AequitasOmnibus

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by AequitasOmnibus 2y ago
From the discussions I've seen about theanine, the real benefit supposedly came when it was taken alongside caffeine. The thinking being that theanine moderated some of the jittery effects of caffeine, allowing the user to take higher
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by AequitasOmnibus 2y ago
Active Postbox user here. If I'm being honest, it's mainly a nice skin over Thunderbird, and inertia kept me on it all these years. With the wind down, I'll likely switch over to Thunderbird full time. I wonder how many other
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by AequitasOmnibus 2y ago
That sounds a lot like all the homeowners in California that have sold their significantly overvalued homes for 7 figures to move to states where real estate is a fraction of the cost. Generally it’s considered to be a factor in home price
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by AequitasOmnibus 2y ago
While not mentioned in the article, it’s worth mentioning that this also coincided with T-Mobile’s acquisition of Sprint. Specifically, T-Mobile made assurances that the acquisition would lower prices. Instead, within a couple years they ex
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Ask HN: Best Way to Stop Persistent Identity Thieves
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by AequitasOmnibus 2y ago
I've wanted to love MARP for years but the documentation is so limited (and tutorials so sparse) that building a presentation with any complexity beyond the basics is almost impossible unless you have a solid understanding of CSS and Y
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by AequitasOmnibus 2y ago
> a protest against the ubiquity and inhumanness of digital photography A protest to the tune of approximately $1 per photo. I love my 35mm SLR but shooting on it is extremely cost prohibitive. Digital photography doesn’t have to be inhu
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by AequitasOmnibus 2y ago
Nationalized healthcare doesn’t stop at a pharmaceutical manufacturer’s borders. You think NHS or any other country with socialized medicine pays what the US does? With socialized healthcare the pharmaceutical companies pay what the nation
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
Incidentally I’ve written about this before [^1]. Basically, the sitting president appoints circuit judges to a lifetime position. The judicial candidates are selected by senators from whichever state the judge is to be appointed. Generally
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
It warms my heart to see people still taking about the X201’s faulty WiFi switch. I loved that laptop but ended up mothballing it over the switch. It remains a perfect example of how cheaping out on an extremely minor component (a plastic s
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
Copyright was never conceived to apply to technology like this and the onslaught of copyright suits (like the NYT one) underscore its fundamental rent-seeking nature. No doubt these latest changes to GPT-4 are in response to the suits they’
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
In one fell swoop, Nate tries to redefine political alignments in order to artificially distance himself from a concept he personally dislikes (“wokeness”). His statistical analysis is a fun way to follow political horse racing (even if his
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
Obesity is curable. Diabetes is not.
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
So… which part of an anti-vax, anti-abortion access, climate denier is the rational part?
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
People are scared of change. Particularly where those changes require mass acceptance of uncomfortable truths. Intellectually it’s obvious that society has to come to a reckoning over our current way of life if we’re going to get a handle o
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
> The cable industry did the exact same thing. Kinda but not really. The cable providers were and continue to be hamstrung by the networks who force the cable providers to buy channel packages. Cable never had the leverage to, say, tell
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
This is a legitimate use of a DMCA takedown. The author of the obituary (presumably the decedent's family or friends) owns the obit and therefore owns the copyright to it. Whether Youtube would honor that type of takedown is a differen
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
The United States can’t even carry out basic governmental functions. The House of Representatives is without a speaker going on a month now, and each election cycle is degrading to the point that it may stop functioning properly. We are unf
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
> Speaking at Unreal Fest 2023, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said Unreal Engine would become “a licensable piece of software like Maya or Photoshop” with a subscription-based pricing model. SAAS is rent-seeking at its worst. It’s predatory
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
Or put differently, 8-10 thousand years ago, the number of men reproducing dropped significantly. That makes sense to me given that this is the period in human history where society begins to form into agrarian communities [1]. The beginnin
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
Just wanted to say that Croc is one of the most reliable and straightforward file transfer tools I’ve ever used. It worked so well that I used it for Android (via Termux) to Windows transfers regularly. I only wish there was a way to use it
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
As someone who writes for a living, I often say that there are two components to being a passable writer: a technical understanding of syntax, and exposure to the written word. Syntax can be taught. When I was in school, I was taught senten
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
10 years on, Snowden remains arguably the most important whistleblower in the US after Daniel Ellsberg. The fact that the government pursued Snowden and effectively drove him into exile in an unfriendly country shows how serious the revelat
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
I lived in LA for almost a decade (leaving in 2020) and, despite hearing these horror stories, never once had that experience. And I rode the light rail at least 3-4 days/week. Instead what I saw was a largely unused public transit sys
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
Forget small cars, Americans should embrace (and demand more) public transit. Switching everyone to small cars is putting a bandaid on a gaping open wound.
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
Circa July 31, 2022. Over a year old….
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
I think the easiest way would be to change local property taxes in a way that disincentivizes investors. For example: a “cap” on property taxes for purchasers who declare the home as their primary residence, and a substantially higher tax r
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
If we’re talking about ideal housing policies, why not extend it to say that individuals seeking primary residence should get priority over investors or secondary purchasers. AirBNB operators are just as predatory if not more in these marke
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
390 books in a year is an impressive figure. I have a hard time reading 12 books in a year. Somehow I think her definition of “reading” or “book” is different than mine.
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by AequitasOmnibus 3y ago
> Wang Zhaolin, a representative of the company operating the lab, Prestige Biotech, told investigators that the mice inside the warehouse had been genetically engineered to catch and spread the COVID-19 virus, according to The San Joaqu

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