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by kolanos 4y ago
This was left out of the story: > At the height of the tensions, on September 11, 1857, at least 120 California-bound settlers from Arkansas, Missouri and other states, including unarmed men, women and children, were killed in remote sou
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> He can appeal, but the authority for a trial court to issue a default judgement is not new precedent but rather well established. It’s quite _rare_, but it’s happened before. It should be noted that default judgments rarely stick when
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A subpoena needs to be signed off by a judge. And there is an appeals process.
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I don't know how similar this is to Insulating Concrete Forms (ICFs), but I've owned a house constructed that way and it had considerably better insulation than any stick built I've owned.
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> CMD ["gunicorn", "-c", "python:config.gunicorn", "config.wsgi"] Looks like this example is still WSGI?
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> My interpretation was that "the rest of the world" is meant to refer to "the rest of the countries in the world" not "the rest of the people in the world". Even by that measure it is false. The only contin
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I would assume people are tired of seeing this qualifier in every other HN thread? "It might be bad in the U.S., but in the rest of the world...." Especially when it is verifiably false. [0] Of the ten most populous countries in
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> people simply can't comprehend that 4 payments of $X adds up to 4x Are you implying that someone is paying four times what they normally would for a purchase with BNPL? Or are you saying that someone can't figure out that fou
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> Credit card companies carry out some due diligence as to the borrower's ability to pay whereas a lot of these BNPL providers do none at all. This is not true. BNPLs perform underwriting just like any other lender.
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> It also seems like a protection for recording the police. This was already constitutionally protected. And this new law is likely going to be challenged on its constitutionality.
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> I think this is a good, common sense law Do you feel the same about qualified immunity? [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_immunity
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I came across something that is somewhere in the middle. Maybe a happy medium? It's a Python library called IDOM [0]. Best way I can explain it is that it is server-side bindings for React, where state and diffs are passed back and for
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> I agree that OCR is an important tool for end users, especially those with accessibility needs, and that we shouldn't use something like this lightly, but the context is completely different here. If I want to send you a PDF from
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> I didn't enjoy django What didn't you enjoy about Django?
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> Some people have the tolerance to be the 'founding' Devops/SRE talent, who help the company go through that "transformation" from the ground up, implement the IR process, create the standards, win the hearts an
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In practice, I've seen it used to describe someone who is fluent on the backend (DBs, APIs, DevOps, etc.) and competent on the frontend (React). But that could be more of a product of the talent pool, I think there are more backend eng
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I wonder if you realize that you come off as an extremist?
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If the difficulty of the LC questions were calibrated for the role, I'd agree. But the times I've run into LC it was rarely the "easy" questions. Instead I've seen LC questions thrown at me that would take someone a
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> Of course then I learned said HM had only been at the org for two months and the entire Infra team was ostensibly just the hiring manager on the other side of the zoom call and I was suddenly a great deal less enthused and interested i
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From June 9: > Over two years after the coronavirus was first detected in China, and after at least 6.3 million deaths have been counted worldwide from the pandemic, the World Health Organization is recommending in its strongest terms ye
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> Today 92% of Republicans are to the right of the median Democrat, and 94% of Democrats are to the left of the median Republican > The rise of ideological uniformity has been much more pronounced among those who are the most politica
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> In New York Democrats want to add four new seats through gerrymandering, to try to retain control of the U.S. House. One district is designed to guarantee the reelection of Rep. Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Judiciar
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The first two can be covered by this helpful library. [0] [0]: https://github.com/joke2k/django-environ
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> I kept freaking out and yelling in chats. Sounds like a joy to work with.
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Pretty sure the Federal Reserve was setting reserve requirements from day one, which has a direct effect on the money supply.
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Snow comes from the sky.
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> What do you call a place where the lakes, rivers, flood planes, and deltas are dried up? I think you mean diverted. Cities are actively draining reservoirs, too.
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Unlike cities, farmers go where the water is. I know some HNers think farmers are growing crops in deserts. But that's just laughable. They farm where there is water: rivers, lakes, flood planes, deltas, etc. It is the cities diverting
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Where do you think the Colorado River gets its water from?
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> In an average year, about 39% of California's water consumption, or 34.1 million acre-feet (42.1 km3), is used for agricultural purposes. Of that total, 11%, or 8.9 million acre-feet (11.0 km3) is not consumed by the farms for cro

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