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by j_w 11mo ago
What level of punishment should somebody who is trying to move between place to place receive for their lack of paying $1-3? The service was already going to operate, regardless of their lack of payment. Some public transit has a much more
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by j_w 11mo ago
Yeah comments like the parents are typical from people that don't use public transit. The people who can't/aren't going to pay that some people "don't want" on public transit are always going to not pay an
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by j_w 11mo ago
> Are the potential harms in the very worst case scenario more significant than the harms of failing to sequester carbon and stop its production? It’s hard for me to imagine this being so. What percentage risk of it being worse would you
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by j_w 11mo ago
> They said they have done all sorts of research to make sure their tech is safe... We've heard this one before. This really is a regulation bad because "trust me bro our product/service is so good for you/the environ
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by j_w 11mo ago
The problem I have with their classification is that people that seem to REALLY care about avoiding ultra processed foods tend to rules-lawyer.
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by j_w 11mo ago
> Apple --> OpenAI can make a device that runs ChatGPT as the OS instead of relying on iOS. Yeah... No they can't. I don't agree with any of your "disruptions," but this one is just comically incorrect. There was a
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by j_w 11mo ago
Except for the fact that microsoft is one company.
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by j_w 1y ago
At one point I interacted with an API that would return 200 for every condition, but with a "status" field that would have "OK" or "error", except on some browsers where it would use "OKAY" instead of
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by j_w 1y ago
I wouldn't take an anti-vaxxers word on Wikipedia being biased. They believe heavily in something that has no scientific basis.
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by j_w 1y ago
It's a matter of it being an active vs passive effort to "keep your job." Once you have to actively worry about the status of your job something is wrong (be it with you or your employer).
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by j_w 1y ago
The novel competes because good writers are substantially better than bad writers, and LLMs are bad writers. They [LLMs] may be able to write a coherent chat message or email, but a story? Not a chance.
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by j_w 1y ago
Sorry, but from FDR onward how did the administrative state restrict economic growth? That's a substantial claim to make in passing.
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by j_w 1y ago
But the first cases were all linked to a wet market far enough from the lab that it would be highly improbable for the cases to come from the lab itself.
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by j_w 1y ago
You got super down voted for this, and my post was not popular either, but you seem to be one of the few here that get the sentiment. There just isn't a huge energy to do something about a lot of petty crimes, therefore nothing is done
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by j_w 1y ago
But if you challenged the qualifier of reasonable cause here you surely would win. The store here almost certainly overstepped the law, and you allowed it to happen.
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by j_w 1y ago
I'm not sure that I would agree with the claim that the state is unable to stop shoplifters. The case here was Australia, but speaking to the United States: You can't really do anything about shoplifting until after it happens. It
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by j_w 1y ago
It does matter. People working for a non-profit should not work for free. It's completely acceptable for a non-profit to have an income and assets. Revenue may increase and it would be irresponsible to immediately increase expenses to
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by j_w 1y ago
Depends on the state. My state is 1:3 for under 2, 1:6 for 2-3, and then 1:10 for 3-5. Presumably after that you're out of child care and into school. Ratios get more complex when it's a mixed group, but most childcare centers are
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by j_w 1y ago
The living wage calculation on that website does not constitute your last paragraph. I'd argue that not including a savings/retirement investment portion makes it a much worse number. As for a computer, your desktop will work fine
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by j_w 1y ago
The problem is that the "normal" American consumes greatly beyond their means. What I described isn't maximally tightening the belt, it's a very reasonable and satisfying way to live. I don't have a car, I ride a bi
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by j_w 1y ago
My issue with "living wage" calculations is that they never compromise. I live in a county with great public transit. The living wage before taxes is listed as 61k for a single adult. Over 9k of that is allocated to transportation
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by j_w 1y ago
How is this quickly dismissing the idea that it was a lab leak as a conspiracy? The research showed (and still shows) that it's extremely plausible for the virus to have gone from animal -> human. I think currently there is a "
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by j_w 1y ago
You seem to be conflating swaps features with it being anything other than an extension of your physical memory. The primary use of swap is to enable a virtual memory space that is larger than the available physical memory. That can be leve
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by j_w 1y ago
I think the issue is how people view their operating system then. If you think an operating system (which for the sake of this I'll allow to mean the distro for linux) should just install and "work" with no configuration need
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by j_w 1y ago
I definitely don't misunderstand what swap is for. I've implemented swap for a hobby os. Swap is absolutely "more RAM" in layman's terms. If you NEED 10GB of memory to have open everything you want on your machine,
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by j_w 1y ago
Office 365 in browser + avoiding Excel like the plague.
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by j_w 1y ago
You ask ChatGPT for answers to questions and your surprised that random terminal commands don't work? If you look at linux forums, all issues always include hardware and software versions. Some problems are extremely context dependent.
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by j_w 1y ago
Swap is really interesting. The idea of swap sounds super useful - you get more RAM than you have. The reality is that RAM speeds are so important to fast computing that once you start to need swap, what you really need is more RAM on your
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by j_w 1y ago
Since I've started daily driving Arch on my personal machine I've had two instances that I can recall of a breaking change, both related to an NVIDIA driver update relying on some package that for whatever reason couldn't be
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by j_w 1y ago
The AUR really is night and day compared to other package managers. Official packages get updates FAST, user packages typically not much slower. Issues with new versions get immediate solutions on the forums, so breaking changes hardly impa

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