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by dmurray 1y ago
A couple of sources putting the life expectancy cost at 10-20 minutes per cigarette. Smoking for 40 years that would be 5 months at 1 a day or 17 years at 40 a day. I think that's all consistent with what you said: 2 packs a day and yo
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by dmurray 1y ago
One cigarette a day doesn't sound that bad for you. 40-a-day smokers exist and while they're unhealthy, they're not universally dying in their fifties, so one fortieth of that effect seems small. The biggest risk of smoking o
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by dmurray 1y ago
> Addendum: food security was assured, food choice was very restricted by modern standards. Not by the standards of the world 5th percentile, as in the question posed. The 5th percentile today is mostly subsistence farming and doesn&#x27
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by dmurray 1y ago
The problems are chosen by representatives from all the countries. So every country has someone who knows the full exam before the participants get it. Security is on the honour system, but it seems to mostly work.
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by dmurray 1y ago
ESTA is not a visa. It's specifically the process to enter America for people who do not need a visa.
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by dmurray 1y ago
I'm not sure the position is significant. It's free to put any bad thing in the risks section of your 10-K; investors aren't going to shun your company over it. If you fail to put the risk in, the bad thing happens, and your
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by dmurray 1y ago
> And it's the stomach, which AFAIK, doesn't have a lot of exposed veins And it's mostly for people who have plenty of stomach fat, so even less chance of hitting something else.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Surely North Korea could arrange people to do this, too. They already have people on the ground in the US e.g. to open bank accounts, and they only need this for candidates that actually get the job, not every interview. You might say the p
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by dmurray 1y ago
And importantly, China isn't on the list of places this works, and China is the only place in the world for generalist manufacturing at scale.
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by dmurray 1y ago
I expect even quite literate native English speakers to sometimes make mistakes with subject-verb agreement in any form of sentence other than the most trivial. E.g. I am not surprised to read "Distance to the server is one of the fact
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by dmurray 1y ago
I don't understand how massive corporations are both ruthless slash and burn cost-cutting profit optimizers and sloppy businessmen who don't care about the small things, even in aggregate. What's the economics of not renting
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by dmurray 1y ago
> Sure, courts have the power to subpoena for a lot of stuff. I don't really see the concern though: courts also can redact a lot of sensitive information when it releases the case (see Epic v. Apple, lots of unannounced titles and
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by dmurray 1y ago
> Yeah as far as I know, in French words are always pronounced consistent with how they're spelled. It's far from as bad as English, but here's a Reddit thread with lots of French words which are not spelt as they are writ
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by dmurray 1y ago
I was thinking Flight of the Conchords , but Wikipedia says the band existed before the radio and TV shows.
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by dmurray 1y ago
To add to this, that behaviour would typically be OK in the US, with a good compliance department to keep you away from the worst of the grey areas. If the SEC did investigate you for this, an important part of the case would turn on the ex
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by dmurray 1y ago
I think the point is that retail investors were selling the puts, they predictably sold every day (or more likely, they predictably bought calls which is almost equivalent), and there were no other sophisticated market makers in the market.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Sure, but it's a tiny minority of Chinese learners. "Hard in an unnecessary way" implies that it's objectively difficult and complex, not just different from what certain outsiders are used to.
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by dmurray 1y ago
> Chinese is hard in unnecessary way both in language speaking and writing. Is spoken Mandarin really "hard in an unnecessary way"? I think it's quite straightforward, except for the tones. The tones are difficult for anyo
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by dmurray 1y ago
So there could reasonably be dozens [0] of satellites "parked at exactly 0°00'00"N 0°00'00"E". Definitely an unnecessary level of precision. [0] A few sites give 10km as a standard minimum separation for geosta
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by dmurray 1y ago
That specifies its position to about 30 metres of precision. Presumably it's an intentional choice to put it at such a round number, rather than any scientific benefit over it being, say, 10km west or east.
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The article also touches on some reasons this isn't enough. You might want to test outside of production, you might want to measure the latency when you decide to send no order, and you might want to profile your code at a more granula
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by dmurray 1y ago
I don't think this would have any significant impact on the industry. Publishers would just advertise their games as coming with a 2-year subscription, or whatever. People would have the same expectations as now: the game will be suppo
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by dmurray 1y ago
I don't know if you're wrong in general, but your dates for the factory construction show 9 months in China vs 13 months in the US, not the 5 months vs two years you claim.
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by dmurray 1y ago
Normally grazing means grass, which doesn't fit the strategic goal of "feed that can be diverted to direct human consumption in an emergency." But yes, surely with some combination of taxes, subsidies and there being no bette
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by dmurray 1y ago
Floats have the same accuracy everywhere when measured in relative error , ints have the same accuracy everywhere when measuring absolutely. Which of those is better? It depends on the application. All you can do is hope the person who gav
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by dmurray 1y ago
I definitely get unmutable notifications on Android from my first-party phone manufacturer bloatware apps, which is the equivalent here. Would I like to see the new Themes in the Theme Marketplace? Pretty sure I've had marketing notifi
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by dmurray 1y ago
This should be obvious. There are the same number of 32-bit integers as 32-bit floats [0], so for every float that is not an int, there exists an int that is not a float. Clearly most floats cannot be represented as integers, so the convers
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by dmurray 1y ago
Well, the civilian leadership is obviously in favour of massacring civilians, the military leadership orders civilians to be massacred, and the soldiers on the ground revel in the opportunity to massacre civilians. And the courts are happy
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by dmurray 1y ago
> but not in 180 AD, because that specific period happens to be well-documented? As for "why pick 180 AD then?" it's clear that this was chosen in order to have Commodus as a villain. Commodus is shown mostly historically
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by dmurray 1y ago
I'm a big fan of Bret Deveraux and a long term subscriber, but this is mostly nit-picking. The Roman armies didn't dress as uniformly as this? They did in contemporary depictions (Trajan's column) so this is only as much arti

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