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by hcurtiss 5y ago
The strange part to me is that usually on policy issues there’s this band of reasonable behavior and people disagree on which end of that band we should fall, but if you’re honest you can understand the other side’s perspective. On COVID in
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Yeah, but masks aren't doing much to prevent that. My kids go to an Oregon elementary school that requires full time masking and I can't think of a single kid who hasn't had it. COVID has run rampant through Oregon school
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
Our elementary school in Oregon has required masks. And I can't think of a kid who hasn't got it, including our own. It's run rampant through Oregon schools. By my assessment, masks do very, very little to stop the spread.
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It seems to me like IPv6 is a good candidate for legislation.
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Exactly. Precaution comes at a price. The question is whether the benefits of the precaution outweigh the costs. And that is an answer science cannot, and should not, answer. These days, it seems, many scientists are desperate to cloak
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
On iOS, at least, when prompted for auto-fill, you can random search for other passwords. It doesn't really have a "notes" field, but you can definitely save a password without an affiliated website.
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Edge with Authenticator works very well, it's cross-platform, and as of recently has near-feature parity with Lastpass and 1Password.
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Agreed. And with Edge/Authenticator, it's cross-platform as well (Windows, MacOS, Android, iOS), and as of recently, it's close to feature parity. We dropped our Lastpass subscription. It's probably families like ours
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I don't know if anybody uses Edge like me, but I feel like people should know that Edge with Authenticator works VERY WELL for password management. It is very close to feature parity with Lastpass and 1Password, it's cross platfo
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
Maybe, but when they say union membership is down, they mean NLRB recognized unions. We do not have good stats on labor movements writ large. To the OP’s post, Google’s not tackling a labor movement. They’re tackling “unions” with statutor
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A union is recognized by the NLRB and has certain statutory entitlements regarding strikes and the ability for employers to fire striking workers. "Labor movements," writ large, do not require those statutory entitlements. Moder
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>but this is never used to discourage all participation in the labor force because employers are often shitty. Because not working is not a viable option for any significant number of people. But you can certainly work without union rep
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It could at least ask the user the question. "One of the users on this thread has deregistered their number. Would you like to send by SMS so that they are included, or are you comfortable excluding them from this conversation? The
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>This is incredibly easy to turn on and off If only if it worked as advertised. I can turn it off as to messages directed only to me. But if a group text was on iMessage and I'm the only one who bounces off to Android, new message
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I recently exported to Microsoft Authenticator/Edge without any trouble at all.
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Agreed. When others continue using old threads you’re left off entirely. Everyone has to stop using the old thread (usually be deleting it) for messages from them to reach you. That’s nuts. I’m honestly surprised Apple isn’t been sued for i
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
Agreed. Purple bubbles.
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Right. You can do it with school time on an Apple Watch, but I’m not aware of any way to do it on a phone with downtime, other than I suppose extending the nightly downtime through the day.
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I'm only one guy, but having raised and butchered several of both, I vastly prefer grain-finished steers. The trend toward lean grass-fed beef mystifies me. The fat and marbling with grain-finished animals is much higher, particularl
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by hcurtiss 5y ago
This is totally wrong. At private law firms it's the tech clients more than any other hammering diversity quotas (literal quotas) in the racial composition of their outside counsel.
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We’ve been running nukes in submarines and aircraft carriers for literally decades without major incident.
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Nuclear waste from commercial reactors in the US is not fissile. Reprocessing would change that (producing plutonium), but that's why we don't have fast breeders in the US (personally, I favor changing that). I'm aware of n
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And property taxes and fuel taxes, which pay for most of the stuff under consideration, have only gone up. In some cases, way up.
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It wasn’t that long ago that the scientists were suggesting 70% was sufficient. Is it that >90% is required when the vaccines don’t effectively impede transmission? Is it possible 100% would not be sufficient?
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I’m not so sure 1 and 2 preclude 3. Is it not increasingly likely you get it even if vaccinated, especially with Omicron, thereby suffering the increased risk of all three (four with booster?)?
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> Remember, that hospital systems in pretty much all countries has collapsed. This is just factually incorrect. This kind of fearmongering is helping nobody.
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Then what's your benchmark for "underfunded"? How are we to determine whether we're getting value for our investment, or whether it's something other than funding that's handicapping the outcomes?
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Exactly right. I think the critique is that it serves little value in college admissions because aptitude at taking the test is not an indicator of anything else. But IMHO, defining a difficult task and judging people on their ability to pr
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I would like to see some evidence that this is how you create a “healthy” society. Excluding high achievers on the basis of factors beyond their control is how wars are started.
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But, if that were the right approach, you’d never change anything. We’d have never left the caves. The question is not whether we alter the natural environment. It’s whether we have reason to believe the benefits of those changes may outwei

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