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by lovecg 2y ago
With millions and millions of those things around I’d guess quite a few get ingested accidentally and we don’t hear of them causing problems. It must be pretty safe (well as safe as eating a small amount of sand is).
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by lovecg 2y ago
My (perhaps naive) take is that we all got “Trump immunity” from the first time around the rollercoaster and understand that a lot of it is ineffective bluster that never goes anywhere. Look at the tariffs that’s already been “delayed”.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Same vibes as https://xkcd.com/538/ to be honest
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by lovecg 2y ago
This is an often repeated misconception. ATP always needed 1500 hours. What wasn’t required is for both pilots to have an ATP, just the captain - the flight officer only needed a commercial certificate. Airlines would hire with lower hours
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by lovecg 2y ago
Note that that track is not ADS-B at all. It’s triangulated from mode S pings (“MLAT”, https://www.flightaware.com/adsb/mlat/ ). I don’t know how accurate these are.
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by lovecg 2y ago
I’m wondering, what are we seeing here? Actual difference in ingredients used, or a difference in regulations requiring listing all ingredients?
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by lovecg 2y ago
Yeah but that’s almost a tautology. This has been true for every government that ended up in hyperinflation (Germany in the 20s, Russia in the 90s, etc. etc.).
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by lovecg 2y ago
> Cutting social security means that old people get less money in their retirement, no ifs, ands or buts. Good luck with that one. But surely that’s the only way out? Figure out some sane taper scheme by age or something. Social security
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by lovecg 2y ago
Well it could also be in the Sun’s equivalent of a geostationary orbit. If ChatGPT is not making things up this would be around 60 million km which is quite feasible.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Well, they’re _technically_ correct.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Give it time. Centrally commanded dictatorships always seem to hum along right to the point of sudden collapse.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Well in my experience good organizations do recognize that the better design means lower costs in the long run, and people who don’t get that tend to not get promoted. Communicating this effectively up and down the chain is a whole differen
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by lovecg 2y ago
I don’t find them useful in the sense of directly applying practical techniques in my day job, but I consider them somewhat necessary background reading to get into the right state of mind. You can very quickly tell when someone never acqui
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by lovecg 2y ago
You’re being downvoted but the reference is this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warnin... Wrong timescale though. 10000 years vs. 50 million. Millions of years is a very very very long time, our
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by lovecg 2y ago
We’re talking about 50 million years. Literal continents move in that amount of time.
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by lovecg 2y ago
I don’t think we can voting system engineer ourselves out of populism. European democracies are not doing so hot either.
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by lovecg 2y ago
> about 15 million less for the democrats This is wrong. We don’t know how many people voted for democrats or otherwise yet. Heck, California still has millions of votes to count. Your mistake is that you’re comparing a known total from
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by lovecg 2y ago
This was mostly pre-internet days. Maybe the internet is just making everything worse.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Whenever I see those arguments about unwelcoming culture of programming, I’m thinking back on how I myself got into it. It was mostly a solitary activity with a lot of reading of manuals and tinkering and whatnot. There was not really a “cu
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by lovecg 2y ago
These orbits have vastly different speeds though. Consider a high geosynchronous orbit vs. something like ISS which goes around the Earth in an hour or two.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Instead of attempting to lower the compensation of the field as a whole (which, by the way, the actual capitalist employers will love), you’re welcome to donate half of your salary as you see fit.
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by lovecg 2y ago
This sort of pearl clutching among highly paid professionals seems to be unique to software engineers. Lawyers and finance types meanwhile are just laughing all the way to the bank.
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by lovecg 2y ago
Oh well, at least we don’t need help highlighting every noun in a sentence.
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Boom Supersonic XB-1 Flight 4 full video(youtube.com)
2 points by lovecg 2y ago|1 comments
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by lovecg 2y ago
1) This is Google ads, not Meta 2) Google is definitely being sneaky here with targeting to the “unknown” category, but technically speaking they’re not targeting kids - just everyone who they don’t explicitly know is an adult. It’s an inte
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by lovecg 2y ago
Of course not. This is not some rhetorical gotcha you think it is, there’s a huge difference between rules like “don’t use a phone in class” and “don’t drink alcohol ever in your life anywhere”.
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by lovecg 2y ago
I do, do you? I also used to be a kid myself. What does lifetime use have to do with smoking _on school property_?
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by lovecg 2y ago
> So if a child says they don’t have a phone are you going to search them? If a child says they don’t have any cigarettes or a knife etc. etc. are you going to search them? Most kids follow the rules. A few troublemakers with phones won’
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by lovecg 2y ago
It’s addictive if the state says it is, according to the state’s technical definition of “addictive” (personalized content, etc. - the bill has a detailed definition).
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by lovecg 2y ago
That’s exactly what they use at some of the schools that tried it (and there’s an arms race where some kids figured out how to hack these devices and unlock them). Locking up thousands and thousands of dollars worth of phones for the day is

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