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by lkbm 6y ago
Depends on the group of students or size of a multi-generational household. I live in a 14-person house, and previously a 19-person one. Students frequently enjoy larger communities, especially since it's often a lot more affordable to
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by lkbm 6y ago
You need a paid account for meetings over 40 minutes with more than two participants. If you're a business or school, you're likely going to want a paid account. I'm told it's much better than most others. I haven't
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by lkbm 6y ago
The first fundamentally different thing should be the presence good testing and contact tracing. With high rates, I don't think that's a viable strategy, but if cases are few enough, it should work. Different countries have done d
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by lkbm 6y ago
I don't think vaccines are a miracle. They're not certain, but that doesn't make them miracles. The exit strategy should be to enough of a lock-down to get rates very low. This would likely have to be combined with quick-tu
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by lkbm 6y ago
Why don't insurers just raise all rates 50% right now? My guess is it's because there's a competitive market. This doesn't change this. This allows for better price discrimination than our current tables based just on ag
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by lkbm 6y ago
Gyms have benefits, sure, but he's responding to someone treating it as either go to the gym or get no exercise. He's pointing out alternatives. They don't need to be as good to be relevant. The fact that push-ups exist refut
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by lkbm 6y ago
It's a more salient feeling. I worked at a school for a while, and you can have deep impact on a handful of lives. It doesn't scale, but you can really feel the effect. On the other hand, if I submit a patch to Chrome that makes i
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by lkbm 6y ago
"Refuting" works best here. It's mind-boggling to really look at the size and power of colonial trading companies. I've been meaning to re-try reading the Baroque Cycle -- started once, but gave up a ways in.
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by lkbm 6y ago
Main reason: it's more fun. I could be a cog in a giant corporate machine, or I can have a measurable impact where I work. I can stay in my lane and do my specific job tasks, or I can run around putting out fires and helping wherever h
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by lkbm 6y ago
We've used Guru[0] for some of our internal documentation, which will prompt you to re-verify the accuracy of docs on a set schedule. So every six months (configurable per doc), it will prompt the designated person to glance over the d
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by lkbm 6y ago
Yes, that's specifically what newacct583 called out as the major issue: > The thing to worry about with school openings is the classroom, not the hallway. The fact that this hall is so packed tells me that the classes are probably a
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by lkbm 6y ago
It's an analogy. Toxoplasma is a parasite that works by playing two sides against each others. A rage meme is a parasite that work by pitting two sides against each other. > How do you explain this sentence? I don't think the a
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by lkbm 6y ago
It makes sense in context of the article. Toxoplasma gondii is the parasite that causes toxoplasmosis. In the article, Scott makes the analogy of toxoplasma gondii to rage memes: toxoplasma circulates between cats and rats, the way a rage m
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by lkbm 6y ago
It's a wide enough range of accounts that it's most likely an internal admin panel. Special protected accounts (e.g., Trump's) seem unaffected, whereas hundreds (thousands?) of "regular" accounts, high profile and s
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by lkbm 6y ago
EDIT: Would work better if I spelled "NYT" correctly. Oops. Still looks like all SA tweets, though[1]. EDIT 2: Whoops, this was meant as a reply to charia's point. This reply about Scott Alexander appears to be the first usag
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by lkbm 6y ago
As a vegetarian, I find ingredient lists pretty reliable and useful, and consult them regularly. There are a lot of non-obvious things you have to look out for if you're vegan, but even there it's usable and useful. With a few thi
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by lkbm 6y ago
If they're actually encrypted, I don't care much security-wise, but I do performance-wise. Given that Zoom works reasonably well, I very much doubt that they're sending all my data to and from China. You don't run a serv
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by lkbm 6y ago
Supply growth cut in half. Unlike oil, BTC doesn't get used up.
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by lkbm 6y ago
Seems like having this mutation from the beginning might be very different from getting it when you're 20+. Would you simply fail to develop even to viable infant stage?
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by lkbm 6y ago
No, the comment implies that risks that only apply to people in two countries don't apply to people not in those countries. This doesn't in any way suggest they deserve less or that their risk is morally irrelevant. Simply that th
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by lkbm 7y ago
> They are raising their wage to $17 per hour. That's around $3,000 per month in stead of their usual $2,500 per month. According to Google, that beats Walmart pay[0]. Less clear for Target[1]. Of course, if reports are even remotel
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by lkbm 7y ago
> Pickup/delivery options are a total failure across the board at all grocery stores right now. They're all generally a week out, or you just can't get any delivery slot at all. That's inconvenient, but I've know
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by lkbm 7y ago
> (the dumbbells were shipped separately for some reason) USPS limits packages to 70 LBs. There's probably some special option to get around this, but for the "normal" shipping, that's the limit.
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by lkbm 7y ago
It's definitely not entirely Trump, but I notice that two of the three entities you listed are staffed and run by the Trump administration. People also talk about the US pandemic prevention team being disbanded a few years ago. What I
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by lkbm 7y ago
Good point -- the future reduction in sales is spread amongst all competitors, so if you can capture some, it can be a net win for you.
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by lkbm 7y ago
The cloud is someone else's collection of computers operating at a very large scale. If my load changes in a way uncorrelated with other users', that's a very good thing. If my load is correlated with other users', that&
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by lkbm 7y ago
Generally it's pretty inelastic. However, as some have pointed out, you can be more judicious with its use, and I think what we're going to see in the coming months is that bidets will have shifted from under a 1% market share in
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by lkbm 7y ago
Right, but the monthly bill for 100 non-remote workers at WeWork is 5-10 times that just for the space. As I said, their smallest offices (~6 person -- maybe 10 if you really crowd) are $6k/mo.
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by lkbm 7y ago
How do you do that if the growth rate hasn't started to slow yet?
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by lkbm 7y ago
Companies might also realize that now that they've figured out how to work remote, they should keep doing that and save ten grand or so a month. I believe the smallest offices in the WeWork we're housed in are $6k/mo. Those a

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