clearcoat

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by clearcoat 2y ago
It really sounds like you’re part of the problem.
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by clearcoat 3y ago
Visiting another city is not in any way comparable to living there. Or would you defer to the opinion of some tourist who visited NYC for a random weekend?
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by clearcoat 3y ago
I haven't owned a car in the past decade, but the last car I did own was an Audi S5 and I thought it was pretty nearly perfect. Manual transmission, naturally aspirated V8, 4 wheel drive, but also all the electronic toys like lane sens
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by clearcoat 3y ago
I think that's gonna be a hell of a long list.
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by clearcoat 4y ago
Indeed. As I recall about 80% of pharmaceutical profits are made in the United States, while these same drugs are sold in other countries at much lower negotiated prices.
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by clearcoat 5y ago
I don't think things are nearly as "broken" as these types of alarmist takes make it out to be. Quite the contrary I think FOSS is a model that other industries would do well to adopt. People talk about companies "free r
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by clearcoat 5y ago
For free? Hell no, I work for GitHub stars.
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by clearcoat 5y ago
I mean these trucks are pretty much universally in absolutely terribly shape and not really maintained.
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by clearcoat 5y ago
Exactly what I was thinking, most of NYC data is accessible via a pretty decent API, I wonder if it includes what's needed here.
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by clearcoat 5y ago
Wow, this is fantastic. I like to work on my balcony, but there are constantly trucks parking below, with poorly maintained engines left to idle for hours a day, spewing fumes that leave a layer of grime coating everything (and send me back
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by clearcoat 5y ago
> I’d hate even more for software to come under political purviews. Yes, but has not that ship sailed already? I go to great efforts to keep my "feed" purely technically focused, but in the past ~2 years this has become basical
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by clearcoat 5y ago
Yes. I'd say the average American when asked which nation the US has had closer relations with (once you screen out the ones who don't even know Pakistan exists) would say "India" 9 times out of 10.
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by clearcoat 5y ago
Times are definitely changing. The situation in Ukraine, especially coming right on the heels of two years of lockdown that has disrupted the "status quo" worldwide, I hope is going to be the catalyst for the western world to find
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by clearcoat 5y ago
> passed just before the Knesset disbanded for a holiday recess by a 45-15 majority vote Wow
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by clearcoat 5y ago
North Korea started with the "better" part of Korea by most measures, having far more natural resources than the southern portion of the peninsula as well as more arable land. All things being equal, they "ought" to be t
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by clearcoat 5y ago
IntelliJ Community Edition is free. I don't use the paid version so I'm not sure what I'm missing.
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by clearcoat 5y ago
There seems to be a marked increase in unreported incidents, at least where I live. I don't trust any armchair statistical analysis of this, particularly when the author clearly has an agenda and a narrative.
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by clearcoat 5y ago
I mean I am seeing this with my own eyes, and I am seeing numerous incidents go totally unreported that aren't going to show up in statistics anyway.
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by clearcoat 5y ago
Right, this is what I was thinking. Like with a quick Google for "wet markets" prior to 2019 I see tons of articles warning about the dangers and calling for China to close them: 2007: https://www.reuters.com/artic
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by clearcoat 5y ago
I hear this a lot, but I don't understand how people think it's worse. How is a lab leak worse than the virus emerging from a wet market? At least if it's a lab leak it was while doing potentially life-saving medical research