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by bluGill 2mo ago
Before Trump the GOP was fiscally conservative - when the democrats were in power! That explains a large part of why democrats were able to lower the debt - the republicans in congress wouldn't go along with efforts to raise the debt.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
There is the headline. In the typical case someone can write a comment (sometimes off the headline, sometimes have read the article) and it quickly becomes obvious that person is more knowledgeable that whoever wrote the article in the fir
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by bluGill 2mo ago
What does "decent at writing mean"? When you start digging in you realize that (like most things) there are multiple different definitions. LLMs are very good at putting together a lot of words that are spell correctly with gramma
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by bluGill 2mo ago
The real thing manufactures do is ensure that the SBC is available as long as they want it. My company started an embedded controller 6 years ago, at that time we got a contract from manufactures that all the parts would be available for 1
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by bluGill 2mo ago
This isn't true. Most police are your friends. The problem is a few are not your friends and nobody can tell the difference until it is too late.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Crime in cities has been going down globally for a long time. Is this because of Flock or not is an open question that I have not seen anyone unbiased comment on. (though honestly I don't think Flock has been around long enough for a
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by bluGill 2mo ago
If only everything worked perfectly as intended. In the real world there are unintended consequences of most things we do and we need to balance. The question isn't what good can these do, the question is does the good outweigh the ba
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by bluGill 2mo ago
I consider that fraud. Though the law probably does not.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Generally the place serving expensive stuff has more staff per customer so they should get a larger tip as they have time to give better service while the cheaper staff have to rush to to he next customer. That doesn't explain the $7 v
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Only a minority do that. Most people tip based on service not racism.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Tips should be pay for great service. It should be a pleasure giving a large tip because it means you got good service, and painful to get the service that results in a good tip. That also means most places asking for a tip are not giving t
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by bluGill 2mo ago
McDonalds used to not allow tips. I suspect that hasn't changed but they didn't configure the kiosk
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by bluGill 2mo ago
A tip needs to be for the part of service you can directly evaluate. If you give the same tip everywhere you are doing it wrong. If you don't stop think about it that is wrong. If paying for the group the tip is a group discussion even
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by bluGill 2mo ago
I think that is false, there is more artisanal furniture today. In the past people had less furniture and most of it was junk. With power tools people can afford more good furniture, even though it is lost among all the junk. Don't for
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by bluGill 2mo ago
It was just added to the recommended screenings list and my doctor expects that insurance will cover it soon because of that. Still at under $100, it was well worth knowing that i don't need aggressive treatment. (Though a quadruple by
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Python is fast for tiny programs. However if you have more than one team it isn't tiny. One developer can make something not tiny in a few weeks. For large programs a compiler that checks syntax, and ideally types before you run a comp
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Fortunately we live in a classical liberal society which is very strong on ethics. Capitalism is just a side effect of the freedom message.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Correct. Capitalism is one of many different systems that degraded the environment. By contrast nothing else has really advanced humans. Arguably capitalism is the first system to see environmental problems and try to solve them.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Atari ultimately won. USB was designed by the same people who did Atari's serial bus using lessons learned, and thus is a direct descendant. Meanwhile most competes don't have slots, though high end will have a few.
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by bluGill 2mo ago
Please do so. If nobody complains the police think nobody cares and ignore it. When people complain that is when things change
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by bluGill 2mo ago
It is a little of both. An interview is to short to know of someone is good. So if someone you trust vouches that is more useful than anything an interview can say. Maybe you could find someone better but odds are you find someone worse. Mo
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by bluGill 3mo ago
It was there, and growing for decades. Pre Facebook it was a small niche but don't blame Facebook, that is mostly coincidence
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by bluGill 3mo ago
They faced much slower computers with very limited memory. They couldn't afford the tricks that today are minimal cost.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Lineotype they use lead letters. They use an alloy. There was a lot of lead, but there's also other metals in it because lead is too soft to be useful in a press. The alloy had the interest stream property that it has very low shrinkag
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by bluGill 3mo ago
But CA cannot stop IL from demanding someone be sent to IL courts if they think an IL law was broken.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Oh, I agree they could. Question is, is it worth the bother? the lawyers are the only ones who win if you tried anything.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
They can stop you from doing any work on the project. They can even fine or jail you for work done after the law takes affect that the international committee doesn't allow. Which is to say you can be forced to stop work. Though if you
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Us manufacturing is larger than ever and still growing. It is mostly automated though so Tht number of people who work in manufacturing is shrinking. Still the expertise is still there and they do hire people all the time.
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by bluGill 3mo ago
Is it really worth getting a lawyer? Even of you win what is the gain?
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by bluGill 3mo ago
You can figure it out close enough without looking it up.

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