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by BryantD 4y ago
IMHO, we didn't design our government to be impervious to pressures generated by large non-governmental financial entities, perhaps because the Founding Fathers hadn't completely taken in the possibilities apparent in the success
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by BryantD 4y ago
Precisely accurate, yep. After the worker complaints, Disney responded by turning off donations to both parties rather than turning off donations to only Republicans.
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by BryantD 4y ago
And just to make sure this is clear: they aren't making donations to anyone in Florida, Republicans or Democrats alike. The Republican response to this was to punish Disney. We can't know what the Democratic response would have be
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by BryantD 4y ago
Yes, it absolutely will. Here's a story about this: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/os-bz-disne...
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by BryantD 5y ago
This is a one week ban, which ends at the end of this week. I don't think the headline is clickbait per se, but people aren't reading the article. dang, any chance of getting the title updated to say "one week" instead o
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by BryantD 5y ago
In this case, according to the article, it's just this week. "Twitter Inc. locked down changes to its social networking platform through Friday."
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by BryantD 5y ago
Hm. I could nitpick the specific areas (I don't think they're great on safety with regard to self-driving), but that's a valid way to think about it. I wouldn't buy a Tesla, but I also recognize that Musk pushed the indu
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by BryantD 5y ago
Excellent question! The distinction here is between droplets and aerosol transmission. As I understand it, droplets are relatively large chunks of water (or whatever), and aerosols are particles in suspension in a gas. At the beginning of t
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by BryantD 5y ago
That's exactly what I'm getting at; I phrased it poorly. Teslas, especially during the initial production runs for any given model, are built like Wayfair furniture. Good enough to do the job, but without a high level of quality.
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by BryantD 5y ago
The commitment is notable, even if he came in later in the game. I also think it's worth noting that he brought the best of current "good enough" manufacturing practices to luxury automobiles. I think this is the fairest exam
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by BryantD 5y ago
Heck, scientific consensus used to be that airborne diseases were transmitted by droplets. Whoops. The interesting thing about every single one of these examples is that consensus was able to change without anyone having to advertise on Twi
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by BryantD 5y ago
This is a familiar pattern. A court finds that there's a constitutional issue with a law and, as it must, throws out the law rather than writing a new one. This is correct: you generally don't want your judicial system in the busi
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by BryantD 5y ago
Good critique of that specific article. I would have found it more useful if, instead of saying "and most other studies share these issues," the author had presented guidelines to detecting studies that share those issues. There&#
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by BryantD 5y ago
There's a bit of definition slippage in this comment. When people assert that democracy was in danger, they don't mean that it was in danger solely from the rioters. In general (and I'm sure there are exceptions to this), the
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by BryantD 5y ago
Short answer: N95s are not as good if you have a beard, but they are still better than cloth. See https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34006963/ for details.
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by BryantD 5y ago
There has been a study! It didn't cover beards longer than 10 mm, however. Short answer: not as good as an N95 without a beard, but better than cloth. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34006963/
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by BryantD 5y ago
When you say ”the safest neighborhood in the city that isn't at the top of a hill,” you’re not eliminating a lot of neighborhoods. A relatively high percentage of SF neighborhoods are on hills; it’s a hilly city. My overall point here
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by BryantD 5y ago
I'm not particularly interested in playing "my anecdotal data is better than yours," so I won't. Mostly I just wanted to counter the implication that Boudin was living in some sort of magical oasis, because he's not
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by BryantD 5y ago
It's also a misleading paragraph. The "tech bro" who wrote the open letter is Justin Keller. I'll reserve judgement on whether or not his career is over; he's currently running a devops consultancy, and I don't
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by BryantD 5y ago
I used to live in the Outer Sunset around 48th and Judah. You didn't walk into Golden Gate Park after dark, because it just wasn't safe. The 7/11 a few blocks away saw its share of drug deals and troubled people living homele
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by BryantD 5y ago
Yes. This is an interesting article, and if the author had resisted the tendency to generalize and just drawn the cultural conclusions available from his research I would have enjoyed it more. Unfortunately, I think in some circles it'
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by BryantD 5y ago
To some degree, that's more reflective of Baen's marketing than it is of the book. Or, more accurately: Eric Flint's concept of American freedom and justice is not the same as John Ringo or Thomas Kratman's concept of th
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by BryantD 5y ago
I think your basic point is good -- a free put option is always going to be a problem. However, can you unpack "Everyone else would rather sell their home..."? At the core there are two factors at play in this decision. One is fin
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by BryantD 5y ago
Insider | Junior, Mid, Senior SREs | Remote, full-time I'm Bryant, Director of SRE at Insider. You may think of us as Business Insider. I have four reqs open on my team. We are transitioning from a classic app support model to a more m
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by BryantD 5y ago
Well, that’s a different proposed solution than why RedBalloon seems to be advocating. If I’m reading them correctly, they’re saying that you should be able to say whatever you want at work. I’m interested in whether or not my interpretatio
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by BryantD 5y ago
Out of curiosity, would Coinbase be allowed to post jobs on this site? Their policy as I understand it is “no political discussions at work,” which seems like it’s not a free speech stance.
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by BryantD 5y ago
I'm fairly concerned about stochastic terrorism, but I'd disagree about that comment. Reading it in context, I'd say the author has some inaccurate views about how often people will turn to murder rather than pay court fees,
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by BryantD 5y ago
First and foremost: I agree with you on all counts regarding enlightened centrism. Second: I think there's some value to increasing awareness of counter-arguments. I do not believe that good discourse inevitably drives out bad, but I d
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by BryantD 5y ago
I don't have any insight into this specific situation, but there's one element of the post I wanted to comment on: that Scott Adams "canned apology." Is there any sequence of events in which that tweet is useful? I see t
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by BryantD 6y ago
This is a much better, less snarky version of my point elsewhere in the thread. I do think that tech control of discourse is an important thing to watch. I don't yet believe that it's impossible for people with extreme views to fi

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