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by gbear605 5y ago
Thanks for making this! One thing that would be great is an option to just show the race comparison or the gender comparison. If I’m comparing Alphabet with the tech sector in general, it currently shows that Alphabet is 37% white male whil
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by gbear605 5y ago
A lot of this was common in the US and Europe a hundred years ago, but laws and changing culture have stopped it. Just look at snake oil, or the many other “remedies”. See, eg, “ Down and Out in Paris and London” by Orwell, where among many
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by gbear605 5y ago
That’s basically how IntelliJ (and the other JetBrain IDEs) work. They market it as a subscription, but after you’ve been subscribed for a year you get an key that lasts forever for the version that you initially subscribed to. Subscription
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by gbear605 5y ago
Train prices go up a lot (a factor of 2 or more) when it’s close to the time of the train, since the price is based on how full the train is currently booked. You might get cheaper train trips by booking further out. Buses will still beat t
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by gbear605 5y ago
Long distance trains in the US are frequently full, they just don’t run as often. And the US does the same thing where it’s cheaper in advance.
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by gbear605 5y ago
I’ve been using JIRA in the last four days without any issues (other than a potential issue with the iOS app, but I was in a poor data area at the time).
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by gbear605 5y ago
Gyms and telcos in the US certainly do this type of thing, though usually not with paper forms specifically. At gyms, they often won’t let you get out of the contract no matter what you say, or they’ll say you’re free and then keep on charg
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by gbear605 5y ago
Unfortunately I doubt that Darwin saying more would have prevented that. Perhaps they would call it something else, but more likely they would just ignore it. There are plenty of things that Adam Smith said against modern capitalism, but th
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by gbear605 5y ago
If I get two vacation weeks off a year, I probably will use up one week on visiting family, another week on an interesting trip, and then that’s all the vacation for the year. If I want to visit friends as well, I just can’t. But if I can w
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by gbear605 5y ago
You can take an arbitrarily high pixel count photo of anything with enough cameras side by side. But this is exciting (to scientists) because it’s taking the photos in specific wavelength and outside of the Earth’s atmosphere.
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To Make Better Software, Do What Artists Do(lesswrong.com)
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by gbear605 5y ago
Where are you traveling that hotel rooms are that expensive!? Up and down the US east coast, there are plenty of perfectly good two-queen-bed rooms for under $100 per night. I recently stayed in downtown Boston in a boutique hotel for $130&
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by gbear605 5y ago
Ideally it could be a compiler flag. Even more ideally, you could tell your compiler what the max size you want is and then it would optimize for the best speed at a given executable footprint.
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by gbear605 5y ago
The funny thing is that Intuit makes FreeFillableForms. It could have a much nicer interface, but they choose not to, so that you go and pay money to use Turbotax.
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by gbear605 5y ago
I think it still belongs on the site since it’s public to anyone who has passed security.
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by gbear605 5y ago
Interestingly, that’s not a problem that the US government faces unless you’re doing work with confidential military secrets. I wonder why the different policies worked out like that.
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by gbear605 5y ago
Under antitrust law, SpaceX would theoretically be made to split off StarLink from the launch business so that the launch business would have no incentive to prioritize StarLink over other sattelites. In practice though, antitrust laws aren
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by gbear605 5y ago
I know a lot of large Patreons exist without any benefits at all, or with the benefits being a 20 word update every month.
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by gbear605 5y ago
The battery doesn’t necessarily need to be that large, since the range can be small (<25 miles for most school districts assuming that they can charge during the day). Probably a school bus could get away with an battery the same size as
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by gbear605 5y ago
In my school district, the milk producer just gave a slight discount on the milk they sold to the school. They were still making a profit, just slightly less per unit (and presumably more overall since sales went up).
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by gbear605 5y ago
Just this week I was on three different customer calls where I had to explain to a relatively technical user (they use our website on a daily basis for their job) what the hamburger menu in Chrome was . None of them understood that it was
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by gbear605 5y ago
There was an amendment adopted to set the effective date to Nov 2023, it just doesn’t display on Congress’ website (yet).
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by gbear605 5y ago
There are medical databases specifically for things like this (not available to the general public), but doctors often don’t reference them because of false confidence or time pressure.
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by gbear605 5y ago
My state doesn’t collect phone number with voter registration. But if it did, I assume that I would need to do the same thing that I do if I want to change my location, name, or registered party. To do that, I just go to my state’s voter re
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by gbear605 5y ago
You can already use SwiftUI to build apps that work on both macOS and iOS, so the libraries are there, Apple just needs to use.
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by gbear605 5y ago
Some activities are much more difficult to do with electricity because of the weight of batteries or because the environment is cold, flying planes or existing in Arctic climates being the most notable. So if we want a totally carbon-neutra
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by gbear605 5y ago
What I’ve heard from Russian resisters is that they support these moves because it radicalizes the people.
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by gbear605 5y ago
The iPhone SE (2016) still runs the latest iOS (and I know people who happily use it), and I can get it on American eBay for about $100.
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by gbear605 5y ago
I’m a junior who started my first job during the pandemic (well, I had one month in the office before the pandemic). That wasn’t be experience at all. Slack and email were much easier to use for getting used to the job than being in person
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by gbear605 5y ago
> Yes, they are now open, but there is also like a meter of snow outside Wouldn’t that snow be just as annoying to deal with for getting to work?

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