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by jp57 6y ago
Regardless what this bill says, any local government would still be bound by the US Constitution as required by the 14th amendment. It's not at all clear to me that an unelected local government would survive an equal protection chall
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by jp57 6y ago
Hasn't this ground already been covered in Crossing the Chasm [1]? I.e. that in order to move your marketing from early adopters to the early majority pragmatists you need to build an integrated solution for a specific problem. E.g.
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by jp57 6y ago
> Fermi’s paradox is pretentious in that it assumes we humans have some sort of cosmic significance. Our significance as a species is actually irrelevant to the question of why we might or might not be visited. Even if we turn out to be
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by jp57 6y ago
Yes. I would like a mode for HN and Reddit where only top-level comment are visible and threads must be expanded explicitly, with the same true recursively. If I'm not interested in a comment, then I'm not interested in its repli
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by jp57 6y ago
The events you list are similar in form but different in substance. The substantive difference is that none of the above events were supported and encouraged by a sitting president seeking to overturn his own election loss. It is a violen
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by jp57 6y ago
I'm distressed and saddened at how many of the free speech proponents on HN are treating the events of January 6 as if it was just another protest and not an existential threat to the republic. The president's followers said for w
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by jp57 6y ago
If they had burned the Capitol to the ground with everyone in it, Greenwald would be concerned about the authoritarian harms of the response.
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by jp57 6y ago
Sure. I think there are lots of things that can incrementally increase your longevity. Don't smoke, don't drink too much, don't abuse drugs, eat food (not too much, mostly plants), watch your weight, exercise your body, ex
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by jp57 6y ago
My dad's doctor told him to stop eating so much butter. Dad said, "My uncle ate a stick of butter every day, and he lived to be 96!" The doc replied, "See? It finally got him!"
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by jp57 6y ago
Fruit and cold showers! Every interview with a centenarian asks "what's the secret of your longevity?" They answer and we all nod and stroke our chins and think maybe there's something to that cold shower thing after a
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by jp57 6y ago
AppleOne is actually three different plans, not one.
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by jp57 6y ago
The event is called "One More Thing". They are applying the same counting they used their AppleOne subscription bundles, there will be three new products announced at the event.
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by jp57 6y ago
It's almost as if these things have always existed.
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by jp57 6y ago
We used to use 0xDEADBEEF for this purpose in hex.
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by jp57 6y ago
This is very cool. I did find that I sometimes got confused about where the insertion point was supposed to be, especially when backing up and correcting mistakes. Having the letter ahead of the point highlighted in was inducing a lot of
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by jp57 6y ago
For those (like me) who like paginated format and offline reading, but don't particularly need paper, Instapaper has a feature to send a collection of stories from your reading list to your kindle.
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by jp57 6y ago
What about getting paid to winch a heavy object up a tower during the day, and then getting paid again to lower it again (generating energy) at night?
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by jp57 6y ago
It seems like this system is crucially dependent on the balance of departing and returning vessels to conserve momentum. While that balance might be maintained over long timescales, it seems unlikely over short ones, especially the first y
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by jp57 6y ago
It is an interesting definition of competition if you can stifle it by allowing competitors who offer very similar or identical products. When I was a kid that was competition.
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by jp57 6y ago
Bands toured like crazy in the 70's. Led Zeppelin II was written and recorded on the road. (technically that was the 60s, tho) I think you have the causality backwards. Because CDs were a longer format, they enabled bands to take lon
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by jp57 6y ago
But he said 3-4 years. Also, there's nothing stopping anyone from recording a bunch of work at once and then releasing it over time.
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by jp57 6y ago
I'm not sure why this is controversial. In the vinyl era, when a single LP was about 40 minutes long, it was pretty normal for artists to release roughly an album a year. (e.g. Led Zeppelin's eight studio albums were released ove
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by jp57 6y ago
I’m waiting for the site that’ll let you experience what it’s like to have ADHD. Oh wait. That’s Twitter.
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by jp57 6y ago
Yes, building analogies are terrible for coding. A much better analogy is writing. Writing code a lot like writing. You do it by typing documents in an editor. You revise them. You might have a written outline first, just an outline in y
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by jp57 7y ago
Although their shed is quite nice looking, the idea is definitely not new: https://shedsunlimited.net/collection/home-office-sheds
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Should I Be a Manager?(gregkuhlmann.com)
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by jp57 7y ago
It would be interesting if this outbreak led to a resurgence in the use of brass fixtures for things like doorknobs and handrails.
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by jp57 7y ago
When I see anyone appearing over and over in a short span like this I assume that their publicist is working hard to get them out there for some reason. Like Liz Phair at the 25th anniversary of "Exile In Guyville", when she surf
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by jp57 7y ago
It was not a cold. Nor was a cold the most likely scenario. I've had plenty of colds. I felt okay in the morning and was in bed shivering by dinner time. My wife reported body aches. They are not typical for me even with flu, but I
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by jp57 7y ago
In fact the first symptomatic case in Wuhan was identified on Dec 1, and by Jan 16 there were 41 cases of pneumonia identified. That is about the same span of time as between the end of winter break and today. And Wuhan is a dense city of

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