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by dpark 4mo ago
He posted on another comment. They were offering way under market. Shocking, really.
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by dpark 4mo ago
I don’t understand what you’re getting at. Page 18 is the tax vs penalty discussion I referred to. > They argued several dumb points, you’ll have to narrow it down. Arguing that the fee is a “penalty” in this case seems pointlessly dum
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by dpark 4mo ago
So I actually agree with you here. America has a deep, ugly pit of unconstrained racism, and a less deep pit of quiet racism that permeates a lot of society. But so do many (and very possibly most) other nations, where the level of racism i
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by dpark 4mo ago
From what I can tell with a quick reading, it is not. The opinion states that the fee is a tax and not a penalty and based on that ruling then further rules that the tax oversteps Congress’s delegated authority. The whole penalty thing seem
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by dpark 4mo ago
> Fees have to be justified Do they? Honest question. Is there a law that says fees must be in some sense justified? > Calling something a fee doesn't make it a fee if, in substance, it operates like a tax. This seems like a
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by dpark 4mo ago
When you pay income tax (for example), your personal benefit from that tax is no different from my benefit from your income tax. But if you pay a passport fee (for example), you receive a specific benefit that I do not.
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by dpark 4mo ago
“Graph go up to the right. Graph stop at edge of paper. Must go up forever!”
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by dpark 4mo ago
Now this I disagree with. I expect that you are interacting with a specific subset of Americans. A lot of Americans are deeply racist and xenophobic and I believe that the average could definitely get lower.
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by dpark 4mo ago
Okay, but the conversation was: Meken: “I would be biased” Sashank: “I disagree” Others being more biased doesn’t make Americans unbiased.
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This seems like xenophobia masked as sustainability. The article indicates the referendum specifically would block immigrants but not, say, require free birth control for citizens. Interesting how narrow the target is if sustainability is t
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by dpark 4mo ago
You’re responding to an American who says he’d be biased towards Americans and telling him he’s wrong. Maybe Americans are the least biased (though being an American I am not so sure) but that doesn’t mean we aren’t biased (even if sometime
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by dpark 4mo ago
> Lionel Messi, the greatest soccer player of all time is only 5'7 - that should tell you something. One data point doesn’t tell me anything. Cristiano Ronaldo, also frequently in the “GOAT” conversation is 6’2”. On Argentina’s na
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by dpark 4mo ago
And as if hyperloop was even proposed as a solution for transit within a city. This whole article is just weird and rambling, like someone trying to use buzzwords without understanding what they are.
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by dpark 4mo ago
The weird thing is that it’s not. The author also touts congestion fees so that the wealthy subsidize public transit as a good thing. It seems to just be a disorganized jumble of thoughts. He mentions hyperloop as an emerging transit techno
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by dpark 4mo ago
Proof that humans can also generate low quality slop.
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SpaceX is running a bunch of “portable”, high pollution gas generators in Memphis, TN specifically to get around the regulation you’re describing. Elon definitely got the “you can just do things” memo.
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by dpark 4mo ago
> In soccer your height/mass doesn’t matter much so the talent pools don’t overlap. This is untrue and also just silly. The talent pools for horse jockeys and NBA players don't overlap. The talent pool for soccer and footba
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by dpark 4mo ago
I agree this is just young love. They’ve known each other less than a year. It’s either honeymoon phase or deep codependency. I hope the former. > there is a hormone that makes them forget or not care how gushy and idiotic such things a
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by dpark 4mo ago
> I think you're reading 'all-encompassing' too literally and make it seem that the author has his girlfriend substitute friends, colleagues and they're in some 'total life overlap' mode. Literally in the
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by dpark 4mo ago
I bet the set of people seeking out “small town life” are more likely to have children than the average city dweller. If so, the funding problem gets worse over time for small towns. More kids with fewer adults funding schools.
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by dpark 4mo ago
It seems like the right word. Hedonism doesn’t imply debauchery. It’s just prioritizing pleasure. It’s a hedonistic choice to forgo children in order to enjoy the pleasures of an unencumbered lifestyle. It’s also a personal choice (though I
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by dpark 4mo ago
What experiences did you have that led you to this conclusion to? I get the distinct impression that many teams have very weak engineering rigor around their DBs, which leads to a lot of avoidable pain.
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by dpark 4mo ago
I was referring to network I/O. But disk I/O should be at least as good for a stored procedure and often better. It’s classic “bring the computation to the data”. Putting the computation into the DB means that use of disk caching
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> This smells like stored procedures. You can’t unit test it. You can’t version it Say what? Stored procedures are awesome when used correctly. Versioning is straightforward. You stick any sort of monotonically increasing id at the end
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It’s certainly possible that facial tissue is more likely to have contaminants that could scratch lenses. A lot of facial tissue also has lotion, which means it just smears glasses anyway.
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by dpark 4mo ago
I have no idea what is common in Norway, but Rodenstock’s English website also says plastic is more common. Today plastic lenses are considered “State of the Art” and are found in most spectacles. https://www.rodenstock.com&#x2
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by dpark 4mo ago
Very few people wear actual glass lenses. They are something like 1-2% of the market from what I can tell. Everyone else wears plastic lenses, which are much lighter and thus more comfortable to wear. Also slightly safer due to much redu
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Don’t bother listening to people who give you feedback that your product should be free. They aren’t going to buy your product no matter what you do.
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A large amount of dust is essentially powdered rock, which absolutely is harder than the plastic you would generally find in optical lenses.
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They live in an imaginary world where no one ever cleaned glasses until microfiber cloths were widely available. To clean glasses safely you basically need a soft, clean cloth. Cotton is totally fine. You could get away with a soft clean sp

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