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by m0llusk 4y ago
But not your pool pump. If you have an old pool pump then you should definitely consider replacing it with a modern one as they function better, more reliably, and use far less energy.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
This is prominent in the elderly or children tests. Older people have gifts of experience that can be invaluable to the rest of us, especially when broadly shared. Children have great potential but through most of human history have been
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by m0llusk 4y ago
With good checking of types and this should not be such a problem. Most languages restrict themselves to letters, accents, and punctuation so that programming syntax and use of symbols can be detected and flagged.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
This idea of localization as code has significant history from Perl: https://perldoc.perl.org/Locale::Maketext::TPJ13 Currently Mozilla Fluent seems like a good compromise implementation. The type checking is maybe not as
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by m0llusk 4y ago
This is how we could defeat a rogue AI: Distract it by talking about the weather.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Ugh, this thread! For years I pleaded with people to understand that there was value to being able to start up in a deterministic manner, but some shell scripts that don't actually work are supposed to be enough? Then someone finally
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Back in the 90s they made an amazingly robust floppy disk duplicator.
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slowly at first ...
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Comparison to internationalization might be interesting. Supporting multiple languages almost always expands the potential customer base, sometimes by a large amount. But even with the potential business impact it is extremely rare for ap
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Potentially amusing related analysis: Duolingo is the Devil by Langfocus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbmXSR_QiP8
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by m0llusk 4y ago
A different framing can be revealing. For some years the state in the US with the lowest number of abortions per capita was Massachusetts where abortions are not only readily available but also essentially free. The big difference is that
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by m0llusk 4y ago
My dad made around a quarter million a year as an airline pilot and was unable to make use of tax deductions to avoid the 75% taxes. When Reagan did his thing my dad's tax rate went down to around 33% or something like that. My dad l
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Not to go too far with commercial promotion, but I'm pretty sure that in the US garlic distribution, especially the processed options, are dominated by Christopher Ranch in Northern California: https://christopherranch.com&#
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Higher concentrations allow people to use less material. That higher concentrations cause harm is not clearly established. There are always people who will manage to misuse and hurt themselves with anything, even Hacker News.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Knowing that microwave oven transformers are extremely dangerous is critically important, so this represents a serious failing of basic education.
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Potentially interesting to note that the home mortgage interest and state tax deductions were long controversial as perverse incentives and got dropped during the Trump administration.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
You are talking about revenue neutral at a population level. What matters to individuals is their own revenue. The impact of these changes on individuals varied a great deal. Many middle class lost valuable deductions while wealthy peopl
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by m0llusk 4y ago
That was a complex situation. At that time the IRS did a lot of investigation and you had to be very rich and clever to really make tax cuts work. My father worked as an airline pilot in the 1970s and paid a 75% rate which made him irrati
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by m0llusk 4y ago
This is self disruption. It is important to keep in mind that Montreal used to be the big economic power in Canada before Quebecoise nationalists started this and Toronto quickly picked up the slack and grew faster and surpassed Montreal.
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refer madness 2.0; better let starbucks distribute the psychoactives
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by m0llusk 4y ago
The devices themselves are closely related, but the marketing and sales are worlds apart. Most THC carts are marketed to adults as cannabis delivery systems. JUUL were targeted at children as harmless tasty fun and JUUL was deceptive abou
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by m0llusk 4y ago
There might be some confusion between fashion and reality. You can never be to rich or too thin, but obese and broke is an extremely common combination. Sex may be waning under the stress of modern living, but that doesn't necessaril
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Actually, the statistics are rather stark. Without sprinklers people may be seriously injured or killed by fire. With sprinklers present and functioning risk of injury or death from fire becomes negligible.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Sometimes the idea is to do things wrong and then use that experience to do things correctly later and if possible use events to sweep aside the current political order.
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by m0llusk 4y ago
This may be in rather easy reach in some cases, at least in terms of power usage. Residential utilities like kitchen appliances, lights, and pool pumps have all been getting more efficient and are often run from batteries charged by solar
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by m0llusk 4y ago
What may matter most is how these barriers are negotiated. Do people really need to be protected from barbers with limited training or could that be handled with disclosures? And how are violations discovered and resolved. In my case I st
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The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth.
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Some robust metrics for administrative capacity and performance would be good, but it is not obvious how that would work. It is bothersome that much of this analysis ends up being layers of questionable conclusions. For example, the idea t
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by m0llusk 4y ago
Lots of these are drug interactions. Have a symptom? Here is a drug for that. Doctors rarely check and often are not aware of the potential for harm. Seniors taking 2-3 dozen drugs regularly are not uncommon and often feel much better w
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by m0llusk 4y ago
How do you think San Francisco should be run?

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