amalcon

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by amalcon 5y ago
Do we actually believe that "big pharma" (in the form of 3 companies that make US approved vaccines) have greater influence than all of the collective industries that would benefit from a looser mandate (so long as the public tru
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by amalcon 5y ago
The one thing missing from the article is the thing the vaccines needed to have prior to approval: rigorous controlled double-blinded studies on infection rates. My guess would be that, to people interested in data-driven epidemiological
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by amalcon 5y ago
It seems theoretically possible for Apple to reject an app with a hostile cancellation policy without requiring that they use Apple as a payment processor.
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by amalcon 5y ago
This is a refusal to participate in a process explicitly designed to make it harder for people to assert their Constitutionally-protected rights, by arranging such that there's nobody to take to court to protect those rights. That&#x
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by amalcon 5y ago
It's probably more like "I'll throw $50 into this OnlyFans subscription, but only if I can get a chargeback if it's actually just a bunch of cat pictures." There's a lot of scams on the internet, adult industr
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by amalcon 5y ago
I (mid 30s) think Picard actually works -- but only with the first season taken as a unit and including the finale. The entire season basically needs to be thought of as a single long movie. I don't want to spoil anything, but to me,
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by amalcon 5y ago
Caffeine is a diuretic (meaning that it causes you to produce more urine). It doesn't help your hydration levels if you drink something, and then immediately urinate it back out. That said, if you're past risk of dehydration, it
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by amalcon 5y ago
I had that happen once, and decided to cancel it as it was a waste of paper (and hard to recycle glossy paper at that). This was surprisingly difficult. It took two phone calls to figure out the third phone number, that would reach a pers
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by amalcon 5y ago
The usual solution to this is import tariffs for goods coming from any country that doesn't have a similar carbon tax (where such tariff goes away if and when it does happen), and to distribute the revenue from these to offset heating
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by amalcon 5y ago
I know this is somewhat frowned upon here, but a strongly-worded op-ed complaining about mostly-non-specific "media" coverage of a non-tech, non-startup-related topic really seems like a poor fit for this community. I'm not
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by amalcon 5y ago
Thanks
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by amalcon 5y ago
Do you have a source for this? I believe you, but there are multiple ways of parsing that sentence, and a source would clarify things. One reading (87% of gross income) is obviously problematic, and another (87% of profit) is exactly what
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by amalcon 5y ago
California is not the problem here. A policy of controlled burns is not tenable anywhere in the United States right now, because we've spent so long fighting wildfires in order to protect the logging industry. The problem is that we&
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by amalcon 5y ago
I checked a while back, and there are at least a couple of smart video doorbells that can be made to work with a local IPTV system. I didn't end up doing it[0], but it does seem possible. [0]- I wanted to monitor for deliveries, but C
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by amalcon 5y ago
We have that in supermarkets in the northeastern US. It's great about half the time. The other half, they make you bust out the calculator unless you really trust your mental arithmetic. The small one is priced per liter, but the bi
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by amalcon 5y ago
It's not that much of a concern, but mostly because tests are widely available. Test your basement for radon, and only worry about it if the levels are high.
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by amalcon 5y ago
I usually do the same thing, but most of my route is on a local shared use path. Getting out there before most of the joggers is just so much more relaxing.
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by amalcon 5y ago
Because they typically operate out of jurisdictions that don't feel like prosecuting them.
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by amalcon 5y ago
This one is extra weird to me because I've written a lot of C++. I don't think I've ever committed a bug related to dynamic dispatch, templates, or some other "fancy" features. Not that I haven't committed
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by amalcon 5y ago
Technically yes, but this would not cause it to be recycled.
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by amalcon 5y ago
The incentive is that they'd rather do it on their own, than be forced into doing it. Adding the fingerprinting dots on their own gives the manufacturers control over how the fingerprinting works, lets them do it in the most inexpensi
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by amalcon 5y ago
The technological problem (assuming it exists, which I tend to agree it does not) is in logistics, not in production.
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by amalcon 5y ago
In the US anyway, most banks will require the buyer to purchase something called "title insurance" -- which is basically insurance against unknown claims against the property. That insurer will generally look into things at least
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by amalcon 5y ago
There is a legit phenomenon in chess of "assistants" that are literally just Stockfish telling you which moves to play. People still want to play chess against untrusted opponents. Real-life chess tournaments generally make peop
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by amalcon 5y ago
Worth considering that comment scores were hidden for a reason. Exposing that information to everyone, as opposed to just the comment author, does not necessarily improve the discussion.
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by amalcon 5y ago
The neighbors, not being stupid, notice this and build their own standing armies (or at least conscript militias). Which is why historically, the situation where there are no armies or militias is so rare: it's not a Nash equilibrium
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by amalcon 5y ago
In this analogy, the lightbulb manufacturer can't build a 1000lm bulb for a comparable price once they account for the overheating issue. The technology won't exist for, say, five years. No other manufacturer can do that either.
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by amalcon 5y ago
So, your plan in this case is to go buy a competitor's washing machine with the exact same flaw, which will perform approximately the same as the thing you're returning? Or to demand a full refund on something you've been us
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by amalcon 5y ago
The issue here is that every washing machine of even remotely the same quality has more or less the same issue, regardless of manufacturer. So, you return it to the store. What do you do next? Spend even more going to the laundromat, eve
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by amalcon 5y ago
I guess I count as a 90s programmer? I did technically write programs in the 90s. I thought Java applets (those things you'd embed in a webpage) were hot stuff that would completely reshape the Web someday, but they managed to effecti

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