abduhl

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by abduhl 5y ago
A few micrometers is around 1E-4 inches or 3E-6 yards for those of us who think in freedom units (aka real units).
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by abduhl 5y ago
The data that can be obtained on users by just knowing where they choose to create logins for is also worth immense amounts of money, without even talking about how often they login.
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by abduhl 5y ago
And 100% of that drop (and more?) has been recovered for shareholders by this acquisition. One could argue that Microsoft would have paid more, and I’m sure some enterprising lawyers will get paid by tricking some shareholders into suing ov
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by abduhl 5y ago
What about this one? "Portland protest declared a riot Sunday as federal building is breached" https://nypost.com/2020/07/26/portland-protest-declared-a-ri... In fact, wouldn't all of the BLM
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by abduhl 5y ago
My bio is a quote of a post by shalmanese specifically put there so that other people can see how ridiculous the comment was. The original post is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14921120 . Thanks for making sure e
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by abduhl 5y ago
You're not the first person to question people questioning whether the antiwork echo chamber is being manipulated by state actors. How do I know you aren't part of the counter counter espionage? Can you substantiate your specula
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by abduhl 5y ago
Yes, but that’s because you’ve only started listening to people talk about the number of dead folks recently. 800k isn't nothing but it’s not exactly earth shattering.
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The CDC now recommends Pfizer boosters after 5 months, down from 6(npr.org)
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by abduhl 5y ago
This sounds like how I always “reminisce” with old associates about how good they were when they or we did X. Except you’re even more related to these people and so the vested interest in making you feel like they think you’re a great dude
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by abduhl 5y ago
Your comment was made intending to shut down discussion by appealing to authority rather than engaging in the substance of the discussion. Note that the last large paragraph you wrote which does engage with the discussion was added via an e
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by abduhl 5y ago
The paper itself asks the question I’ve suggested if you read between the lines: “COVID-19 vaccines are now being administered widely to adult populations and are also being delivered to children in some countries. Therefore, it is imperati
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by abduhl 5y ago
So the long Covid we’ve been afraid of for our children this whole time has actually been long term immunity? How ironic that our own push to vaccinate and save our children could put them in a worse position immunity-wise. Like rain on you
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by abduhl 5y ago
Then put your hobby where your mouth is. Pull all of your photos from the past 4 years from unsplash and mint NFTs for them.
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by abduhl 5y ago
US common law like disparate impact is always in flux - it’s common law. The minutiae of disparate impact edge cases is irrelevant under your argument where the universal application of the 2 child policy somehow requires China to round up,
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by abduhl 5y ago
You’re advocating for a position on China’s 2 child policy that, in America, would most certainly would be deemed unconstitutional under a disparate impact framework. I know we’re talking about China here, but most Western countries have re
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by abduhl 5y ago
Your argument boils down to “well the body learns what it looks like and so discriminates against similar looking viruses with more exposure allowing more targeted responses.” Under this theory, shouldn’t a natural immunity (as obtained fro
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by abduhl 5y ago
What you’re saying sounds correct, but is there any evidence that shows omicron is resulting in less serious illness/death because of the vaccines? The reports seem to indicate that the overall risk profile of omicron is lower includin
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by abduhl 5y ago
Yes, but the prodigy at Pawnee High happens to be Asian and we're full up on them so we take the B+ students at Academy whose parents went to Harvard. Sorry, we've been advised by legal to say that we're not really "full
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by abduhl 5y ago
That goes against basic union dogma. No employee should be given worse (better) treatment or incentives than another employee of comparable standing. And luckily, once the union comes in, none of them will be, which is what the email at iss
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by abduhl 5y ago
25 million divided by 10k employees is indeed $2500. Seems correct to me.
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by abduhl 5y ago
Large concrete dams like Hoover are almost invariably arch dams which are shaped so that the entire dam goes into compression as the water load comes on, so there is no real need for tensile steel. These dams can take decades to cure and j
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by abduhl 5y ago
He’s talking about soldier pile and lagging walls in this part. See https://www.coastaldrillingeast.com/capabilities/shoring/sol... for pictures. There are other types too (sheet pile, drilled pile, etc.). Using t
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by abduhl 5y ago
If only we could apply such a black and white view to things like racism and LGBTQ rights.
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by abduhl 5y ago
"Even in an emergency, when there is a rapidly spreading contagious disease and an effective vaccine, the state is not permitted to forcibly vaccinate or medicate anyone."
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by abduhl 5y ago
Who cares if they're taxed at the max tax rate? One of the main effects of repealing Prop 13 would be to start actually collecting taxes. I don't think that the fact that people who are forced out (because they can't pay th
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by abduhl 5y ago
Come on man, most major cities suffer from this. San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, Austin, Denver, etc. all have overrun areas in their downtown core with rampant homelessness and public drug use.
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by abduhl 5y ago
I disagree that COVID was a bane for the news industry - I think it’s been a great boon to them. People locked down in their apartments with nothing else to do but refresh news sites and Twitter and have their chosen news network tell them
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by abduhl 5y ago
Probably less in aggregate than is currently spent on lawyers figuring out how to structure these deals.
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by abduhl 5y ago
Let's be explicit rather than subtle: Xi was likely skipped because Xi Jinping is the leader of China.
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by abduhl 5y ago
These are buzz words. What are "social freedoms" and why do we care if individual freedoms, which contain a fundamentally different modifier (individual), are really social freedoms? Is one type of freedom more important than an

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