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by likpok 3y ago
I believe California even helpfully warns you about any location that has acrylamide.
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by likpok 3y ago
A big complaint I've seen in the past is AmazonBasics, where amazon copies successful products and sells them for slightly cheaper. This is identical to brands like Great Value (walmart), Up&Up (target), Nice (walgreens) and Safewa
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by likpok 3y ago
Texas has built a lot of solar (more than California in recent years IIRC) because it's generally building-friendly. There has been some talk that they are going to start making it harder to do renewable projects due to politics. So: s
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by likpok 3y ago
From your link they call out both processed meat and red meat. They do distinguish that processed meat "causes" and red meat "probably causes" cancer.
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by likpok 3y ago
A lot of the beef with Amazon seems to be "welcome to retail". I don't think Walmart even has third-party logistics for its stores -- or if it does it's of the "hire contractors and squeeze them hard" variety.
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by likpok 3y ago
I don't think it's the cynical take, the current FTC chair seriously believes that the FTC should be doing more antitrust enforcement and the paper that got her noticed specifically called out Amazon (IIRC the amazon/diapers.
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by likpok 3y ago
When we first switched from git to hg internally I was real cranky. Git was the clear industry winner, and hg was adding a whole bunch of churn for no good reason. Now, hg is amazing and when I leave I will be extremely sad to go back to
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by likpok 3y ago
People move to SOMA because the apartments are both close to their office and easily accessible online. Finding apartments in the rest of the city can be something of an adventure. But then, as you note, SOMA is kinda bad to live in. Lots o
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by likpok 3y ago
The offending lawyer isn't a name partner of the firm -- almost certainly he will be fired. The professional embarrassment will definitely make it difficult for them to get a new job. That said, I suspect this is just the defense they&
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by likpok 3y ago
Good morning is a bad example because it has a colloquial meaning that is a least a little idiomatic. Most other words/phrases in English don’t have this effect, while many Chinese words are like 早安. 了解, for example, can’t even be pron
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by likpok 3y ago
It depends. Some people classify it as 6 tones, some as 9. The extra three are "entering <x> level tone", which are sort of shortened versions of a different tone. So: some words end in a stop, which is sometimes counted as
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by likpok 3y ago
You have to understand both how the jyutping romanization works (i.e. what sound 'bat' makes) as well as what the tones in Cantonese are. I'll let you read about the initials and finals (mostly consonants and vowels). There a
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by likpok 3y ago
> So far I've only read the introduction and it doesn't obviously involve any advanced mathematics that I'm unfamiliar with so I could perhaps attempt an implementation. This is a bad sign for the paper. The prior cases of
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by likpok 4y ago
Interestingly enough, the page later says that the annual budget is 294M on a student body of ~10k. That's more like 28K per student (making the above point that rich districts pay more per student stronger).
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by likpok 4y ago
As near as I can tell the article is talking about the flattening (which does not seem to have happened yet).
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by likpok 4y ago
Which was the second round of layoffs? The two layoffs (arguably): the first round in November, and then the flattening (which I agree will likely see managers quitting rather than becoming ICs).
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by likpok 4y ago
I have a related but different experience: it's constantly asking me about "library" or "spring" and it's been a long long time since I've made a mistake. Why is it not trying to review other words where I
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by likpok 4y ago
Duolingo quality varies a lot based on which specific language you're doing. Some features (e.g. stories) aren't available in all languages. It's possible this is just the language I'm learning, but the "duolingo le
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by likpok 4y ago
There’s a number of industrial processes that require higher temperatures than you can easily get from electricity. Replacing that with burning green hydrogen lets you decarbonize them. Even if you can replace a furnace with an electric one
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by likpok 4y ago
Aircraft are substantially more resistant to bad weather: you can fly an airplane into a hurricane. Aircraft are also a lot faster -- it's unlikely that a thunderstorm will catch up with you (max speed of a storm is something like 50-8
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by likpok 4y ago
One other problem is tips are more tax-efficient for restaurants. A restaurant that charges more and pays more in wages has a higher revenue (but not profit). There are taxes and regulations that scale on revenue that don't allow for o
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by likpok 4y ago
Tor has a lot of pretty gnarly trade offs that will naturally keep usage low outside of people who really need it. The latency is nontrivial, exit nodes are congested and lots of sites don’t want to deal with Tor because so much abuse flows
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by likpok 4y ago
There's a new company that uses a hefty battery to juice up the output of an induction stove, allowing you to have a powerful stove on a normal circuit. It can't output high power for as long as a real circuit but that seems fine
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by likpok 4y ago
Some (but nowhere near all) of this is expensive because of gas appliances. If you have a powerful range hood you also need a complex makeup air system to avoid the hood pulling CO from your gas furnace and killing you. That makeup air syst
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by likpok 4y ago
There's a pretty big difference between "can't get above 10 Mbps down", which is pretty bad and "can't get above 10 Mbps up), which is not nearly as bad. Most people's internet usage is highly download-hea
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by likpok 4y ago
Sonic only works some places, specifically where there are overhead power lines they can use to route the cables. There used to be some discussion about "microtrenching" so they could cost-effectively bury fiber throughout the cit
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by likpok 4y ago
Companies can’t just put it in the ingredients list, that would also be illegal. They need to actually add it to the product.
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by likpok 4y ago
SBF is not the first person who thinks they are smarter than their lawyers. It even fits the pattern of "physics person dismissive of other fields" (e.g. https://xkcd.com/793/ )! I dunno if we need to go too f
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by likpok 4y ago
Running through the sentencing guidelines on the wire fraud hits 15-life real fast though. The sentence increases with the amount stolen and he stole a LOT of money (so much that the table doesn't cover it! It only goes up to $550 mill
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by likpok 4y ago
Being extraordinarily connected did not help Madoff much: he was sentenced to 150 years in prison and died there last year.

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