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   by gred 5y ago

   It's fun to discover the bubbles that we live in. I know "espadrille" because a man in an Agatha Christie novel was described as wearing them, so I looked it up (this was years ago). If the same book had named the kind of clo
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   by gred 5y ago

   I doubt this bit of trivia would ever be included in a job posting :-)
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   by gred 5y ago

   75% of those deaths were over the age of 65, past retirement age. So we're talking -250k from a working pool of 150m (-0.17%). It seems to me that the pandemic impact on the other 99.83% of the workforce is what's probably moving
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   by gred 5y ago

   The cherry on top (if I'm reading the follow-up email correctly), is that he gets his name wrong (David vs Daniel).
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   by gred 5y ago

   This plus full screen (F11)! chef's kiss
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   by gred 5y ago

   > Web3, also known as Web 3.0, is an idea for a new iteration of the World Wide Web Cool, cool... > that incorporates decentralization based on blockchains k bye
7. 217.▲
   by gred 5y ago

   Yeah, China's currently sitting at 1.3 children born per woman -- just like Italy or Spain, which are often cited as the EU "crisis" numbers. This number is even worse than it appears though, since there are so many more men
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   by gred 5y ago

   Optimistic, sure. But historical examples abound.
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   by gred 5y ago

   Silver lining: The more audacious the CCP gets, the faster their rule will collapse.
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    by gred 5y ago

    I think things are slowly moving in the right direction though, see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_v._Public.Resource.Org... .
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    by gred 5y ago

    Funny, I just implemented a PCX writer today... but only to be able to embed images in Intermec Direct Protocol (an obscure print language).
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    by gred 5y ago

    Wow, I didn't realize that. It does look like retail sales taxes were first introduced in the US during the 1930s.
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    by gred 5y ago

    More broadly, a monopoly on violence.
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    by gred 5y ago

    Has anybody studied or quantified the evolution of "effective liberty" over time in the US? Say you buy groceries once per week. That activity might have triggered 1 governmental control touchpoint in 1800 (sales tax?), but in 202
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    by gred 5y ago

    Nice. Very relatable, though my equivalent summary was slightly different: "My wife is pregnant; naturally I wrote a name database analysis tool to generate a name shortlist". Congratulations!
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    by gred 5y ago

    I assume it depends on your audience, and that in some mobile-heavy use cases 200 might be a better upper bound?
17. 227.▲
    by gred 5y ago

    Please. I had to sign a 3-page liability waiver to get my COVID vaccine. I didn't have to do that for my flu vaccine, and never have.
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    by gred 5y ago

    You're not alone. We sent our K and 1st grade children back to school this fall expecting them to get (possibly asymptomatic) COVID at some point during the year. We're actually counting our blessings that this hit while they&#x27
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    by gred 5y ago

    It used to be that I didn't want to work for Google because I'm not a fan of surveillance capitalism and all of the second order effects. I'm now realizing that there is a second, just-as-important reason: the level of censor
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    by gred 5y ago

    Really? Why should we not organize to fight for causes that we believe in? Would you be happy delegating your moral compass to the U.S. Department of Do-Goodery?
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    by gred 5y ago

    Yep: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratigraphy_(archaeology)
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    by gred 5y ago

    It's interesting to consider whether we are entering a period of time in which young men will "fail" at a higher rate than young women, but we will maintain early-age support structures that prioritize women over men because
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    by gred 5y ago

    Tell me more about the benefits of disappearing CEOs, scholars, philanthropists and entertainers who (might?) challenge the Party.
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    by gred 5y ago

    I've spent some time on this problem -- classic space vs. time tradeoff. Usually if you're spending a lot of time on PNG encoding, you're spending it compressing the image content. PNG compression uses the DEFLATE format, and
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    by gred 5y ago

    > Productivity, especially in relevant areas like administration, stagnated despite computers hitting every desk. I don't know if this has been quantified, but to some extent the extra capability is simply repurposed to more detaile
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    by gred 5y ago

    Interestingly, this has been pushing me to watch quite a bit of international content on Netflix -- Korean, Japanese, Chinese, and some European series.
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    by gred 5y ago

    I can see where you're coming from, but just wanted to add a counterpoint. I recently removed jQuery from a website, and the YMNNJQ website was one of the bits of info that gave me the nudge to do that. The website in question only use
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    by gred 5y ago

    There are roughly 1,900 years of freely-usable commentaries, going by the rule of thumb that anything published in the US before 1923 is in the public domain. (The translations would have had to have been done before that year as well, I gu
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    by gred 5y ago

    There are dozens of us!
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    by gred 5y ago

    Inflation is good for institutions with $27 trillion debts, like the US government.