abirch

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by abirch 3y ago
The rotating services around the year is the most logical especially given no discounts for "continuity of service" and that I'm usually only binging one show per month.
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by abirch 3y ago
I'd say opportunities. When there are fewer kids matriculating into college it's easier to get into a better school (see Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers) Professors and Teachers, the variability of them is huge. Friends can have
513.
by abirch 3y ago
I think it's 60-70% of academic achievement can be explained by genes. If you know kids from a big family, their academic success can vary significantly although they have the same parents.
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by abirch 3y ago
The Mets were investing with Madoff in addition to the owner: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/sports/baseball/bernie-ma...
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by abirch 3y ago
It was 8% for over a decade growing (doubling like you said), then they paid off ~1.2 a year off in principal and interest (not lump sum) over the following 24 years.
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by abirch 3y ago
I guess we'll be seeing this article until 2035
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by abirch 3y ago
The other Mets players didn't lose everything as a result of the Madoff Ponzi scheme, it was only the owner. This scheme let the owner legally move the money over to the ponzi scheme, that's it.
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by abirch 3y ago
Your comment reminds me of this xkcd https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by abirch 3y ago
Once this goes mainstream I'm betting on massive spam. I'd only list the contact us url
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by abirch 3y ago
Correct, not a lot has happened in Trigonometry or introductory calculus for centuries but colleges are always requiring newer editions.
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by abirch 3y ago
The difficult thing for the USA is that we treat healthcare as a profit center. This leads to focusing on efficiencies instead of extra capacity. You don't want extra beds, unless you have a pandemic. There aren't hospital beds as
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by abirch 3y ago
Unfortunate thing for Tesla is we have the Affective Fallacy where if we like Tesla we overweight its benefits and underweight its errors.
523.
by abirch 3y ago
Wait people write JavaScript without drinking bourbon?
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by abirch 3y ago
What I would like to see is the YEAR the person got the smart phone (as opposed to age). It'd be interesting to see if there's a correlation of more recent people getting smartphones and how difficult life is becoming (large stude
525.
by abirch 3y ago
I agree with you though I do miss PaulG. I was excited when he was on Mastodon because I could follow him with RSS.
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by abirch 3y ago
And don't overweight news headlines with the stock market, the people who are writing them are frequently paid by the click.
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by abirch 3y ago
I agree that saying that something is a gut decision is better than pretending that a gut decision was based on data. The former is easier to change.
528.
by abirch 3y ago
Thoughts on a view?
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by abirch 4y ago
Where is Bard? Oh it's still waiting for its Google Authentication Numbers.
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by abirch 4y ago
I think they got the Senate right by not allowing direct election the 17 Amendment screwed that up.
531.
by abirch 4y ago
The Senate enables minority rule due to state size as well. Unfortunately we're hostages of the past
532.
by abirch 4y ago
You can find a security focused browser that don't implement these.
533.
by abirch 4y ago
When did Apple ever pretend to care about supporting unions?
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by abirch 4y ago
The parent appeared to show hypocrisy because the businesses espoused certain separate non-contradictory ideas and not others. The businesses were never pro-union as far as I can see; so I'm missing the hypocrisy. Apple is definitely p
535.
by abirch 4y ago
There is a spectrum of progressive values. Like business leaders can be pro-marriage equality but not be pro-union, like there are union members who aren't pro-LGBTQ.
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by abirch 4y ago
Define AI. Companies tend to find loopholes and the government is slow to regulate.
537.
by abirch 4y ago
Ban CCP spyware and US spyware. I'm not sure of a country I'd trust with my data, maybe a Swiss company.
538.
by abirch 4y ago
They banned them because they knew the US Government would probably use the data, either by asking the companies nicely or by using NSA.
539.
by abirch 4y ago
Completely fair. Why not ban both?
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by abirch 4y ago
From https://www.natlawreview.com/article/restrict-act-potential-... The RESTRICT Act has been garnering bipartisan momentum in the Senate, as well as backing from the Biden administration, as a workable solution to ad

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