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SV school district pauses contract with 'energy healer' after parental concern(latimes.com)
3 points by koolba 2y ago|4 comments
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by koolba 2y ago
> This is how insurance works. The point is not about insurance in general, it’s the isolation of the individual market from the pools of large employers. Yes the healthy will always be subsidizing the rest, but it’s a specific subset of
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by koolba 2y ago
By “forced” in this context I mean people who want to have health insurance but have no choice but to acquire it on the individual market.
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by koolba 2y ago
> Yes, but on the other hand Congress is so dysfunctional the choice is often regulatory/executive action or nothing. Which means that the country, through their elected legislature, has not agreed on a policy. Not coming to a new d
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by koolba 2y ago
This is not even a secrets manager problem. Those have their place but it’s a different link in the chain, or I guess layer in the onion. The answer to this type of thing is full disk encryption (FDE). There’s zero reason not to have it on
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by koolba 2y ago
The generation routine bits would be highly specific to the project, but the final check in CI is as simple checking the git diff/status of the generated targets to see if they match the ref. Any deviance indicates that it’s been misse
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by koolba 2y ago
My preference is to do both. Have them generated by a dev, committed, and also generated in CI. The latter gets compared with the checked in contents to ensure the results match the expected value. This speeds up CI (the generation path can
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by koolba 2y ago
A car ride is one of the absolute best places to have a conversation. No interruptions, nobody shows up, just enough scenery changing to keep you looking around, but not in view long enough to keep you distracted.
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by koolba 2y ago
I don’t see why allowing professionals to compete prevents anyone from enjoying other events. It sounds like your complaint is that the professionals consume the oxygen of the Olympics and prevent the rest from getting as much share of the
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by koolba 2y ago
Why is that better than the best of the best regardless of economic background? There’s a reason most people prefer to watch professional soccer rather than pub leagues.
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Zelensky warns fire at Russian-occupied nuclear plant, rad levels 'within norm'(thehill.com)
2 points by koolba 2y ago|0 comments
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by koolba 2y ago
And more specifically that she unilaterally decided which emails were “official” and which were personal rather than deferring that decision to a third party. And then she had whatever she considered personal deleted, after being served
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by koolba 2y ago
> It's not a search for truth … FOIA requests are as “search for truth” as you can get. Deleting staff emails days after they depart or asking people to email your private Gmail account is impeding any and all searches for truth.
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Judge orders CDC to stop deleting emails of departing staff: 'likely unlawful'(politico.com)
287 points by koolba 2y ago|126 comments
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by koolba 2y ago
> Does anyone know in general why rental properties aren't negotiated further in advance? Because it’s a game of chicken between the landlord and the tenant. The landlord usually has some rules for notification (e.g., 30-60 days bef
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by koolba 2y ago
> If the school could buy and store a reasonable number (funded, on a fractional basis, by the insurers of the students who need them) and use them as needed (with replacement paid for by the recipient’s insurance), the students’ lives w
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by koolba 2y ago
It’s not the same without the daily risk of your dad stepping barefoot on a pointy combo and nearly crashing into the TV.
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by koolba 2y ago
And if the report turns out to be false you’ve ruined someone’s career.
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by koolba 2y ago
It’s specific to each market but took all of 3 min to write. It’s just a […document.querySelectorAll(‘a.class-for-action’)].map(x => x.click()) No smarts. No rate limiting. Just barrage everything with a click.
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by koolba 2y ago
Ha! I have the same thing as a bookmarklet for specific sites. It’s fun to watch it render the clicks.
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by koolba 2y ago
> Although Justice Thomas had claimed the travels were “personal hospitality” and therefore exempt from public disclosure requirements, Mr. Wyden wrote, legislators wanted proof that Mr. Crow had not claimed any tax deductions as busines
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by koolba 2y ago
It’s also the tomato itself which is bred to resist bruising so that it looks pretty on the super market display. Unfortunately those cultivars also taste like meh. Tastier tomatoes with thinner skins bruise more easily. They also require m
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by koolba 2y ago
They perform audits of crypto projects. The idea is that you’re certifying that the code is not going to immediately steal people’s money. Quite a few of their clients have gone on to do that with relatively simple vulnerabilities. To the p
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by koolba 2y ago
There doesn’t appear to be any details on the site besides the recipient: certik Anybody familiar with that name is probably chuckling right now.
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by koolba 2y ago
> Are AI Deepfakes of politicians saying fake things allowed? Of course not. Except if you're Elon. That's the rule. "If Elon Likes it, it stays. If Elon doesn't, it goes". You mean the clearly labeled parody vid
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by koolba 2y ago
> You're complaining about a ban that was effectively overturned within 24 hours. So you agree they were banned for publicizing a true story and that’s totally fine right? And the ban was not lifted in 24 hours. They refused to lift
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by koolba 2y ago
Sharing a link to a true story about the then candidate Biden’s son Hunter’s laptop was effectively a bannable offense (account disabled until you removed the tweet with the link). That same laptop was used as evidence in his 2024 trial.
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by koolba 2y ago
Absurdist fantasies are to prove a point that some limits exist. The question then becomes what said limits are.
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With great power comes great responsibility.
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by koolba 2y ago
> This distinction is mostly out the window with today's populists, see e.g. repealing jus soli and all the other racist dogwhistles. There are already some limitations on birthright citizenship, for example we do not grant it to ch

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