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by ams6110 8y ago
And many regional lines are also freight lines.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Tldr: the incentives that govern the platform (gamifying and monetizing attention, as well as prioritizing clicks, shares, ads, and money over quality of information) will largely remain the same.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I don't think the rolling stock is anywhere near the top of the list of reasons that passenger rail doesn't work in most of the US. This change will benefit regional systems that are already established but I don't see it mak
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by ams6110 8y ago
I don't think photoshopping to eliminate irrelevant content is malfeasance. All the way back to the days of film, photographers have cropped images, changed exposures, depth of field (aperture), focal length, "dodged" or &quo
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by ams6110 8y ago
I think even most people who "believe" are only saying it for social acceptance. I see no evidence of more than a very few people making the sorts of changes in their lifestyle that would make any difference in their personal carb
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by ams6110 8y ago
I wonder why? Are they significantly risky if used without medical supervision?
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by ams6110 8y ago
Not in the face of competition. Better service is a competitive advantage.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I deliberately do not shop anywhere on Black Friday, and avoid it as much as possible between Thanksgiving and Christmas. The whole orientation of the Christmas holiday around untempered consumerism seems obscene to me.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Well you also need to solve the storage problem. Your solar plant will not replace the coal or natural gas plant at night or on cloudy days.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Insurance is a business, and of course it should be profit-driven. Competition should keep excessive profit-taking in check. A problem with health insurance is that regulations prohibit very much competition.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I never understood the stepping into an empty shaft, because AFAIK the outer doors are opened by the inside doors on the car. So they can't open on their own if the car isn't there. Might be possible on older elevators with manual
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by ams6110 8y ago
It's funny that many workplaces encourage using the stairs for health and fitness reasons, when you're much more likely to suffer serious injury or death in a slip and fall on the stairs than getting hurt in an elevator.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I lived in Chicago for 8 years and wouldn't care if I never see it again. But I don't like urban areas in general.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Politicians need those issues to divide and rally their voters. If they actually solved the problems, they would lose those wedges. To paraphrase Upton Sinclair, "It's impossible for man to solve a problem, when his salary depends
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by ams6110 8y ago
Regulation. Environmental impact studies. Workplace safety rules. When we first built the interstate highway system, we just started bulldozing a path across the land. Now, there's five years of planning and permitting necessary for ev
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by ams6110 8y ago
There used to be. Americans, for the most part, prefer drive their own cars for short to moderate trips, or fly.
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by ams6110 8y ago
So (never used WhatsApp), how is it better than email or SMS for those things?
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by ams6110 8y ago
Semis do pay more. They pay many thousands of dollars in road and fuel mileage taxes. Not sure it's 1400x more, but they do pay much more than cars.
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by ams6110 8y ago
And they do pay more. Many thousands of dollars more.
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by ams6110 8y ago
What if you keep it frozen?
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by ams6110 8y ago
> having been inside Google to see how it treats PII and been inside a cloud EMR provider to see how it treated PHI, I'd move my data out of that EMR and into Google in a heartbeat I'd prefer to not have any of my data in the c
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by ams6110 8y ago
Purchasing departments still use fax also. Where I work, most purchase orders with established vendors are sent by fax.
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by ams6110 8y ago
Well, people wanted the same computers at home that they used at work, at least many did. For a while, when businesses were using computers like the TRS-80 line, people would buy them for home also. But when the business world standardized
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by ams6110 8y ago
You must have a lot of mice? I've had great luck with these: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Tomcat-Mouse-Snap-Traps-2-Pack-B...
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by ams6110 8y ago
NFS is widely used in HPC to mount user home directories on compute nodes.
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by ams6110 8y ago
You'll get a much better deal anyway if you do that. I never buy the current generation of hardware. Much better value per dollar to buy one or two generations old. Unless you absolutely need bleeding edge performance.
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by ams6110 8y ago
I think all of the authors observations are valid, but in real life I've never encountered any of them. I don't have builds triggered automatically from I notify or the like, and I'm not so fast with my fingers that it takes
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by ams6110 8y ago
I have, because the laptop I was using didn't have a TPM. Also (possibly wrongly), I trust my ability to remember a good passphrase more than I trust the TPM to not have bugs.
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by ams6110 8y ago
This is discussed near the end of the article. It works best when the file system itself stores a checksum in its metadata so it does not have to be calculated for each file for each build. It's not appropriate when your build may incl
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by ams6110 8y ago
Harbor Freight does this, and they even try to associate with real brands. For example their house brand air tools are "Central Pneumatic," obviously similar to the much higher quality brand "Chicago Pneumatic." HF also

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