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by WJW 3y ago
This line of thinking is common but highly flawed. If it were true, everyone would be super religious just because their ancestors were. In reality there are several issues: - People have minds of their own and can willingly choose to leave
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by WJW 3y ago
Note that they only measured the mortality among registered voters of age 25 and up. Obviously that group will have a higher average life expectancy than the general population, since everyone who died young will not be taken into account.
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by WJW 3y ago
TL;DR: "Our study found evidence of higher excess mortality for Republican voters compared with Democratic voters in Florida and Ohio after, but not before, COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults in the US. These differences in
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by WJW 3y ago
> I bet there are people out there outside the US who think that you should protect your safety in a boring computer conference, I think you missed my previous point. Angry men with guns being allowed into a boring computer conference (o
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by WJW 3y ago
I doubt that even a C-only programmer at a Rust conference would be in such danger that it would require firearms to mitigate. But that is my European perspective anyway, perhaps Rust programmers in the USA are significantly more vicious.
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by WJW 3y ago
> Perhaps you need to be a contractor, not an employee. If you can't read code by written by others, being a (software) contractor is probably the worst job you could have. Now you need to read new code at every new client you start
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by WJW 3y ago
America is such a wild place lol. How dangerous can a Rust conference really be?
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by WJW 3y ago
Tbh I don't think that is the uncommon opinion at all. In fact I agree with it myself. But it seems obvious that the more people share this opinion, the easier it will be to stand out if you do just a little bit extra.
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by WJW 3y ago
It's extremely hacky and there is barely any automation at all. Everyday at 0500 a cronjob uses https://github.com/djc/abna to fetch the bank balance and makes no effort at all to automatically parse more than the
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by WJW 3y ago
Getting (and maintaining) a local mainframe in the first place is also not cheap though. I won't hazard a guess to which one might be easier to keep up and running, but at least in my bubble it would be 100x easier to hire more k8s adm
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by WJW 3y ago
I can easily see both depending on how diligently people track their spending. I have a budgeting system setup that adds a task to my daily to-do list if my bank balance differs from what is in my hledger files (ie if I have transactions in
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by WJW 3y ago
Fascinating if true, though hardly a "root" cause. Overgrazing doesn't happen by itself, even TFA acknowledges that nationalization of the steppe by the Soviet Union in 1958 played a key role in the degradation of the ecosyst
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by WJW 3y ago
Warning: consumption of social media can lead to jail time. <Picture of the Proud boys guy in court>
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by WJW 3y ago
You forgot to look up the trivially googleable term (or to read TFA) before deciding to post.
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by WJW 3y ago
Companies everywhere are "struggling" to hire as many people as they would like at the wages they would like.
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by WJW 3y ago
> a bad one can literally wipe you off the face of Earth This is where living in western Europe helps a lot. But yes, you have to take care of more things yourself. If you cannot maintain a financial buffer of at least a few months, I wo
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by WJW 3y ago
Staying together when you hate each other is much worse. Sometimes divorce is just the best out of several bad options. (BTW, what is bad about teetotaling for a drug dealer? "Don't get high on your own supply" has allegedly
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by WJW 3y ago
Here in the Netherlands I've seen this too. It's somewhat confusing to speak about freelancers as a single group because they stretch all the way from doordash drivers making minimum wage (and sometimes less) to well-paid someware
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by WJW 3y ago
That 10% figure you quote is pulled out of thin air. What if it's actually 80% of players who benefit from the tutorial? At least a little bit, like a refresher on the stealth or crafting system in this particular game? In any case, ev
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by WJW 3y ago
Not really, at a certain amount of current (how much exactly depends of the shape and material of the superconductor in question) it "quenches", where it abruptly goes back to being a material with non-zero resistance. Since there
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by WJW 3y ago
Epicurus would approve.
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by WJW 3y ago
His other videos are fantastic too. I really enjoyed the vim one.
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by WJW 3y ago
If you really want to know, I can't recommend the book "Seeing like a state" enough. TL;DR: For government officials who are charged with supervising regulations over tens of thousands of areas, it's already more than co
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by WJW 3y ago
I would think even a Thz signal through a wall is still trillions of times above any quantum limit. Still, now you've got me curious and I'd be grateful for some proper boffins to elucidate us further: if you have an transmitter e
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by WJW 3y ago
Technically there's not really such a thing as "Not being able to receive the signal at all", the signal is there it is just (many thousands of times) lower than the noise floor and almost impossible to recover. There are inf
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by WJW 3y ago
App-integrated electrical bikes sounds like technology to me. They also have/had a good branding effort going, but so does apple. I don't see why having a brand would disqualify them from being a tech company.
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by WJW 3y ago
A pretty classic story: ambitious tech company takes on loads of VC funding, scales up way beyond what is reasonable in expectation of future growth, then a single poor product launch leads to an acute cash crunch at the same time that rene
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by WJW 3y ago
I would think professional services organisations fall somewhat flat on points 3 and 4? The product of a law firm does not seem immune to being copied and it does not have minimal labor requirements. Taking on twice as many cases needs almo
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by WJW 3y ago
Positive sum for society and/or your customers, perhaps. Almost never for your competitors.
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by WJW 3y ago
Dropshippers are just outsourced marketeers for the producers of whatever it is they sell. There's nothing wrong with that, real world products in a competitive market benefit from being advertised and you might as well outsource that

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