Thrymr

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by Thrymr 5y ago
Less punitively than earned wages, in the US, for most people.
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> I can never remember what the name of this site is when I need to use it. I should set up a redirecting domain. Have we reached a world where this is easier than bookmarks? Personally, I just look through all of my open tabs until I fi
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by Thrymr 5y ago
Do you want to debug your own throttle software? Download 3rd-party firmware for your car?
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Unless of course they have family/spouse/SO who also need to be somewhere else.
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by Thrymr 5y ago
Sure we could. We "forgive" lots of debts in bankruptcy proceedings already, but student loans have a high bar discharge in bankruptcy. Historically debt forgiveness has a long history, as David Graeber and others have shown: htt
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That is still doubling down on risk, so diversifying is indeed prudence. Even a good bet is not a sure bet, particularly if it has a chance of high payoff.
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> Forget the stock price. Look at operating margins, operating leverage, delivery volume, trailing delivery volume growth, battery supply, dealership contracts. All of these things can be good and the company could be set up for profitab
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by Thrymr 5y ago
Maybe not, but the crew's survivors could probably sue the H.A.L. plant in Urbana, Illinois, in civil court.
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That don't require tipping?
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> I wonder why that rule exists and what benefit it provides. The first couple presidents couldn't have met it, so I wonder when it was introduced. "No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at
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Not sure how this works, but it seems to jump the Great Divide fairly frequently. E.g. a click on the Idaho side of the Bitterroots will show "Salmon, Idaho" as the start point, but jump to a stream in Montana that ends up in the
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by Thrymr 5y ago
This is from the old school of thought on the web, the HTML is only about content and semantics, and all the typography should be left to the browser (and user preferences). If the default font in your browser causes fatigue for you , you
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by Thrymr 5y ago
Why not both?
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If you don't own the car outright, why would an entity with a lien on the vehicle not also have access to such "strong crypto" legally? This is an issued with a secured loan, presumably in a crypto world the repossession woul
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by Thrymr 5y ago
> 1. Actual throughput in our ports is up over previous levels. Not true in general. The port of Long Beach is down 5% year-on-year (the third month in a row that is down compared with 2020) [0]. [0] https://gcaptain.com/
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This is also one of the premises of Kurt Anderson's book "Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History". Although the scope of the book is large and argues that American's irrationality runs deep, he points
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"Current" is an abstraction, that to physicists is defined as the direction of positive charges flowing. Since most currents are actually due to moving electrons, the direction of current by convention is the opposite the way elec
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Closed for the season: https://wsdot.com/travel/real-time/mountainpasses/North-Casc...
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> No, it doesn't, because written language explicitly marks ends, and sometimes also begginings, of structural units (programming gets brackets from natural language), it doesn't just use white space (until you get to units big
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Planet to Acquire VanderSat to Deliver Advanced Agriculture Data Products(vandersat.com)
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> My manager doesn't know anything about the code, my project, or the release project. What... does he know? Fine, he doesn't get into the code itself. But the project and its dependencies? Yikes.
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> I think even for casual users LyX (a LaTeX editor) is better than Word for documents with simple layouts or many equations. That really depends on what you mean by "casual users". It's a lot of overhead for someone who i
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> Word is a complete bullshit of a tool. Maybe true, but Libre Office is not really any better, just free and open source. It's also nowhere near as familiar and well supported, and that's worth a lot.
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I do not think this has been in serious dispute in the last 50 years. This paper just puts a more precise date on the settlement in Newfoundland that was already well known.
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The median 55-64 year old has <70k balance in their 401k, and that is of people who even have a 401k (many don't). Source: https://www.personalcapital.com/blog/retirement-planning/ave...
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> That's the equivalent of AUD 800K a year. That's more than what the Prime Minister and a cabinet member put together make here! It is also about what the US President ($400k) and a cabinet secretary ($196.7k) put together mak
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It can be rational from the perspective of individual businesses and still be "incredibly regressive" and net negative for society.
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> The whole "socially progressive, economically middle of the road" political coalition that would win every election on HN is extremely unpopular in the real world. I don't know about that, it has won the popular vote in
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> I was tested 2 weeks ago for antibodies, my results were a “76” (I assume percentage?). It does not mean percentage. The fact that we cannot directly relate antibody levels to immunological protection is one of the reasons we can'
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> Dunno why they can’t just pick an existing airport design and say “build that”. Presumably because all airports suck, and every designer thinks they could do better?

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