YokoZar

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by YokoZar 12y ago
While a client might balk at paying 5 billable hours for a jailhouse visit to answer a single question, would a public defender face any career risk from billing the state as such?
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Wikipedia tells me that both of the judges that ruled emails are unprivileged were born in 1946. The judge who ruled against the government, however, was born in 1955. I don't think this is a coincidence. I'd be surprised if the
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by YokoZar 12y ago
I don't see any reason the software update process needs to be more secure than the firing process, and presumably these batteries can be fired remotely.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
The block on URLs is actually there to prevent prospective guests and hosts from just arranging an informal booking off site and cutting AirBNB out of the picture. It's the same reason you can't send phone numbers or email addres
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Well not exactly. If the AirBNB host is a tenant themselves, then the subtenant relationship will end when the AirBNB host vacates the property. Not all SF landlords are opposed to their tenants rerenting the units on AirBNB. Some even de
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by YokoZar 12y ago
It goes beyond salary discussion -- the law also protects discussion of working conditions. One of my former employers once placed a noisy server in the main working area where employees had their desks. It was a serious distraction for so
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by YokoZar 12y ago
People drinking in urban centers are more likely to walk home drunk (since they can). Urban centers are more dangerous for pedestrians. People drinking in remote areas are more likely to drive home drunk (since there is no other choice).
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by YokoZar 12y ago
I'm nearly certain that running BART for longer hours would reduce drunk driving, and therefore save lives. The trouble is that BART's ticket prices don't capture enough of the value created by not being killed in a drunk dr
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by YokoZar 12y ago
The implication of this reasoning is that local government policies designed to protect incumbent cab drivers have been doing more than creating tension when Uber wants to enter the market -- they've been literally killing people for y
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by YokoZar 12y ago
I wouldn't call 4-5 times a month "very casual" -- that's every weekend.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Wouldn't chain(*words) require unpacking all of words before feeding it into the chain function, storing a second copy of the word list in memory?
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by YokoZar 12y ago
This can lead to a harder balancing problem, though, as the player becomes as powerful as the sum total of all previous monster equipment. If encounters aren't done in a specific order, that can be especially problematic.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
This would be a reasonable view if there weren't a systematic campaign by the NSA, FBI, and DEA to lie to judges and prosecutors about the actual source of underlying evidence. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013&#x
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by YokoZar 12y ago
To further complicate things, you also have to count the _customers_ of the firm in question. Amazon made certain things cheaper, and there are probably at least a few marginal businesses out there that can exist because of it. A similar a
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Let's not conflate cost and value here. The price people pay for my blood is at least the value to them. The same goes for my labor. I'd say the buyer gets a greater value per dollar paid from my lifesaving blood than they do f
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by YokoZar 12y ago
A similarly cold calculation I recently did was to compare my lifetime productivity to the aggregate value of all my blood products. As a regular plasma donor, it wasn't until age 27 that my total labor output had finally surpassed my
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by YokoZar 12y ago
Automotive accidents are high in part due to alcohol though.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
My favorite variant of this trick is to conduct the evaluations on a day where only the most dedicated students will show up, such as one strongly hinted as being optional in the syllabus.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
"And companies selling their securities are required to disclose important adverse facts about their business to prospective buyers." Does this include prospective employee stock options? It would be great to know that startups s
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by YokoZar 12y ago
More directly, there are devices that have been shown to increase safety far better than speed cameras -- those electronic signs that ready your current speed back to you (and flash if it's too high).
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by YokoZar 12y ago
What breaks the cycle is that eventually someone uses all this capital to found a business making use of all these unemployed people. They're an untapped resource. You're basically describing technological progress, but there&#x2
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by YokoZar 12y ago
XCOM
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by YokoZar 12y ago
You're not alone. I went years and years having Firefox never crash without an obvious reason (like a problematic page or plugin), but recently I've been having it crash once a day or so even with all plugins/addons disabled
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by YokoZar 12y ago
A period is a good point.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
I've read that sentence a few times now both imposing and not imposing the imaginary comma in my head and it still sounds like either a mistake or a particularly weird choice of rhythm. Without an oxford comma, a four letter list sound
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by YokoZar 12y ago
There have been biologists in previous classes. Do keep in mind that the fellowship targets very very young people, and it's exceptionally hard to show excellence in most fields by that age. Software is a rare exception.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
One of the nice assets you acquire when you merge is the option to use whichever brand will work best in front of consumers, no matter how small a player it actually is.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
I believe at one point the GPU instances were being given direct hardware access to the GPU as virtualized GPUs weren't yet a thing. So the GPU part was sort of baremetal I guess.
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by YokoZar 12y ago
I had earlier disabled ipv6 entirely on my computer as I was noticing with my ISP that ipv6 routes were subject to problems that the ipv4 routes weren't -- sites timing out more often when on ipv6 (which I knew via the handy IPvFox ext
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by YokoZar 12y ago
It's more correct to describe the collusion of the publishers as a cartel than as a monopolist here. They work together in collusive price-fixing arrangements. Amazon may have just enough market power as a customer of theirs to break

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