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by aksss 3y ago
> directly help people Indirect, I think you mean, and probably because people generally don’t trust their money to be spent well by institutions, and it’s not hard to figure out why. Americans lead the world in charitable giving and muc
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by aksss 3y ago
Copilot is great for this and it’s impressive how the code it suggests is in keeping with the conventions used in the existing code base. Will be even better when I can highlight something like a string literal SQL statement in code and hav
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by aksss 3y ago
wow, we went to "we need to do it or people will die" pretty quickly there. XD
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by aksss 3y ago
SO many tv shows are just gore porn. It's horrible when you think how much murder and sexual assault we all witness on a near daily basis via the tv shows we watch. That baggage is being carried around in our head somewhere.
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by aksss 3y ago
Here's a simpleton's plug for Bertucci field watches. https://ultimatefieldwatch.com/ You won't impress anyone except other fans, but they are simple, comfortable, durable time pieces. Not 'smart',
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by aksss 3y ago
Most US workers aren't under an employment contract, it's at-will in both directions. That said, everything is negotiable, and if one is sufficiently motivated and has the leverage, an employment agreement can be crafted even with
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by aksss 3y ago
> every transaction should, by law, be [reported to the gov.] Conceptually, and in principle, this freaks a lot of Americans out. But the burden of not doing it is exceeding the alternative, I think. While it may be progressive to automa
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by aksss 3y ago
The longevity of a city's sad state doesn't seem to have any bearing on the dynamic of "bad policies delivering bad outcomes". I feel like this is the third time saying it so don't worry about a fourth, but the comp
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by aksss 3y ago
I would suggest that something rhymes in the how prosecutorial discretion and bail policies are implemented in each of these places, though my point isn’t to compare one city to the other aside from them all being examples of “one reaps wha
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by aksss 3y ago
Cities get what cities vote for. If they naively vote for "good intentions" over practical policy, there's a cost to the lessons learned. The cost may exceed the value, particularly if the lessons could be called self-evident
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by aksss 3y ago
You're not sellin' it with that advertisement.
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by aksss 3y ago
Honest Q, Is that true? I mean, A) that since this study in 2015 or so, there’s been no decline in the prevalence of peanut allergies in the relevant populations? B) people are in fact submitting their children to disciplined exposure in a
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by aksss 3y ago
I think vit. D is generated from a reaction of a protein with UVB. UVA is rather destructive, so I would assume that’s what’s going on — to much UV-A on a part of the shroom that by design is shielded from direct exposure, is basically br
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by aksss 3y ago
https://directorsblog.nih.gov/2017/01/10/peanut-allergy-earl... “That trial, involving hundreds of babies under a year old at high risk for developing peanut allergy, established that kids could be protected
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by aksss 3y ago
Now THAT looks more familiar!
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by aksss 3y ago
Well, you could scoop out the internals of your 200 chassis and slip in a pi zero W, an oled screen, etc. it would be some work but there’s probably no reason you couldn’t pull it off. You’d need a different (and better?) battery solution t
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by aksss 3y ago
Hmm.. I take that to mean it’s serving your needs directly now, and getting a pi to do those specific tasks would be more effort than it’s worth. But it’s a bridge too far, sir, to say a 200 LX is more capable than a Pi. ;) I bet one could
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by aksss 3y ago
My biggest frustration with a lot of modern software is this habit of presenting model feedback requests, “how likely are you to recommend to a friend?”, new feature tours, etc. If I’m using the product it’s because I need to get crap done,
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by aksss 3y ago
I’m not sure that’s the best takeaway, but maybe. It resonates with my experience with folks who near retirement and are on a glide path out - they know what they know, understand it will get them over the finish line, and aren’t interested
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by aksss 3y ago
The cat pissing on my front porch post this evening would beg to differ.
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by aksss 3y ago
> “But Riehl and Rubin’s point, they say, is not actually to obtain legally sound copyrights, but to illustrate that there are a finite number of ways to combine notes to create pop melodies, and these combinations existed before any son
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by aksss 3y ago
> [opinions] In this context, the important take away is acknowledging and incorporating the idea that the larger gun control movement didn’t start with semi-autos and it doesn’t end there. Anyone who has been involved in this arena for
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by aksss 3y ago
Very true, and we should remember that in a lot of (all?) cultures across time, literacy (learning to read and write) was a marker of class, and/or a protected trade, and/or considered sacred, and/or considered profane. In ot
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The Third Technological Revolution(tabletmag.com)
2 points by aksss 3y ago|1 comments
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by aksss 3y ago
“Humanity’s third major technological revolution is leading us into a future more promising and also more dangerous than any since the dawn of history. It’s coming faster than you think.”
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by aksss 3y ago
A) the AR-15 is a semi-automatic rifle out of the box. B) "militarize a [gun] into a semi-automatic" - yeah, that's not a thing. C) "No need to hunt with a semi-auto" - no, there are several subjective reasons one m
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by aksss 3y ago
You do see gun control advocates arguing for banning basic handguns and single-shot hunting rifles. The Brady organization comes from a political predecessor literally named "Handgun Control Inc." That was the push several decad
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by aksss 3y ago
Many rounds get their start in the military - .30-06, 45-70, and do substantially more damage to a human body than the 5.56 round, not because they started in the military, but because of ballistics. Other rounds start off in the private se
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by aksss 3y ago
I believe the increase in allergies (at least some common ones) has been linked to lack of exposure. There was a study many years ago showing that kids raised in houses with dishwashers tended to have more allergies than houses without them
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by aksss 3y ago
Mmm.. I think the headline is misleading. There are really only two ways that headline would be commonly understood: * CT had a child [of his] in private school. * CT [gave birth to] a child in private school. There are more responsible way

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