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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Environmental and energy policies are both down wind of politics. I view electric cars as a complete miss - that is to say that they aim to solve the wrong problem. Now I am not advocating that we abandon electric car development, rather I
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
I'm not seeing a binary here. My first impression of growing a plant was in a small styrofoam cup in a classroom. This impression in no way tainted by understanding of the science or reduced my appreciation for nature. In fact the expe
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> What I find sad about this article is that it needed hydroponics for the appreciation for plants. Hydroponics is a very sterile and artificial way of growing plants, removed from their actual environment and only showcasing a single as
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> Again, it's not. The smartphone is used as a single authorised device. Gasoline works regardless of which station you purchase it from. Out of petrol? Fill it up at the nearby station and carry on. Or preferably, don't let it
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Your argumentation is myopic. I'm not seeing anyone making excuses. I'm seeing people face the realities that few systems (if any) are without single points of failure. Take the mobile app dependency away from banking. Then what?
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> If you don't have gasoline you can still walk, get a cab or take the bus to wherever you're going. Not all of us live in an area where those options are available. But I can transport your arguments back to the OP post. You c
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Why did gasoline become a single point of failure in automobiles? Why did the strings on my guitar become a single point of failure? Creating redundancy for every dependency is not always practical or economical.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
I was curious how the abstract goes about classifying fake news VS mainstream news (which they seem to imply means non-fake news)... > There exists no general consensus on a list of false news sources. We follow Allcott et al. (2019)’s c
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Seems like a principled response. The response of the system has been instructional to behold. We saw a fairly comprehensive shutdown during covid (govt offices, most public and private businesses, cancelling of most large social events) -
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Would you support cancelling all pride parades for the time being as a measure to slow the spread of monkeypox?
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> I haven't seen much propaganda in the curriculum. Did you attend the public educational system in the US? And if so, you didn't see much propaganda in the curriculum?
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Make physical fitness a key component of the educational system, as it once was. The public education system should focus more on nurturing the character of youth, with physical health being intrinsic to mental health, and less on useless p
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> U.S. Space Force leadership says the approach will prioritize the general wellness of service members beyond just one physical assessment each year. The annual tests have [spurred eating disorder symptoms] and other unhealthy behaviors
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
We seem to be talking past one another, and from what I can tell you are more or less agreeing with me. Supporting additional traffic takes additional money. The estimation of the amount of money it costs to support the traffic they receive
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Again, you are taking massive simplifications. Flight information is only one dataset they manage. They also manage data on planes, their users' subscriptions, perhaps site analytics, etc. The cost of the storage goes beyond the disc s
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Serving the website html, js, css, images, etc is only a small part of their overall hosting costs. Do they maintain backend services? API gateway? Waf? Logging? Analytics? State/database? Cache? Load balancers? etc etc. Your walltext
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Days is not enough advance notice, if for example they don't have a way to monetize the traffic. Unlimited scale = unlimited cost. Potentially the site crashing was the financially appropriate outcome.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> of the era where big tech purchased geocities for >$3B and killed it Pretty obvious that commenter was referring to before that happened.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Concur. Likely this is indicative of a poor operational culture. They asked you to invest the time to do an at-home test, but did not reciprocate by spending the time to manage you effectively through the interview loop. I would recommend s
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> First, it sends a signal to China that the United States is not serious about defending Taiwan. The United States has long maintained a policy of “strategic ambiguity” about whether it would go to war to defend Taiwan. The CHIPS Act an
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
A hilarious example is on the topic of race and intelligence, where it is stated that moderns science has proven it to be a social construct. The citation given is a survey conducted of anthropologists. ( https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
I probably just lack the necessary imagination - I do not see the metaverse as anything more than an open world Wii-styled sim city that will be immediately plagued by annoying ads.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Doesn't exactly answer your question because there already exists good tools for this - but nonetheless I think a fun project would be a sprint retro tool.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Funny how the news media has been inb4'ing the recession.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Agreed with this. Has many benefits, including that the profits flow back to the taxpayers rather than to corporations and shareholders. Semiconductors are too important to national security to be controlled by profit seeking corporations w
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
Nationalization, imo. Nationalize semiconductor manufacturing, such that the profits flow back to the people.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
15k dealership fee is unreasonable.
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
No, re-read my comments. I said taking a mortgage on a much larger home than you need, or taking out multiple mortgages, or doing debt arbitrage (all, risky moves). You threw in the word "standard" as a means to misrepresent my ar
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
> Using cheap money to buy appreciating assets is a good use of debt. Yeah, right up until the point that those assets suddenly diminish in value. > Using cheap money to spend extravagantly on headcount and perks is not. The financial
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by alldayeveryday 4y ago
10% equity in a house that is 200k, vs 10% equity in a house that is 500k. Which is bigger?

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