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mikekhusidon A site that tracks the price of a Big Mac in every US McDonald's

Buffalo and Albany seem like business friendly locales.

mikekhusidon A pentester gets root - step by step example

https://0xdf.gitlab.io has much better HackTheBox write-ups for those interested in such things. The IppSec YouTube channel is also great.

mikekhusidon Pip has dropped support for Python 2

Do you have any examples of this? Not doubting it, just curious.

mikekhusidon No writer understood loneliness better than Chekhov

Pevear and Volokhonsky are unreadable. Choose any other translation for your Russian lit.

mikekhusidon How Chekhov invented the modern short story

Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky are fucking terrible. Read any other translation

mikekhusidon Minneapolis City Council members announce intent to disband police department

The Camden thing is going around a lot but to me it seems like they did a reorg and actually ended up hiring more police.

https://www.tapinto.net/towns/camden/sections/law-and-justic...

mikekhusidon EA will be releasing the C&C Tiberian Dawn and Red Alert source code under GPL3

I loved both of these games when they came out, but I'm completely shocked that enough people still play this game to make open sourcing the code 25 years later a newsworthy event.

mikekhusidon As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work

A more interesting and intellectually honest article would flesh this out a bit, maybe with actual evidence.

mikekhusidon As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work

That's not what the article is about.

mikekhusidon As more of them die, grocery workers increasingly fear showing up at work

Grocery worker COVID deaths: 41/900000 = 0.00004555555 (this number is from article and only for union members).

Total US COVID deaths: 28000/328000000 = 0.00008536585. So seemingly there's nothing particularly risky about being a grocery store worker. In fact, you're about half as likely to die!

Keep in mind the 328mm number includes children, non-working adults, etc and of course total deaths are skewed towards older non-working adults. Still it's extremely frustrating, but not surprising, that the media refuses to do any sort of cursory analysis like this.

mikekhusidon 82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on government cell phones

Check out Kessel Run as well. https://kesselrun.af.mil/

DoD mindset re: digital acquisitions is changing.