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by kbutler 6y ago
Do you then agree with the decision to prevent installation of Fortnite or any other software from which Apple wants to extract more revenue? Because Apple has shown that they will use that mechanism to exert commercial control, not just to
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by kbutler 6y ago
It looks like child-child and child->adult transmission is very rare. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200710100934.h... We don't know why yet.
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by kbutler 6y ago
15-year-old: I miss my friends. Want to do my concurrent-enrollment advanced study classes. She's starting school, we'll see how long in-person school lasts. 12-year-old: School over the internet is awesome! Takes me a quarter of
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by kbutler 6y ago
> It wouldn't have happened if, say, Cuomo was running the country That's an amazing contention, especially if you look back at Cuomo's statements and policies over the course of the epidemic (Lunar New Year, nursing homes
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by kbutler 6y ago
Rather than absolution via perceived failures by political opponents, maybe we can grant some compassion? The more important thing is that these later surges, which are not unexpected, are looking less deadly https://covid19-proj
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by kbutler 6y ago
Thank your for recognizing that California and Newsom fit in the same general pattern as the widely derided, Republican-governed, late-surging states. I think the data above show that neither an R nor a D by the governor's name is sign
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by kbutler 6y ago
Read again? "Florida 8,051" Right after Texas and Massachusetts in descending order. Where did you think it should be? And it looks like Florida has turned the corner on this later surge - new cases 14 day trend is dramatic
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by kbutler 6y ago
As opposed to the absurdity of claiming the deaths are from "our president and his sycophant governors"? But I wouldn't equate them - the goal of the early policy was to flatten the curve to avoid overwhelming the health car
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by kbutler 6y ago
> Prices of large costs like housing and college tuition have increased in massive surplus of the average person's ability to pay for them, which in many ways is a huge problem in and of itself, but the only way the system even sort
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by kbutler 6y ago
Anyone else read this as Eliminating cold starts with cloudflare workers ?
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by kbutler 6y ago
Nope. In any bracket and at any percentage, the government will be adding $x to it's huge budget by taking $x from an individual or organization's much smaller budget. (* Note that it really isn't valid to compare marginal ut
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by kbutler 6y ago
"emotional actors"
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by kbutler 6y ago
I think that statement is backwards. Are you asserting that the government (and the public) will get more utility (benefit) from the extra 1 dollar on its $2.7 billion budget (increase of .000 000 04 percent), than I would from the extra do
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by kbutler 6y ago
I don't think they should pay more than they owe, and I'm not sure why you interpreted it that way. (Though I have paid more than I'm required to sometimes because of the pain of dealing with records and filing. Struggle wi
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by kbutler 6y ago
While I agree this is common human nature, 1) you seem to be speculating about billionaires without actual evidence, even anecdotal, and 2) individuals differ - some may have the maturity and perspective not to worry about it. However, in s
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by kbutler 6y ago
The individual party incentives in ransomware are all to pay it, which encourages future attacks, only the long-term, societal view discourages payment. The victim (individual organization or SaaS provider) wants to just have it end. The ra
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by kbutler 6y ago
"(iii) to install, use and run up to two (2) additional copies or instances of the Apple Software within virtual operating system environments on each Mac Computer you own or control that is already running the Apple Software, for purp
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by kbutler 6y ago
Bye-dye (Bi-directional). Some people/locales pronounce wifi as "wiffy".
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by kbutler 6y ago
https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/what-economic-goals-does... The Congress has directed the Fed to conduct the nation's monetary policy to support three specific goals: * maximum sustainable employment,
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by kbutler 6y ago
Just this week I heard an established jewelry store advertising synthetic diamonds. I've understood that historically de Beers would cut off jewelry stores from the supply of natural diamonds if they sold lab-grown, but maybe their pow
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by kbutler 6y ago
That's only for single message info-dumps or single query-response. If I need to tell you something, it will save your time if I distill it. But note that it may be more efficient overall to do it by voice, or maybe my time actually i
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by kbutler 6y ago
While I haven't tried it with current video conferencing solutions, I did a lot of meetings with that setup conference room to conference room years ago, and I don't recall it being significantly better.
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by kbutler 6y ago
On the "precision of reporting" scale, one should also note that the 1915 was recorded in Fahrenheit (100F) in Alaska, and the 2020 record was recorded in Celsius (38C) in Siberia and then converted to Fahrenheit, adding the recor
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by kbutler 6y ago
It is a shame - but it has always been a political issue, politicized by the global warming advocates. 1988 Canadian environment minister: No matter if the science of global warming is all phony…climate change [provides] the greatest opport
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by kbutler 6y ago
1915: 100 degrees (from the article) 2020: 100.4 degrees (unverified, as described in the article) How significant is this newly reported record temperature? Is it conceivable that the warm day in 1915 reached 100.4 degrees? Maybe we'v
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by kbutler 6y ago
Cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel_%E2%80%93_New_Zeal...
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by kbutler 6y ago
So what you're saying is, "yes, they are killing machines", with "they" being "the humans."
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by kbutler 6y ago
Oh, they probably talk too fast for me to understand. I just heard a high-pitched buzzing sound.
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by kbutler 6y ago
Or, to rephrase, he created digital copies and made them available, requiring a fee for the service. (Just as bertmann had required fees). This instance is more an argument in favor of long copyrights than against them, because without copy
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by kbutler 6y ago
This is not related to copyright. The physical images are "sequestered", and access to and control of physical items is governed by traditional property rights.

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