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by curryst 5y ago
Regulations like this can often be sidestepped; for the right amount of money. I'm sure there are private airlines that don't care about your vaccine status. Abortion is much the same. People with money can fly to a state that
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by curryst 5y ago
It feels like it is. I'm torn on it. I don't like the removal of personal choice nor the potential for tracking. I'm curious what the impact of anti-vaxxers is. I know they're more likely to catch and spread COVID, bu
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by curryst 5y ago
There are select bits of info we should protect, but can't. If you're in the US, your SSN is one of those. It never ceases to make me chuckle that it says that it's not a form of ID on front, and yet everyone considers it a
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by curryst 5y ago
I don't think so. The concept of self is distinct from an image (or other representation). If I run pylint against the pylint source code, it has a representation of itself. It's not aware that those lines of code are in any wa
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by curryst 5y ago
Probably stock buybacks. Company 2 then spends the profit on buying company 1's stock, which they basically burn. Stock prices go up and owners recoup value through capital gains.
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by curryst 5y ago
In absolute terms, you're right. We interact with media more than we ever have before. The printing press was huge in relative terms, though. There was no mass media before that. The average person was unlikely to be able to read, m
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by curryst 5y ago
That creates a perverse incentive where you want your open source stuff to be hard to use so people have to pay you. Plus there's no guarantee that the developers will be the ones making money. There's a lot of ire at Amazon beca
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by curryst 5y ago
I think they'll get there. This is still early, they're probably focusing on the core rendering right now. > If we are in VR, then we don't have to limit our selves to laying out windows on a single primitive. Where are t
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by curryst 5y ago
That's a much more complicated feature than you'd think. What does the car do when someone cuts you off on the highway? You're going 60 mph and there's now an object 3 feet in front of you. The car doesn't know wh
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by curryst 5y ago
They would get their income tax back, but not payroll taxes. The distinction is important because Social Security only applies on income up to ~$140k (this year). Due to that, the amount of Social Security tax revenue from a poor person is
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by curryst 5y ago
> Business are legally required to accept cash. If you're in the US, this isn't true. Businesses are only required to accept cash for debts, i.e. where you pay after services are rendered. That's why dollar bills specifi
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by curryst 5y ago
> Anecdotally, it seems the only way to get to a human is to have referrals or the perfect resume. Ironically, the internet has made people in my life more reliant on who they know IRL to get a job. Third-party recruiters will also work,
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by curryst 5y ago
> I think this level of automation in-between cruise-control and full self driving is incredibly dangerous and should be made illegal. It is well known that humans can't maintain focus on repetitive tasks for any significant length
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by curryst 5y ago
I love the idea to use Python directly over something like YAML. YAML almost always ends up diverging into some strange, Turing-complete DSL. Carrying over the Ansible concept of roles a little strange. Python already has several means of
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by curryst 5y ago
I didn't think there was a massive memory gap between functional languages and other paradigms? I had always made the assumption that it was because immutable data allows the compiler to make optimizations that it normally can't.
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by curryst 5y ago
I think a lot of people are disillusioned in the military. There wasn't a lot of support for the last wars we've been in among young people, and most people are aware of the hardships veterans can face. There are benefits, but I
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by curryst 5y ago
Not previous commenter, but I offload raws from my camera to my desktop, where they're backed up. I upload another copy to Lightroom (cuz more backups is always better). Then I edit from my iPad using their cloud storage. And iirc, I
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by curryst 5y ago
I'm not a fan of Facebook, but it's not a bad idea. I think Facebook/Instagram being present is poisoning the well on what might be a good idea. In a different context, you could use a similar tech to suggest opposing viewpo
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by curryst 5y ago
That honestly seems like a nice feature. No more trying to call yourself when you lose your phone, it's in whichever room has the lights on.
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by curryst 5y ago
The major issue in these fires is the lack of someone attentive. We can leverage the existing horn in the same way as anti-theft systems to fix that. We need a way to detect the issue, but I would hope there's a thermometer somewhere
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by curryst 5y ago
Absurdly, I've done it multiple times. It runs over SMS, literally any phone that can receive SMS' is already compatible. I believe many of the messaging apps on Android also support exporting your messages as an archive, but no
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by curryst 5y ago
I think there's stuff that could definitely be an improvement. One that I take issue with is the "everything is a string" mentality of bash. It makes working with structured data harder than necessary, and a ton of stuff I d
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by curryst 5y ago
> Secondly the keywords don't really have any strong prior meaning to overload, so in a way they're more "pure" cognitively and easier to grok. The word "for" in everyday English really has nothing to do wit
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by curryst 5y ago
There are some feedback effects to acidification, one of which is that plankton will struggle. They absorb a lot of CO2. Someone else pointed out that we can cause blooms. That's basically what you want, because plankton or algae seq
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by curryst 5y ago
> There are plenty of options out there, and the capital required to start one is pretty low compared to something like a internet service provider or a train network. A social media network with no users costs about as much as a single
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by curryst 5y ago
Nail on the head. I think the gimmickry exists as a facade to give them a reason to slap enough electronics in a device to be able to harvest data, and to piggyback off the user's internet for "updates". If you're going
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by curryst 5y ago
I'm with you, but others do notice. I know several people who will off-handedly comment on small increases in produce prices. Likewise with items moving on/off the dollar menu at fast food places. If there are 4 people in your fa
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by curryst 5y ago
It's arbitrary because all they do is X-ray them. X-rays can't tell you whether there are explosives in the shoe, all you can do is look for signs the shoe has been altered. I don't think that requirement would have stopped
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by curryst 5y ago
Some media organizations focus on spreading information. I would say NPR focuses on that. They're not infallible, sometimes they're wrong, sometimes they miss an angle, but I get the sense that they're truly more interested
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by curryst 5y ago
This is an underappreciated point. I love k8s. I hate the shit people decide to do in k8s. At a previous employer, we had a k8s cluster with a bunch of machines that were designed to a) load a filesystem kernel module inside the container

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