Pet_Ant

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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Let's not pretend that Google cares about any laws that are from the USA or lead to financial fines.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
What if ground crickets were added to like 75% ground beef? You'd never know and it be healthier and have less impact on the environment.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
From that picture[1] they look _tiny_! My cubicle was at least 30 sqft. Had an extra chair for a coworker to sit down during a consult and could hold upto to 4 people standing. It was a small office, not a phonebooth. 1: https://
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
For all the memes about cubicles the one time I had it was actually pleasant. You could have a small meeting in the cubicle. The walls were tall enough to hang up reference diagrams. Those same walls meant that sound didn't travel when
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> not (effectively) just the government paying wages on behalf of companies who don't want to pay for labor Well the arguments is that there are jobs that aren't worth doing at the current minimum wage. Imagine someone working
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> I don't see how it would cause rent to rise, I mean one argument is implicit collusion amongst landlords. UK price fixing like this is illegal, but in US I believe it is legal as long it is not explicitly.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> I am in favor of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) to replace the status quo of benefits, including Medicaid, food stamps, housing subsidies, etc. But I want the UBI to be a relatively small amount, something like $750 a month for a famil
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
There is a spiritual successor I can recommend : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungeons_3
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
The body shop and their client call it contracting. If one will follow the mantra of "words mean whatever people use them as" then this is contracting.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Does that include people that never even played (or installed the game)? Because I have lots of games I never intended to play but were part of a bundle and I wanted to support the developer.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I mean if you have regular safe long-term rental, then it shifts the burden onto the landowner. It means the don't make much in good times, and if there is a drought in terms of demand (plant closures, surplus building) they are left h
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
PEP = politically exposed person ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politically_exposed_person > In financial regulation, a politically exposed person (PEP) is one who has been entrusted with a prominent public functio
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> What is not being said is that many folks are operating at the limits of their executive function. I don't think this can be understated. I didn't pay income taxes for two years. Not because I was dodging them, but because I
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Company I worked for had a bucket of quarters at the receptionists desk so if you had representatives/clients from other companies come over you could get some so that they could get themselves a coffee. They finally made coffee free w
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
The Pythagorean theorem is even more compact, and even more impactful. But the low hanging fruit has been already picked for centuries and how would you detect a meaningful formula if you were give a 10GB text file of various ones?
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> Kevin Buzzard got a 5 year grant to get started on formalizing the proof of Fermats Last Theorem. Thats the amount of extra effort we are talking. Wouldn't Andrew Wiles be the best person for it?
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Randomly searching for theorems is like using monkeys with typewriters to search for a lost work of Shakespeare. Sure, you _might_ find it, but you'd never know amongst the noise. Well, it wouldn't be like monkeys with typewriters
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I mean that seems like a simple patch to upstream if it’s a real deal breaker for you….
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Pretty disappointing to see the state of what could have been a flagship for RISC-V to consumer market. Especially the “don’t update” bit. I mean considering the lead time hardware takes, they could have figured out a distro, or upstreamed
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Unfortunately I don't think that Americans are prepared to accept dense living as acceptable outside of luxury condos in the mega-cities. It's just like some people are just afraid to fly. You really and pushing uphill there, desp
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> we _can't_ enforce the clear abstractions Really, you can't? Then I struggle to see how'll get anything else right. I've done it by using separate build scripts. That way only the interfaces and domain objects are
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I've fried a couple things over the years plugging in the wrong power supply (always during a move/reno when multiple things were being replugged) so the ability to have the device negotiate it's own voltage from a standard s
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> Newer companies like AirBNB and Uber went public at what could be their max market cap valuation of billions so investors wont' get much of a chance to make money from these companies. An argument I heard is that companies prefer
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Have you ever watch a podcast? It's the same, but they avoid the awkward shots by rarely looking into the camera.
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> modern hardware compensating the inefficient execution many times over That's assuming volumes haven't changed. They had credit cards in 1980 but the volumes have gone up considerably. I'd also guess trading volumes and
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
Unless you need that burstable capacity. Company I worked for got a 90 minutes heads up that our client bought a Super Bowl ad. We needed to spin up as many instances as possible. The next day, they were gone. Since then, I've been con
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> didn't require as a stipulation of the property purchase because those are just too difficult to all list. The solution to that is a mutually shared list of conditions which is then called "zoning", which HN loves to ra
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
> What? Property taxes are maybe $5000 per year for a typical property, maybe more maybe less shrug. How do you hire a full-time (24/7) armed guard for your house for $5000 per year? You hire it for the neighborhood jointly. I mean
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
The problem with NIMBYism can be solved with compensation. People buy property with expectations. You cannot just violate them, because no one would buy a house on a golf course accepting that it could be turned it into an asbestos refinery
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by Pet_Ant 3y ago
I used to read them in my youth, what is the controversy?

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