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by gdulli 6y ago
What's the fine print or reasoning that accounts for the difference between what you're led to believe you'll get and what you actually get?
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by gdulli 6y ago
It's been fascinating in a dark way to see how cultural differences from place to place are translating into vastly different responses to this situation (and vastly different outcomes) from country to country and from state to state w
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by gdulli 6y ago
I agree with that. The reason I'm on Android is because my only iPhone became unusably slow 2 years into its life after a new OS update came out. I've never retired any other phone I've had for performance reasons, and I&#x27
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by gdulli 6y ago
Cases in New York and Boston aren't spiking. States that rushed to reopen bars are the ones that are.
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by gdulli 6y ago
> if you compare it by population though, it's still high, but it's not horrible. > But fewer people die per capita than in the UK, France, Spain, Sweden, Italy, and some other minor countries. You listed the countries with
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by gdulli 6y ago
A large American company might need 100 developers and would rather manage one relationship with one agency in India than search for and manage 100 individual distributed Americans.
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by gdulli 6y ago
Only 8 countries in the world have a worse value than the US for per capita deaths. That's the data you're providing to support your statement that we're not doing badly? Should a country this rich be ranked at the bottom of
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by gdulli 6y ago
I appreciate that, but it goes so far against the self-service nature of every other web site that it feels bizarre. It's an activity that I've never associated with anything but full privacy. If I knew of a specific recent thing
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by gdulli 6y ago
My inability to remember everything I've posted on this account over the years makes me consider it unsafe to tie to my real identity. I've grown over the years. Since I can't review and delete anything that no longer reflect
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by gdulli 6y ago
Since student loans come right at the start of everyone's adult life, it would be very common to strategically declare bankruptcy upon graduation, writing off good credit in your mid 20s in exchange for free education. That's my u
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by gdulli 6y ago
> Stocks basically are pay, because anyone who doesn't immediately sell them as they vest is fiscally irresponsible. I got stock 10 years ago at $13/share and now it's worth $201/share. I don't feel irresponsible
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by gdulli 6y ago
If one's not careful, they may end up using so many of these services that the idea of switching to a better cloud provider is academic. Athena • CloudSearch • Elasticsearch Service • EMR • Kinesis • Redshift • Quicksight • Data Pipeli
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by gdulli 6y ago
A guy told me once he was so hungry he could eat a horse. Did he think I was stupid? I called him out on it, of course. Nobody tries to pull one over on me and gets away with it. I love being right!
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by gdulli 6y ago
We invoke the metaphor of religion to describe fanatical adherence to technology preferences all the time. It doesn't mean we think the metaphor involves every aspect of actual religion.
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by gdulli 6y ago
> COVID patients do not sneeze either First, coughing absolutely is a coronavirus symptom even if sneezing isn't. Second, I sneeze every day, sick or not. And I don't even suffer from allergies. You're conflating it not sp
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by gdulli 6y ago
> its hard to wear them right without training We don't talk enough about the goals for wearing masks. My mask may not be helping me because I'm not disciplined enough about wearing it, washing it, touching it. But if I cough o
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by gdulli 6y ago
Conspiracy theories are often more about the believer than the belief. That's not to say that some tiny fraction of conspiracy theories aren't true, and some other small percentage aren't partially true. Skepticism is a good
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by gdulli 6y ago
I just created a Google Voice account for the first time. A few hours later I asked 3 different friends to send me a text message to see if it worked. I didn't get any of them or any warning that it takes time for the number to activat
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by gdulli 6y ago
Not having a real native desktop player is why I won't subscribe to Spotify. When I'm going to use something more than lightly, I hate using applications that feel like web tech. But I realize I'm in the minority.
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by gdulli 6y ago
Maybe what the other commenter is getting at is that there's no criticism of society you couldn't find some way to project onto some act of parenting or other. But drawing a line from your pet peeve about the world to one occasion
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by gdulli 6y ago
Terms are commonly used metaphorically to show the speaker considers a given situation to resemble that term qualitatively but not exactly. Very commonly. Like, it's practically fundamental to our communication.
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by gdulli 6y ago
Imagine living in Manhattan right now. (1) All the culture and lifestyle you're paying a high premium for is unavailable, and (2) the apartment you're trapped in is tiny. (Compared to what you'd have elsewhere for that money.
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by gdulli 6y ago
"The difference between over-engineering and under-engineering is that you can fix under-engineering."
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by gdulli 6y ago
Language speed becomes mostly irrelevant compared to the strategy, framework, toolset, and dataset design for parallelization. If you have a use case where a program in C runs in a reasonable time on your laptop but one in Python doesn&#x27
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by gdulli 6y ago
The most dangerous mindset of this era is the fallacy of symmetry. That the wrongs of one side are qualitatively and quantitatively mirrored in the other, only in different forms. If we're not allowed to entertain that one side might s
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by gdulli 7y ago
It must be one set of 5 reps per hour, not one sprint every 12 minutes. That's how exercise usually works, and the study is concerned with the "least amount of exercise that can acutely improve fat metabolism and other aspects of
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by gdulli 7y ago
The shutdown addresses more qualitative aspects of the situation. Even if flattening the curve doesn't reduce the area under the curve, it still avoids a potential large numbers of otherwise avoidable deaths because fewer people have i
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by gdulli 7y ago
> There were 18 new cases two days ago, and 8 new cases yesterday. > Korean government is planning to drop the 'social distancing' policy on May 5th. Are the people divided about whether it was a good idea to wait until new
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by gdulli 7y ago
Also, comparing this to anything long-standing is flawed because it misses the point that we have an opportunity to solve this that we don't have with other situations. Smoking habits and seatbelt habits and just about everything else
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by gdulli 7y ago
Right. The takeaway isn't that it's a victory for gun control. It's that under the status quo, it takes an absence of school attendance for there to be an absence of shootings.

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