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by jlmorton 7y ago
Not true. In San Francisco, 35% of homeless residents in the last point-in-time count identified as female, and another six percent identified as another non-male gender.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
> Is the purpose of taxes to fund the government or punish the rich? Government exists because of and for society, and the purpose of taxes is to create the greatest net benefit to society. Taxes are not to punish anyone, they are levied
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by jlmorton 7y ago
And that's a perfectly defensible position, as long you apply it equally. Many of the protests in Hong Kong have been anything but peaceful. They are throwing Molotov cocktails, destroying buildings, smashing and flipping cars, settin
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by jlmorton 7y ago
If protesters in the US were throwing petrol bombs, the police in the US would begin shooting people en masse. If there were months of mass protests in the US, the national guard would be called in to stop them, with full military equipment
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Kind of a shor-term view, no? The Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat patties are significantly closer to a beef-life flavor than past patties, and they're improving at a quick pace. They may be more expensive now, but it's pretty l
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Especially amazing since it used to be pretty good. The former codebase must have been an absolute mess for Google to throw it away in favor of the garbage that exists now.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Note that 100kWh/day * 100,000 vehicles is 10,000MWh/day. If a typical nuclear power plant output is about 500MW, that's 12,000MWh/day.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
It's strange that we accept a copyright system that allows a show like Seinfeld to remain outside the public domain over twenty years after it ended. Intellectual property exists to encourage science and the useful arts. It doesn&#x27
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Short Wiki article on the object: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2019_Q4_(Borisov)
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Even with `privacy.resistFingerprinting` enabled, my fingerprint is unique all-time on https://amiunique.org .
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Pixel 3 integrates call screening very tightly, which is not quite the same thing, but is in many ways better.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Note that there are Twitter reports about this happening as early as 12 hours before Credit Karma's initial response. It seems this was happening for a long time, but Credit Karma did not notice until their social media team came in at
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Right, worry about outgoing traffic first, and DNS resolution second. And this goes for all traffic. Even ICMP can used to tunnel data.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
This is a great reason why you should never allow unknown outgoing connections from Production. You can implement this however makes sense for you. For me, the easiest thing is to run a simple locked down proxy server, and allow only speci
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by jlmorton 7y ago
There's a lot of bad content on the Internet, and a lot of people wanted to ban it. And the free speech absolutists said, that's a slippery slope. Once you start restricting speech beyond whatever is illegal, there will be no en
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by jlmorton 7y ago
It's not that strange for new medications. Here's a personal example. Lots of people suffer from hyperhidrosis, which is excessive sweating, generally on the palms, feet, or armpits, where sweat glands are clustered. There have n
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Here's food for thought: while a proper firewall and network segmentation is a well-established best practice, I'm not sure this is a winning battle. There are probably a few dozen organizations out there that are properly impleme
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Fixing that would be a prerequisite. Public/postal banking is one way to accomplish that. Regulation is another. I actually disagree that cash is currently near-zero cost, though. The current situation is that credit cards charge la
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Preferably low-cost digital payments, such as debit cards, mobile payments, or whatever else, perhaps including cryptocurrencies like Libra. I understand many of these methods as they exist in the US come with significant fees, although deb
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by jlmorton 7y ago
> After all cash physically allows money laundering, should we ban cash? Yes, we probably should, now that better alternatives exist. We should have public postal banking, so no one is unbanked. And then we should stop issuing cash.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
This is not a bank. It's an asset and a payment network. Banks are organizations that borrow short to lend long. This is a stablecoin backed very closely 1:1 with fiat currency. There is no fractional reserve, and there is no lendi
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Landfills are three dimensional and the Earth is astonishingly large. On millennia timescales, we will never run out of places to put them. At a depth of 400 feet, the entire US annual trash output is approximately 1,000 acre [1]. There ar
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by jlmorton 7y ago
I don't know a lot about this, but aren't there dozens of other frequencies set aside for this purpose?
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Can someone explain to me why it makes sense to dedicate 3Mhz of useful spectrum worldwide to an esoteric group of amateur radio enthusiasts in an era where we have the Internet? I understand it may be an active community, but it's tin
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by jlmorton 7y ago
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases is doing the important testing work, but the novel drug is GS-5734 / Remdesivir from Gilead Sciences. https://www.gilead.com/purpose/advancing-global-hea
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by jlmorton 7y ago
Google asserts that an API cannot be copyrighted at all, and that even if it can, their usage of it falls under fair use. Indeed, if Oracle were to win, it would mean re-implementations of AWS services (like S3, or other services within Lo
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by jlmorton 7y ago
> I have noticed a few skills that people often underestimate the importance of developing. Skills that add a significant boost to the impact of any developer. One of these ones is writing. Heh.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
I agree it's a hard problem, but it's worth noting that the US has dramatically higher construction costs than any other peer. The unit cost of construction in the US is routinely double, or even triple the cost of comparable proj
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by jlmorton 7y ago
It's almost like TPB is not hosted by a public company with data centers in the United States.
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by jlmorton 7y ago
I had almost the exact same experience. Google Fi has the worst customer service of any online company I have ever interacted with. It's a strong statement, which I've reflected on here for a moment, but I believe it's accu

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