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by giaour 4y ago
My extremely fit uncle has kept up a similar tradition (a mountain bike race with length == age-in-years miles), and he just turned 65!
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by giaour 4y ago
Some of the value people associate with provenance comes from the mystery Ave human drama involved in establishing a provenance chain. (Think of Byatt’s Possession or the way a scholarly dispute raises the profile of a work of art.) Any d
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by giaour 4y ago
But if a developer builds, say, an airport on some unattractive land outside of a city, they will create most of the value being taxed, right? The same is true to some extent for any structure.
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by giaour 4y ago
The convo you’re replying to is about taste preferences reverting or not after doing the keto diet. Most caloric restriction diets limit or forbid sugary drinks while you’re on the diet , so it’s no surprise the keto diet is similar in t
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by giaour 4y ago
No true Scotsman could like soda after doing keto!
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by giaour 4y ago
Some age spread in dorms is expected. Some people skip grades and go to college early, some people take a gap year or two, and there are usually some upperclassmen in the same residence. I wouldn’t worry about it.
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by giaour 4y ago
Sort of, but that would give you the "social value" of the land, which it only has because of its present use and its proximity to other land used for specific purposes. E.g., the land under my house is worth $X because it's
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by giaour 4y ago
It’s the government; couldn’t they just hand the whistleblower a $17MM stack of paper treasury bonds? (Or, more realistically, credit $17MM of bonds to the whistleblower’s treasury direct account.)
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by giaour 4y ago
There’s probably an exclusion in the law that prevents employees of the SEC from getting a bounty. But the SEC IG would absolutely investigate a report of something like that, and the civil service has robust protections for whistleblowers
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by giaour 4y ago
The article claims that this was the second trial, not his third. He was convicted on some counts in his first trial, but the jury was hung on the Espionage Act charges: > This was the second trial against Schulte. In March 2020, his fir
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by giaour 4y ago
During the good times, you are correct that few people hoarded money in the hopes of deflation. During bad times, people actually do make this calculation (and so might be hamburger instead of steak). Deflation is believed to have significa
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by giaour 4y ago
Didn't ColdFusion work like that?
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by giaour 4y ago
Dongles are generally understood to be more secure than TOTP because they have to be physically stolen (unlike TOTP seeds, which are just information). Google is giving away thousands of physical keys maybe to drum up goodwill among the pyt
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by giaour 4y ago
>Potatoes are the highest scoring food on the satiety index. ... Eggs and fish are also very high on the satiety index. So there was sound science behind my all-scrambled-eggs-and-hashbrowns diet in college.
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by giaour 4y ago
PyPI supports TOTP 2FA: https://pypi.org/help/#totp TOTP is defined in a freely available RFC ( https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6238 ) and is implemented by a wide variety of applications and libr
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by giaour 4y ago
What I meant by my reply is that PyPI is using "critical" as a label for packages that meet a specific criterion. I agree that "critical" as an English word can be rather vague, but it is not in this case. PyPI's in
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by giaour 4y ago
> Nobody is compromising software supply chains to make your 3D printer print 8% slower for the lulz. They're doing it to hack companies and compromise user data. The high-profile NPM package compromises in recent years have mostly
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by giaour 4y ago
But not by PyPI! Whoever is in charge of supply chain security at those credit rating agencies and banks should think long and hard about what they've gotten themselves into, though.
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by giaour 4y ago
The "critical" designation is not arbitrary. It's based on download statistics. From https://pypi.org/security-key-giveaway/ : > What determines if a project is a critical project? > PyPI determines
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by giaour 4y ago
> Not even on the top 10 of concerns surrounding Uber for the 95% of the population who don’t live in a super dense city. How does it make economic sense for Ubers to circle around non-dense areas that couldn't support a taxi system
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by giaour 4y ago
I think Dropbox/OneDrive have some form of lazy local syncing. As far as I know, though, there is no automated pruning of local copies of the least recently used files, but that sounds like a cool idea. If you just want pure cloud stor
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by giaour 4y ago
> That implies the index will take away someone's permission over their creation as a result of too many other people also started using it. The creation here is the package, not the distribution channel. You can use an alternative
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by giaour 4y ago
> The value of the house is in the legal statement of ownership. What is owned is important of course, but the legal statement of ownership itself is traded for these values. And yet, I own many worthless things that also exhibit that pr
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by giaour 4y ago
True, but houses like that are far more expensive to build today. I'm not sure you could "flip" a new home built with traditional masonry since it would require a larger upfront investment. (Edit to add: the normal American u
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by giaour 4y ago
> 1650 I don't think your house is representative of the US housing market. I once lived in an apartment in a 17th century masonry building in Alsace, and it didn't seem to give my landlord nearly as much grief as my parents&#x
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by giaour 4y ago
The overall value of a "house" is the value of the structure plus the value of the land, and it's common for the former to depreciate while the value of the latter increases. Construction costs have gone down over time (adjus
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by giaour 4y ago
That's not what "bad faith" means. If GP didn't care if their statement were true but just said it to make Musk look bad, then it would be in bad faith. Musk has been very publicly coy about his intentions for several mo
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by giaour 4y ago
No, it's not, but each ticket issuer would need to design and implement their own authenticity check mechanism. I think you misunderstood the tone of my original comment, which was that NFTs introduce an extremely marginal benefit for
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by giaour 4y ago
"Anesthetics" implies that the improvements are completely optional and non-impactful, whereas "technical debt" implies that you are paying for the privilege of forgoing the improvement (like how keeping a balance on a l
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by giaour 4y ago
I think in most cases, the impetus for the request is that the customer wants the vendor to perform a formal RCA, not that the customer wants to read the RCA. I have gotten a tangible benefit (both as someone requesting an RCA and as someon

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