eganist

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by eganist 3y ago
If you're comfortable sharing, which one?
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by eganist 3y ago
> gosh that metro day pass is $5? How expensive! Nah, metro day pass should cost as much as howevermany miles the buyer traveled. Otherwise people who buy the passes for just one stop would be subsidizing the costs for people who travel
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by eganist 3y ago
> Ironically roads should also have caps and/or tolls, so this take is strange. We'll set up electronic tolls on your cul-de-sac and every light and stop sign, or toll you by mile driven using an odometer beaconing out to the t
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by eganist 3y ago
Explains why Google tried (or is trying) so hard to push WEI though. If they can't programmatically evade adblockers, might as well programmatically prevent them.
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by eganist 3y ago
A timed cut won't matter when you refresh with reader mode enabled before the refresh. None of that logic can execute in reader mode. That's why it works.
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by eganist 3y ago
> (To be clear, this is nothing like skinning beavers — it's tilapia after all, one of the most heavily consumed fish on the planet, skin and all. But the thought tickled the brain for a moment)
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by eganist 3y ago
Tangent: I appreciate that the only glancing mention of the ethical weirdness in harvesting skin from one animal to heal surface injuries on other animals is in the beautifully crafted teaser graphic. (To be clear, this is nothing like skin
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by eganist 3y ago
> Did you catch the part about "give the FCC more authority"? The FCC ceded authority as a way to get around having to make a damning call not to assert net neutrality under the last administration. Unless I'm misreading,
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by eganist 3y ago
From the article: --- Level 70: Base pay: $231,700 to $361,500 On-hire stock awards: $310,000 default to $1.2 million with approval Annual stock award range: $0 to $945,000 Level 69: Base pay: $202,400 to $316,000
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by eganist 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_health_insurance_option for those missing the connection. NHS comes across to me as government funded healthcare rather than a gov-kickstarted not-for-profit insurance option. Am I
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by eganist 3y ago
Pharma strikes me as one of the industries that would benefit heavily from a few congressionally chartered nonprofits being booted up. Same employee comp (with cash substitutes for stock), same general structure, same incentives, but with a
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by eganist 3y ago
> Amazon isn't a monopoly by any definition. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/monopoly "For instance, the term monopoly may be referring to instances where: [...] There are many buyers or sellers, but one a
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by eganist 3y ago
> Since when was 37.8 percent a monopoly? https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/monopoly "For instance, the term monopoly may be referring to instances where: [...] There are many buyers or sellers, but one actor ha
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by eganist 3y ago
> Is everyone forgetting just how small Amazon is when you consider all of retail? https://www.statista.com/statistics/274255/market-share-of-t... June 2022, 37.8% of all ecommerce market share. Not sure why yo
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by eganist 3y ago
For what it's worth, that just means 3 more people disagreed than agreed. But what you described at least lines up with my experience, which is worth a smidge at least.
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by eganist 3y ago
This would be an interesting hypothesis to test—especially in cases where obesity may have been an outcome of people self medicating with food. Fits my own experience too (keto is basically the only intervention that worked for me, and only
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by eganist 3y ago
lol, this inspired me to try to opt-out of LN and I got this beautiful and intimidating warning. https://consumer.risk.lexisnexis.com/img/State_Use_of_Indivi...
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by eganist 3y ago
> Curious what Poland's anti-nuclear neighboring country will think about this? > AFAIK Austria was also suing Hungary and Slovenia for going nuclear. --- > Did my point fly so high above peoples' heads? The question was
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by eganist 3y ago
> Can Webb image Europa? The implication by the presence of "Europa Carbon Dioxide Distribution" (NIRCam and NIRSpec IFU) images on the NASA release is that yes, it can.
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by eganist 3y ago
> That's exactly it, isn't it? Claiming you have rule of law while being unable to secure prosecutions makes it a farce. Seems like that's exactly what rule of law should entail: laws so strictly enforced that people can&#
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by eganist 3y ago
Not OP, but ostensibly Japan considering they even have a name for death from overwork. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karoshi Though given the political climate in the US, it wouldn't surprise me if the US suffers
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by eganist 3y ago
It's just so poorly managed too. A lot of these companies are heavy on engineering. The returns would likely be stronger if buildings were converted to dedicated offices for engineers; they'd pull those in who want their own offic
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by eganist 3y ago
Does anyone have a running list of cited reasons for why this is happening? The few people I've asked in executive decisionmaking circles have all chalked it up to judgment calls, but I'm inclined to believe that there's a mo
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by eganist 3y ago
> As someone who used to be on the track to academia, this is something that more people should do. You're right, and akdor1154 already addressed this in the same breath: > I don't think that level of dismissal is fair or re
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by eganist 3y ago
I remember when we first found out that IE could be "uninstalled" from Windows 7 (it was a checkbox in an early build's programs list that let you have it removed, basically). Interesting seeing the about-face over a decade l
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by eganist 3y ago
Indeed, this is awesome. Not sure if you're able to comment on this, but is there anything in place to mitigate the risk of automated astroturfed commentary e.g via LLMs in this and other cases? Edit: on the fcc docket specifically, no
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by eganist 3y ago
You're 100% right, no one knows how the brain works. And all the elements you described are probably relevant — including things you didn't mention, such as personality changes tied to heart transplants, etc. But that's proba
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by eganist 3y ago
> rather than as some hacked on process of continually regenerating summaries. incidentally, this isn't far off from how the human brain is believed to work (at least with long term memories). https://news.northwestern.ed
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by eganist 3y ago
> as a base assumption and leaves no room for individual choice and risk-management decisions. We're still having this dance in 2023? Businesses can likewise reject people for increasing the risk profile of the business provided suc
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by eganist 3y ago
True as it is, not a thing you list here addresses the security of the product. Except for IaCs. And the site describes securing the product. Will edit with commentary in a moment. Edit: alright, fair criticism re business security controls

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