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by curryst 5y ago
Death services tread a very fine moral line. You're working with people who usually have no idea what they're doing, who are in a time of crisis in their lives, and who are trying to fulfill the wishes of someone who is now dead
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by curryst 5y ago
Of the data that I've seen, adtech has about as much legitimacy in claiming they "might" save lives as the TSA does.[1] The last year the TSA released the stats on their Red Team tests, they failed to detect 95% of threats.
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by curryst 5y ago
Where they get you is that it very rarely makes financial sense to do both cloud and colo/on-prem (unless you're a massive company). It ends up being way more expensive to use the cloud, but also hire engineers to work on making
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by curryst 5y ago
> For the 4x extra cost you could easily take a backup every 24h. It's also worth considering the cost to simply regenerate the data for something like this that isn't the source of truth. You'll lose any content that you
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by curryst 5y ago
The reason she's pissed isn't because they think she's a secretary, it's because they apparently didn't consider it a possibility that she was anything else. The fact that she's a woman is likely the cause of
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by curryst 5y ago
Amazon is pushing people towards Fulfilled by Amazon. It makes sense as a marketplace, providing a more consistent experience. However when they compete in that marketplace, it means they're charging you to get data to outcompete you
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by curryst 5y ago
Potentially for more favorable routing? There are some other potential niche things like maybe load testing, or doing load testing from weird IPs. It's not entirely clear to me either without having some kind of storage (in which cas
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by curryst 5y ago
> wouldn't it be more interesting for people to have spinning drives (for the better ratio of GB / $)? You do trade off for a slower read rate. If the rate of requests coming in is fast enough, your spinning drive/s may n
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by curryst 5y ago
It's not a fabrication. These vaccines haven't even existed for a year; there is no possible way to do a long term study in under a year. Whether you feel like a long term study is needed is certainly up for debate, but none hav
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by curryst 5y ago
It's all hypothetical, but it's not unimaginable that there are nasty things laying under the layers of ocean snow. Either materials that could poison the ocean, or forms of ancient bacteria that have been dormant (like the anthr
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by curryst 5y ago
It was less blatant. As another poster mentioned, the politics was part of the narrative. The GamerGate debacle was a big shifting point, where video games have become another cultural battlefield. I'm not picking on one side or the
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by curryst 5y ago
> I trust them to pay my paycheck, I trust them to respect the contract I signed when hired. I trust them to give me my tax information in a timely manner. Now, those are some examples that are backed by law or contracts, but if you don&
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by curryst 5y ago
McDonald's uses unique machines that have two hoppers so they can serve both milkshakes and ice cream. More parts, more complexity. They also use a pump instead of gravity, so they can serve customers more quickly. That pump is prob
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by curryst 5y ago
Someone above posted a Wired article you should check out. Basically, McDonald's uses the same machine to make both ice cream cones and milkshakes, meaning it has 2 hoppers. In addition, it uses a pump instead of gravity, which allow
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by curryst 5y ago
Relationships often happen under circumstances where no sane person would sign a contract. My girlfriend and I currently both share an emotional risk. If one of us is unhappy in the relationship and leaves, the other suffers emotionally.
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by curryst 5y ago
Isn't the purpose of school to train you to where you can do X for a company? If standard practice in the field is to look that up, I fail to see the value in forcing you to remember how to do X so that you can later forget it and end
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by curryst 5y ago
The "I call her 'she' out of courtesy" part is fairly offensive, and just totally uncalled for. It adds nothing to the rest of the content, and I can't think of any reason to add it other than to fan the flames. I
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by curryst 5y ago
The best we could probably hope for is disbarment. These things don't usually end up in criminal convictions. I would imagine a perjury charge is possible, but it seems unlikely.
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by curryst 5y ago
> If a person is guilty and the police made a mistake, we should correct the mistake the police made, including by firing people responsible or pressing criminal charges if appropriate, but malpractice by the police should not exonerate
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by curryst 5y ago
"Race is a socially constructed category" is a semantic argument, not a real debate point. An ethnicity indicates you are descended from some set of people, and share genetics and/or culture with them. A race is a group of
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by curryst 5y ago
> So maybe this is a variant that has a higher likelihood of mutation in a specific demographic (e.g. Indian). Is this a thing that's known to have occurred in other viruses? It seems rather unlikely compared to the chance that it
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by curryst 6y ago
You're right, it is the CO2 emissions, but they're effectively unavoidable. We do not have enough renewable energy sources built right now to support even the current load. Additional load means dirty power plants stay online
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by curryst 6y ago
The impression I get is that it's usefulness heavily depends on the parameters of engagement, and how useful you see the plane as being hinges on what type of engagement you see as the most likely. One of the criticisms is that the pla
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by curryst 6y ago
I don't have data, but I strongly suspect it has an impact in the same way audio does. That person who's office is so dark their webcam gets grainy trying to compensate just looks less professional. Like it or not, videoconferenc
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by curryst 6y ago
Doesn't the system to bill people's phone lines still exist? I presume telcos have made that immune to number spoofing since there's money on the line. Just make it so that reporting the call as spam triggers a $1 charge to
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by curryst 6y ago
That is weird, it's ringing as an international number. +1-512-xxx-yyyy is your international number. Seems like it's making it an international call, but not actually using the country code.
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by curryst 6y ago
The risk is low, but I think the last I saw was a 0.01% IFR in the young, which comes out to 1 in 10,000. Still a higher risk than COVID at this point, although it's possible that they'll discover a higher incidence like with AZ.
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by curryst 6y ago
I think there's a fair amount of information accessible through the website that would also be annoying to access over the phone. For one, I don't have any idea what my prescription numbers are. I would suspect that's true
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by curryst 6y ago
I presumed screen readers had some kind of standard in the way they interpreted things. The standard allows the user to choose which screen reader they want. Letting the screen readers interpret things however they want seems likely to end
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by curryst 6y ago
I'm not aware of that reversal. In the jargon I'm used to for drug advocacy, "decriminalization" refers to removing criminal penalties for possession. It may still be illegal, but it is a civil offense (think traffic t

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