KarlKemp

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by KarlKemp 7y ago
At the present moment, people may be buying the container more than the water.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I used to run a gourmet food retailer. We would refund anything, no questions (except what we needed to improve). The secret to this policy was that we had gross (?) margins of 60%+. Throwing away a $20 product would cost us maybe $8. The o
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Yes, the famous we-can-change-the-contract-if-enough-people-don’t-like-you provision. Does it only apply to return policy? Or could CostCo also, say, change the price retroactively? Does it work the other way around? Say I order from Amazon
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
The government also said that “everyone who wants to get tested can get tested”. And with all the specificity we have come to expect and love, he-who-shall-not-be-named also said “lots and lots, very much many” masks had been acquired. Yet
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Care to be specific? Here’s all of them: https://www.whitehouse.gov/news/
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Hospitals only get paid for actually treating people. Many of them have asked for financing for disaster preparation, but nobody was willing to pay for it.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I believe the format/DSL of Homebrew would be excellent for this purpose. In a certain sense, you could actually use it as is: take the formulas you want, add specific configuration, and deployment is just cloning your repository and r
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
There's no way to decide the relative weight of uselessness and perceived immorality of chemical weapons. Some people clearly do consider them horrible, and it would be quite a surprise if none of those people were in any position of p
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Kristallnacht is an odd example, considering it was (openly) organised by the government. The canonical example from that time would be the Reichstag Fire[0]. But in an effort to avoid Godwin's wrath, it might be advisable to find exam
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I'm not entirely sure what my preference would be if the choice is between a bailout for both Boeing and the newly unemployed, or neither. Yes, I'd be angry. It would be an insult to my sense of justice. But in a choice between
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I do share the author's scepticism. But it's a bit much to describe this as something that "really looks less like a relief package and more a corporate coup" when you admittedly have absolutely no idea of what it actual
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
This reads as just what is is: some guy on the internet thinking he's got it all figured out. There's no way to decide the relative weight of uselessness and perceived immorality of chemical weapons. Some people clearly do conside
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
The bank (as well as the GM) bailout did involve equity transfers. I believe quite a few shareholders got wiped out, and the net result was even positive for the government (barely, but still). Also interesting: The farm subsidies over the
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
There’s enough manufacturing capacity in the US to produce plenty of ventilators, masks, and and test kits. But nobody took the warnings serious in January and connected enough dots to think of ramping up production. Even now, nobody seems
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
OTOH, quite a few people in their 30s survived only after two weeks on a ventilator. That involves “fixating the patient, who will otherwise try to pull out the tube because he believes it is suffocating him”. No fun.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
The number of contributors to Open Source Software has also grown by one or two orders of magnitude since Github came into being and standardised the pull request, replacing sourceforge (yuck), custom bug-trackers (with bugs tracked in yet
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Github "Frantically clawing for control of developers", "vying for government rent-seeking and free market capital"? ...We must be experiencing very different versions of reality. Usually I sort-of get where people are c
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I can't even come up with a scenario of how MS would realistically do so? Sure, making GH actions easier to set up with Azure than AWS seems plausible, but also strikes me as somewhat benign. Banning python from Github? Requiring \r\
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
What else to expect from a company calling itself "brave" without a hint of irony?
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
The idea of Google pulling out of Europe is a fantasy, the libertarian equivalent of hoping for famine in the Sowjet Republic ca 1975. As long as Google doesn't have to pay their lawyers more than what they are earning in the EU, Googl
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Air quality in (parts of) China is much worse than any part of Europe, even northern Italy. To be proportional, deaths in China would need to be a magnitude higher. On the other end of the scale, Switzerland would need to be almost free of
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Considering the progress made over the last decades, we are probably setting new records (since the industrial revolution) for clean air constantly.
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I believe newer versions of MacOS dropped support for a specific partition scheme (the name of which I unfortunately don’t quite remember) I spend some time on it just recently because disk manager would not work with the official Ubuntu im
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
I’m immediately put off by the second ‘graphs being fully devoted to publicly putting his girlfriend in her place? We learn it’s „impulsive“ for her to make spending decisions (for him it would have been „decisive“, probably, given the good
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
Find those British and Israeli groups and publish a report about them. As for Cambridge Anal: it went down quite spectacularly, so in as far as you’re complaining about unequal treatment, I can’t quite follow. (And, by the way, it’s the Rus
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You’re overdoing the “priority of governments is to survive”-shtick. Any number of administrations have lost elections, for example. Very few tried to stay in power. There is absolutely zero risk of a violent overthrow of the California sta
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The WHO did declare it a “Global Health Emergency” in January: https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-51319967/coronavirus-decla... The “Pandemic” designation wasn’t appropriate back then because it just wasn’t a
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by KarlKemp 7y ago
It’s been a while since I worked in protein folding and tried folding@home, but IIRC the difference between GPUs and CPUs was at about the scale we see in machine learning, something like 20x to 200x. That makes the usefulness of CPUs for t
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That's more of a reflex than a thought, the latter usually involving at least traces of creativity.
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There are countries besides Belgium and the US (thank God!). Sou5 Korea seems to be doing ok, Italy is certainly doing the right things, even China did pretty well, especially considering they didn’t get advanced warning. In the US, a lot

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