JPKab

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by JPKab 4y ago
Yellen is an incompetent ideologue. I studied applied economics in university, and the first code I wrote for a real application were inflation simulations. When she and the Fed made the claim a few years ago that "inflation was tran
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by JPKab 4y ago
I thought that chocolate was only mildly toxic to dogs, and had to be consumed in relatively large quantities to be dangerous. I was very freaked out to find out that this xylitol chemical can kill them in small quantities.
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by JPKab 4y ago
OMFG...... in small quantities it kills dogs???!!!! I don't own a dog, but my God I hope they have warning labels on it!
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by JPKab 4y ago
Important note that the vast, vast majority of fruits that humans consume are as natural as a chihuahua. Apples, bananas, oranges, etc are unnaturally sweet products of generations upon generations of selective breeding. Blackberries, blue
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by JPKab 4y ago
Considering you wanted the government to confine people to their homes a year ago for not receiving the covid vaccine (even if they had natural immunity), I'm not at all surprised that you want the government to be more involved. Some
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by JPKab 4y ago
The user you are replying to has an authoritarian nature. See this thread where he extolled the virtues of confining people who didn't get the covid vaccine to their homes, and insisted that natural immunity wasn't a thing: https
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by JPKab 4y ago
Do you really believe this report? "Twitter sales and marketing staff were told by their colleagues that Amazon had threatened to withhold payment for advertising it runs on Twitter". My experience with sales and marketing staff a
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by JPKab 4y ago
Wow. Didn't realize asking a simple question based on hearing that a bunch of advertisers dropped within 48 hours of Musk purchasing the company warranted a bunch of downvotes. I legitimately had no idea what the answer was, simply as
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by JPKab 4y ago
How much was it him "chasing away advertisers" vs activists pushing boycotts?
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by JPKab 4y ago
https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/22/netflix-is-acquiring-the-r... Netflix owns RDSC. RDSC had to authorize changes by Penguin. I'm sure you're excited about the new version, given your confident den
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by JPKab 4y ago
Wrong! https://about.netflix.com/en/news/netflix-acquires-iconic-ro... RDSC had to approve the changes.
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by JPKab 4y ago
So they're editing the Kindle versions and kind enough to allow us to spend money on the originals we already paid for? Awesome.
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by JPKab 4y ago
The correction came after my comments. You could see that in the timestamps of my comments vs the correction. So stop spreading misinformation about my misinformation. Edit: Yeah it wasn't misinformation: https://about.netf
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by JPKab 4y ago
Fya: Thank Netflix for this. They own all rights to Dahl's books. https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/netflix-acquires-rights... The Roald Dahl Story Company owns the rights, and authorized Penguins changes.
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by JPKab 4y ago
https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/netflix-acquires-rights...
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by JPKab 4y ago
Netflix owns the rights. This isn't the author's family or anyone else. Just a dumb bunch of soulless LA based execs virtue signaling/moralizing in between their coke/hooker binges. https://www.scotsman.com&
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by JPKab 4y ago
The Dahl estate doesn't own the rights to his books anymore.
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by JPKab 4y ago
Please see the other comment reply to you. I read articles on this and also heard stories from coworkers but for me to provide citations I would have to Google and then copy and paste links which would end up being more effort than for you
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by JPKab 4y ago
You're correct to be skeptical. Denver city government has a tremendous amount of waste and city officials and non-profit partners desperately trying to get more funding by presenting programs as rosy as possible. Colorado politics ha
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by JPKab 4y ago
I'm a huge fan of programs like this, but one thing that cities like Denver (especially Denver) need to be wary of are things that actively worsen bike commutes over time. I live nearby, and one of the things that is a frequent topic
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by JPKab 4y ago
I had a horrific support experience due to a product (it was a predecessor to Colab that they eventually just cancelled) that was (due to a bug that they eventually fixed) triggering the startup of expensive instances randomly that cost hun
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by JPKab 4y ago
This is a great article, and sums up my team's frustrations with AWS Lambda and the AWS engineering leadership in general. I worked in the past under a slew of former AWS product managers, and I know from them how the AWS roadmap works
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by JPKab 4y ago
Super cool idea, but I really really hate it when I take about 15 minutes out of my day to install something and then have it not work at all. ~ a python script that makes a request thread 'main' panicked at 'called `Re
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by JPKab 4y ago
If you're being serious, as a human being I want you to know I have compassion towards your situation. Even though I'll never meet you, I don't like seeing your message and thinking about the suffering that loneliness causes
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by JPKab 4y ago
Noah is the man, BUT he has a really nasty habit of talking about subjects without referring to some canonical sources of his ideas that pre-date his own takes by a ton. Haidt was WAY ahead of him on the smartphones causing depression by YE
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by JPKab 4y ago
I'm a subscriber of Noah's, really like his writing, and think this is a pretty good take. However, he doesn't have kids, and probably doesn't get a full dose of some of the nuance as to some further observations that w
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by JPKab 4y ago
You do "need a recession". Without one you cannot reduce inflation not the kind that we have right now. Inflation driven by an external price shock like the Arab oil embargo in 1970s is one example of one that can be alleviated w
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The primary reason the unemployment has remained low is due to so many people primarily baby boomers, leaving the work force. High inflation means that interest rates on all loans have to be higher for banks to earn back their principal. I
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The spillover animals (aka intermediate hosts) for SARS-1 were rapidly identified as civets in a wet market, in less than a year. The animal reservoir that infected the civets were the horseshoe bats, and yes, that took a few years to conf
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by JPKab 4y ago
It was so obvious when they went full-bore on "AI ethics" that it was a case of legitimate concerns combined with a convenient excuse for massive corporations to claim the mantle of responsibility while keeping their models closed

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