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by jb775 6y ago
When the service went from unlimited open access to being put behind a login wall, I assumed they were using this tool to pull more users into the Firefox ecosystem (like what google does). I stopped using the service at that point since it
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by jb775 6y ago
The power is split across branches, not political parties. And I think you're forgetting that Senators are elected in by the people. I see a common irrational theme of "let's change the rules because they didn't work out
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The Senate wasn't setting a precedent, they were simply blocking the nomination from the opposite political party....as is their right. Would have played out the exact same way if political tables were turned.
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by jb775 6y ago
The mechanism you describe here is known as "kafkatrapping"[1]. There's discussion in the article comments where it's agreed that the best way to combat this is to call out the person setting up the kafkatrap by telling
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by jb775 6y ago
I feel like the inflation measurement is BS. It tracks prices of goods, but doesn't account for people paying for things they didn't pay for in the past (day care, bottled water, health insurance, retirement savings), and comparin
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by jb775 6y ago
Can't see Rogan agreeing to any type of content moderation. It baffles me when people think it's acceptable to throw freedom of speech out the window just because someone is offended.
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by jb775 6y ago
I think of it more as people needing to work more hours overall just to afford the same lifestyle.
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> The 2019 real median earnings of men ($57,456) and women ($47,299) who worked full-time, year-round increased by 2.1 percent and 3.0 percent, respectively If individual earnings gains are less than household income gains, it means pe
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by jb775 6y ago
Hindsight is 20/20 in regards to the Nvidia stock gains. $5-$8 billion profit plus whatever they managed to extract in-between is a pretty astounding investment.
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It's surprising there isn't some sort of legal requirement to carry out strategic controlled burns. If urban sprawl is the root cause of not conducting these, there should be more regulation and accountability on a small govt scal
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by jb775 6y ago
The difference is that we buy all the crap they make, not the other way around. Not to mention we spend more on the military than China, India, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and Brazil - combined
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by jb775 6y ago
The ppl complaining about parent employees are the same ppl complaining about how schools MUST be closed due to covid.
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In exchange for a strict policy that makes sure employee output is equivalent across the board, would you agree to sign away all future societal benefits paid for by the younger generations? (when you are old) If you aren't willing to
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by jb775 6y ago
> This administration messed up any opportunity to curtail China by dropping TPP Do you really think 5,600 pages of fresh red tape would have been beneficial long term for the US? The TPP was essentially locking the US into an agreement
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by jb775 6y ago
Not trying to make this political, but I wanted to point out my initial thoughts: It's probably safe to say a good majority of these tech employees skew left, and I'm sure a bulk of these "resenters" were the same people
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Isn't this considered market manipulation?
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The pay outside the hourly rate for a given employee should be total employee commute time (factoring in extra minutes for employee parking lot, etc) minus total commute time for a non employee from the same starting point (they can park wh
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by jb775 6y ago
Any idea what your ballpark vitamin D situation was prior to catching Covid? And how much sunlight exposure were you getting on average? My doc noticed my vitamin D level was a little low ~5 years back so he recommended I take some over the
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by jb775 6y ago
Can't wait for the last book. How awesome would it be if it's better than Debt: The First 5000 Years
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by jb775 6y ago
This book changed the way I think about many things in the world. Highly recommended.
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This is a good thing. Media content quality has primarily been garbage the past 10+ years (and getting progressively worse), mostly due to the advertisement click-bait business model forced on them in order to survive. Social media kind of
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by jb775 6y ago
There's already legislation in place requiring that drones over 250g be registered with the FAA. They're also in the process of drafting legislation that would require drone pilots to sync flights in real time via internet connect
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by jb775 6y ago
I'd think somehow turning heat energy into power would be ideal since human bodies naturally produce and regulate heat. Or maybe some sort of chemical breakdown where the energy could be relayed as a power source.
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by jb775 6y ago
By vaccine conspiracy theories , I'm assuming you mean the aspect about microchips secretly being added to vaccines. But doesn't it actually add validity to the technological aspects of these concerns when a newly published paper
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by jb775 6y ago
Because most people roll out of bed and go to work for 8-9 hours and would like to see some sunlight before they roll back into bed.
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by jb775 6y ago
> 63 percent support the elimination of seasonal time changes in favor of a national, fixed, year-round time, and only 11 percent oppose it This is some early-bird conspiracy BS. Those stats obviously don't mean people want to eli
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by jb775 6y ago
Rent prices are sky-high, there's social unrest in large cities, interest rates are crazy low, and many companies are now ok with remote working. It's a good time to invest in the suburbs if you can find a decent price.
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Millennials are over the inner-city lifestyle and are sick of paying rents higher than mortgage payments. Seeing their cities destroyed and become more dangerous over the past few months was the straw that broke the camels back. I predict m
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Encryption isn't about making something impenetrable, it's about making it more difficult. For example, modern encryption is very difficult for present-day computers to crack, but won't be that hard for quantum computers to c
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by jb775 6y ago
We should be using biometric markers filtered through homomorphic encryption. This way we can verify/prove our identity without handing over those markers to multiple 3rd parties.

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