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by lumb63 3y ago
My girlfriend’s family strictly speaks Cantonese and I known nothing about it. I was just talking with a friend in a similar situation who lamented the lack of resources for Cantonese. This is awesome! Does anyone have any other hidden-gem
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“Over Our Dead Bodies”: Backlash Builds Against $3T Clean Energy Push(wsj.com)
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by lumb63 3y ago
I’m getting tired of the “X lays off employees after <insert proxy for company making money>” headlines. A company making money does not correlate to them needing employees. A contrived example: Company Y employs 1000 people. They mak
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by lumb63 3y ago
The CEO just executes the will of the board, who in turn execute the will of shareholders (types A and B shareholders, specifically, for Alphabet) who are mostly focused on delivering maximum returns. If you look at the voting power of Alph
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by lumb63 3y ago
Hearing “device+biometric” described as 2FA makes me chuckle. Really, that translates down to “biometrics reader storing the passkey+ biometric” being “2FA”. By that standard, “a device storing a way to verify the password + a keyboard to i
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by lumb63 3y ago
To the contrary, I think settling for a mechanism that (maybe) cleans up the damage after it’s done is defeatist.
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What are our alternatives? I’ve said in posts before that legislating against each anti-consumer product or feature is a fool’s errand. The legislature cannot keep up the rate at which corporate entities produce consumer-unfriendly products
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I understand, but your statement feels pedantic. Practically, if someone has access to your device, your 2FA codes are compromised.
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by lumb63 3y ago
I know it is in vogue to criticize social media companies for their algorithms and for dark patterns. I do it too. But I think there is more to why social media is harmful to mental health, especially for young people, especially for girls.
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How is this, practically, any better than existing 2FA? A 2FA code is stored on a device just like a passkey is. Passwords had a security and a usability problem, I guess, and so the solution was to add 2FA, which allegedly improves securit
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by lumb63 3y ago
Do you have a source on the tax burden? I’m living in Massachusetts right now (notoriously called Taxachusetts by some here), and CA sales and income tax rates look to be about 50% and double the rates here, respectively. It looks like prop
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The goal of estimating is to know how long it will take to complete a given task. A successful estimating methodology ought to provide this. I am not convinced the method you outline does provide this. First, I would be interested to see an
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by lumb63 3y ago
Trust the experts. Never question anything.
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I feel like a broken record, as I’m always saying what you’re saying when people discuss health insurance. Most folks want to trash public health care under the quick quip of “that’s socialism” or trash “privatized health care” with the cur
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by lumb63 3y ago
They also, AFAIK, don’t make loans like mortgages, auto loans, credit card lines, etc. All those loans are subject to the same interest rate risk. They’re not nearly as liquid, either.
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The big issue IMO with a declining population is a lot of our economic structure here in America is built on the assumption growth is infinite. Social security would be insolvent if not enough people paid in to fund those being paid out. St
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If you have any interest, HardMAC 802.15.4 driver support in the kernel is poor. I’m learning this the hard way, right now.
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This comment made me think. Is the presence of lending an example of supply leading demand, rather than the other way around? I’ll have to read more on the history of the situation, but I don’t think anyone wants, e.g., a mortgage. They wan
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This is one of the selling points for crypto. As a consumer, digitization of the money is about the only service most consumers care about (or accruing interest). Banking seems to me a very outdated and nearly obsoleted technology.
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Backing up a little, the primary role of banks in a fractional reserve system is to increase the amount of money in circulation by lending. The “opt-out” is “just hold your own money”. Signing up for a bank account while being in opposition
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by lumb63 3y ago
Reddit can’t possibly have much time left. Talk about a space ripe for the taking - Reddit seems hellbent on driving away as many users as possible.
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Does anyone have tips on how to watch chess? I got pretty into chess during lockdown. I read several books on the subject, was playing a few hours each day. I had friends who got into it as well, and they would watch the tournaments and hig
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by lumb63 3y ago
That's true. There are some that are pedantic (-Wpedantic, anyone?) and excessive, but I find it's easier to evaluate those on a case-by-case basis, or opt-out of the ones that are generally useless, than it is to ignore an entire
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by lumb63 3y ago
I used to have an environment variable defined $W_REALLY_ALL that turned on, really, all the warnings. It always drove me nuts that -Wall didn’t turn them all on and even -Wextra was insufficient. There are really very few false positives i
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Do you have any data on the difference in cost between the two paradigms you mention? I'd be curious. I think there are a few additional problems. One is an education problem that I discovered while writing this post. I was taught that
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by lumb63 3y ago
Perhaps I worded my comment incorrectly. Yes, heat pumps can work in New York. But, a backup heat system in that climate would be prudent.
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+1 regarding cooking gas being a minuscule amount of gas usage overall. And not to mention, gas is still the first choice for most serious cooks, so the small benefit comes at relatively large cost to lifestyle. Regarding heat pumps phasing
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It strikes me as strange that this many people are enlisting the help of a sperm bank to have children. What are the use cases here? Simply “sterile would-be father” and “single woman wants child”? Am I missing something? That can’t possibl
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> There is no magic or shortcut that undoes the habit patterns without the individual choosing to make changes and following through on implementing them. How dare you! This is victim-land, where nothing can be the fault of the individua
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Let’s suppose you’re right that USB-C and side-loading are “superior functionality”. There must be some value to that superior functionality; consumers should be willing to pay extra for it if they value it. It seems logically like Apple ou

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