jgwil2

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by jgwil2 4y ago
It's another barrier that's been added, perhaps for good reason, but it is a tradeoff worthy of debate.
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U.S. job growth beats expectations in October, but cracks emerging(reuters.com)
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Drought means drier than normal conditions, where "normal" varies. It is always relative; a drought in a desert can be just as serious a problem as in any other environment.
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Credit card companies or their insurers I suppose. They must figure it's worth it to pay out in order to maintain their reputation as a secure payment method.
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Anecdotally, I've never heard of anyone having a problem getting the charges refunded on a card that's been used fraudulently, regardless of the state of the law. If people were actually losing a lot of money to this type of fraud
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by jgwil2 4y ago
> When it comes time to pay many restaurants now bring a device to your table so you can pay. The wait staff no longer disappears with your credit card. Nice. Personally, I prefer not to have a server hovering over me as I figure out how
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Baseball doesn't distinguish between forced and unforced errors: a ball put in play that results in a baserunner is either a hit or an error. The forced/unforced distinction comes from tennis as far as I know.
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by jgwil2 4y ago
This paradox is already evident in commercial flight: as automation has increased, flying has become safer, but pilots themselves understand less and less about the machines they operate, and when automation fails they are ill-prepared to g
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Turkey's Honey Apocalypse Is a Warning to the World(theatlantic.com)
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Is it "race baiting" to note a simple and perhaps interesting fact? Would it have been "race baiting" to note upon Obama's election that he would be the first black US president? Edit: also your pedantry is extremel
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Baseball History Is No Longer Written with Ash Bats(nytimes.com)
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Beginner Haskell Notes(github.com)
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The Original Tiger Kings(theatlantic.com)
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by jgwil2 4y ago
That "unless" clause at the end of your comment is precisely the point though. Just because you don't want to support most of the things that WMF are doing doesn't mean that others don't want to. If a majority of do
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Better article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-11/intel-is-...
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What Does Sustainable Living Look Like? Maybe Like Uruguay(nytimes.com)
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Ben Eater has a video series called "'Hello, world' from scratch on a 6502" that you might find interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnzuMJLZRdU&list=PLowKtXNTBy...
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The Guggenheim’s Scapegoat(theatlantic.com)
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Only thing I can think is that GP is making a sports reference (1 century = 100 runs in cricket) a la "home run" being used to mean a smashing success.
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by jgwil2 4y ago
They would need access to powerful explosives, a submersible, and detailed knowledge of the location of the pipeline. Hard to imagine any non-government actor being behind this.
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A Sweeping Plan to Fix Everything Still Wrong with Student Debt(slate.com)
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Are you claiming the author is incorrect that x/0 = 0 is mathematically sound?
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Seems to be a popular aesthetic for synthwave compilations on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICcFMBzOnYs I wonder if Drive originated this aesthetic or if it's just coincidence.
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Are There Better Places to Put Large Solar Farms Than These Forests?(nytimes.com)
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by jgwil2 4y ago
Small nitpick: this is all executive action, not a bill or law. That means that it can be undone as soon as a new president takes office.
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by jgwil2 4y ago
If you can afford to sock away the money then you should. You may ultimately pay more than other people, or you may not, but you will have the comfort of knowing that she can afford to go to college without taking on a lot of debt.
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by jgwil2 4y ago
> I don’t know if this chapter will satisfy anyone, but one of my big hopes is that someday someone will write a book much like Code but about the Internet. I’m not going to do it. But if you do a good job, I will certainly buy a copy. D
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by jgwil2 4y ago
One criterion the article omitted was portability: I haven't followed React Native for a few years but I imagine a lot of people want a framework that will allow them to share code between mobile apps and web apps.
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Tending to Grass, and to Grief, on a Tennis Court in Iowa(nytimes.com)
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I would have said "Renewables (but really mostly just fossil fuels) Party" but recent legislation makes it seem like the Democrats may be getting more serious on renewables.

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