iamericfletcher
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5 years ago
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on: Coming Soon: The ‘Vaccine Passport’
"The Linux Foundation is working in partnership with the Covid-19 Credentials Initiative, a collective of more than 300 people from five continents to help develop universal standards for vaccine credential apps that make them accessible and equitable."
iamericfletcher
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5 years ago
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on: The Few, the Tired, the Open Source Coders
Nadia's book, Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software, which is mentioned in the article, inspired me to become a GitHub sponsor. Nothing big, just $10 per month to one of my favorite open source developers. If you can afford it, I recommend others' do the same.
iamericfletcher
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5 years ago
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on: A Picture of Java in 2020
I suppose I should put my GitHub Student Developer Pack to good use and get started learning JavaScript!
iamericfletcher
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5 years ago
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on: Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B
Sans Socom 2 remake, PS5 is going to be absolute garbage.
iamericfletcher
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5 years ago
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on: The Social Dilemma
I find it interesting when the individual(s) who ruthlessly engineer the problem(s) take on the role of some sort of savior only after successfully extracting life changing amounts of wealth.
iamericfletcher
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5 years ago
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on: On finally learning to program at the age of 40
Here I am, 30 years old learning to program for the first time. Specifically, the R and Python languages. I love it, but can't help and think how I would have got on it much earlier in my life if it wasn't for an alcoholic household and the abundance of veiled criticisms I received from my family for trying to use computing as an escape from the toxicity. Never too late!
iamericfletcher
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5 years ago
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on: The Trials of Psychedelic Therapy
I find it interesting that you think a life is worse because that life is in a hospice setting.
iamericfletcher
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5 years ago
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on: Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website
Interesting. Subscribed.
iamericfletcher
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5 years ago
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on: Solar panels are starting to die, leaving behind toxic trash
" Voluntary, industry-led recycling efforts are limited in scope."
Did anyone else chuckle when they saw this?
Also, what will happen to the poor people who cannot detach from the grid? As the amount of people using solar increases, I am sure the costs for those who can't afford solar will increase, right? Also, as solar increases, if it does, the already horrible grid infrastructure will suffer even more so as the utility providers face even less financial incentive to provide upkeep.
iamericfletcher
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5 years ago
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on: Ketamine that's injected during arrests draws new scrutiny
Answer me this...if an EMT is able to administer ketamine via injection to an "out of control" "suspect" at a "crime scene", lethal dose or not, why on earth couldn't the police officers, who are armed, protected, and highly skilled in restraining individuals, subdue the subject with handcuffs and or leg restraints? Perhaps some pepper spray, or a net gun that renders them to the ground unable to freely move about?
