ch4s3

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541.
by ch4s3 1y ago
> It doesn't quite feel like it at least. I think that's a function of social media and living in a society where things are objectively already really good for the vast majority of people compared to 50 years ago.
542.
by ch4s3 1y ago
> And why should society subsidize those costs? Allowing private business isn't a subsidy. > Why shouldn’t society recoup some of those costs from the users? That's what the taxes are for.
543.
by ch4s3 1y ago
> I think that's a pretty good reason for them to exist even today. Only if you think the government should be telling people what to buy and what not to buy. I personally find that highly objectionable, particularly given the outsi
544.
by ch4s3 1y ago
> what should I hate about it? The prices are usually higher than private stores, the merchandising is worse, the selection is usually bad, and they're generally just a miserable shopping experience. Compare them to a nice wine and
545.
by ch4s3 1y ago
It’s the goalpost you set. They’re hardly mainstream if everyone hates them.
546.
by ch4s3 1y ago
State liquor stores are terrible, and I’ve never heard anyone say a nice word about on base grocery stores.
547.
by ch4s3 1y ago
I’d say dirt cheap solar panels and CRISPR based vaccines are pretty cool. I’m also quite optimistic about the proliferation of plausible SMR designs. That new concrete that self heals and sequesters carbon is cool too.
548.
by ch4s3 1y ago
I meant the upfront cost of the machine.
549.
by ch4s3 1y ago
Yeah, but in 800 months you'd come out ahead with a dedicated server in your closet.
550.
by ch4s3 1y ago
Destroying your core offering isn’t a core feature of capitalism.
551.
by ch4s3 1y ago
Incentives?
552.
by ch4s3 1y ago
The Stockholm subway and basically all of Japanese rail are privately run.
553.
by ch4s3 1y ago
Elixir is dead simple to use and the LLMs do a good job with the Phoenix boilerplate now. Hex.pm and Mix for building and dependency management are miles better than anything node has to offer as well. The developer experience is just reall
554.
by ch4s3 1y ago
There's no iron law stating that private services must necessarily decay or be under provisioned.
555.
by ch4s3 1y ago
We should wash our hands of both places and their petty feud. They offer us nothing but problems and moral stain by association.
556.
by ch4s3 1y ago
Qatar already deals with Iran and Russia by proxy. Qatar’s largest trading partner now is China and Qatar supports the one China policy.
557.
by ch4s3 1y ago
Destabilizing the region, working with Hamas, facilitating terror financing, working with Iran, and a bunch of other stuff should concern us. There’s plenty of flat sand to park aircraft on without doing business with those filthy slavers.
558.
by ch4s3 1y ago
The bargain the US has made with Qatar continues to prove itself as conceptually flawed and generally terrible. While the UAE deserves plenty of blame here, the Qataris are as usual up to their elbows in other people’s blood.
559.
by ch4s3 1y ago
Directions unclear, stuck in sharepoint auth loop.
560.
by ch4s3 1y ago
I hate to imagine what LOL is used to treat, let alone the side effects.
561.
by ch4s3 1y ago
This sort of thing always makes me think of the English my grandmother from the foothills of the Appalachian mountains spoke. It vas very distinct from standard American English.
562.
by ch4s3 1y ago
I think having terminator genes in seeds is a reasonable safeguard against leaking lots of novel genes into the environment above and beyond what crops from across the planet already would leak. I think this is a benefit that people too qui
563.
by ch4s3 1y ago
Even then, if the effect size is tiny it's little better. Almost every time I see some supplement that's supported by good studies the effect is always minuscule.
564.
by ch4s3 1y ago
> It's depressing how few studies actually show benefit over placebo Look at it another way, isn’t it good to know you probably don’t need suplements.
565.
by ch4s3 1y ago
It’s an incredibly high bar. Most places in a reactor are required by law to have lower radiation levels than you’d be exposed to standing outside in Denver.
566.
by ch4s3 1y ago
And for an HR web app that doesn't do any geospatial stuff...
567.
by ch4s3 1y ago
They apparently wanted me to do some geometry, and know that the naive geometry doesn't account for the curve of the earth, and that there are indexing concerns. This was for a company that makes HR software and the interviewer who dev
568.
by ch4s3 1y ago
Yes, DIF is funded by a mix of insurance premiums charged to banks and investments which are primarily US treasuries.
569.
by ch4s3 1y ago
In rough order of size of treasure holdings - The Federal Reserve - Intergovernmental holdings - Mutual Funds - state and local gov - Pension funds - Insurance companies - Deposit insurance - Foreign holdings of all types
570.
by ch4s3 1y ago
I believe we all failed as an industry that day. A friend of mine worked at the company and tried to get me to reapply a year later and promised they had scrapped the old interview process, but I just couldn’t.

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