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by cowmoo728 4y ago
I don't understand the assumptions in this comment. Linus is selling a screwdriver that he designed and would not otherwise exist, and that he believes is better than any other screwdriver available. That's different than selling
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
One time I was sitting in the New York metropolitan opera and heard Javier Camarena give an encore performance, which is quite rare. Immediately after the encore, it went to intermission. Once I walked out to the lobby, I checked his Wikipe
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
Similar story here. My wife and I were living in NYC together and she was searching for PhD fellowships and I was searching for my next job. Our intersections were NYC, London, and Amsterdam, but between her fellowships and my offers we did
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
Google is particular about the hardware for security reasons. I don't know enough to say what those security reasons are, but there are only a few approved models from Lenovo. And you can't bring your own, even if it's an ide
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
I strongly requested a Linux laptop (thinkpad x1 carbon) but got a Chromebook. It would have been easier to get a Mac, and all of my coworkers got new Macs when they joined. I'm going to strongly protest for a Linux laptop again when m
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
You aren't kidding about classical games being hard to follow. I'm a pretty strong amateur at about 2200 on lichess, but some of the recent Candidates games are so dense that I can't make sense of them without a computer anal
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
Google is sponsoring employees to lease Vanmoof S3 and X3. Anecdotally I've seen a huge increase in the number of S3 owners in the south bay area. I'm leasing the X3 myself. I also agree on the auto shifting. I'm an experienc
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
I see it as they can't control technology and academia without stifling it in the process
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
Well given that there are fundraisers in his name for sarcoma research, and the symptoms and treatment he discussed in his videos are typical for osteosarcoma, I thought it would help to post a comment about the current state of osteosarcom
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
This is speculation but his symptoms and age appear consistent with metastatic osteosarcoma (bone cancer that has spread, typically to the lungs). Osteosarcoma treatment has not had a breakthrough in decades, so it's a very bad cancer
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
In C++ when I see `DoX(y)` I have to worry every time about temporary lifetimes, copy vs move operator, and a bunch of other things that are easy to miss during code review. It is so easy to accidentally copy large strings around many times
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
Several varieties of T cells are very dangerous and like to murder other cells. In order to prevent them from going on a rampage, they have a switch called PD-1 that calms them down. This prevents various auto-immune diseases in healthy peo
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
And this was people with locally advanced rectal cancer. Typically this means the tumor has grown to a considerable size and is already causing symptoms severe enough for people to go to a specialist. I am not a doctor but my understanding
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
Real reform is not palatable. The correct reforms include rotating appointments on the Supreme Court, abolishing the Senate, re-apportioning the House, and changing the presidency to have significantly less power. But something like this is
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
There just isn't enough important news to fill up 24 hours. I prefer PBS Newshour because they carefully pick and research the stories they do to maximize what they can cover in 1 hour per day.
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
There is an enormous difference between the people "consulting with colleagues" and the people openly cheating. When I was doing my engineering degree there were always groups of students who would go over assignments together, se
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
Given the current makeup of the Supreme Court, and how they have been deciding cases recently, no one is exactly sure how to answer this question anymore. It will likely depend on how John Roberts and Amy Barrett are feeling when they hear
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
It's exceptionally rare to shoot at criminals or even to use a gun in self defense. When a person in the United States purchases a gun, the three most likely occurrences where that gun will be used to shoot a human are: 1. suicide 2. m
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
Pre-2008 DC vs Heller, the standing law of the land was that the 2nd amendment did not provide an individual right to purchase or own firearms. So it is entirely possible that a future Supreme Court, given an adequate case, will overturn DC
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
I would like to be able to purchase a Boeing AH-64 Apache, along with its M230 machine gun and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles.
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
There's a growing body of evidence to suggest that persistent noise pollution leads to cardiovascular disease. One example: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41569-021-00532-5
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
I've also noticed in the US that people have a built in idea of how fast a bicycle goes - roughly 20-25 km/h, the speed that the middle school and high school students go while biking to class. I can often reach 40 km/h on my
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
American drivers are rarely prosecuted for murdering cyclists, even if the driver was running a red light, speeding, or committing some other kind of traffic violation. Even drivers that hit-and-run regularly get off with some kind of &quot
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
I enjoyed riding on this style of road near Amsterdam. It struck me as a very efficient use of space for roads that don't experience high volume traffic on a regular basis. Drivers naturally slowed down and waited their turn to pass wh
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
I recently did a few consecutive full day bicycle trips around the Netherlands and rode on many roads like this. I felt safe and drivers were respectful and patient when passing. I would never ride on one of these in the US. I can already i
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
Periodic variation can work in tandem with a changing mean. Think of a sine wave multiplied with a line of non-zero slope.
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
I purposely did not mention Trump because I was not talking about Trump. I was referring to anti-muslim violence in BJP regions of India, and anti-Rohynga violence in Myanmar.
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
My wife has a mystery condition that flares up every few months / years. Every time it gets bad enough, the doctor prescribes antibiotics and then runs some tests. When the test results come back 24hr later, the conversation is always
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by cowmoo728 4y ago
What if a US politician purposely uses Twitter to incite an angry mob to commit a lynching? These are not just hypotheticals, internet platforms have driven mob violence at various scales in several countries. "Just don't ban US p
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by cowmoo728 5y ago
This seems more like a political diatribe than an informative look at cost of living and wages in California.

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