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by codexb 3y ago
I don't know why, but I was convinced that Gary Larson died like 15 years ago.
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by codexb 3y ago
There is some truth to this statement. Historically, work detail for prisoners benefitted society as a whole -- litter cleanup, public works projects, license plate manufacturing, etc.
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by codexb 3y ago
Hard manual labor has long been accepted as an appropriate punishment for crimes. Prisoners are deprived of rights... by due process... by a jury of their peers. That's intentional. It's a feature, not a bug.
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by codexb 3y ago
The author claimed that 90% was illogical; that it should have been closer to 98-99%. What the author failed to realize is that there are overhead costs in betting -- 10% rake, 5% withdrawal, etc. that cut into that 98-99% margin.
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by codexb 3y ago
You won't lean backwards like you do when stopping from a run because your body has no momentum.
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by codexb 3y ago
Movement is relative, momentum is not. Run as fast as you can and then come to a screeching halt where you lean backwards. You can’t do that on treadmill. You might be able to simulate the screech and the lean by moving you on the treadmill
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by codexb 3y ago
What did the circumvent?
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by codexb 3y ago
It’s similar to Jevon’s Paradox in economics. More efficient use of a resource results in people using more of that resource, not less. Creating more efficient gasoline engines doesn’t cause people to use less fuel, they all just buy larger
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by codexb 3y ago
I agree that it gives off an over-engineered vibe. I think part of that is that a lot of the "Getting Started" docs don't give you a feel for how to use the framework. It's more along the lines of "install this pack
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by codexb 3y ago
wirecutter Also, google "best [item] reddit"
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by codexb 3y ago
It feels like it's reverting to how it was in the early 2010's -- dozens of identical super low quality knockoffs, normal brand name products that are overpriced or just absent from their store, reviews that can't be trusted,
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by codexb 3y ago
This looks more like a case study of program language use for a specific set of scientists. Can someone explain why Fortran remains popular within the scientific community and not elsewhere?
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by codexb 3y ago
Lets be honest, the internet has always been full of Dogshit. Teachers have long warned us about using Wikipedia as a source. Fake news has always existed. Real news has been diluting itself with questionably true clickbait for years. The m
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by codexb 3y ago
First it was flip phones. Now BlackBerry has come full circle. Can’t wait until windows phones and beepers make a comeback.
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by codexb 3y ago
Except 100 small shops and restaurants can’t be supported by walk-only pedestrians unless you create super-ultra-dense residential. It’s really nice not to share walls with 4 different neighbors and be able to have a yard and let your kids
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by codexb 3y ago
I can guarantee you that business investors for a struggling franchise are not making financial decisions for political reasons. They're trying to make money. Pizza places have been charging for delivery for a few years now. They don&#
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by codexb 3y ago
That’s the point. OSS is generally not a good business model. And that’s okay. Not all software is easily monetized or particularly valuable. The value of standardizing on an interface and outsourcing the maintenance and security to others
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by codexb 3y ago
This will have virtually zero effect. The president only has the power to pardon people convicted or accused of violating federal law and prosecuted in federal court. The problem is that nearly all people arrested for simple possession of
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by codexb 3y ago
But red doesn't mean stop and yellow doesn't mean warning, when it comes to vehicle lights at least. They can mean emergency vehicle, a turning car, rear running lights, a braking car, non-police emergency vehicle, turn signalling
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by codexb 3y ago
> Perilously close to the green color of traffic lights In the same way that brake lights are perilously close the same color as traffic lights? Or that the amber to red color of turn signals is close to traffic colors as well? How is th
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by codexb 3y ago
I was thinking shortly after 9/11, when US Steel was essentially going bankrupt and we bailed them out by propping up prices with tariffs -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_United_States_steel_tarif...
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by codexb 3y ago
Didn't the US government stop this exact same thing from happening 20 years ago over national security concerns?
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by codexb 3y ago
I think the point is that IBM is ostensibly a "tech" company and most people in tech (young and old) have never dealt with them nor do they know any of their products. We vaguely remember seeing IBM-branded desktops decades 30+ ye
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by codexb 3y ago
This argument doesn't make any sense from a user standpoint though. It would only make sense if users insisted on only using iMessage exclusively and didn't accept non-iMessage SMS messages at all. Getting an iphone and using iMes
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by codexb 3y ago
Eh, most small to medium size towns in the US have ordinances and zoning restrictions that effectively outlaw this type of fixed advertising. Many outlaw billboards and Businesses can only have a single sign and it has to be within a certai
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by codexb 3y ago
It's a way to effectively re-allocate losses into the current quarter/year before they are actually realized. For example, if I bought something for a high price and won't sell it until a year later, those losses won't s
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by codexb 3y ago
There are a lot of tech people and programmers in the game industry and in game-industry-adjacent industries (like mocap, lidar, etc), especially around LA. A lot of that work is somewhat thankless, but getting industry-only passes to E3 wa
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by codexb 3y ago
I fondly remember getting Little Caesars pizza every Friday after soccer practice and coming home to stay up late with my dad and watch the new X-Files. The 90's truly were the best decade.
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by codexb 3y ago
Not sure how someone can write an article on the shift towards more conservative politics and fail to mention that the individual income tax rate for the middle class in the Netherlands ($75k+) is nearly 50% now. And that's just the in
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by codexb 3y ago
There are limitations on the number of owners and the amounts and type of stock you can issue as other types of corporations. Delaware doesn't require you to disclose all owners and investors and they have a court of chancery that is b

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