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by ggreer 7y ago
Sites like this and the EFF’s panopticlick err on the side of saying you can be tracked when that might not be true. For example: I visited this same site a while ago with the same device, and both times it has said I was unique. A new vers
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by ggreer 7y ago
The vast majority of people do follow that rule, but there are so many people reading these comments. If even 1% of them have a moment of weakness (or are kinda dickish personalities), they'll drown out the nice comments.
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by ggreer 7y ago
Public transportation where I live is disgusting and often dangerous. Buses and trains don't pick me up and drop me off in front of my home. And they run on fixed schedules. Due to these advantages, I usually take Uber/Lyft instea
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by ggreer 7y ago
There are already enough disturbances that a 30 minute exposure is impractical. Astrophotographers tend to use exposures around 30 seconds. It's true that more satellites mean that astronomers will have to tweak their observation metho
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by ggreer 7y ago
Instead of exposing for 30 minutes, astronomers take lots of shorter exposures and stack them. Otherwise you'd get tons of noise from CCD hot spots, cosmic rays, aircraft, meteors, satellites, etc.
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by ggreer 7y ago
Danger comes from energy density and ability to release that energy quickly. Fat doesn't explode. Neither does gasoline, though I wouldn't be comfortable carrying 11ml of gasoline in my pocket. Existing batteries sometimes do ex
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by ggreer 7y ago
The iPhone 11 Pro Max has a 15 watt-hour battery. If it lasted a week on a single charge, it would need a 105 watt-hour battery. That's the same amount of energy in 90 grams of TNT.
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by ggreer 7y ago
If managers and executives are so overpaid, why aren't top firms outcompeted by companies that offer lower wages for such positions? Lower wages would allow those companies to offer the same services at lower prices and take over the m
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by ggreer 7y ago
Then the state should use eminent domain to take his road, then upkeep the beach, the parking lot, and the bathrooms themselves. Instead, the state is trying to force him to run a business that loses money.
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by ggreer 7y ago
I'm not sure what to tell you. The insurance companies have done the math. IIRC, they're allowed to charge up to 50% more than non-smokers.
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by ggreer 7y ago
Wouldn’t that also flag people who smoke other drugs such as marijuana?
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by ggreer 7y ago
Currently if you are a smoker, your health insurance rates are around 20% higher.
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by ggreer 7y ago
This is a no nicotine policy, not a no smoking policy. It bans vaping, gum, patches, and lozenges. It bans employees from using them even if they are never used at work. The employee simply has to test positive for nicotine.
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by ggreer 7y ago
It’s like the bad wig effect: You only notice the vapes that do smell. I was very surprised to find that a coworker was secretly vaping at his desk. He’d been doing it for weeks before I saw him take a puff. Nobody noticed any smell. If the
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by ggreer 7y ago
That is a fully general counterargument against animal testing to show the safeness of any drug or treatment. Clearly humans and other animals have enough in common such that successful animal trials are evidence of safety in humans.
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by ggreer 7y ago
If anything I'd think that drones would save lives on net. Right now we get our packages delivered via multiton diesel trucks that speed through neighborhoods as fast as they can manage. Sometimes people step in front of these vehicles
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by ggreer 7y ago
People said the same thing about technologies such as automobiles, airplanes, and cell phones. Yes, they have some annoyances and safety issues, but overall they have made our lives much better. I would rather let each state and municipalit
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by ggreer 7y ago
This will not deter competent attackers or help catch them. Disabling remote ID will be as easy as jailbreaking your phone. The hard part of a drone attack would still be sourcing explosives and modifying drones to carry and deploy such pay
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by ggreer 7y ago
The reason brains work the way they do is because evolution hill climbed to a solution, not because that solution is globally optimal. Compared to silicon, neurons are absurdly slow. Axons transmit information at 100 meters per second. Elec
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by ggreer 7y ago
Is this not also true of many mountaintops, waterfalls, and canyons? Yet we allow private ownership of those.
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by ggreer 7y ago
I'm guessing it's a reference to resistor color codes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_color_code
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by ggreer 7y ago
Isn't the cumulative risk of complications from contacts similar to the risks of LASIK? Contacts increase the rate of eye infections and corneal ulcers. In some cases these issues lead to permanent damage, even blindness.
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by ggreer 7y ago
It was quite a successful company. The team I worked on was pretty chill. It was the overall company that had the annoyances I mentioned. Heck, despite what happened, I still like and admire the leadership of the company.
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by ggreer 7y ago
The slides didn't have the explicitly racist and sexist bits. Basically if you were a white guy, you weren't allowed to interrupt anyone and anyone was allowed to interrupt you. There were also implications that one should discrim
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by ggreer 7y ago
I've worked at a company that heavily encouraged discussion of politics at work, and it was a nightmare. The things management sponsored (at the request of employees) included: - A women-only Slack channel. - Women-only events, such as
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by ggreer 7y ago
You seem to have completely misunderstood me. I'm talking about situations where a poor or middle class person is being sued by a rich person or large company. How does a class action cover that? And ambulance chasers sue big companies
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by ggreer 7y ago
Do you think there are any viable financial instruments that would allow the little guy to not be bossed around by the threat of ruinous legal fees? eg: Insurance that would cover up to $100,000 in legal fees in the event that you are sued.
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by ggreer 7y ago
It sounds to me that the walk/stand system is nice because it creates a priority queue. Some people would rather wait and stand than not wait and walk. The people who are in a hurry get to walk and not wait. If the norm was "alway
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by ggreer 7y ago
It is a little tricky: https://hackaday.io/project/245-replacing-lenovo-laptop-lith...
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by ggreer 7y ago
My biggest issue with the x210 is that it's hard to find decent batteries. All the 3rd party batteries I've bought have degraded to <50% of their design capacity within 6 months. I need to buy some decent 18650 cells and replac

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