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Younger Adults Make Up Big Portion of Coronavirus Hospitalizations in U.S.(nytimes.com)
43 points by ddlatham 7y ago|14 comments
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by ddlatham 7y ago
It's not just the elderly who will die if the system is overwhelmed. Nearly 40% of those that are sick enough to require hospital care are between the ages of 20 and 64[1]. If everyone is getting it at the same time and there's n
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by ddlatham 7y ago
Happy to see some exceptions: 10 a. For the purposes of this Order, individuals may leave their residence only to perform any of the following "Essential Activites." ... iii. To engage in outdoor activity, provided the individual
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Stay home except for essential needs(sf.gov)
208 points by ddlatham 7y ago|151 comments
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by ddlatham 7y ago
If I go to a buffet I fill up my plate with all the food I most enjoy even if that includes the cheap stuff. Then I feel like I got my money's worth, even if they made a profit.
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Unexplained Drones Are Swarming by Night over Colorado(nytimes.com)
6 points by ddlatham 7y ago|0 comments
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by ddlatham 7y ago
People don't go to the grocery store to give their money to the cashiers. So from a user standpoint the cash registers shouldn't be there in the first place. The ads typically are paying for what the users are going to the website
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by ddlatham 7y ago
Regardless of what the cost is? What prevents them from charging you 2x or 10x or 100x more after the fact?
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by ddlatham 7y ago
How does contract law fit in here? If a business performs a service for me and won't tell me ahead of time how much it costs, can it afterward decide I must pay whatever it wants? One trillion dollars? For those without insurance, is
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by ddlatham 7y ago
To be fair, the article was updated to address those complaints after the comment you're responding to was made. https://github.com/lovasoa/bad_json_parsers/commit/16f6ed75b...
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by ddlatham 7y ago
To be fair, that text was added after the above comment was posted. https://github.com/lovasoa/bad_json_parsers/commit/16f6ed75b...
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by ddlatham 7y ago
Even further into the tweets it says: "Facebook can upload the entire files of all system libraries to their server through their Android apps" and "I found they have already collected metadata of 2233 system libraries from m
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by ddlatham 7y ago
And I'm reminded of a time in college when my roommate, who majored in classics, came home from class today and told me that they discussed a theory that the Iliad and Odyssey, were not actually written by Homer, but rather by a differ
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Wikipedia community reacts to an editor being temporarily banned(buzzfeednews.com)
71 points by ddlatham 7y ago|97 comments
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by ddlatham 7y ago
Unix timestamps have no inherent time zone at all. They are a quantity of seconds (ignoring leap seconds & relativity) since a specific instant. That instant in time happens to conveniently line up with 1970-01-01T00:00 when described
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by ddlatham 7y ago
A couple weeks ago, I toured the Amazon fulfillment center in Tracy, CA. Some observations: It was very impressive. Watching the yellow plastic tubs flying around on conveyor belts, being sorted into different tracks automatically. It re
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SF Had an Ambitious Plan to Tackle School Segregation. It Made It Worse(nytimes.com)
13 points by ddlatham 7y ago|1 comments
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by ddlatham 7y ago
For those pushing to get rid of adjusting clocks twice a year, this suggests it may be better to stick with standard time year round, rather than daylight saving time.
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by ddlatham 8y ago
Upvoted. 1) I'd like the IRS to at least have a role, since the IRS is the only one who has a copy of all my tax information provided by employers, banks, brokerages, etc. They have a unique role in that they can pre-fill all the info
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by ddlatham 8y ago
NPR's Planet Money just re-ran an episode[1] related to this. In 2005, California ran a pilot program where they sent simple, pre-filled tax forms[2] to a sample of the population. 98% of people liked them and would use them again. I
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by ddlatham 8y ago
This is a good time to review the guide provided by the EFF: https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privacy-us-border-2017
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Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data on Your Devices (2017)(eff.org)
1 points by ddlatham 8y ago|0 comments
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The Air Pollution in Our Homes(newyorker.com)
2 points by ddlatham 8y ago|0 comments
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Crypto CEO Dies Holding Only Passwords to Unlock Millions in Customer Coins(bloomberg.com)
1 points by ddlatham 8y ago|0 comments
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Shouldn't We All Have Seamless Micropayments by Now?(wired.com)
3 points by ddlatham 8y ago|0 comments
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Biggest drop in US fertility rate in recent history(nbcnews.com)
22 points by ddlatham 8y ago|24 comments
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by ddlatham 8y ago
Here's the $5 version: https://www.amazon.com/Stalwart-75-HT3000-Natural-Hardwood-H...
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The Case for Getting Rid of Borders – Completely (2015)(theatlantic.com)
2 points by ddlatham 8y ago|1 comments
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Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might(cnn.com)
47 points by ddlatham 8y ago|73 comments
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Airplane Noise Complaints Are Soaring — Because of One Widget(wsj.com)
2 points by ddlatham 8y ago|0 comments

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