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by dmoy 2y ago
"it can't be that bad, can it?" > astronomers use the word metals as convenient shorthand for all elements except hydrogen and helium what, ok
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by dmoy 2y ago
It's too bad that tribes games' learning curve is too steep for people now. Tribes Ascend was pretty well made but died quickly, and Tribes 3 seems to be dead even faster. Very few people who didn't already play the earlier
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by dmoy 2y ago
Wechat hasn't really been super popular since AIM days. ~15 years ago when I was in China I don't think it even existed, and 10 years ago there was significant numbers of people using qq still instead of WeChat (or rather not in
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by dmoy 2y ago
This makes me feel less bad about also not being able to figure out my printer's address printing function. Like I know it is capable. I know how to set up the hand feed for it (and I successfully do that for thicker paper). And oste
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by dmoy 2y ago
I read it as > I agree, Rust seems a lot better for inline assembly [because there's basically only one compiler]. [Compared to] C and C++, [where] there's too much variability between compilers for what you can actually use wi
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by dmoy 2y ago
> Compare to games like Factorio and Helldivers 2. About 1% of the time I think “wait, am I the baddie? I was really confused there for a second, before I remembered that there are native bug monsters in Factorio. I always play with the
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by dmoy 2y ago
> my biggest issue with the way prescriptions are decided is the "this one, or this one" and they both look equally crappy, and they say "which looks less crappy" and i just pick randomly, because they're both aw
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by dmoy 2y ago
Is insider trading still legal for politicians? Pretty much, right? They just have to disclose it weeks after the fact? Certainly I haven't heard of any news of the STOCK act from 2012 actually being enforced, e.g. no insider trading
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by dmoy 2y ago
Well also the 50%+ savings rate for a long time (down to the 30%s maybe ten years ago, then back up for awhile) If everyone in the US saved 30-50%+ it would not go well for our consumer market either.
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by dmoy 2y ago
True if it's just point to point commuting to a place with safe storage. But then I can't take it by strapping it on my backpack and going to shops, etc where a bike would get stolen.
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by dmoy 2y ago
I wish they were half as heavy with 1/4 the range. Lightest ones are still like 10kg+?
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by dmoy 2y ago
That is fair but we are explicitly talking about California here > if you are an employee and that is direct compensation (not deferred capital gains) then your taxes are lower than California
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by dmoy 2y ago
If this is MFJ two similar incomes, then Social security and Medicare is another ~14% (it'll say 7.65% on the tin, but really your wage is lowered to compensate for the 7.65% employer portion, working out to about 14% total). Effectiv
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by dmoy 2y ago
I would also personally not do this with an American ungrounded toaster, even though I have an EE degree and have done a lot of wire stripping, re-assembling wires, electrical tape, soldering, etc stuff. A new toaster is cheap. House fires
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by dmoy 2y ago
Replacing: usually not hard. Open the thing, unscrew the things holding the ends of the wire on, remove old cord, put new cord's wires in, screw down, close thing back up. (Often "open the thing" and "close the thing&qu
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by dmoy 2y ago
In that case, they used to be the same company, and one was spun off. In the Mitsubishi case, there were at least 2 or 3 separate companies that were never really related
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by dmoy 2y ago
> Also in Australia each state does it independently. In the US this is typically done at the county level (3000+ individual counties, all doing it independently)
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by dmoy 2y ago
That is not what first past the post means. First past the post is plurality wins. Anyways, that's not how US presidential elections work. The aggregate of votes doesn't matter, only the electoral votes divvied up by state.
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by dmoy 2y ago
fwiw in the US, typically even extremely messed up teeth don't require removal to fix with orthodontics. Some ortho places will advocate it because it's easier. But if you get a few quotes in a big city usually someone can do
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by dmoy 2y ago
Pretty much yea. So not exactly a fair comparison because e.g. grid level solar doesn't necessarily involve roof climbing. But given current installation base, it's like 3x more deaths per unit energy than wind.
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by dmoy 2y ago
There was a year-ish period of sc2 which was death stacks, I think at that point I went back to watching sc1 lol I agree, it's not fun or interesting
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by dmoy 2y ago
But they explicitly said $400B which is not medicare's budget, but rather social security's budget
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by dmoy 2y ago
For anyone else momentarily confused like me: risk pools (which is evidently a term of art in insurance: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_pool ) Not swimming pools, which was my first read of above comment, at whi
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by dmoy 2y ago
Juris Doctor, aka a lawyer
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by dmoy 2y ago
Nothing new since the last one here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43085117 ?
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by dmoy 2y ago
Oh yea for sure, you get way better food safety in SK.
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by dmoy 2y ago
Outside of Yanbian maybe yea. There's like 600,000 Korean in Yanbian alone, a huge chunk of which are North Korean.
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by dmoy 2y ago
Maybe? I dunno There's iirc <100k North Korean in South Korea, and >>100k in China, mostly Jilin province
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by dmoy 2y ago
If you want North Korean food, but not run by the North Korean government with the weird slavery shit, there's numerous Korean restaurants north of North Korea in Yanbian, Jilin/Changchun, etc. Just regular restaurants, mostly r
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by dmoy 2y ago
> Things like "obviousness" and "prior art" can be hard to judge unless you're a patent lawyer... or a judge. Yea, examiners will grant patents that might have no chance in court. So what tends to matter more is

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