i_am_jl

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by i_am_jl 2y ago
Ah you're right, thank you!
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
>more fuel means less compression is tolerated before knocking Generally, no. Knocking happens from pre-detonation, that's usually caused by heat from compression causing the fuel/air mix to ignite before it's triggered by
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
The chain is a little longer, and a little less intentional, IME. CRE firm lobbies local politicians that remote work is killing Main Street. Local politicians attach tax breaks/incentives for companies with office workers. Companies m
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
> if it also existed as a room in something like VRChat or added to people's rooms in a VR passthrough mode I dunno. Someone in VR can't manipulate the same physical objects that people in the real world can. You are forced to
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
I think they all harmed the public. My point is that it seems that the only circumstances that lead to corporate decision makers being held to account for wrongdoing is if someone can link their wrongdoing to a financial fraud.
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
Plenty of corporate malfeasance ends after the "do a bad" or the "cover it up" steps.
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
I'm not sure those are instances of executives being held to account for harm to the public as much as they're instances of people being punished for stealing money from the wealthy.
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
Propaganda feels a bit harsh. It's a pro-business article from an Israeli business periodical, so there's definitely bias at play, but I don't think any of the information presented is especially misleading. The article is pr
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
Likely. Valve has a new game in closed-ish beta right now.
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
"I adopted a cat. Then I adopted another cat that my first cat hated. So I seriously considered killing the first cat. Then I realized I could emotionally blackmail my pet sitter into rescuing the second cat, so I didn't kill my f
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
Not sure about this park, but elsewhere the NPS has made this distinction clear. Death Valley's map makes clear that a high clearance crossover, high clearance 2WD or high clearance AWD vehicle is one class, and 4WD vehicles are anothe
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
"his business is profitable" is a little too close to home.
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
I don't think those are mutually exclusive conclusions. Tenured employees help maintain culture, but they don't guarantee that it stays static. Culture developed by the employees who spent their first 5 years growing with the comp
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
>I remember there was an article "the six dumbest ideas in computer security" on HN a while ago, one of those was the mindset that "hacking is cool". I'm reminded a bit of this here. Half of that post is unhinged
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
Some police forces in the Netherlands were working with anti-drone eagles years ago, though with modern drones I'd be concerned about the eagles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00szWWrTNnE
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
Given Dell's executives comments over the past decade on the effectiveness of remote workers, it seems like it would be difficult for them to make the case that remote work is not a reasonable accomodation for a disability affecting mo
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
>I don’t know anyone who’s jumping up and down on the plunger or doing anything more than pressing it slowly. Also my reaction the first time someone tried to tell me to plunge slower. >Have to imagine the coarseness/evenness of
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by i_am_jl 2y ago
Plunging pushes your coffee through the metal filter. Pushing harder pushes the coffee through the filter with a higher pressure. Higher pressure pushes particles past the filter more easily than lower pressure. Coffee particulate has a ten
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
There's a difference between "Show us how much you have, we will give you more until you have enough" and "Show me how much you have, we'll raise prices until you can barely afford it with a high interest loan.&quot
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>Dominos had this down pat twenty years ago, how come everything with an app is so much more expensive? The people making the app need a much bigger cut than Domino's. Domino's cut only needs to be big enough to pay their deliv
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
The headline is misleading. He's being charged with violating the Lacey Act which prohibits owning/hunting/trading certain plants or wildlife. Today it's mainly used to punish people for importing non-native species of a
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I feel like the move here is to post your question as a new post, answer your own question, and link to your question/answer in a comment on your answer in the original question.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I'm okay with that flavor of "good ads". I'm fine with a machine taking my observable physical characteristics and using that to select ads for me. I'm also fine with ads that are not so much targeted as self-select
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Being deceptive about your identity during the commission of a crime is illegal? If I dress up as a Best Buy employee and drag a television out of a loading dock and into the bed of a truck, that's definitely illegal, but I don't
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
Giving someone a nail gun makes them question why they've been banging nails into wood with their forehead for so long.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
By selling cloud providers the chance to be the only cloud provider supported by Antithesis.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>How do you "glance" at a voicemail? My carrier does voice-to-text transcription of the message and texts it to me.
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
>presumably someone close to the hiker who knew their itinerary I'm not sure what this trailhead is like, but it's not unheard of for someone to call rangers who call SAR for something as simple as a car parked at a trailhead a
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I think their concern is that they would no longer purchase used Apple products because they couldn't know whether or not a used phone may have been repaired with worse-than-OEM parts. I happen to think that's a pretty poor just
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by i_am_jl 3y ago
I'm not understanding your point re: cars vs phones. If we allow 3rd parties to produce parts for cars, why can't they make parts for phones where the stakes are much lower? Perhaps there's a market for low-end replacement pa

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