

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  • Harris raised 50% more than Trump. It’s hard to pin this one solely on big money influence.

  • Bernie Sanders launches high-profile offensive against ‘the oligarchy’

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  • I think that’s the point of this tour. He isn’t running for president. He’s trying to build a support base for a real alternative.

    That’s presumably AOC but it’s still too early.

  • How does this pic show that Elon Musk doesnt know SQL?

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  • It’s so basic that documentation is completely unnecessary.

    “De-duping” could mean multiple things, depending on what you mean by “duplicate”.

    It could mean that the entire row of some table is the same. But that has nothing to do with the kind of fraud he’s talking about. Two people with the same SSN but different names wouldn’t be duplicates by that definition, so “de-duping” wouldn’t remove it.

    It can also mean that a certain value shows up more than once (eg just the SSN). But that’s something you often want in database systems. A transaction log of SSN contributions would likely have that SSN repeated hundreds of times. It has nothing to do with fraud, it’s just how you record that the same account has multiple contributions.

    A database system as large as the SSA has needs to deal with all kinds of variations in data (misspellings, abbreviations, moves, siblings, common names, etc). Something as simplistic as “no dupes anywhere” would break immediately.

  • Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party.

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  • There might be some advantage in electability advantage for old white guys but the outcome doesn't really seem worth the effort.

    AOC would certainly have a bunch of biases to overcome but from everything I can see, she would be a great leader. She seems to have a solid understanding of many spheres including economics, international relations, people, politics, marketing and more. She also seems to prioritize the good of the people over her own power or pocketbook.

    She might be harder to get in but it's absurd to dismiss her as a clown.

  • Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights

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  • Ah. Now I understand. I think those people prefer more naked propaganda like “American Sniper” though.

  • Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights

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  • We might be talking about different things. I’m just saying that Starship Troopers is an anti-war film and most of the people who like it are fairly liberal.

  • Dems Reportedly Angry That Progressives Are Pushing Them to Act Like an Opposition Party.

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  • Can you elaborate? She had made some inflammatory comments in the past but in the past few months she seems to be the poster child of maturity and determination.

  • Air Force Has Troops Remove Names, Unit Patches from Uniforms During Deportation Flights

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  • I get what you mean but Starship Troopers is a critique of war and militarized states.

  • USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos

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  • Tesla pulls out all the stops as Cybertruck sales grind to a halt

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  • Nobody builds cars under slave like conditions. It’s just not possible. Modern car factories are highly automated plants that require skilled operators. In the case of the VW Xinjiang, that was QC inspectors. There’s no way a hole in the wall car factory using outdated labor practices can come close to competing against modern production.

  • Italy blocks access to the Chinese AI application DeepSeek to protect users' data, announces investigation into the companies behind chatbot

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  • It doesn’t much. The data has already been collected. All this does is make it harder for Italians from accessing their frontend.

    The frontend is likely collecting additional data and we know there’s a layer of censorship built into it but that’s limited to your query strings and some metadata.

  • Protesters Blockade DNC Party Meeting, Demand Democrats Put Workers and Climate First - DeSmog

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  • They’re pretty clear about what they’re asking the DNC to do. It’s in the first paragraph of the article.

    Before the election, people were told not to protest so the DNC wouldn’t lose power. Is there any time when are people allowed to tell their leaders that the party has lost its way?

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  • Africa has a number of factors in its favor that make it a potential economic powerhouse. It has some of the largest natural resource reserves in the world, it has a huge population, it's conveniently located on or near several important trade routes.

    It's also cursed with some pretty bad natural infrastructure. The rivers in Africa don't provide good access between the center of the continent and the coasts.

    China had about the same GDP a Sub-Saharan Africa in the early 1990's https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.CD?end=1996&locations=CN-ZG&most_recent_value_desc=true&start=1960 It's taken China 35 years to get from there to it's current spot as 2nd largest economy in the world. And that was for an economy that was growing at nearly 2x the rate of the rest of the world for most of that period. https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD.ZG?locations=CN-1W

    That's not to say that Africa can't become an economic powerhouse but it will take a lot of work and time. It would take sustained investment and reinvestment in Africa over several decades.

  • "You can't have our trash because we don't have a way to charge you for it"

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  • We make food "from scratch" on a regular basis.

    We've found a few different sources for fats. I'll focus on the pork-fat ones.

    The most common source is to just collect fat any time we make pork things. The advantage is that it's cheap and easy; just let it cool and add it to a jar in the fridge. The disadvantage is that it will have a lot of other flavors (especially salt).

    Sometimes we just by processed lard. That's basically the opposite end of the spectrum. It's very pure and has no flavor besides the fat itself.

    Often we'll wet render our own fat. Traditionally that would be the trimmings off of other cuts. Unless you're butchering a pig (or have bought into a fractional pig through something like a CSA) those bits usually aren't available. Typically we'll just buy cuts that are very high in fat. For pork, that would be pork belly. We'll just buy an uncut slab and wet-render it. Trim any meat you want to cook with (belly is the part that bacon is made of) throw the rest in a pot of water an simmer it for a few hours. The fat layer that collects on top is almost pure lard.

    We've also found that duck fat is a great substitute for lard. It has a similar smoke point to lard (slightly higher). It tastes different from lard but it's also good enough that the flavor itself will improve meals. Duck breasts are about 50% fat if you buy them with skins. You can also buy duck fat on its own.

  • Biden Commutes Sentence of Judge Who Took Kickbacks for Sending Kids to For-Profit Juvenile Detention

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  • Shitty leaders blame their people for their failures.

  • 'They Continue to Abuse Our Country for Immense Profit': Luigi Mangione's Manifesto Leaks Online

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  • People call something a "manifesto" when they want to imply that it's a long rambling text written by a crazy person.