aaronchall

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by aaronchall 5y ago
So using your numbers, the top percent of the top percent pay 1/8 of the taxes that the top percent pay, and the remaining 99% of the top percent pay 7/8 of those taxes. That is still quite disproportionately more. I pay a big chu
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by aaronchall 5y ago
Some managers will push you to do more until you push back. Perhaps you have to learn to say "No" to things you don't have time for in a regular workday. As Stephen Covey put it in 7 Habits, when asked to do more, pull out yo
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Celebrating South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut’s Soundtrack (2016)(denofgeek.com)
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by aaronchall 6y ago
That's why we do Hamiltonian Monte Carlo in higher dimensions.
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by aaronchall 6y ago
Stack Overflow is a Q&A repository. We want you to be careful and think when you ask. We want you to distill the problem you have down to a minimal, reproducible example, so we can easily plug your code into an interpreter or compiler,
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by aaronchall 6y ago
> Look on the bright side, at least it was fat-free milk. This seems like a bad presumption. I suspect skim milk may have lead our hypothetical binger to drink more of it and eat more cookies. Whole milk is known to be more filling. [1]
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by aaronchall 6y ago
I can tell that this comment has been downvoted, and I don't think it's fair to downvote people with first hand, daily lived experiences. Perhaps it sheds additional light on the matter - a denizen of Berlin doesn't think th
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by aaronchall 6y ago
2 grams is a safe daily dose of methanol, according to this paper[1]. 2 cubic centimeters of water weighs about 2 grams. These sanitizers are supposed to be mostly ethyl or isopropyl alcohol, around 70%. So, supposing conservatively, if all
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by aaronchall 6y ago
There is methanol in all alcohol we drink. This study[1] proposes that up to 2% methanol would be fine in usual cases but .4% (the EU's limit) gives a greater margin of safety. It is conceivable that this is a costly overreaction by th
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by aaronchall 6y ago
How's Linode on this sort of thing?
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VW engineer sentenced to 40-month prison term in diesel case, 2017(reuters.com)
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by aaronchall 6y ago
"Gilbreth studied the methods of various bricklayers—the poor workmen and the best ones, and he stumbled upon an astonishing fact of great importance and significance. He found that he could learn most from the lazy man!" "Mo
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by aaronchall 6y ago
How do you do that?
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Laziness Impatience Hubris(wiki.c2.com)
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by aaronchall 6y ago
As a self-motivated accelerator (I dual enrolled on-site with the local university my senior year of high school) I can't help but feel like everyone trying to hold me back (I was strongly discouraged) was motivated not just by trying
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Six Former eBay Employees Charged with Aggressive Cyberstalking Targeting Couple(justice.gov)
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Cool URIs Don't Change(w3.org)
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by aaronchall 6y ago
Well we do want arsonists brought to justice, don't we?
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by aaronchall 6y ago
A straight-up cheatsheet would be useful. I didn't find the direct comparison to apt to be useful before installing nixos, to be honest, but as primarily a `nix-shell --pure` user who just got nixos installed on my server, I suppose I
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by aaronchall 6y ago
The sense I get of it is that he is making excuses for looting behavior.
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by aaronchall 6y ago
This thread makes the most sense to me. If you watch the videos of the particles people emit when sneezing or talking loudly, you'd be astonished (I was). Apparently these particles can hang in the air for very long periods of time and
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by aaronchall 6y ago
I think we frequently make the assumption that others know what we know unless we have evidence to the contrary.
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by aaronchall 6y ago
That's right - that's how coupons work - price discrimination. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/p/price_discrimination.as...
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by aaronchall 7y ago
> Low/no deductible policies that cover regular issues amount to forced savings. - My insurance professor at FSU
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by aaronchall 7y ago
I wonder what you'd say to the lawmakers who caused that change...
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A Highway (Used to) Run Through It(strongtowns.org)
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by aaronchall 7y ago
Ditto.
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by aaronchall 7y ago
You mean, "unlisted?"
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by aaronchall 7y ago
Cause and effect? Would you say it was foolish for the House Democrats to vote to impeach knowing full well the Senate would never convict?
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by aaronchall 7y ago
I agree. Perhaps this is best flagged?

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