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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> very much support many of those programs as lifesavers That doesn't really address the issue though, does it? Food stamps are better than nothing, but they do not in fact allow recipients to spend the assistance as they see fit. I
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
This would be a more convincing argument if government assistance to the poor were in the form of some kind of UBI that its recipients could actually use as they wanted, rather than the current situation where it's a hodgepodge of soci
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Thanks for the explanation, I hadn't considered the immune system clearing it.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
> Monkeys can get monkeypox, which means they're not the reservoir animal. I agree with the rest of your comment, but is this part actually true? I would think an animal could serve as a reservoir as long as the disease isn't d
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I did (old versions of) both of these and liked both. What I liked about the top-down approach of fast.ai is that it worked the way I approach working with other programming systems. You have a thing you want to do and APIs that promise to
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
They were given monopoly rights to broadband provisioning by governments.
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
Spending (inflation-adjusted) per pupil in the US is up 50% since 1990 alone: https://www.statista.com/statistics/203118/expenditures-per-...
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I think the problem is that the Phone app has a lot of legacy behavior from the early days of the iPhone when people actually used the phone functionality. As the sibling commenter notes, they only recently changed the incoming call notific
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by jdminhbg 4y ago
I think the implication instead is you can't carry on sunscreen since it's a liquid, so you'd have to buy when you get there. But you're right, if you're checking a bag, you can bring all the sunscreen you feel like
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> And the 2022 Russo - Ukrainian war. That is absolutely not a once per century event. WWII was 80 years ago.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
No, they are addressing two different things. The second half addresses the parent assertion that he did it simply out of spite over whose cave rescue solution worked out first.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> Is it putting forth that local governments shouldn't be controlled by the people who are local It's obviously the case that local voters do not get "unchecked authority" over their local government. They can't
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Not to defend childish Twitter name-calling, but the reason he did it was that the dude picked a pointless fight with him first. Let he who has not escalated an insult battle throw the first stone.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
The correct term for this behavior is "nicehole."
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> Twitter does not need a part-time CEO. It had one in Jack for a long time. But more to the point, did Elon ever propose becoming CEO? I don't believe I ever saw anything from him to that effect.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
I had Covid-related anosmia for a few days, and it was very different from just being stuffed up and unable to smell/taste like with a regular cold. I could stand over e.g. a fire, and instead of smelling smoke, I had a sensation of sm
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
And even if the author could have created them himself, he couldn't have done it in the span of a few minutes each like he did for the thread.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
It's available: https://twitter.com/fniephaus/status/1507022087277334530
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
That said, it made a huge difference that forced WFH coincided with closing all possible social outlets at the same time. If you discovered that you wanted to expand your social circle to diversify away from workmates, you were out of luck.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Refactoring from a :user/name String to a :user/names Array is going to be manual in both static and dynamic languages until Github Copilot gets a lot better. All the compiler or Spec can do is show you the places in your code whe
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> show me an example of how having 'spec' is going to help me refactor the code that I got wrong the first time, as easily as what a proto-ML-like static type checker does. It's not a question of "types are bad vs typ
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Maybe a fuller understanding of its applicability to discussions like this one from yesterday? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30753127
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
I definitely have random-uuid defined in a half-dozen of my own projects that can go away now.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
Parent is talking about mask mandates, not vaccine mandates.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> in addition to 100 megaton nuclear torpedoes that travel at 120mph (which Russia has) If you use nuclear weapons on another nuclear power, carriers are going to be the least of your concerns.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
This law of library science seems like it conflicts with the laws of physical reality.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
The major difference between your vices and overeating is that you don't need to have some cocaine every day to live. Total abstinence is not an available option for food.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> > roughly seven-in-ten Americans say they ever use any kind of social media site ... > According to the source the article linked to, about 70% use NO social media. I think you misread. It says "ever use," not "nev
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
I don't think there are any Macs that don't have a headphone jack, with the possible exception of the Mac Pro.
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by jdminhbg 5y ago
> NATO helped in Iraq and Afghanistan A number of NATO countries joined both Iraq wars, but not all. The only one where Article V was invoked and NATO was officially involved was Afghanistan.

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