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by cnasc 4y ago
Have heard of Clasp a few times, looks like they hit 1.0.0 back in spring which is cool. May be time to finally give it a try
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by cnasc 4y ago
> makes authentic loud V8 noises Doesn’t it make an obnoxiously amplified EV high pitched whir? That was the impression I got from the unveiling
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by cnasc 4y ago
> Specifically, that weight loss in the long term is not only practically impossible but also actively harmful. Depends what you mean by “long-term” but now at 30 I am both lighter and more muscular than I was at 18. Based on the results
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by cnasc 4y ago
They still do, a bottle I opened over the weekend had the voucher inside
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by cnasc 4y ago
We actually got to fusion bombs pretty quickly, in the 1950s. Presumably almost all practical nuclear weapons since then are fission bombs
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by cnasc 4y ago
> using most of the third-party modules out there (buying) is more expensive than writing the code yourself (building). This is probably true for "most of the modules" but not for "most of the modules that people actually
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by cnasc 4y ago
> individually wrapped cheese Here’s the problem: you’ve confused Kraft Singles (a “prepared cheese product” that can’t legally be called “cheese”) with American cheese, which is a blend of cheeses.
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by cnasc 4y ago
> In countries where beer is allowed at sixteen, people usually try it when fifteen, because doing forbidden things is obviously cool Pretty similar in the US. I didn’t try drinking at that age, but many high schoolers will.
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by cnasc 4y ago
> the Model 3 is smaller in length The Model 3 long range is almost 1,000 pounds heavier than a Camry, and the Camry has more range (and a faster “charging” time). Interior volume is similar, with a slight advantage to the Camry, though
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by cnasc 4y ago
My comment addressed gingerrr's assertion that "being worried about societal change" is the defining point of conservatism. I provided a counterexample; of course adherents of any ideology would be concerned about changes tha
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by cnasc 4y ago
The United States used to have a strong union culture in various industries, which has been worn down tremendously over the past century. Throughout that time many people in various places on the left end of the political spectrum have expr
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by cnasc 4y ago
What a weird coincidence that I just read this comic https://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=05082002 a few minutes ago and started thinking about a practical version of it, then stopped over at HN and found this thread.
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by cnasc 4y ago
> It has to maintain a huge infrastructure to keep those services It seems like the ceiling here is the amount of investment it would put in to manage 100% of the health needs —- I don’t see how the parallel existence of a private system
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by cnasc 4y ago
> Public Healthcare absorves the heaviest blows: expensive surgeries, cancer treatment etc are mostly or only done by the single payer public system, while private Healthcare enjoys mostly low severity cases. If there was no private syst
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by cnasc 4y ago
Dumping to try and get market share away from Steam
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by cnasc 4y ago
Came here to post this on reading the title. I remember this episode vividly
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by cnasc 4y ago
> the Rust community used to be known for its politeness and always being fair to other language communities I have no particular affinity for Go or Rust. As an outsider this is not how I’ve ever perceived the Rust community, because the
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by cnasc 4y ago
> React Native apps are slow if not engineered well. Naïve implementations of RN apps tend to scale really badly. I think these statements are true for any application framework
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by cnasc 4y ago
I’m pretty sure we grew up in the same town
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by cnasc 5y ago
Every now and then this old Penny Arcade comic comes to mind: https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/05/15/argumentum-ad-... Every company on earth is trying to get their $infinity from me, and I can’t
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by cnasc 5y ago
One of the defining features of a Chemex is the paper filter it uses
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by cnasc 5y ago
I don’t think it’s unreasonable to compare the take-home-pay of a Google engineer working on Chrome to that of a Mozilla engineer working on Firefox. That’s a good peer comparison to make. It is definitely unreasonable to compare a Mozilla
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by cnasc 5y ago
Does Mozilla pay their software developers an industry-standard TC?
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by cnasc 5y ago
Counterpoint: BSB is my favorite ink
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by cnasc 5y ago
App Tracking Transparency
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by cnasc 5y ago
There is no federal sales tax
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by cnasc 5y ago
Imagine you live in a smallish, not-so-sunny country like the UK. How much of your land area do you have to cover with solar panels in order to completely rid the nation of fossil fuels?
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by cnasc 5y ago
A “boon” is something that is helpful, not detrimental
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by cnasc 5y ago
Hello fellow Morris County friend, let’s do a lunch sometime
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by cnasc 5y ago
> does the weight impact anything consequential? Kinetic energy. That could make collisions more dangerous (though I’m not sure by how much)

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