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by aww_dang 4y ago
I still haven't figured out how to get Google maps to display hotel prices in USD or EUR. Even if I don't want to travel to that place, I don't mind a somewhat irrelevant result for a resort. Trying to hustle me into register
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by aww_dang 4y ago
One of the funny points was that you could bring any kind of package with you into the House and Senate office buildings as long as it was not a destined for those buildings. As an example, the same package (addressed to some other building
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Doesn't democracy simply institutionalize corruption? Where is the incentive for honesty or long term thinking for politicians or political candidates? The politician's primary concern is to win the next election. Promises of any
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Illegal overseas bribes are distinct from Microsoft's domestic legal lobbying activities. When I worked as a bicycle courier in DC I recall picking up from Microsoft, 1401 I st. NW. No software was developed at this office. It
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Tangentially related: https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2023/how-a-volkskrant...
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by aww_dang 4y ago
It impacts us all as members of society. Adulterated drugs are killing US addicts in record numbers. There is a direct social cost in terms of health care, law enforcement, crimes committed to obtain drugs, fallout from broken families resu
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by aww_dang 4y ago
They're already doing it. At least this way they won't have as many horrible skin ulcers. The situation is inhumane. Consider the principles from another perspective. The leading causes of death in the US are diabetes, heart disea
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by aww_dang 4y ago
If not for prohibition lab quality drugs would be cheaper and easier to get.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
For layout issues, the CSS inspector helps. No need to refresh. For everything else, I just use the editor.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
>Doing this in real-time with JavaScript/html/css is nice. Having a Rust compile between each step is a pain. I'm more of a JS-lite builder. Typically I will only decorate pages with the necessary JS for interactivity. Hap
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Latency issues for the round trip are a different topic. Static means unchanging. In this context, pre-rendered pages stored in HTML files. CDNs may inject dynamic content into the page or filter the request, but this is a digression.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
I always thought of static sites as prebuilt from templates, whereas traditional SSR sites populate the templates (think jsp or php) on demand. Depending on the framework, the SSR page might already be cached and be effectively static.
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Red Sea Dam(en.wikipedia.org)
37 points by aww_dang 4y ago|19 comments
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Yes, here it is paid couriers or nothing. Even street names and building numbers are lacking. The postal system is just a gotcha.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Where is the incentive for the IRS to help you to reduce the total amount owed during the filing process? There's a difference between just asking, "Does your business have any expenses? Okay, what are those?" and actively pu
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by aww_dang 4y ago
That's the overall theme of Twitter in my view. He's playing to the audience. Short attention span, like and keep scrolling. Needs to be spicy for engagement. Totally inane. We can judge, but it doesn't make people less inter
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by aww_dang 4y ago
https://examine.com/supplements/licorice/ I've found this site's breakdowns of studies to be helpful
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Plenty of problems with Twitter. Vapid inanity, endless political bickering, and spicy takes for the sake of the spice. It is cringe inducing while being gawk-worthy. The problems are the features. I can sympathize with the love hate aspect
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The Great Mexicali Energy and Shipping Canal (Salton Sea Canal Proposal)(energycentral.com)
3 points by aww_dang 4y ago|0 comments
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by aww_dang 4y ago
On the flip side, the New York Times has refused to pay for a checkmark to peddle its own pro-regime "misinformation". If truthiness and fact-check advocates were logically consistent, they'd have to address the underlying pr
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by aww_dang 4y ago
https://www.gigabyte.com/Enterprise/Server-Motherboard/MP72-... Here's another offering from Gigabyte, dual socket and supports the 128 core processors. EATX formfactor.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Sounds horrifying. Cryptocurrency proponents should really think of the children before they needlessly endanger us all with their voluntary transactions. When I think of all of the criminals at home and abroad who utilize footwear it occ
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CastleMagic – Building stone castles since 1980(castlemagic.com)
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by aww_dang 4y ago
There's a false dichotomy here. The claim isn't that IRS officers would individually increase collections via incentives like a commissioned salesman. It is that tax accountants do have an incentive to reduce their client's o
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by aww_dang 4y ago
I wouldn't call it a profit, but the IRS has little to no incentive to minimize the tax burden on the tax payer, so there is a potential for them to reduce deductions and increase their collections.
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by aww_dang 4y ago
This is actually very common for the allegedly decentralized apps. A centralized service controls the actual application while some resulting data is recorded to the blockchain. Decentralized in name only, but most users don't know and
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by aww_dang 4y ago
Centralized exchanges have always been the weakest link. If we accept the thesis that cryptocurrencies offer a meaningful alternative to central bank issued currencies, then it follows that any state threatened would reasonably respond with
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by aww_dang 4y ago
If we accept this framing, we might speculate further by imagining the "random street crime" part is either a cover-up or the murderer intended it to look like, "random street crime". A bit too morbid to speculate on for
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Fravia(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aww_dang 4y ago|0 comments
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by aww_dang 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29688489 It isn't the first thread like this. No sense in rehashing the same arguments again and again. Pessimists cannot be convinced. Their world view is self-reinforcing. Worse y

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