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by dpau 6y ago
I tried to change my address today on https://moversguide.usps.com In the address form, there is a field for PO Box. It is labeled "PO Box". One would assume you should type your PO Box number in this field, e.g. &qu
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by dpau 6y ago
And measures were not limited to Wuhan. By the time restrictions were lifted in Wuhan, the Chinese government had implemented quarantines, surveillance, contact tracing and testing procedures throughout the entire country. While here in t
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by dpau 6y ago
> Particularly in a place like San Francisco, where there have been 1,400 cases total and 23 deaths. It’s simply irrational now, and a lot closer to virtue signaling than anything with a scientific basis. I live in a state with a very lo
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by dpau 6y ago
The 99% of us who are losing our jobs and eating through our savings shouldn't be forced into a moral dilemma of working to remain solvent vs. quarantine/distancing to protect others. This is entirely a failure of government to q
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by dpau 6y ago
also need to take into account the decline in deaths from other factors due to quarantines, social distancing, and improved hygiene. less driving, less spread of other infectious diseases, etc.
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by dpau 6y ago
websites like this can only do their best to collect links to resources, it's beyond scope for them to perform a detailed environmental analysis of each listing. obviously you'll still need to make your own decisions based on what
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by dpau 6y ago
It's been noted that the pandemic has caused a dip in streaming audio and podcast traffic, those moments of time when we are "busy but free" during commutes turn out to be valuable slivers of time in which we catch up and enj
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by dpau 6y ago
got my push to go through, unfortunately downloading packages from https://codeload.github.com was timing out
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by dpau 6y ago
and 22 million unemployed
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by dpau 6y ago
my favorite for years has been https://www.fitnessblender.com/
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by dpau 6y ago
I hate to be that person, but I find the use of an accordion collapse for the article sections to be unnecessary and exasperating. I tried a page search for "automation" and the browser showed one hit, but I couldn't find w
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by dpau 6y ago
Thanks for this link, I've been going by the estimated cost on the Google Cloud VM deployment page which seems to give significantly lower prices than your link. With GC I always seem to end up paying a lot more than I planned to...
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by dpau 6y ago
I'd like to see a cost comparison across different providers. A comparable v100 machine on Google Cloud is $2.015/hr, while Paperspace seems to charge 2.30/hr for a dedicated v100 ( https://www.paperspace.com/
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by dpau 6y ago
I'm against this tendency to alienate the Chinese as some unknowable "other". Yes, the culture is quite different than in the West, but we share vastly more through the common experience of being human. There are a lot of wel
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by dpau 6y ago
It's not whether or not individual members of a species can survive if it's a little hotter. The problem is that climate change is destroying entire ecosystems in which these individuals exist. A polar bear can do ok in a zoo in
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by dpau 6y ago
Saul elevated cartoons to Art without sacrificing wit or humor.. Archive.org throught their NEL has some of his works, among them perhaps my favorite: The Labyrinth https://archive.org/details/steinberg0000unse
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by dpau 6y ago
personally on upwork i have noticed a decrease in "good" job postings and an increase in proposals. anecdotal. but i think it's a mistake to assume that any business has not been fundamentally affected by covid in some way.
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by dpau 6y ago
that is exactly what those of us simply waiting for a Neuromancer movie have been saying to ourselves for years :(
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by dpau 6y ago
Not surprising. A great episode about this issue is on Reply All, worth listening to even now: #132 Negative Mount Pleasant DECEMBER 6, 2018 A small town in Wisconsin becomes the site of a completely unprecedented experiment. https:&#x2F
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by dpau 7y ago
even the "full" sized images are filled with compression artifacts and lose lots of quality after upload, not as badly as in facebook but still surprising and disappointing for a photo-centric app. i've tried a number of thi
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by dpau 7y ago
ha! but maybe not too surprising given the origin of the word googol
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by dpau 7y ago
there was also a conjecture that the dreamliner required rebooting every 248 days due to a similar issue https://www.engadget.com/2015-05-01-boeing-787-dreamliner-so...
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by dpau 7y ago
The protagonist hears his daughter talking in her sleep: She uttered two clearly audible words, familiar and elusive at the same time, words that seemed to have ritual meaning, part of a verbal spell or ecstatic chant. Toyota Celica A lon
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by dpau 7y ago
There is no better time to read DeLillo's "White Noise" and learn about "The Airborne Toxic Event".
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by dpau 7y ago
a lot of people are losing their jobs, my wife lost her job and i'm furloughed. but the skills that made you and i so valuable before still make us valuable now and in the future. so i do think we are lucky, despite everything. thing
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by dpau 7y ago
While I totally agree with your last paragraph, just keep in mind that most of those in HN are still really lucky, even if layed-off. Getting angry after only job-hunting for three days seems a little over the top. There are a lot of unem
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by dpau 7y ago
I highly recommend just reading the book "Flour Water Salt Yeast", which is where this recipe comes from: https://kensartisan.com/flour-water-salt-yeast
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by dpau 7y ago
in addition to https://staythefuckhome.com there needs to be a https://justwashyourass.com EDIT: damn already registered :(
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by dpau 7y ago
as an example, two weeks ago i made sure i had enough supplies to last a month. started taking precautions. social distancing, hand washing, etc. doing the best i can. then co-worker takes a coronavirus vacation due to discounted tickets. o
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by dpau 7y ago
it reminds me of climate change, pushing blame onto individuals while corporations and governments continue business as usual. sure, recycle that bottle. quarantine yourself. but in the grand scheme of things it makes very little difference

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