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by anonymars 2mo ago
For some people losing half a day of work is kind of important. Hope you were able to get out and find some empathy https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49331481
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Well, while we're on the topic: "On the virtues of the trailing comma" https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240209-00/?p=10...
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by anonymars 2mo ago
In a similar vein, JSON's lack of comments makes me marvel at how consistently JavaScript seems to choose the worse option. I'm oh so glad it found its way into config files
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by anonymars 2mo ago
That's cool, I mean if you'd gotten here earlier you could have said "been down less than 5 minutes" So with the "elapsed time" out of the way (now over an hour, incidentally), how about "how long will i
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Okay, I see what you're saying. Since the web can't be bothered to make links work anymore, the link just takes you to the first chart (total debt) rather than the third one (delinquencies)
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by anonymars 2mo ago
I think you're putting the cart before the horse: the rise looks to have been constant, punctuated by then leveling off and falling, of which we currently see only the barest hint
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by anonymars 2mo ago
If I remember the stats correctly, I believe in the US the lowest 50% of households combined have maybe 2% of the wealth
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Clicking and dragging the different map projections is a fun exercise too
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Didn't we just tie for the hottest Earth month on record?
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Importantly, "one cloud vendor" is also none
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by anonymars 2mo ago
In fact, you can bet that other states deliberately stirred the pot
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by anonymars 2mo ago
When did that particular switch flip?
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Shared memory is a separate column, so no
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by anonymars 2mo ago
I think "almost all diseases/cancers [that are] linked to pollution" is a much more likely read than "almost all diseases/cancers [are] linked to pollution" Admittedly I did smush the two together so I'd h
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by anonymars 2mo ago
That still leaves a couple hundred megabytes spent on..?
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Fired by whom? Where do you think these perverse incentives are coming from?
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by anonymars 2mo ago
> 1000x1000x3 Cool, that's 3 MB
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Yes, switching operating systems is a reasonable alternative to switching weather apps
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by anonymars 2mo ago
I don't think it's an unreasonable claim for fossil fuels to account for the vast majority of air pollution deaths But apparently it is: I certainly didn't peg desert dust to be top spot. Anakin was right https://
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Why, though? You need some icons and some map imagery, not 4K texture maps
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by anonymars 2mo ago
It can be easier and cheaper to solve problems via technology changes than operations and people Now you only need MySQL expertise and maintenance rather than Redis and MySQL
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Using your phone to do work even in the bathroom is a strange brag
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Ah, yes, the engagement-maximizing shampoo bottle ingredient list
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by anonymars 2mo ago
I think a large part of the issue, ignoring the self-interest one (certainly those of money will argue that their taxes should be less) is that both the supply and demand side can interfere with the proper functioning of the economy My qu
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Sure, I never said otherwise
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by anonymars 2mo ago
> Comp over GDP is slightly down, but is still increasing overall... > https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LEU0252881600A That graph does not represent Comp over GDP so it does not show it "is still increasin
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by anonymars 2mo ago
I don't know what measure you're looking at, but here again is literally "Comp over GDP", now trimmed from 1970 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=1XOcj This is obviously some strange usage of the
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by anonymars 2mo ago
Not since the seventies which was the assertion in question
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by anonymars 2mo ago
As I specifically mentioned , the compensation chart includes benefits (including health insurance)
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by anonymars 2mo ago
It still doesn't make any sense: if they're not going to use bodies of water to cool them in space, they can not use a body of water to cool them in the middle of nowhere. The same with the solar panels

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