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by elgenie 2y ago
Your understanding of how formality levels in English function is perhaps not entirely complete: native speakers of English convey usually convey the sentiment with as little as "Breakfast?" or "Hungry?" when talking wit
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by elgenie 2y ago
Which really shouldn't be surprising: if a business is not adding value, it's not a viable business. But if a business is adding value on net, it should indeed owe tax charged on net value added.
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by elgenie 2y ago
The candidate “solution” to that problem is to remove any representation requirements in medical trials, so adverse effects that manifest just in specific subgroups aren’t found. I wish I were joking.
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by elgenie 2y ago
Full-screen-but-not-native is useful enough that it's handy to have around for all windows in all programs. So the move there is to install Rectangle.app ( https://rectangleapp.com/ ), the successor to Spectacle, and the
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by elgenie 2y ago
It’s growing into a similar problem as faced by nations with an inverted population pyramid and no immigration: an increasingly smaller share of workers whose productivity supports an increasingly large proportion of the economically idle.
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by elgenie 2y ago
Ramanujan himself survived childhood smallpox and died at just 32 from what's thought to be complications from an earlier bout with dysentery. But he had lucked out in that he was born male in an urban setting in a high caste, with acc
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by elgenie 2y ago
Producing less corn rather than subsidizing it is the better way to go. This just seems like another fake-green boondoggle, similar to ethanol.
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by elgenie 2y ago
Checklists have been demonstrated to improve care quality because when it's the not-so-nice nurse that's on shift, and the doctor's been awake for 60 hours straight, the stuff that's on the checklist still gets done.
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by elgenie 2y ago
The opposite of shorting is just buying the stock: exchange the market price $X for a share of stock today, sell later for $Y, profit or loss is $Y - $X. You've made money if the stock has gone UP. Since there's no upper bound on
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by elgenie 2y ago
Pike's comment gets a lot of play because it happens to have great explanatory power for observed language design choices. It not "hardly the language philosophy", it's the language philosophy stripped of the ego-fluffin
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by elgenie 3y ago
Yeah, he did it all for the immense personal gains of … getting poisoned, imprisoned, and dying in an Arctic prison colony before reaching 50. Navalny being a Russian chauvinist should be utterly unsurprising: it would be significantly stra
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by elgenie 3y ago
Navalny will be remembered, just as Boris Nemtsov is remembered.
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by elgenie 3y ago
The attributes that would let one reliably eyeball a person who got fired doing their walk of shame also made for a soul-sucking workplace. That "back in the day" algorithm required an office that emphasized butt-in-seat, lacked f
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by elgenie 3y ago
They’re wearing jockstraps, which have the affect of a codpiece even when the player eschews the additional protection of the hard insert (aka “cup”). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jockstrap
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by elgenie 3y ago
It’s been 15 years and they’ve cycled through quite a few alleged usecases without ever arriving at one that’s convincing. But the incentives are in place to keep the search going for quite a long time, even if it’s mostly aimed at unlocki
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by elgenie 3y ago
1. There might be, just with those accounts not having been encountered due to the relative sizes of the groups involved. 2. Take a look at the map of where the epicenter is estimated to be and it’s fairly clear how the kink point in the Ca
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by elgenie 3y ago
Drugs winning the “war on drugs” would be a problem for the “war on drugs” only if reducing drug use had actually been a priority of the “war on drugs” at any time in its half century of existence.
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by elgenie 3y ago
One of the advantages of money is that the enjoyment is implicit in the exchange, with no explicit acknowledgment necessary. The enjoyment derived by the watcher must exceed that of having $100 and using that money in the future, or he wo
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by elgenie 3y ago
Technically, 'The Doomed City' was released in Soviet times, not in the post-Soviet one, as a result of Glasnost'/Perestroika. It was published in serialized form in "Neva" magazine in '88-'89, then i
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by elgenie 3y ago
But that's not how English works. When you pull some words out of a sentence and exclude others, you often get another sentence with a different or nonsensical meaning. It's "company must [ (1. voluntarily recognize union)
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by elgenie 3y ago
The linked thread that follows explains it in layman's terms. The drug developers noticed that (a class of) cancer cells involve a shape change in the molecule that clamps on to DNA strands for the purposes of replication and repair. T
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by elgenie 3y ago
Mental short-handing that says "Mercedes = luxury" and "Ford truck = working class" is entirely marketing. Whatever the marketing, all F-150s are what their price shows them to be: luxury vehicles. The median F150 does o
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by elgenie 3y ago
Because the US is not a direct party to the conflict and has zero troops fighting in it.
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by elgenie 3y ago
NATO/US have big air forces that would simply put a bunch of its big-$$$ aircraft into the air at high altitude to fire expensive and highly accurate air-to-air missiles and knock down opposing aircraft, then bomb the ground from high
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by elgenie 3y ago
There's a single buyer that wants a particular missile, and multiple defense contractors bidding on right to supply it. At some point hopefully before, but sometimes after the bid is won, that contractor has to figure out how to make a
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by elgenie 3y ago
Since Twitter the company also did this in 2021 ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28289263 ), this is more an example of the Elon regime rerunning product experiments in production for themselves, and thus retreading gro
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by elgenie 3y ago
The etymology is legit and comes from ice cream, for which vanilla is considered the default or “plain” flavoring. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_vanilla Vanilla historically being fancy but then becoming an attai
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by elgenie 4y ago
That makes complete sense to me. Being involved in any sort of business where the underlying activity is criminal in nature means that contract disputes and even competition for market share have to be underwritten by violence and the willi
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by elgenie 4y ago
First of all, the issue here is with options, not RSUs. The reason employees of early stage companies don’t take 83b elections for RSUs or exercise their options early is because that dramatically ups the risk: they have to front the money
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by elgenie 4y ago
HIV, in rich countries at least, is a managed condition these days. I'd imagine the only issues would be any sort of interactions between the don't-get-AIDS cocktail and the cancer drugs. Perhaps the matching system has more data

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