josephorjoe

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by josephorjoe 6y ago
what’s being banned is systematic destruction of people’s willingness to believe facts in order to support a world view that is inconsistent with facts. why it is being banned is that it has convinced people to attack the government because
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ads vandalize property by causing unwanted images to appear on and unwanted sounds to emit from personal property
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I dream of having a door between me and my family while I'm trying to work...
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
and one would think even people who live in metros areas would have noticed that you have little or no cell service when you are underground (on trains or vehicles going through tunnels)-- or when you are deep inside some giant old office b
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Sadly the moment you let random people upload anything on the internet, you are no longer doing what it was you thought you were doing, and you are now dealing with all of the consequences of letting random people upload images to your appl
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
For profit institutions do not get sympathy for their fixed costs.
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Long Term Capital Management Pets.com Enron Bear Sterns Lehman Brothers ? Hertz
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> it’s not reasonable to demand universities operate at a loss to provide the remote education at a rate less than it costs them to operate it's not reasonable to expect students to pay for the costs of operating a university when a
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
> I wonder what those officers were thinking, arresting a reporter on live camera. I'm guessing: "we do not want our actions in the next few minutes to be broadcast on live television"
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
that is some bizarre and creative whataboutism
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In my experience, when a single engineering team owns the entire service, a single web app >>> cluster of microservices. The advantage to splitting up systems is when multiple teams own part of the service and do not want to be dep
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Empirically, I'm not wrong. 98% of the population are immigrants or the descendents of immigrants. The people who wrote the US Constitution were immigrants or the descendents of immigrants. All the presidents, including the current one
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
You may not know this, but the native american population in the US is <2% of the total population. If you are part of that <2%, I understand your bitterness. The other 98% of americans are immigrants or the children/grandchildre
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
America already has an easy, useful, and generally positive solution to a decline in birthrates: immigration. We'll just need to move beyond the current xenophobia and remember what we use to know.
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
Entirely depends upon whether or not people feel safe in crowds. More effective treatments, a vaccine, herd immunity, better testing and tracing, or some combination thereof could make people feel safe in crowds again. But I do think there
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
> The stock market will always recover because people are always going to want to make money. Maybe. SPY closed at ~$145 in June 2000 SPY closed at ~$80 in October 2002 SPY closed at ~$145 in July 2007 SPY closed at ~$75 in March 2009 SP
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
It isn't just houses. It's commercial real estate. In NYC at least, almost all restaurants, bars, and retail stores absolutely depend on very high volume. That volume is simply not coming back. The tourists are not coming back any
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
> That’s fine. But you claimed you couldn’t imagine anyone behaving differently, when (clearly IMO) quite a lot of people will. That's a fair criticism. I should have said "anyone I know" as that was where my thoughts were
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
It’s politics when you are deciding what groups of people should do. When you make personal decisions it is about biology. I know many people feel like you do. And it may be inevitable that most of us get exposed. But I’m inclined to postpo
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
And each county is a borough. New York = Manhattan Kings = Brooklyn Bronx = The Bronx Queens = Queens Richmond = Staten Island Just to keep things extra complicated...
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Which is actually quite valuable as transparency from decision makers makes it much easier to evaluate the quality of their decisions and to understand whether they are being foolishly capricious or they are using facts and reasonable judge
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
What percentage of people don't understand that (serious question)? I'm in nyc so my perspective is likely a little skewed, but I can't see anyone who can avoid doing so rushing back into restaurants, subways, or really any a
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
primarily to reduce the likelihood of infectious people infecting other people. This is not complicated. Every Single Avoided Infection Reduces The Pandemic. Whataboutism is irrelevant. The virus simply does not care about logic. It only ca
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
> Below a certain concentration, your immune system will just handle the few viral cells which landed on you. We don't know what a "low viral load" means for infectiousness. Yes, maybe you fight off the virus successfull
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by josephorjoe 6y ago
This was my reaction as well and left me wondering if there is missing information here. NYC has been on lockdown for weeks. A very large percentage of the city is staying home. Some completely isolated, but most are not completely isolat
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by josephorjoe 7y ago
When I first encountered SQL, my immediate reaction was to start writing my own lightweight ORM (two days later I learned ORMs were a thing that already existed) because I took one look at that syntax and decided it was insane to work with
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Apparently humans can catch novel Coronavirus . . .
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python is supported by easy to learn basic syntax + great math/science libraries. as i typed that i thought: python is the excel of programming languages. it also has very solid web frameworks (Django, Flask, etc.).
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by josephorjoe 7y ago
Seems a bit early for weird dystopian fantasies about populations segregated by covid-19 immunity status. Suggest the author go read Poe's Masque of the Red Death[1]. NYC will change and adapt. But from the perspective of someone livin
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by josephorjoe 7y ago
I use a notes directory with multiple flat text files named in some brief but sensible way. I alias a command ('showNotes') to open the directory in sublime and use sublime's search to search my text files or edit/add fi

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