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I'd be quite happy to _not_ be able to download "Covid App", whatever that is, on my phone. So, what's a bug for some is a valuable feature to others.
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This is the classical "broken window fallacy", for which there are multiple convincing refutations. I'm sure you can find them yourself. But besides that, wouldn't you want most of your tax money spent on the things it i
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As someone who also tracks time in some amount of detail (to bill clients for it), communication, and _written_ communication in particular takes a surprising amount of time. All those Slack threads you might not even think twice of engagin
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I worked with a Federal Contractor once (you, as a rule, have to go through a middleman to work with US Govt, and that's where most of the profit ends up). Their requirement was that we use their hardware in their datacenter to do our
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At least in the US, by the way, it's nowhere near "overwhelmed": https://protect-public.hhs.gov/pages/hospital-utilization . These are fairly normal numbers this time of year. Yet if you listen to the &qu
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My dream situation would be to have standardized glass containers for most things, that I could then bring back to the store, and paper or _really_ biodegradable plastics for everything else. I'm sure it's doable with today's
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Here's an article that summarizes the issue better than I ever could: https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/krogers-plasti... . And if that wasn't enough, Kroger also had collection bins for used
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US "environmentalism" is utterly baffling when it comes to packaging. Case in point: I can no longer get plastic bags (which, by the way, have been biodegradable for the past 15 years or so), yet much of the stuff one buys in a ty
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May I suggest an excellent, high value human test subject for brain aging reversal? /s
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FWIW, I thought they'd indict the unpaid intern in janitorial department. That's how such things usually go.
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> Voter ID generally isn't supposed to be proof of residence, its proof of identity Super convenient if you would like to vote a few dozen times in different places, I'm sure, but that's not what it's "supposed t
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It does, if you use ZFS, for which there's an option during the install: https://www.maketecheasier.com/use-zfs-snapshots-ubuntu/
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> Environmentalism is unfortunately a liberal issue Only the "performative" kind. Conservatives are quite in favor of nuclear power for example, which is arguably the most "environmental" thing one can be in favor of.
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> Countries that eschew genetic modification of foodstocks will see famine in the next century Even if we were to agree that GM crops help with that (which is debatable), I don't see how there'd be any "famine" seeing
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Kudos to GitLab for boldly and successfully going where (almost) no company has gone before - to having a worldwide, distributed workforce. Truly the way of the future, and (IMO) better quality of life for employees once they get used to wo
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Could be worse: I could be watching CNN like you.
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FYI, the weather is about to get worse in Chicago as well: https://twitter.com/wqad/status/1448469294061342722 . I heard similar things from Seattle, too. And you won't find anything about it in the "free
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He probably doesn't know much about it. Otherwise he'd buy a much simpler system akin to the ones studios use to record and mix the records. Given that he doesn't need the mixing console (which can be quite expensive), he cou
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Well, can't get any of this from the "free" press, so how else do we reconcile reality on the ground with its side effects. Maybe if the press actually worked on reporting news rather than pushing narratives we wouldn't
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Looks like Alaska Airlines is about to start "denying" as well, and blaming cancellations on weather events that affect only Alaska: https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1448456332798013442 And Americ
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They could just be laid off under the present circumstances. If a tree falls in a forest and there's no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? Edit, since HN is throttling my response to the bigman433 below: I absolutely agree wit
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Yes, that one. One of the most thought provoking movies you'll ever watch. I'm not sure how well it translates culturally to someone who never lived under an authoritarian communist regime, but it's a masterpiece even if just
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France, too: https://www.ft.com/content/d06500e2-7fd2-4753-a54b-bc16f1faa... . Looks like cooler heads might actually prevail there.
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Read "Heart of a Dog" by Bulgakov, or better yet watch the movie. Note that there are several movies under that name, you want the black and white one. The parallels between that and today's United States are plain as a day t
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Never thought of it this way TBH. Proverbs are common in Russia, so it might have been Taibbi's cultural misunderstanding. He's usually pretty astute about things, and he has lived in Russia for a while (and at an interesting time
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They don't need to "prove" shit. If you're vaccinated, you're not in danger of dying. Moreover, you will get COVID anyway eventually, with or without the vaccine. It's endemic, and it'll be with us forever
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NPR and NY Times [1] are not valid sources of news. They have discredited themselves again and again. As of yesterday they were pushing the narrative that Southwest Airlines is affected by "weather" that no other airline seems to
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It's a bad analogy. The current situation is akin to requiring that the _rider_ is a licensed driver or car will drive into a tree somehow.
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Why "borderline"? It _is_ misinformation written specifically to advance a narrative.
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And there are, according to the CDC over 160 _million_ of such people in the US: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd... Under the "man dates" all 160M are considered "u

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