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by atwood22 4y ago
Do you know about “git grep”? It’s like grep but only greps files tracked by git. Very useful.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Words mean what the listener understands. Most people understand ketchup to mean “tomato ketchup” so the person you’re replying to is correct.
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by atwood22 4y ago
It’s clearly not a copy and paste. I just visited that link on my phone and got blocked from viewing because I’m using an ad blocker.
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by atwood22 4y ago
I have no evidence of this, but the ad load on the returned results has gotten way higher. In theory, ranking sites that display Google ads higher would be a very easy knob for Google to turn to increase profit. The SO scrapers probably hav
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by atwood22 4y ago
Because the orthodox Jewish community is a constant source of outbreaks in the area. In 2019, there was a measles outbreak, in 2020, a number of COVID outbreaks, and now polio. No one is claiming that this community is the only to have a di
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by atwood22 4y ago
> I understand the orthodoxy, but the computing industry has had four decades of overwhelming deflation and has been quite vibrant the entire time. This is an interesting point I haven't thought of. Perhaps the reason it happens wit
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by atwood22 4y ago
Most places try to use the law to discourage anti-social behavior.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Here is an article that quotes Tim Cook on why Apple produces the iPhone in China: https://www.inc.com/glenn-leibowitz/apple-ceo-tim-cook-this-... > The products we do require really advanced tooling, and the precis
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by atwood22 4y ago
> Sure, I went on to address exactly why that is. US labor is expensive, because our currency has been continually hollowed out by the deliberate government policy that prices must always go up, despite continual technological and econom
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by atwood22 4y ago
I think this list of requirements ignores the fact that plenty of other cities have trash cans that fulfill their purpose.
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by atwood22 4y ago
> When mass-produced, the cost per can will drop to an estimated $2,000 to $3,000. I'm sorry, but that is still embarrassing. If the U.S. still had a strong manufacturing base, these things would be trivial to produce cheaply. To st
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by atwood22 4y ago
Most milkweed is poisonous to humans, dogs, and livestock. Not saying don't plant it, but just be aware if you have small kids around.
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by atwood22 4y ago
> It seems to be similar to the USMC's "Once a Marine, always a Marine." But people who leave the marines aren't actually marines in any way other than mindset, right? Not sure what I'm supposed to take away from
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by atwood22 4y ago
Freedom to publish information is in the constitution.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Arxiv?
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by atwood22 4y ago
Yes, definitely. I just wanted to point out that you should really include maximum amounts in job-based contracts. A professional should be able to accurately guess how many hours it will take.
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by atwood22 4y ago
> The only goal of a company that has billable hours is to rack up billable hours. This is only true if the contract doesn't have a maximum budget. Often, the goal is actually to reduce billable hours because there is a maximum amou
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by atwood22 4y ago
My point is that getting a new job may actually be easy (given the current unemployment rate), so it could still be worth unionizing even if you know they will close the location.
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by atwood22 4y ago
Responding to this comment in good faith is easy: just examine legislation that was split along party lines and show that there are substantial differences between the parties on non-social issues. That would be a very convincing argument g
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by atwood22 4y ago
Depends how hard it is to get another job. I doubt many people are particularly attached to a job at Chipotle. Forcing the store to shut down is more power than the average Chipotle worker has.
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by atwood22 4y ago
I feel like if you need to redefine cooperation then your argument is a bit of a stretch.
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by atwood22 4y ago
It doesn’t seem wise to vastly increase risk just for marginal capacity when we are already vastly exceeding our carbon budget.
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by atwood22 4y ago
> Imagine that we decarbonize most of our economy and mostly stop accelerating climate change, with a combination of renewables and nuclear. But somewhere in the world, a nuclear reactor will melts down every 5 years. Sometimes it's
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by atwood22 4y ago
I'm in the anti-nuclear camp. Mainly because I think the inertia around current consumption patterns is too strong to overcome, so adding a lot of nuclear to the mix would make things a lot more dangerous without making things much bet
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by atwood22 4y ago
So if pricing was perfect the world would be zero sum?
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by atwood22 4y ago
> Besides, even assuming that it were the case, the fact that the amount of most currencies in existence just keeps increasing is a proof that it does not work like that. Someone, somewhere has to generate that money, therefore there are
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by atwood22 4y ago
Benefiting from cooperation doesn’t mean something is or is not zero sum. Take war for example. I can team up with others to form an army and conqueror distant lands. By cooperating, everyone in the army benefits more than they could indivi
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by atwood22 4y ago
The basis of the capitalist system is that price is set based off of worth to the sellers and buyers. Yes, I am arguing purely on price, because the price takes into account many different factors like the liability of holding stock and the
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by atwood22 4y ago
Yes, zero sum means a gain for one is a loss for another. But you’re not gaining or losing when you buy something. The seller isn’t gaining or losing either. You’re both trading like for like. Again, zero sum does not imply like for like tr
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by atwood22 4y ago
Zero sum doesn’t mean there is a loser to every transaction. It just means that the net total change is zero. You buy a friend a beer, and you get a beers worth of camaraderie.

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