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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Test positivity does not map one to one with people. If someone takes two tests, you get two positives. Also, acquired immunity might not be forever. Could be possible to get reinfected. And you have a very optimistic understanding of how m
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Maybe they are better at assessing risk and understand the risk involved in attending a wedding or funeral.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm not. I'm explicitly saying you should discuss X. Adding Y just muddies the discussion.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Not sure why you are being downvoted. You've (correctly) pointed out that the parent comment has constructed a strawman to punch at, rather than the actual events. Arguments of the form, "Person did X. Imagine if they had done Y!
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Yes. Somewhat famously, Socrates said that writing would breed forgetfulness. And that children could not understand the difference between fantasy and reality. The radio, likewise, was considered too compelling by some.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sharp is relative. A weed eaters string isn't sharp, but it cuts through plants. A baseball bat would be sharp if used on a six foot stick of butter. The ridges and valleys on a chain effectively are the teeth of a saw.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This is my go to stack these days for personal projects. (That said, I'm a former AWS dev, so I'm super familiar with these moving parts.) It's easy to develop for, it's easy to automate deployments, I don't have to
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Plausibly. But that might be more effort than just writing the code to ingest a video file (or some other big data blob) in the simplest, most straightforward way possible.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Not necessarily. For low frequency workloads with reasonably long step times, Lambda can still make sense. (E.g. When videos appear in this S3 bucket, process them.) You might only drop videos in once a week, but when you do you want to run
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Are there any candidates running on a platform of 'full socialism' or even 'radical policies'? Candidates in America, even those considered to the left of their party (e.g. Sanders) aren't really radical socialists.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> if you support the welfare state, mistakes like this should bother you more, not less. Why? I support social programs, I accept some inefficiencies and waste. In general I think small waste is not worth the energy to be concerned about
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Why? Cars are expensive, inefficient, and use a huge amount of resources relative to their transportation capability. > Need to make enough parking available for a building. Disagree. And we can agree to disagree on this one, but I
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sure, but you've also set up a strawman. > private vehicle ownership is a blight on society I didn't say this, I said that in urban areas, parking is a blight. Parking uses valuable real estate to create surface lots at worst,
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Sure. So it's an order of magnitude less? Two? That's $1 in a $1M? $1 in $10M? Objecting to social programs because they have minuscule errors drives me up the wall.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> Which are its shoddiness: I mean, they sent what, $34m overseas erroneously of $2T? Doing some quick napkin math, for every $1,000,000 spent, $10 accidentally went overseas? Why does this seem poor to you? That seems like less than a r
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
This policy is fine, easy to implement, and discourages the sociopathic behavior of ICEing charging stops. That said, it's not going to fix the problem. The root cause is cars -- both electric and petrol. Yes, EVs are an improvement ov
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm familiar with a liter. If I saw a liter of solid plastic sitting by the side of the road I'd be quite disappointed. That's like finding 20 empty two liter bottles just lying there. (Based on a bottle using 50 grams of pla
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
So every car is pretty much dumping ~3 liters of plastic out on the roads every year? (4 tires = 6 liters every 2-3 years.) Let's say there are on the order of 100,000,000 cars in regular use in America. That's 300,000,000 liters
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
The rebuttal said "in print Sunday" and online sometime before.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Tiny houses might not, but a wholesale decommodification of housing could. We shouldn't be trying to price housing on the market, we should be pricing housing and land based on how well it houses people. If we started taxing the land r
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I consider 'reconciled' to include 'willing to work with'. The behavior I'm calling out are, for example, the people who get abusive immediately when faced with an out group member. I can work with people whose pe
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I agree with the central thesis -- we should be shaking hands with our neighbors and looking to take back power and wealth from the rich. But how do you get neighbors to shake hands when one believes that gay marriage is truly evil and anot
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
That's true, but you don't need to bury the whole tree. You can fell the tree, gassify it, and get a steady stream of fuel and pure carbon. The process is exothermic and produces enough energy to be self sustaining and produce exc
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
If you believe that voter access isn't a clear part of election security, you need to do more research on the space.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
No. All I see is a strawman.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
> decades old requirements. Old voting requirements does not mean good or secure voting requirements. In many ways, the vote is less secure because these requirements likely exclude many valid votes. > show me one way this election wa
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
I'm aware that these changes were made. I'm challenging the idea that these things reduce voter integrity. You seem to think it's obvious and axiomatic that these processes meaningfully improve voter integrity. Do you have ev
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
If it was made more accessible, but not less secure, then the rate of fraud is lower. More participants means the impact of fraud is lower if everything else stays the same. I don't see any evidence that there was any reduction in &quo
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
Reducing American deployments is necessary, but not sufficient to "do his job". He is not "doing his job" if that's the only thing he accomplishes.
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by Pfhreak 6y ago
It can simultaneously be the case that everyone gets mailed a ballot AND it was the most secure election to date. It's certainly not axiomatic that mail in voting has a higher rate of fraud than any other system. Washington State is

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