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by bertjk 5y ago
Every infectious disease spreads exponentially, but not all of them turn into pandemics.
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by bertjk 5y ago
> ...and one after she left the company This honestly sounds pretty fishy-- like they wanted to goose their diversity stats for free while not actually changing any part of their org chart.
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by bertjk 5y ago
> I've never understood why so many programmers and sysadmins feel the need to go straight to the Mac without considering any other option. One reason is availability. Chances are, the PC laptop you took such pains to spec out are
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by bertjk 5y ago
You missed a third way which I think is actually most likely, given recent monetary stimulus policies: 3. You invest $500 in each student using prerecorded video classes and assignments graded by unpaid 'mentors', take on far more
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Most medical debt will be wiped from consumer credit reports(cnbc.com)
7 points by bertjk 5y ago|3 comments
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by bertjk 5y ago
I personally prefer the cars I buy to be in a finished state. It pains me to even wonder what sort of "refreshed" UX paradigms each software update might decide to introduce.
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by bertjk 5y ago
It seems to me that both sides, through negotiation, arrived at the "correct" answer to the problem, which was withdrawal of missiles from Cuba and Turkey. In what way was the US response considered a shitshow, and why are US neg
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by bertjk 5y ago
Wow. If this doesn't read like a submarine article[1], I don't know what does. [1] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by bertjk 5y ago
Why would they suddenly want to play on Java? Is it the mods?
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by bertjk 5y ago
Can this problem be solved using symbolic refs? e.g. git symbolic-ref refs/heads/master refs/heads/main or something similar?
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by bertjk 5y ago
Of course they predict that. They want the deal to go through so they can cash in on Nvidia's sweet, sweet buyout offer.
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by bertjk 5y ago
> One way around this knotty issue is to take the money from this tax and use it for public services that disproportionally benefit the populations from whom it is generated. (I have no idea what the tax revenues in Seattle are used for.
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by bertjk 5y ago
I think it just depends on if you like the kool-aid there. If you embrace their mission statement as your own, then other concerns might factor less for you.
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by bertjk 5y ago
I wonder though whether this is a situation where everyone agrees that only 5% of a book is good, but no one agrees on which 5%.
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by bertjk 5y ago
I've never heard of them being unreliable, and certainly not notoriously so. What sources do you have on this? My own impression formed from reading HN is that opinion around Redis is nearly entirely (almost cultish-ly) positive. I&#
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by bertjk 5y ago
Interesting.. does this mean you have two separate cables connecting to two different inputs of the monitor?
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Moscow tells 13 mostly U.S. tech firms they must set up in Russia by 2022(reuters.com)
19 points by bertjk 5y ago|7 comments
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by bertjk 5y ago
In addition to what you described, we can also add a bit more logic: "Only exclude if it is blocked by more than X subscribed lists" or "Only exclude if it is blocked by both Rachel Maddow and Ben Shapiro".
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by bertjk 5y ago
Does passing Series 65 automatically make you a professional for these intents and purposes?
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by bertjk 5y ago
There are many local grassroots neighborhood groups now from which you can easily find people to take a lot of your items. Look on Freecycle.org, or look for "Buy Nothing <your town name>" on FB, or just post things for fre
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by bertjk 5y ago
> (I'm also trying to fit a Li-Ion battery/UPS between the PSU and components) This should totally be a thing. I wish it was a thing. It doesn't even have to provide hours of runtime, just needs to be enough to handle th
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by bertjk 5y ago
When you say "industry funded", who specifically are you referring to? Tool / parts / consumables manufacturers? The individual plumbing firms?
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by bertjk 5y ago
Where you see infrastructure burden, others see opportunities for pork barrel spending, corruption, and graft. It is a feature, not a bug.
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by bertjk 5y ago
While I agree with you, I'm thinking that this is a response common to sensitive government institutions in general. If this lab leak happened in the US, would we suddenly invite CCP (or Russian/N.Korean/Iranian) agents int
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by bertjk 6y ago
One explanation: It is a big deal for Western companies given their Embedded Growth Obligations. A lot of their stock price and chosen leadership is justified only by the potential for growth that only winning the Chinese market can possib
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by bertjk 6y ago
Some things should be cheaper, due to the work already done by existing competitors. They don't need to spend marketing dollars on educating people on ride-hailing in general, do not need to buy lobbyists to make amenable laws, their
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by bertjk 6y ago
Can you name a single war that was started with logical reasons more than emotional ones?
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by bertjk 6y ago
I've noticed the same, and I find it kind of amusing because it is basically the opposite of the common advice of periodically "rebalancing" your portfolio
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by bertjk 6y ago
Ok, this is kind of fascinating. So interest is bad. Is rent bad? If I have a car or a house is it bad if I rent it out? How about if I had a bag of cash, is it bad if I rent that out? How are the two scenarios different?
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by bertjk 6y ago
The price is paid every time someone has to overpay for housing, and every time someone deposits money into their 401K which will invariably be invested chasing riskier and higher priced assets, whose future returns increasingly depend on s

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