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by GhostVII 6y ago
I really don't like how all the media seems to be focused on case counts, they started rising significantly a couple of weeks ago in Ontario, and yet hospitalization are still only ~15% what they were at the peak. Hospitalizations are
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I feel like this could lead to massive wait times, as people stop dropping out of the queue. If I have a problem that isn't urgent, normally I would hang up after waiting for a while, but with this you don't have any reason to so
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Hearing a child crying doesn't just make me aware that someone is distracted, it also distracts me and makes it much harder to communicate. I would much rather have one person on the call be distracted while on mute than have the entir
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think the fact that the time-restricted eating group did slightly better than the consistent meal timing group is actually pretty strong evidence that intermittent fasting is effective. At least for me, it is much easier to only eat durin
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by GhostVII 6y ago
How many people actually have inadequate vitamin D levels? They chose a fairly arbitrary amount (30 ng/ml) as their measure for an inadequate level.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I dislike Tesla's misleading FSD claims, but this is a pretty unfair test imo. They timed the movement of the pedestrian so it was only in front of the car when it had less than 10 feet to stop, of course it will hit it. I don't t
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think the problem is that of the people removed from YouTube, the vast majority are going to be removed for unsavory or misleading content, so any alternative anti-censorship sites are dominated by those people. You have the same problem
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by GhostVII 6y ago
In many places, the deaths due to covid per day are less than car crash deaths are normally, especially among younger people. So if you are a healthy relative young person in one of these areas I don't see how hiding at home is a smart
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by GhostVII 6y ago
For drag racing the green light goes on 0.4 seconds after the last orange light, so you need to react in 0.4 seconds to leave at the green light (in practice you need to react much earlier to account for the time it takes the car to leave).
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by GhostVII 6y ago
At that point isn't it better to just set up some bookmarks? Navigating 700 tabs is much harder than navigating a hierarchical bookmark list. Personally I only keep open tabs that I am actively working in, if I have more than ~15 I get
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Maybe if you are poor, you are more likely to seek out temporary happiness at the cost of longer term consequences, because your life is generally more stressful. So if you worked another day at the job you hate you are more likely to go ge
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Chess is not a game based around collecting a fixed number of items.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Oakland residents and San Francisco residents are in the same job market, so they have the same salary.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I think if you are making 200k a year (which you almost certainly are at Stripe) you probably aren't in a position to complain about salary. I don't have much sympathy for someone complaining that instead of making an absurd amoun
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I'm not convinced because as the article says, it's not realistic to recycle many kinds of plastic, and because I don't see the harm in safely burying garbage. In my city there is an old landfill which has now been covered in
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I'm not convinced that it's actually a bad thing to dump plastic and paper into a landfill. You just cover it up with dirt and plants every 20 years and build a new one, pretty low impact as long as you have it properly sealed off
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by GhostVII 6y ago
One thing I didn't see discussed in the article was the balance between the benefits of security by obscurity, and the benefits of having your code open source (or at least making your security methods known) so more people can audit i
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Enron? Years of blatant fraud and earnings manipulation with the explicit goal of hitting stock price targets.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
It's pretty much impossible to take away that freedom, killing yourself is not particularly difficult. The more interesting question is whether someone else should be able to kill you, if they think it is what you want. And I think sui
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by GhostVII 6y ago
You don't think it is valuable to have in-person meetings, or impromtu conversations with people on other teams? Maybe being onsite isn't worth the commute, but to say it has no benefit is absurd.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I know nothing about advertising, but does it really matter if you are getting bot traffic if you are still getting conversions from the ads? If you know that for every $10 you spend on LinkedIn ads, you get 1 person to sign up for your ser
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I find being good at vim makes exploration much easier though. Being able to use Ag to populate a quick fix list is way faster for me than ctrl-f plus clicking through every option. And being able to go up and down the movement stack let&#x
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Lot of the features in this library seem to be targeted at making things clearer, not just making your code as compact as possible. It is a lot cleaner to use type dispatch rather than have some switch case in your function to determine beh
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by GhostVII 6y ago
When I say it is insignificant, I'm saying that it is not nearly as big of a problem as the other risks from COVID. When a million people have died from COVID, and millions of children have been infected with COVID, I view any COVID sy
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by GhostVII 6y ago
The team reviewed 662 MIS-C cases reported worldwide between Jan. 1 and July 25 So does that mean there are only a total of 662 cases reported worldwide? Because if so, this doesn't seem to be a significant issue. Edit: yes, it seems
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I agree that for someone who wants to frequently move around in their 20s, a house is a liability, especially since you don't know what the housing market will do so you could end up loosing a lot of money in the short term. But not ev
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by GhostVII 6y ago
There definitely are larger forces at work, plenty of times I see what is pretty clearly political propoganda on the front page. Iran had a lot of success in r/worldnews [0]. I actually noticed a lot of pro-iran propoganda on Reddit wh
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by GhostVII 6y ago
I don't think those are copyright infringement according to the law, however the way the laws are written in many places has effectively made things like picking up background music in your videos illegal. When the only way online plat
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Or maybe citizens on an individual level benefit more from online video games then they are harmed by them. If I played PUBG, the enjoyment from the game far outweighs the tiny risk that the data I leak to China is going to hurt me someday.
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by GhostVII 6y ago
Apple should make a two tiered app review process - one which checks if the app meets their guidelines around UI/advertising/etc and one which just checks if it is malware or not. Then in the app store they can downrank anything t

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