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by Amezarak 3y ago
Actually I thought of a case where this is just not just common but practically universal: welll pumps. Basically all the pumps are 240, and a 120 receptacle or light is almost always installed off the same (240) circuit.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It doesn’t surprise me that it’s not code but it’s common and I’ve never heard of an insurer doing anything at all to verify your electrical isn’t a total disaster. Either way GPs point that the lack of 240 stopped / stops US washers f
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by Amezarak 3y ago
From the US perspective, I have trouble understanding most of these. > - it requires running more hot water lines / extensions, historically houses are built with lots of cold water lines but hot water lines only where required Don&
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It's hard for me personally to imagine a 30-minute update query that is not written extremely inefficiently, or else a one-time huge data migration. There are a lot of the former in the wild to be sure. I've had a lot of run turni
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Nowhere did I say or suggest it was OK. I don't find looking at the past through a moralistic lens helps me understand it. > People seem to be reacting pretty favourably to Ukraine's response to the current russian "migrat
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> The first governor of California literally stated: Yes, "between the races", not "against the Indians." Because in his eyes, at least some natives were as intent on driving them out as he was them. > when tribes
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by Amezarak 3y ago
It's important not to leave out the fact the warfare was two-way. I mean this in an extramoral sense, not taking one "side" or another. It's just too easy to fall into the "settlers exterminating natives because the
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by Amezarak 3y ago
There was a major collapse in North America before the arrival of the Europeans. Cahokia, for example, was abandoned before Columbus ever set sail. The diseases hit an already traumatized population.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I don’t think anyone is seriously suggesting it’s a cult or a conspiracy (though I’m sure there is some coordination), but that doesn’t mean it’s not mostly fad or trend driven vs data driven. IME I’ve worked in offices where at least 20% i
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by Amezarak 3y ago
You can literally just get books about how to make bombs. No need to go with a chemistry textbook. The reason these people want to control AI is about ideological control of narratives, not because low-iq terrorists will be empowered to bom
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by Amezarak 3y ago
That sounds like it's from Thus Spake Zarathustra? It's translated that way intentionally, because Nietzsche wrote it to sound archaic and reminiscent of Old Testament language, on purpose, as a stylistic choice. The translators a
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I'm genuinely confused. Kaufmann and Hollingdale aren't modern translations?
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Yeah. I got laid off a few months ago and I can’t even get an interview. Never had that problem before.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I mean that if you put a random 2024 white man and black woman in a room with Charlemagne and the ability to communicate, the former two would have 99% overlap in their worldviews and perspectives while Charlemagne would be an alien to them
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I don’t guess we’ll ever come to an understanding then, because I find that list totally laughable and a perfect example of what I’m talking about. I like Bill Bryson and I own the book but if his a Short History of Nearly Everything (#1 on
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Unique perspectives are not made by sex or skin color, but by life experiences. Two Americans today, whatever their sex and race, have virtually everything in common with each other compared to anybody from 1800, let alone 800. The extreme,
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I could be wrong, but I think almost everything in those examples exists in news articles, although to be fair, those articles are often long-form, and some are sourced with reporting from the books you mention. I've never read a book
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Libraries are already flooded. Libraries regularly send older books to be pulped, due to the fact they often contain outdated perspectives. They also look at last-checkout. There's a huge recency bias in anything except national archiv
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Can you give an example of a book published after, say, 2000 that is really valuable for insights we would not be able to get from either older books (if related to the human condition) or news articles (if more to do with some bare fact)?
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Restaurant spending is one of the most wasteful sources of spending in America. If you sink money into a car you don't need, at least it has some sort of utility and ongoing (rapidly depreciating) value. Restaurants charge a huge marku
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by Amezarak 3y ago
But that's largely the case the article is about: migrant children coming to the US and claiming they're old enough to work these jobs and these hours. You don't have to "somehow" get documents - if a refugee shows
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Yes, that would mostly fall under “aggressively prosecute companies relying on migrant workers” as I said, except for the loophole of legal migrants who lied to the US government about their age in order to get jobs like this. It does ideal
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I agree that the audits should not be privatized and we should probably increase the number of Department of Labor employees by an order of magnitude or two, but how do you propose a DoL employee verify the age of a Guatemalan national who
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by Amezarak 3y ago
Well, the main answers in the article seem to be: - migrant children show up and work and just lie about their age or supply forged documentation, which is impossible to verify for the company or any US agency. - not enough government inspe
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by Amezarak 3y ago
I used Windows 98SE for eight years. I never saw any issue changing window sizes. I can't speak to font sizes since IIRC that was an option but I left it default.
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> source: a link you posted to HN in 2020 Is it surprising that someone interested enough to post in this thread would have had a past interest in the subject as well? It's hard for me to understand how this is a good-faith, thought
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> How instrumental their impact was in achieving a specific result in elections is debatable, simply because the effects of propaganda are difficult to quantify by definition. But people have tried. https://www.nature.com&#x2F
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by Amezarak 3y ago
In American English, government and state (in the sense you mean it) are synonyms. Other countries seem to think of the government as "the current ruling party coalition members holding ministerial positions", so it would be inapp
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by Amezarak 3y ago
> This is irrelevant in the discussion that such campaigns were conducted, which you agree with yourself, and the fact that they're wildly successful. I absolutely dispute the fact they were "wildly successful." People wa
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by Amezarak 3y ago
But there are actually many more stories, which are not about sixes or sevens, and some which don't see them as a group at all. People are selecting only the stories that match.

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