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by eckmLJE 5y ago
If you have a lot of dynamic styles that respond to application state, then even with vanilla CSS you are often writing JS to manage class declarations to get the right CSS combinations. With styled-components, instead of adding/removi
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The purpose of the excess death model is to measure the real number of deaths without having to argue about whether they were caused by covid infection or not. It is simply the difference between the typical number of deaths in a given time
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It will be interesting to see if this can be proven. Until then it seems more accurate to simply say that Robinhood took actions that harmed its users and benefited its corporate customers.
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by eckmLJE 5y ago
And Burry is intimately familiar with this, brushing close to that reality as illustrated in The Big Short.
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Genuinely curious about side effects of the covid vaccines, do you have sources for this?
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
There's an interesting note on this in "The World Until Yesterday" by Jared Diamond about traditional societies (typically he's talking about pre-contact primitive humans). Many children fashioned their own toys after th
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
Especially when the minimum wage is so low and going in to work to serve people refusing to wear masks could kill you or curse you with a constellation of life-ruining symptoms for the remainder of your life.
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
I think the point is that I don't necessarily know by looking at a page that there is anything to scroll to without seeing the scroll bar. I may land on a page that contains enough content "above the fold" that it appears tha
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
The electricity that charges electric car batteries has to be generated somehow. In America, a lot of electricity is generated by coal power plants. For now, most electric cars are not in use in places where coal is the dominant energy sour
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
I'm sorry, you think that increasing airflow by 10x in businesses in many various buildings and conditions is a simpler matter than people putting a piece of cloth over their face? xD The key government failure in the US, at least sinc
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
We can't even rely on citizens to wear masks. What makes you think that if government were competent enough to develop complex rules based on the factors you mention that we would be any better off.
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
I don't know, the gunplay and melee combat has been awesome for me. W/o perks and in early levels, the guns are pretty inaccurate, but once you start specializing into weapons you can do some amazing things. A couple examples: ht
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Half of Americans own stocks at all, and the rich don't have all their money in hedge funds.
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An awful lot of hard and determined work for humans to make Earth less hospitable; a brief moment of whimsy for a large asteroid
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I would think because the organizers of these typical activities lack the resources or customer compliance to pull off as strict a regime as described above.
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
I missed my flight out of CMH around 10 years ago and found this book (that came with three balls) in the airport with a couple hours to kill. I remember the first instruction was something like: Hold the three balls in your hands. Now, dro
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
^ This is how civilization will end.
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
Discussed in this September 2019 New Yorker article: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/23/jonathan-ledga...
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by eckmLJE 6y ago
Many creators use Patreon as a way to paywall their content behind minimum levels of Patreon support. By supporting on Patreon, you gain access to their content.
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by eckmLJE 7y ago
Just as much? Mental health crises are exacerbated by desperate conditions like not having a home. The two are linked and keeping someone with bipolar disorder who has just lost their job from ending up on the street in the first place woul
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It's also a common practice in any department that has their budget determined this way, e.g. https://vimeo.com/27060669
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by eckmLJE 7y ago
The OP is guessing/presuming that this is the case, and asking why else would a property owner leave their space vacant for a year or more. I'm offering an alternative reason.
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by eckmLJE 7y ago
Paraphrasing someone below, if you as a property owner had the option to sign a 5y lease at $1,000/mo. with a local business that could fail, or hold out a year or two to sign a 10y lease at $2,500/mo. with a national bank that wi
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by eckmLJE 7y ago
Possibly the phrase 'homeless capital' could mean human capital that is experiencing homelessness? The way the clause is constructed is pretty unclear. It could just mean there are a lot of homeless people, and is failing at being
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by eckmLJE 7y ago
Or maybe the top-line bill is so important that you just swallow the bitter pill of less important riders, because getting a clean bill seems unlikely / out of your own control.
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"It is one of those books that is either complete rubbish or a work of consummate genius; Nothing in between! Probably the former, but I'm hedging my bets." - Richard Dawkins I think the theory's genius lies in its radic
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by eckmLJE 7y ago
I know that 20-30ms is jarring because I've experimented in doing everything possible to reduce input latency while playing competitive shooters over the years, as has any serious FPS competitor. 20-30ms is highly jarring to many. Even
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by eckmLJE 7y ago
How are they overcoming the jarring effects of input latency? Even 20-30ms in input lag would turn a lot of people off, or is this primarily for casual games where this won't matter too much?
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by eckmLJE 7y ago
Average credit card APR in the US is a bit different. https://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/rate-report.php
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by eckmLJE 7y ago
In my experience, commercial agents are looking to close big 10+ year leases, not chase down sub-leases from firms with a little extra space for 6-8 guys.

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