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by dannypgh 7y ago
Are you sure this is true? I recall the DOS hunting feature using the keyboard to navigate and shoot, whereas the Apple II version used a mouse. It's /possible/ I'm confusing the Apple II version with the Mac version?
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by dannypgh 7y ago
The market should converge at the point where the supply and demand curves intersect. The only goods that we'd expect to see a change in price are those where suddenly there was more demand. It's hard to imagine this for products
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Your point is taken. But, I think there's consensus that the term "Jewish" doesn't unambiguously refer to an ethnicity, because one common definition is that Jewish refers to a religion. Orthodox Judiasm confers full &qu
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by dannypgh 7y ago
It is ultimately a response to the fact that Jews were treated as the same people by policies designed to exclude them. There were no such policies for various Christian groups. Practically for much of this history in this part of the world
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Coinsurance is paid only until the out of pocket maximum is met, no? I have a plan on the state exchange for around $300/month and an out of pocket max around $8k (I'm 34 years old). I just budget $12k/year for healthcare and
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by dannypgh 7y ago
> This is a strange sentiment to find on a board that is at least a partially targeted at aspiring company founders. It's not a universally held belief that a company founder must try to make as much money for themselves as possible
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by dannypgh 7y ago
It is true that stocks are assigned some value based on expected future dividends, but this only one component of the value of a share, and for any company undergoing a divestment campaign, this will shift. A publicly traded Ponzi scheme ca
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by dannypgh 7y ago
It's really "threat that more people will want to divest or remain divested when they would have otherwise invested" that can cause change. The board answers to the shareholders, and shareholders generally want to be able to
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Trump Goes 'Behind Enemy Lines' to Raise Money in SF Bay Area(npr.org)
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by dannypgh 7y ago
This is a nice companion to https://youtu.be/Tfh0ytz8S0k which deals with more technical details of the implementation of NES and C64 graphics. This document reads like requirements to that video's design.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Civil cases are based on preponderance of evidence, and your testimony is evidence. If they refute it and they're lying, that's a felony, and I don't think these professionals are being paid enough to commit felonies for thei
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by dannypgh 7y ago
You can lower recidivism rates by reducing rates that people are released. Or, for that matter, by providing legal assistance to ex-cons who reoffend. Not sure people who want to see real criminal justice reform would be happy about either.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Hot oil smokes before it ignites, in my experience. If you don't leave it unattended, you can address it before it ignites.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I think it's the leaving it unattended part that's ill advised. If you're there, you can put a lid on the pan to smother the fire and it's not a big deal. And yeah, that means you need to have the lid ready.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I spent 9 years at Google, just left at the end of July. The biggest thing I grew to appreciate was that for iterating large scale production systems, rollout plans are as important as anything else. A very large change may be cost or risk
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Or it would force people to take draconian steps to hinder any investigation. Threatening to throw individuals in prison for profitable but undesirable behavior rarely seems to get much done. Consider the war on drugs, if you want. You can
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I thought being a non-profit meant you had goals that weren't profit; there are non-profits with billion dollar endowments that presumably have leftover cash on their balance sheet...
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Part of it is hardware support- your machine's state isn't just in main ram and CPU registers, it's also in the state of every embedded microcontroller and onboard memory of every device on the machine. It's to limit the
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Ubuntu and Linux may have a small market share in the general population, but they enjoy a larger share among software developers. And we all know ("developers, developers, developers!") MS has chased that demographic.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
These changes can just be made for persons born after a certain year, to limit or eliminate any broken promises by delaying implementation.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
Phone battery life creates a constraint on the phone's ability to perform constant surveillance. An assistant that plugs into the wall lacks this constraint. To me, this is a big difference.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I'm saying, the reason the restriction is present on private employers is so they don't make a low offer to someone who had been paid less before. My understanding of federal employment is that the pay scales are published and pub
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by dannypgh 7y ago
I would imagine the federal government has enough transparency and process regarding pay scales to make this moot.
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by dannypgh 7y ago
+1 exactly this. LeBron did something wonderful, in one district. Government has far more means than an individual to scale that up to the whole country.
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by dannypgh 8y ago
It's also interesting to note changes in efficiency for things like refrigerators. I suspect at 8 years repair might be more environmentally sound, but any older... refrigerators today aren't indeed built like they were 20 years a
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by dannypgh 8y ago
It's possible for a person to be a member of multiple nations. In the eyes of many Americans (USian), American most certainly is a nation. MAGA-style nationalism is quite popular and powerful at the moment...
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by dannypgh 8y ago
In these products, the stated interest rate is often low, but when you factor in fees the effective interest rate is astronomical. Fees are also why payday loans can be attractive over real banks - a payday loan is likely cheaper than a che
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by dannypgh 8y ago
I think you just mean different things by "heating" - if you're talking about heating in a closed system, they're the same - 5 joules of energy are needed to increase the total heat energy by 5 joules, with either approa
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Anyone can declare themselves to be a one-person company that they're the CEO of. Does that mean they're automatically entitled to make rent?
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by dannypgh 8y ago
Not sure it's useful to reason about CEO pay independently of company performance. Google's revenue and profit per-employee are quite high. If your startup is just bleeding money on hopes and promises, it's probably harder to

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