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   by efitz 3y ago

   > Perhaps I’m missing something? Yes, you’re missing something - geography. “Local time” doesn’t include a frame of reference. If you want to have a meaningful representation of local time you need syntax to specify where, probably Lat
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   by efitz 3y ago

   This paper, while important, seems off-topic.
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   by efitz 3y ago

   This is why you should always ask for a preferred name. There’s lots of reasons why people don’t use their legal given name; I use my middle name and get annoyed when forced to use my first name. Many societies (ex: Thailand) use nickname
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   by efitz 3y ago

   Is there any reason why you need to specifically know the first and last name, or the family and given name? I think there is a lot of inertia in the idea that you must have two name fields, but why? Why not just have one name field, and l
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   by efitz 3y ago

   I wonder if part of the reticence of local government to act was in part due to the climate alarmism aspect of the various reports called out in the article. Wildfires are a threat regardless of climate change. Climate change may contribut
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   by efitz 3y ago

   Uhh, bad together, form a PAC, and use lobbyists to distribute money to politicians that support their aims? I am sympathetic to people who peacefully protest and without disrupting others, or who get permits for expected disruption so that
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   by efitz 3y ago

   I don't understand what activists expect to achieve from blocking roads. The people being affected aren't going to stop and think "wow, you're right, capitalism is killing the environment, I need to become a marxist&quot
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   by efitz 3y ago

   In other news, it's Monday.
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   by efitz 3y ago

   We have force evolved preferred food animals (and plants) to maximize productivity and tastiness. Other kinds of animals are expensive and don't taste good enough to justify the difficulty in bringing them to market.
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    by efitz 3y ago

    He loved all God's creatures; they were delicious.
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    by efitz 3y ago

    Carbon credits and offsets of all flavors are a scam. I just searched Google[1] for "carbon credits scam" and the first several entries were from Vox[2] (it's complicated), WaPo[3] (it's a scam), GreenPeace[4] (it's
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    by efitz 3y ago

    I miss my cat. He loved tuna- but as he got older he just liked to drink the tuna water rather than eat the fish itself. And he absolutely knew the sound of the can opener.
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    by efitz 3y ago

    But what if you’re a false positive? What opportunities dis you forgo by choosing a path based on incorrect foreknowledge?
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    by efitz 3y ago

    So if this works then the benefits will be amazing. I am skeptical for three reasons. First, the article goes on about the eyes being “windows” to the body and introduces us to the new “science” of “oculomics”. That might be journalist lic
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    by efitz 3y ago

    Reminds me of the old urban legend about using a photocopier as a polygraph: https://youtu.be/rN7pkFNEg5c?t=95
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    by efitz 3y ago

    Why was this downvoted?
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    by efitz 3y ago

    I wonder how much of the cost of nuclear is regulatory and lawfare related rather than intrinsic.
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    by efitz 3y ago

    It sounds like he’s preying on desperate startups trying to avoid insolvency. Desperate people tend to grab for any lifeline.
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    by efitz 3y ago

    I fail to see how it’s relevant if someone supported an appointment or not; one can still be dissatisfied with the job performance of the appointee. I think you personally are acting unethically by making partisan remarks and downvoting pos
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    by efitz 3y ago

    I didn’t say anything negative about David Weiss nor am I republican. Why do defensive?
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    by efitz 3y ago

    I’d love to see stats on what % of search warrants are NOT signed off by a judge (I’d bet hardly any), and how many search warrants later found to be inaccurate, end up with disciplinary action towards the police (I’d bet almost none). Th
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    by efitz 3y ago

    You can get an Aeotech USB Zwave stick and plug it into your Homeassistant RPi if you want to get rid of Hubitat.
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    by efitz 3y ago

    Where do the app icons come from?
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    by efitz 3y ago

    > Stock up on long lead time items, especially HV grid transformers. Even better would be to onshore production of such items with bonuses for demonstrating ability to rapidly scale manufacturing.
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    by efitz 3y ago

    > I should've declared CS. I still wouldn't have any women, but at least I'd be rolling in cash. True dat.
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    by efitz 3y ago

    BTW AWS specifically allows you to bring your own IP addresses. https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/ec2-byoi...
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    by efitz 3y ago

    Looking at it a different way, IPv4 addresses are scarce so it makes more economic sense to have fewer, central owners that can maximize usage, rather than millions of individuals owners, many or most of which would not necessarily be using
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    by efitz 3y ago

    I disagree. “Funding the government “ is a policy decision; everyone needs to live within a budget. Secondly, eliminating all deductions except a standard deduction actually increases funding by avoiding the situation where megacorps don’
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    by efitz 3y ago

    The regressive aspect of it is offset by the large standard deduction.
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    by efitz 3y ago

    How about this: let’s go to a single flat rate for everyone and everything (say 20%) and eliminate all deductions except for a standard deduction (say whatever is the poverty line, eg $25000 or so). This would be for corporations and indiv