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by RhysU 6y ago
My feet are planted.
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by RhysU 6y ago
What about tomorrow's?
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by RhysU 6y ago
The country does not own the means. It is arguably within the citizen's means. The capitalist ideology only says that we shouldn't confuse those two pocketbooks.
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by RhysU 6y ago
No, to dismiss socialist movements. Progressive movements can be distinct from socialist ones.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Take the lowball 6 million deaths under Stalin from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess_mortality_in_the_Sovi... and divide by 72K/year. That's 83 years worth of the cited death statistic in the US.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Except for the food delivery dudes riding battery powered bicycles on the sidewalk. Those guys get a pass.
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by RhysU 6y ago
One downside is that all of those areas, which have been unattractive for new employers for whatever reason, will no longer need to become attractive to new employers in a heavily WFH economy.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Except now you have one appointment to order the test and one appointment to take the test and possibly another appointment to read the results. A 2x to 3x process drag during which the patient is not being productive at their day job.
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by RhysU 6y ago
In a proportional system there is no reason for a presidential candidate to do anything but rack up numbers in the largest states where they've support. Everywhere else would be ignored.
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by RhysU 6y ago
...to conclude, California's a big economy. But it's not (at least superficially) outsized relative to other parts of the United States that contain similar populations. https://github.com/RhysU/states
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by RhysU 6y ago
NaNs are a big gap and one that constantly worries me.
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by RhysU 6y ago
I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your response. I hear and appreciate both your points and also the obviously long and uncomfortable, reflective path it has taken for you to write them down so clearly. I will reread this for a long time t
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by RhysU 6y ago
C'mon, we're all dying here.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Wikipedia says "According to Overton, the window frames the range of policies that a politician can recommend without appearing too extreme to gain or keep public office given the climate of public opinion at that time." Bernie ce
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by RhysU 6y ago
> People treat themselves badly all the time don't they. Are we thinking of the same Golden Rule? In the more archaic form: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you." It says nothing about how an individual treat
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by RhysU 6y ago
Source for claim?
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by RhysU 6y ago
We used a birthing center, twice. In conjunction with medical insurance from a large local employer, the births and associated pre/post-natal visits each cost us $500 out-of-pocket roughly a decade ago. The insurer, not surprisingly, w
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by RhysU 6y ago
That's fun. The same effect would amp up the inner ninja in those who decide to not wear masks.
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by RhysU 6y ago
> Clients are paying for a Ph.D. to solve problems in a Ph.D way. Ideally, "in a PhD way" is with careful attention to problem framing, understanding prior art, and well-structured research roadmaps. I worry about PhD graduates
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by RhysU 6y ago
The enthusiasm and social bias claims.
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by RhysU 6y ago
That pro-climate folks think it'll help everyone else too is irrelevant to the example. Certainly, climate policy aims for outcomes they want for themselves. The example assumes nothing about the outcome of any such policy other than i
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by RhysU 6y ago
It's quite clearly not limited to one party. Taking coal as an example.. Pro-climate folks would throw the livelihood of coal mining families under the bus, too, to achieve climate policies that pro-climate folks believe will help them
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by RhysU 6y ago
Have sources on claims in the last two paragraphs?
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by RhysU 6y ago
Nobody asks for it but some choice must be made. As a user, I have often cursed things that hang indefinitely. And I don't trust application state after touching a cancel button. That stuff is seldom tested well.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Not disagreeing, but having trouble seeing it. Could you elaborate?
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by RhysU 6y ago
All good points. By trivial I meant 2 tests (works/fails) vs 3+ (works/fails/cancel with the latter possibility having its own works/fails cases). A timeout is just a status code on failure.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Not retrying is implicitly a way to cancel. Also, it is a codepath that's trivially tested vs the effort to test an extra cancel path.
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by RhysU 6y ago
Scooped back in 2000, if not before: > We created a network monitoring system, Peep, that replaces visual monitoring with a sonic `ecology' of natural sounds, where each kind of sound represents a specific kind of network event. ht
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by RhysU 6y ago
All the horrible Pacific WW2 brutality by the US followed a surprise attack on its homeland intended to kneecap its military abilities so that Japan could invade countries around it unimpeded. Doesn't make any of it right. Just putting
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by RhysU 6y ago
Please do recall everything mentioned above pertaining to Japan was after https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor

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