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by ak217 6y ago
Personally I found Fire and Deepness to be equally, profoundly, good. Haven’t found any other Vinge books to be nearly as good.
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by ak217 6y ago
People are downvoting you because what you said is so nonsensical, there's not even a good place to begin the conversation. None of the vaccines modify your genome, so they can't "patent your DNA". And aerogels have noth
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by ak217 6y ago
Not disputing your other points, but: > we already subsidise child-rearing through taxation. Single, childless people are taxed at a higher rate In the US, being married is a tax advantage only if one partner earns much more than the oth
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by ak217 6y ago
I have a background in infectious disease research. From what I know, with this particular virus, it would be more surprising if the dose-severity dependence hypothesis was true than if it was not. There has been a lot of discussion of this
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by ak217 6y ago
I don't think Tim Sweeney got into this fight to get a sweetheart deal. He has strongly held beliefs about platform rentiering and developer and app consumer rights. Epic could have negotiated a deal with Apple in private, instead they
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by ak217 6y ago
You've used the seniority-based discontinuity in the tax basis among SF rental properties (ratcheted by Prop 13) to argue that property taxes don't matter for rental prices in general. Just because some landlords end up being priv
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by ak217 6y ago
It's insane by Bay Area standards, but having lived in Atlanta it reminds me of typical Southeast summer weather.
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by ak217 6y ago
AB5 has not achieved its intended effect and has had a number of unintended consequences, including collateral damage in industries such as freelance journalism and other contract jobs where "full-time" employment results in the e
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by ak217 6y ago
I'm not an expert, but it seems to me the way CPI imputes the cost of housing and several other things is broken. It looks like most Americans have seen much more inflation in the cost of housing, healthcare and education than the CPI
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by ak217 6y ago
Consider rotating your monitor to vertical instead. On the desktop, I always have one or both of my monitors vertical.
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by ak217 6y ago
"Blast radius" is a general term for the worst case impact of a specific type of breach of a given system. The recommendation you read was probably about limiting the blast radius. It's a general security best practice, and y
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by ak217 6y ago
In the US, I highly recommend checking out https://swroasting.com/ if you're interested in having fewer middlemen in your coffee supply chain.
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by ak217 6y ago
Hi - I'm interested in using this to manage deployments on top of a Fargate cluster managed by Terraform. Is copilot able to import such a cluster or otherwise manage tasks in an existing cluster?
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by ak217 6y ago
Also https://github.com/vasi/pixz , which uses a more computationally efficient yet widely supported compression algorithm (lzma/xz) and adds indexing, making byte range access possible in large files within the ar
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by ak217 6y ago
This is awesome! I've tried it on a few areas that I know well, and it really did a good job. I really love running in new places as a way to explore my area as well as when I travel. I find there is something profoundly good about con
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by ak217 6y ago
From a national security standpoint, it's hard to think of anything more important to the US than a continued flow of high-achieving immigrants who want to relocate here to educate themselves and contribute to the US society, and the i
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by ak217 6y ago
I love the introspection and positive attitude in this post. One thing I would add is that intrinsic motivation seems to be framed and activated very differently depending on one's personality. I find myself performing best when I&#x27
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by ak217 6y ago
If I understand correctly, LLCs don't protect against personal negligence and unlawful behavior, in either criminal or civil court. The QI standard seems to go beyond that in requiring specific case law about the specific act of neglig
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by ak217 6y ago
Can we please just settle on 120 columns as the new 80? It would make things so much more reasonable. I have to agree going wider than 120 makes things harder to read. 80, no, there is no way I'm going to voluntarily follow that standa
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by ak217 6y ago
They might be able to afford a house, but the community around them will not (the average household income in San Diego is around 100K, not 300K). By pricing out young people and stunting their communities, California NIMBYs reduce opportun
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by ak217 6y ago
I'm interested in Notion, but I can't get over the fact that they use a Somalia TLD for their app. I'm just not sure why they have to use this TLD for what I assume is vanity purposes, and I think there are security implicati
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by ak217 6y ago
Many senior members of the academic community rely on their reputation as researchers to brush aside basic issues with the software that they develop for scientific purposes. These include the lack of testability, debuggability, reproducibi
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by ak217 6y ago
It's often said that you should "Do what you love", but that's mostly bad advice. It encourages people to grind away their lives in pursuit of some mostly unattainable goal, such as being a movie star or a billionaire s
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by ak217 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20019375
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by ak217 6y ago
Personally I would not use CodeCommit, CodeDeploy, or Lambda for my CI/CD. I'm very much a fan of Lambda, but it just isn't the right platform for a lot of CI/CD. GitHub Actions with self-hosted runners ( https:/&#x
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by ak217 6y ago
SARS-CoV-2 is a single-segmented, double-stranded RNA virus. There are no genes being "collected", just two complementary RNA strands that are replicated directly from source RNA and wound into a packed structure by helicases. Gen
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by ak217 7y ago
https://github.com/kislyuk/tweak
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by ak217 7y ago
Also known as an MFD, and used for many decades in the aviation industry. MFDs were pioneered in fighter jets, where the cockpit physical space is extremely limited while the amount of information the pilot has to deal with is far beyond an
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by ak217 7y ago
The authors characterized an obligate parasite that lost its mitochondria and steals energy from the host instead. While this is technically the first animal to be found to lose its mitochondria, it's not the first eukaryote. They didn
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by ak217 7y ago
Their protocol for clinical labs is a superset of the research protocol. (Clinical labs also have extensive prior experience in this kind of protocol, and many state DPH and other labs are in continuous touch with the CDC through CDC's

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