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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Not sure if this counts as drama per Linux kernel mailing list standards: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/2911ac5cd20b46e397be50... > So how exactly do you expect someone to review this monstrosity ?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> You're arguing a car isn't a class line in the United States, and you've completely forgotten the ~8 of adult Americans who don't have a car at all for transportation. Maybe it's a class thing. Or maybe it isn&
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
What exactly are you arguing against here? So a $2k car is not affordable by the 10% of the population below the federal poverty line... therefore it's an upper middle-class luxury?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
What?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I don't see Uber as class- or luxury-related at all. They have all kinds of customers. Sure they have affluent customers but e.g. college students actively seek each other to split Uber fares too. Many people would prefer to drive inst
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I feel like they have the ability but not the motivation and/or willpower. Obviously lots of factors probably affect it (I mentioned one in another one of my comments), but I'd be curious if e.g. a college student of the same age
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
I wonder how many of these problems are severely exacerbated by the high price tags for college education. Especially amidst the pandemic. It seems obvious that when people pay more, they become less flexible on the results they find accept
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Ah thanks. Sounds like you had it quite easy to be honest, and you must not get a lot of emails at all. Not every email is an action item for me—many are just for record-keeping purposes and later searchability, though I have certain filter
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Do you use complicated Gmail filters? What did you use instead of them after migrating? Also, any Google Apps Scripts?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Previously it was rather disappointing [1]; has it improved? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23394714
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Only if you don't count your mouse clicking the omnibar as a keystroke.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Ctrl+K for Windows users looking for a shortcut key.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> What would such a contract look like? The obvious answer: perhaps more similar to the way it looks like right now? I just don't see why IC implies "let them decline rides without facing penalties by the platform".
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Let them decline rides without facing penalties by the platform. Does the model of IC have to imply that every ride is a new, independent contract? Is there no other reasonable model in which multiple rides are part of one contract?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> I just wonder, if I as a private person had a brain fart and wrote a check in full for my car loan, instead of just an installment, what are my chances of retrieving that money? Very small I should think. I would've assumed that i
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
https://malware.news/t/sparkling-payloads/41968
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> imply > misleading I... don't think misleading means what you think it means. Misleading statements (pretty much by definition) don't imply falsehoods. They "merely" "suggest" falsehoods to those who
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Not the parent, but: How does a certificate let "macOS verify the app is free from malware"?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Yeah so it's hard to see if we can use London as an example. Any other places that might be more representative?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
My memory is kind of fading w.r.t. what exactly happened in London, but I seem to recall their plan was pretty much explicitly "let's embrace COVID so we can get herd immunity"?
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Yeah, that's what you need to compare, and that's why just looking at those statistics in isolation doesn't lead to a definite conclusion. But now that we're comparing apples to apples, and see the apples are comparable,
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> To be fair if we don't control this thing you have a near 100% chance if catching covid at some point in the next few months. By "near 100% chance" here do you mean the fraction of the population getting the disease, or
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
No, not really. "We" (as in normal people, not e.g. automakers) don't "try to avoid getting in car crashes" to nearly such a degree as with COVID. We live our everyday lives and drive anyway, and doing pretty much w
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
The probability of dying given you have the disease (/car crash) is not what you need to look at. You need to include the chances of actually getting the disease (/being in a car crash) in the first place, is my point.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
You're right, but unfortunately it's beside my point. (I took "chances of dying in a car crash" to mean it was the fatality rate of a car crash, which was wrong.) I was trying to find the chances of dying given you hav
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> 1 in 200 chance of death (pretty high by the way) The fatality rate of a car crash is also about 0.5% [1], but that doesn't prevent us from driving. That means there's a piece of the puzzle missing here, right? Note that I&#x
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Learned a new (British?) word today, thanks!
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
> Chesterton's fence Is there a "reverse" version of this where you do understand the reasoning, explain clearly why it doesn't apply anymore, but the other side just refuses to think for themselves and just sticks wi
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
Yeah, that's why I said this is what I'd want to know. It's hard to tell if that's how he got it otherwise.
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by mehrdadn 6y ago
What I'd like to know is: did his friends have any symptoms? Or were they asymptomatic?

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