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by a_c_s 3y ago
Sorry to be a curmudgeon but I get tired of all these claims about how well young children speak second languages. A young child saying "Vanilla ice cream please!" often sounds more like "Ganiwa ishe! cweam! pweese!". A
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by a_c_s 3y ago
Why are judges approving such settlements? Either their fee is wrong and they should both have to stop charging it and pay a settlement or the fee is totally fine and Verizon should pay nothing.
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by a_c_s 3y ago
An electric car powered by coal is still cleaner overall than one powered by gasoline. https://www.nationalobserver.com/2021/10/26/analysis/dirty-e... . https://www.forbes.com/sites/e
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by a_c_s 4y ago
This isn't very clear what it is demonstrating and the explanation doesn't help. If I lived on a small sphere and saw a pole in the ground, tied a rope to it, and walked all the way around the sphere I would see the same pole and
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by a_c_s 4y ago
This is one of the techniques I use for my depression and it does help me "deal with it". In my case "deal with it" doesn't mean "make me not depressed": I'm still depressed but it does help me turn s
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by a_c_s 4y ago
Pressure would remain the same just as eating a single grape would not abate a person's hunger: NYC has millions of existing housing units. To make a significant dent in the rent would require building hundreds of thousands of new apar
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by a_c_s 4y ago
This feels a bit like complaining that a tank is badly designed because nobody drives them on the highway... My understanding is that Rust was designed to be a safe(er) language to write low-level system code than C/C++, not to compete
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by a_c_s 5y ago
You're allowed to leave the house on Shabbat! The eruv (string around the neighborhood) is to get around the prohibition on carrying things between a "public" domain and a "private" domain. This prohibition is very
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by a_c_s 5y ago
IQ is neither fixed for a given person over their lifetime nor is it objectively measurable across different populations.
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by a_c_s 5y ago
I've never had goals that are project-specific. Some examples of the types of goals I have had: To lead engineering on a project that has at least one other engineer attached to it. Or go review 3 PRs/week from teams other than my
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by a_c_s 5y ago
How does shutting down the office remove PTO obligations? I worked at a company where we had 10 days of vacation + the office shut down for the last week of the year. Nobody had to use vacation time during that 1-week shutdown. If anything,
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by a_c_s 5y ago
Smartphones replace a lot of things though: * camera (including film & development costs) * camcorder * long-distance phone service * answering machine * portable music player (walkman, iPod, etc.) * GPS navigation devices Depending on
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by a_c_s 5y ago
This is a rumor, Apple didn't make this announcement. It is not an example of the Osborne Effect.
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by a_c_s 6y ago
This is making mountains out of mole hills though: these types of problems can be solved without abolishing tax-deductible accounts. For example, one could tweak the deadline for contributions to those accounts to be say March 1, make the f
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Right: in a world of similar market participants short selling is super valuable. But what about when a market actor has enough wealth to massively short sell and enough media pull to be able to create a self-fulfilling prophecy about a com
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Nobody's permission is required to write apps for your own iOS device.
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by a_c_s 6y ago
I take issue with this narrative of an "intentionally deceptive unemployment rate": the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes six different figured depending on who you want to count as 'unemployed': https://ww
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by a_c_s 6y ago
That's what "personal days" are for. Vacation days are days that are long planned. Sick days are last-minute days for when you are ill. Personal days are last-minute days for when, say, a pipe breaks in your apartment and you
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Right, they just need an expert to install things for them to get started... that's not simple enough for people who don't have an expert they can call.
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Apple gives you the option to turn telemetry on/off as part of the machine setup & OS upgrade process. This option is explained in simple english and not buried in the legalese.
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Did you know that you can change what buttons are on the Touch Bar? You can make it almost behave the same as other keyboard by having it always show F-keys. https://support.apple.com/en-qa/guide/mac-help/mchl
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by a_c_s 6y ago
I'm sorry you got a lemon but what does that have to do with how often Apple releases new machines? How often is Apple allowed to refresh their laptop lines for it not to be 'galling'?
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Some items like fresh fruits & vegetables are usually loose & sold by weight. How are things like this handled without scales?
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Our economic system isn't what limits housing supply in the USA, it is NIMBY local government policies.
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by a_c_s 6y ago
> It is unethical only if Grubhub says “I will deliver joe’s 12$ burger to you for a 4$ delivery fee” when the burger costs actually 9$ That's exactly what Grubhub is doing.
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Many of these platforms charge a fee for phone calls to the restaurant too. Platforms like Seamless go so far as to set up websites for restaurants (that often have better SEO than the restaurant's original website), so the phone numbe
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Right, but that isn't a conspiracy but rather because raw milk is risky: research says 1 in 6 people who drink it get sick, and of those who do 20% had serious complications. https://www.livescience.com/41883-raw-milk-1
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Because employees talk. If word gets out that the company is in a tight place before management addresses it to employees then that erodes trust in leadership. If people distrust leadership then when they do finally acknowledge something ne
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by a_c_s 6y ago
Yelling fire in a crowded theatre isn't protected, free speech. Similarly incitement of violence isn't a political opinion to be agreed or disagreed with.
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by a_c_s 6y ago
I think the idea that the office of the President confers with it the ability to flout norms, rules & laws is a dangerous one. Monarchs are above the law: a president should be required to follow every law & every rule to the same d

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