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by efitz 2y ago
In the video, the mitochondria appeared to be motile. Are they?
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by efitz 2y ago
I don't doubt this is true. We see many law enforcement abuses of this sort[1] and I want any such abuses investigated and the perpetrators severely punished. But you are implying that because that might happen, the transgender woman
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by efitz 2y ago
The executive order could have included all sorts of "remember to do your job" directives to prisons. I don't agree with the framing of the question. Men's prisons are typically more violent than women's prisons.
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by efitz 2y ago
It is the job of prisons to protect prisoners from violence by other prisoners. I strongly support firing wardens that do a poor job of that.
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by efitz 2y ago
Please name a school that was shut down as a direct result of any Trump administration executive order. I see lots of hyperbolic news articles speculating about such shutdowns, but I do not see any actual closure. Also, you’re going to have
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by efitz 2y ago
I likely disagree with a lot of your political opinions, but I want nothing bad to happen to you. If you were my coworker or we encountered each other in public, I would treat you with respect unless you disrespected me. I see lots of chan
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by efitz 2y ago
You just described the last 4 years for me. But I will not ostracize you for having a different opinion than me, nor will I downvote you, nor will I attempt to dox you, nor will I demand your posts be censored as “misinformation”, no matter
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by efitz 2y ago
Thank you for taking time to write a response in good faith. I was not trolling; I sincerely believe what I wrote. I do not believe that anything the federal government does that is time sensitive (social security payments, etc) is being af
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by efitz 2y ago
What exactly is terrible about it other than that you disagree?
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by efitz 2y ago
What does a mixed-truth Snopes article about a dumb law proposed in Tennessee have to do with anything? The law sounds dumb and I would be wary of anyone proposing or voting for such a law, but I’m not a citizen of Tennessee so ???
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by efitz 2y ago
Our legislative branch is unable to even minimally fulfill its Constitutional duties. We haven't declared war since WWII, but we've waged a number of them. The Congressional budget process is fundamentally broken and increasingly
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by efitz 2y ago
Many of your career choices are XORs between two sets of pros/cons. It's very rare you get ANDs. You have to decide which set of pros outweighs its cons more, by your values. This means that you have to understand who you are and
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by efitz 2y ago
When I saw the title I thought “F-strings” might be some novel variant of P—strings. I was disappointed that this is just about formatting. I really would prefer safer string handling in modern C/++
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by efitz 2y ago
Why use power and memory to run a screensaver when you can put the display to sleep?
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by efitz 2y ago
The first computer I programmed on was a Data General mainframe with 8k of RAM. But shortly before my first class they got CRT terminals so I didn't have to use punch cards, and it did support BASIC.
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by efitz 2y ago
How do I invest?
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by efitz 2y ago
This is specifically illegal in the US[1] (and probably everywhere). If this were in the US then it would be prudent for the buyer to contact the FTC[2] and their local state AG. [1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/tex
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by efitz 2y ago
Eywa
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by efitz 2y ago
I think that the reason NPM responded this way is because it was a premature optimization. If/when NPM has a problem - storage costs are too high, or transfer costs are too high, or user feedback indicates that users are unhappy with t
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by efitz 2y ago
Lately I have been trying to propagate type ideas: (1) corporations are not people. They are groups of people acting in concert under the direction of a small number of, or even one, person. They get legal immunities that individuals and
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by efitz 2y ago
NB: 1. Most “safe browsing” browser features do this to some extent 2. Any browser or mail extension with access to the URL might also do this (1) and (2) might be done by remote servers, even in remote countries. This is one of the reasons
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by efitz 2y ago
Sounds like “Among Us”
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Mr. Beast Offers to Buy Tik Tok(twitter.com)
4 points by efitz 2y ago|6 comments
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by efitz 2y ago
Mr. beast posted a video on Tik Tok that he imhas met with a number of billionaires to secure funding and prepare an offer to buy Tik Tok from parent company ByteDance.
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by efitz 2y ago
At 18, I went to see the movie "RoboCop" in the theater and walked out because I had never been exposed to such gratuitous violence before. This was long before the internet, cell phones, or social media. Would I have been as sho
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by efitz 2y ago
I worked for Microsoft during the EU consent decree where Microsoft had to document[1] all of their protocols to enable interoperability. Apple seems to be getting off much easier than Microsoft did; EU would never have stood for the same b
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by efitz 2y ago
Many things that suck, like DMV, do so not because nobody cares, but because incentives are aligned in a way to make things work the way they do.
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by efitz 2y ago
The web is backwards. Designers and web site operators spend ridiculous amounts of engineering trying to control what users see, with the limitation that they have no control (other than exclusion) over what software the users chooses to v
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by efitz 2y ago
I said it kind of tongue-in-cheek but I think it would be wasteful and duplicative to do much robotic science on Mars since SpaceX is trying really hard to get there and could be paid a little on the side to return some samples. Undoubtedl
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by efitz 2y ago
Wait a few years and NASA will probably just be able to order some from the SpaceX online store.

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