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by eloff 4y ago
Being natural does not make it safe. It is however a common food additive, and we’re talking very small quantities here. It’s really not the “toxic chemicals” as claimed by the OP.
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by eloff 4y ago
Strangely it works this way though. It doesn’t make sense. In my current job I refused company equipment, and insisted on using my own. I pay for my own software too. Safer that way.
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by eloff 4y ago
I’m doing one right now. Using Rust, Diesel(Orm), Postgres, compiled jinja2 templates (Askama), and a smattering of JavaScript with AlpineJS, and Tailwind. I have 100 loc JavaScript that makes it easy to replace only parts of the page via A
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by eloff 4y ago
I think you missed my point. The fact that these people have the audience that they have is because people want to see their content. Whether or not they monetize that via advertising or not it’s largely irrelevant to that value proposition
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by eloff 4y ago
They should have to pay interest on seized funds. Like fed rate +5%. Then it will only happen in serious cases and they will resolve it quickly.
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by eloff 4y ago
I'm in the top x% of my profession, after 20 years of grinding. I'm unafraid. I don't see my salary taking a cut anytime soon. When I was searching for a job back in March, I had a 50% offer to response rate (if the company r
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by eloff 4y ago
Sulfur dioxide is naturally occurring, released by volcanoes in massive amounts. In these kinds of qualities it’s pretty safe by comparison. I think we’re being way too cautious when it comes to geoengineering, at a time when we should be a
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by eloff 4y ago
If that were true, influences wouldn’t exist. Clearly they can make money because they add value for people. If that value is actually improving people’s lives it’s another matter, but from an economics standpoint it seems to exist.
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by eloff 4y ago
I believe those are called barriers to entry to protect vested interests. Also known as pulling the ladder up behind you. Why that works in the US is beyond me. I recall a recent study from one of the Ivy leagues that shows that historicall
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by eloff 4y ago
If a company has your livelihood, bank balance, etc by the balls - they should at least be required to offer a minimum level of human support with a path for escalating things or a way to reasonably handle disputes with a neutral adjudicato
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by eloff 4y ago
I think you’re right here and it’s the same reason I see AI as a tool in the software profession. You can use it to speed up your work, but you have to have someone fully trained who can tell the difference between looks good but is wrong,
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by eloff 4y ago
Always have a backup payment processor. PayPal especially, but even Stripe will shut you down or freeze your balance with little recourse. Amazon killed my parents business by just sheer incompetence and support took a year to get partially
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by eloff 4y ago
The plan was to release 10 to 500 grams of sulfur dioxide. I don’t think it would affect anything at all. The experiment seems of questionable value, but it doesn’t seem dangerous.
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by eloff 4y ago
Training endurance is likely a very different regimen than training for most types of sports.
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by eloff 4y ago
Where do these trade?
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by eloff 4y ago
That reminds me of the epilogue to HG Wells Time Traveler: “ He, I know—for the question had been discussed among us long before the Time Machine was made—thought but cheerlessly of the Advancement of Mankind, and saw in the growing pile of
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by eloff 4y ago
I’m a simple man. I prefer the taste of meat, and the protein quality, but some of these products are pretty good. If they were substantially cheaper than meat - which would be possible from a fundamental principles analysis - then I’d buy
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by eloff 4y ago
If you’re going to burn it for electricity in a stationary location, skip the middle man and burn the waste itself.
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by eloff 4y ago
It doesn’t seem to be common, but there seem to have been some scandals around that, and an increase in regulations. Really gross!
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by eloff 4y ago
You could probably use it in a diesel engine. People filter used frying oil from restaurants and run their diesels on that.
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by eloff 4y ago
Do you remember what site that was on? I’d like to blog about that one.
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by eloff 4y ago
Graphics descriptions, yes, depictions no.
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by eloff 4y ago
The work is better than the options people have there, otherwise they wouldn’t do it. Don’t try to spin it as a negative thing for them. They don’t see it that way.
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by eloff 4y ago
It’s a necessary stepping stone on the path to better working conditions and wages. I think people forget what the early days of the Industrial Revolution looked like in our countries. Can you get there without that? Likely not. What you’re
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by eloff 4y ago
It’s a job that is safer and pays better than the alternatives. Don’t go imposing your view of the world on others and thinking you know what’s best for other adults. You won’t like it if I come into your life and do that, even if I were ri
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by eloff 4y ago
Another reason for me to stay clear of the M1 for now. It’s really fascinating, but it’s not quite there yet. I’ll let others work the rough edges away before I give it a try.
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by eloff 4y ago
By non zero you mean effectively zero though. Those kinds of impacts happened early in the history of the solar system. They’re not impossible, as there are still objects that size out there, but something would have to sling them towards t
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by eloff 4y ago
No matter how bad we fuck our planet, it’s still paradise compared to what else is out there. Elon Musk wants to go to mars, but Antarctica is much more amenable to life and nobody wants to live there. I understand it’s about having a backu
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by eloff 4y ago
The random numbers I understand, because I’ve used a similar principle to make tests deterministic. The trick is to make the same number of calls to the generator and use the same seed. The floats are really thorny though, differing subtly
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by eloff 4y ago
I still play it (the definitive edition) with my wife. Best game ever in my opinion.

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