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by ipsento606 2y ago
for the home user backing up their own data, I honestly think that raid has limited utility. If I have 3 disks to devote to backup, I'd rather have 1 local copy and two remote copies, vs 1 local copy with RAID and 1 remote copy without
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by ipsento606 2y ago
I simply do not understand the end game of these sorts of features. Presumably, the idea is to make the other person think you've written the email yourself, and you're a "better"/more corporate/more profession
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> being laid off will change you at a psychological level it certainly can do, but it's also fine if it doesn't when I was laid off, some family members simply refused to believe that it hadn't had a profound negative effe
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> Now you appear to dislike that people who have different risk profiles are grouped together There is no problem with pooling properties with different risk profiles so long as each property pays premiums that adequately represent that
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> I'm trying to understand how what you're suggesting is different from mandating everyone just get a personal savings account Because insurance will cover you even if your house burns down in the first year of coverage, wherea
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> Insurance that is able to quantify risks precisely and set prices individually based on that is useless. This is simply untrue. This may be true for health insurance, because there is a strong moral case to be made that is unfair and i
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> Accounting for time value of money, that's just pushed out my retirement date by 3 more months You account for the time value of money, but not for the time value of time. A week right now is worth more than a week 30 years from n
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> Is the problem explained in text anywhere the problem is that you want to cut up an onion in such a way as to minimize variation in the size and shape of the cut-up pieces usually, so that the pieces will cook evenly
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by ipsento606 2y ago
The claim that "a majority of Americans" eat a protein deficient diet is absurd on its face.
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by ipsento606 2y ago
Selling your claim, or a portion of your claim, might also make sense from a risk tolerance / declining marginal utility of money point of view, if it represented a large enough portion of your net worth. Or put another way - if there
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by ipsento606 2y ago
It's really a matter of perspective. On the one hand, it's creating a situation where a user cannot uninstall the app. On the other hand, it's _allowing_ a user to prevent themselves from being able to uninstall the app under
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by ipsento606 2y ago
If your argument is that legalized sports betting doesn't increase the total amount of sports betting, in the absence of extraordinary evidence, that seems implausible on its face.
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> I use these in my AI video generation project. this is not synchronous usage, so is not covered under the (paid) license
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by ipsento606 2y ago
you have to pay to license the sounds, and even then, only "synchronous usage" (i.e. use in video for sound effects that precisely line up with what's being depicted on-screen) is covered
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by ipsento606 2y ago
I guess it depends on the kind of work. But are there people who really spend all their time in the office continually doing work? I spend some time pottering about and doing chores during the workday when I wfh. But I also spend lots of ti
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> Can you point to the parts of the document, or other resources about Mr. Beast, > that warrant a comparison with tobacco companies? The part where the GP says "Lot of people critiquing this, but you can't deny th
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by ipsento606 2y ago
the author is also using many large, multi-megabyte photos in their travel posts, so I'm not sure how significant the size of the SVG content is, in comparison
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by ipsento606 2y ago
When I first started experiencing tinnitus, it was a nightmare. I'm a naturally anxious, catastrophizing person. All the reading I did about it made it so, so much worse, both in terms of perceived severity of symptoms and psychologica
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> Who does not love diamonds? Where is there a mind in > which the bare mention of them does not excite a > pleasant emotion? Is there any one of rank too exalted > to care for such baubles? The highest potentates of
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by ipsento606 2y ago
yeah it only works if you have some kind of ungameable unique id for each participant if it's parking, you could conceivably make people enter their license plate number when they enter, which would allow you to detect duplicate entrie
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by ipsento606 2y ago
Videos can be great where it's the kind of topic where you'd watch the whole video. Videos are terrible when you need a small amount of information that's embedded in a much longer video. The second scenario is much more comm
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by ipsento606 2y ago
In the US, labor unions are required by federal law to negotiate pay and benefits on behalf of all employees at a particular workplace, rather than just their own members. Because of this requirement, some people argue in favor of permittin
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> Make your support timelines clear somewhere in your product, eg: Our support will respond within max 48 hours, but most responses take 2-3 hours. This is the biggest thing I struggle with. I have a couple of semi-successful side projec
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by ipsento606 2y ago
most jam is very acidic so botulism is not a concern
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by ipsento606 2y ago
Botulism is a risk in the home canning of low-acidity foods. It is virtually unheard of in the lacto-fermentation of foods not containing animal products. I'm not aware of a single confirmed case in the US, ever. If anyone is concerned
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by ipsento606 2y ago
it's good - or at least, fine - for stuff that you want to look as true-to-life as possible. Sports, nature documentaries, news coverage (if you're into that) it's absolutely awful for everything else
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> hard not to regret the choice in that case even if hedging is going to be the correct choice 99% of the time in the scenario you outline the founder sells the remaining 90% of their position for $45MM? I don't think many people wo
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by ipsento606 2y ago
> that type of motivation, whatever you call it, is not necessary to perform the task at hand. and on what basis have you determined that the article is about "that type" of motivation, as opposed to the other type which you ac
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by ipsento606 2y ago
This is one of my most-used google maps features on web. This absolutely sucks.
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> Housing is an inelastic good - particularly for demographics who have limited access to transportation and therefore need to live very close to where the jobs are. The price increases until it consumes all the money available to pay fo

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