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by dcolkitt 5y ago
I'm gonna make a radical suggestion. Maybe just try ditching sunscreen altogether. Yes, it's probably true that exposure to the sun increases the risk of skin cancer. But in the US skin cancer accounts for fewer than 1% of all dea
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How close is close out of curiosity?
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That reminds me a lot of the Sun Microsystem mega servers from 20 years ago. Those were kind of the cure-all solutions to high scalability web services before Google et al. pioneered cloud-like services on commodity software.
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Broadcast NBC was only "free" in the strictest sense. Every hour of content requires the viewer to sit through 22 minutes of mind-numbing commercials. At a labor value of $50/hour, watching ten hours of content a week imposes
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I wouldn't say it's abject poverty. But it's certainly far less developed than South Korea or Taiwan, which is the most likely counterfactual for a free South Vietnam. OTOH you could possibly argue (though far more speculativ
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Realistically, there's very little in the economy that depends on biodiversity. A few crops might suffer from the loss of certain pollinating insects. And potentially some drug discovery might slow from lower biodiversity. And some tou
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The point is that bottom-up code is a siren song. It never scales. It makes it a lot easier to get started, but given enough complexity it inevitably breaks down. Once your codebase gets to somewhere around the 10,000 line mark, it becomes
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The point of isolating abstractions is that you don't have to jump and back and forth. You look at a function, and you understand from its contract and calling convention you immediately know what it does. The specific details aren&#x2
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A lot of managers seem to have an unshakeable convention that as soon as workers are no longer cattle-penned into an office that they'll turn into lazy slobs. As if the only thing stopping them from vegging out on the couch, eating ice
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What about the occasional company ski trip?
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This is a tangent, but it seems crazy to me that more media companies don’t open tent pole theme parks. Disney and Universal both seem to make money hand over fist. Demand is near unlimited, and they have no trouble continuously raising pri
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> If I want to borrow 100k to refit the kitchen in my restaurant, can I do that with cryptocurrency If you have a large crypto portfolio (which many do) to use as collateral, you absolutely can do this.
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Coffee is a lot like wine, in that the flavor varies a ton from farm to farm and batch to batch even based on small changes in the terroir, climate, or just randomness. The central challenge to running any sort of mass food chain is to keep
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> Switching our road transport to electric will probably save more children, and the adults they will become, from a lifetime of lung problems and premature death from pollution The sizable majority of modern car pollution comes from par
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It’s a crisis for all of us, even homeowners, because it imposes massive drag on the economy. Much of economic growth is driven by people relocating from low productivity regions and firms to high productivity regions and firms. When housin
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by dcolkitt 5y ago
I'd imagine a common theme would be for red counties in deep blue states to leave and join their light blue neighbors, which may shift them red. (Or vice versa.) For example if upstate NY joined Pennsylvania, then the D senator from PA
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> It's easier just to declare a retirement age. I think that's a fair argument. But 65 is probably way too young as a threshold in this day and age. I happen to know a lot of 65-ish Americans, because that's right around
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Thanks! I'm gonna give this a try today.
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Out of curiosity how do you position your screens? I used to rock dual Thunderbolt displays, but my always felt awkward either turning to the left or turning to the right. Now I now just use monitor, because I like having whatever I'm
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> Generally I feel like retirement used to mean "I'm too old and frail to work anymore", until that brief blip between 1950-2010, give or take a decade or two. The question I'd have is why should the welfare state pri
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Decades of research in management has shown that money is not the sole, or even major, driver of workplace motivation. Workers of all type, including cops, are motivated to put in hard work when they feel like their efforts are recognized a
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Just prior to Covid, the unemployment rate in San Francisco was 2.1%. About the lowest unemployment rate recorded in any industrialized economy ever in history. In 2019, there was clearly no shortage of jobs, yet the petty crime wave in SF
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My sincere guess is that we'll kludge the problem with relatively low-tech geoengineering solutions. Primarily stratospheric aerosol injections. The technology is very well understood and fully mature. We know with certainty, from hist
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Even in container world, I still find Ansible/Chef useful for a number of low-level system tuning tasks. Things like setting NUMA affinities, modifying kernel parameters, setting IRQ interrupts, loading kernel modules, setting NIC para
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San Francisco has the worst property crime rate of any major city in America.[1] It's more than three times worse than what you'd find in New York, Boston or San Diego. It's even about twice as bad as Austin, Chicago or Phila
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I think it's really easy how normalized a person can get to petty crime. Like a frog in boiling water. You'll talk to people in SF who totally brush off smash-and-grabs. They'll say something like "stupid me, shouldn&#x2
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I don't think it's directly this malicious. I think it's more just a blindspot. If you're a 40-something partner at a major VC firm, who bought his home in Palo Alto in 2005, then the "cost of living" is largel
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Except the difference is there's a hell of a lot more bandwidth available for telework in Colorado and Nevada than there was the last cycle.
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> In that case getting hacked means people can steal your house... This is unacceptable and will never happen in reality. We already have institutions which entrust billions in assets based on the ability to keep private keys safe. Coinb
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There is no fiat contract to enforce. There's simply a legal trust (the DAO) that holds property in perpetuity. All contracts and liabilities exist in crypto space. The only way a fiat court could unwind the structure is if they declar

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