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by freen 2y ago
If it’s communicable, that means they probably infected many others. Several million similar infections can easily mutate into something worse. What is bad is its novelty to our immune system, not necessarily its initial mortality rate.
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by freen 2y ago
Ahh yes, subjective anecdotes are obviously the correct epistemological foundation for public policy.
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by freen 2y ago
Elite schools are a classic packaging scheme. Bundle the smart kids with the rich kids and increase the asset value of both.
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by freen 2y ago
Well, I’m not going to use this for it’s intended purpose, however I AM going to try to see if I can use it to pipe webpages to a simple touchscreen e-ink display and retain interactivity.
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by freen 2y ago
Sylvester McMonkey McBean at work.
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by freen 2y ago
Awesomest Halloween ever.
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by freen 2y ago
Can’t sell it, have to hold it, storage isn’t free, so effectively if it isn’t evidence, they can’t keep it. I wonder if you are owed interest on cash held for an extended period of time.
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by freen 2y ago
Ok, try Republican run cities, if you can find them. Also, compare net federal tax inputs vs outputs for states. Blue states pay for Red states. Massively. Are you serious about the Dixiecrats? Really? Go read about Lee Atwater and the Sout
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by freen 2y ago
So, hacker news internet points, yes, mostly useless. That said, visibility in this community IS valuable. How many billions of dollars flow through yc companies? Obligatory discussion of hacker news karma points: https://news.yc
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by freen 2y ago
PG&E could not be more different. Thank you for making my point so succinctly.
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by freen 2y ago
In the United States, the single most determinative factor for lifetime earnings and life expectancy is the zip code you were born in and grew up in, up to age 13 or so.
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by freen 2y ago
Frist Psot culture is real: everyone else sees the “contribution”, and if it happens to be of marginal value, it earns karma. Stochastic karma farming benefits from a larger N, hence posting without reading.
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by freen 2y ago
Who gave Centerpoint the monopoly? Who holds center point accountable? Houston Mayor? Nope. State government. Republicans. That you for making an excellent point.
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by freen 2y ago
Take any metric you like: child mortality, educational outcomes, hunger, per capita income, media income, purchasing power parity, you name it. Compare those cities to traditionally Republican run states. Try it. There is a very very good r
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by freen 2y ago
Does the mayor have any influence whatsoever over Centerpoint, the private company given a monopoly by the state government which has been run by Republicans for god knows how long?
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by freen 2y ago
Huh, odd that profit seeking behavior doesn’t maximize the public well being in the case of natural monopolies.
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by freen 2y ago
4x more soldiers killed themselves than died in combat since 9/11. [0] At least 2X more soldiers kill themselves in peacetime than die in combat in every war that we as a species has tracked suicide rates for veterans. [0]( https:&#x2F
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by freen 2y ago
The cannibal zombie cult that uses a gruesome execution device as their symbol? No thanks.
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by freen 2y ago
I’m surprised ikea puts up with these shenanigans.
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by freen 2y ago
No. Turbo is js and HTML. If your backend can send templates down the websocket, you can use Hotwire.
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by freen 3y ago
Inflation was largely driven by companies utilizing price increases created by short term supply shocks, and making them permanent. Pepsi controls 90% of the potato chip market. 6 companies provide ~80% of all products on the interior aisle
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by freen 3y ago
Yes, if someone is dying of thirst, why do we give them water? It’s like giving the champagne-less champagne. One of these things is not like the other. The law, in its great equanimity, forbids both the rich and poor from sleeping under br
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by freen 3y ago
100% this. It also effectively pays for itself through reduce utilization of other social services: medical, police, legal, food, etc. It is estimated that a “frequent flier”/ heavy utilization street homeless person can cost a city as
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by freen 3y ago
Just paying people’s rent is cheaper and has substantially better outcomes. The solution to homelessness is to give people homes. Shelters are a major reason why there are street homeless. They are dangerous, dirty, loud, and the use of the
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by freen 3y ago
Look up the rates of successful asylum and refugee applications. In the US, which takes in far more refugees and asylum seekers, it’s around half a percentage point of all legal immigration attempts succeed. https://www.cato.org&
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by freen 3y ago
Correct: I should have been more precise. The particular shape of the Laffer curve espoused by the Chicago school, so called classical economists, is incorrect. Thank you.
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by freen 3y ago
Yes. Taxes are an investment by the old into the futures of their children. Boomers grew up with a max personal income tax bracket of 90%, and an effective corporate income tax of 25-30% (it is 5% now). Anyone who has studied macroeconomics
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by freen 3y ago
Ventoy is a fantastic tool for this sort of thing: https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html
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by freen 3y ago
If that’s the case, and your backend doesn’t sanitize inputs, you’ve already been owned, regardless of your front end framework.
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by freen 3y ago
s/virtue signaling identity politics/caring about other people/g

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