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by modriano 4y ago
There is! IIRC, the first item McM ever sold through its website was an industrial tricycle (I think it was to an engineer at CERN, which has very long tunnels).
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by modriano 4y ago
I had been looking to improve my home network and was about to buy a Unifi Dream Machine Pro-SE and some access points when I read Krebs initial article on Ubiquiti being compromised (coupled with HN commenters really dogpiling on Ubiquiti)
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by modriano 4y ago
As a citizen of the US, I like having a vibrant tech economy here in the US and I love working with brilliant people, so I would like it if everyone educated in our world class universities could stay here if they wanted. Also as a citizen
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by modriano 4y ago
About 3% of the global human population (or 70 to 85 million people) died in WWII. Following WWII, NATO was developed to make every military leader in the world grok that attacking a NATO country meant certain annihilation, and as a consequ
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by modriano 4y ago
First off, the US healthcare market wasn't a free market in 1968. State licensing boards regulated the supply of doctors and as Milton Friedman argued in his book "Free to Choose", powerful interest groups used the US court s
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by modriano 4y ago
I'm not so sure that is a sensible inference to draw. Government "interference" in healthcare in many countries where citizens both have greater access and report more satisfaction with the healthcare service they receive. Al
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by modriano 4y ago
I was also put off by the phrase "...roof over their head that they don't like", but the statement can be steelman'd into something I agree with and think is correct. Empirically homeless shelters operating below capacit
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by modriano 4y ago
In my country (the US), real estate has been the main source of generational wealth that lifted tens of millions of people into the middle class. In 1950, the median home value was $7,400 [0] ($91,000 in 2022 dollars [1]). The median home s
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by modriano 4y ago
If you spent a lot of time making something useful to a small set of users who already had extensive domain knowledge, but users without extensive domain knowledge found it confusing and couldn't derive value from your product would yo
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by modriano 4y ago
8 million deaths annually from air pollution is pretty well supported by a number of methodologically sound studies, with anthropogenic air pollution being responsible for more than half of all air pollution deaths [0]. We let the US nuclea
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by modriano 4y ago
I only use the CLI (because I learned git before GUIs got useable), but my mental representation of branches and commits is *graph*ical, and most of the git user guides and tutorials I see use a graphical representation to communicate git c
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by modriano 4y ago
Pro-choice != pro-abortion. Pro-choice means every pregnant woman should have the choice and a real chance to abort their pregnancy if they choose. It's kind of right there in the name.
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by modriano 4y ago
So, what was the median lead concentration in the blood of children when you were born? For me, it was around 5 micrograms per deciliter [0], but children born in my country (the US) today are showing much less exposure to this horrid toxic
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by modriano 4y ago
If you just go by the news, yeah, it may seem like everything is terrible all the time. But if you allow for a slightly larger perspective, you can see that things have never been better for humanity. Just look at the massive improvement in
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by modriano 4y ago
Can you provide a link the statute or other ratified text that you're basing your "health data" categorization on? By the way, HIPAA privacy rules regulate the use and disclosure of Protected Health Information (PHI) in healt
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by modriano 4y ago
The lesson I've had to keep learning (at least over the past few years) is the value of "trust". I've been able to go into any supermarket and not have to think too much about the safety of each individual product becaus
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by modriano 4y ago
As a data scientist, I am oriented towards mining data for valid insights that allow us to answer important questions, such as * "Who was in close proximity (~15m) of this known COVID superspreader event?" or * "Who has spen
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by modriano 4y ago
Humans have a long and storied record of using tools and information to do malicious things. But we also have a long and storied record of using tools and information to produce the incredible advances of the past few centuries, where the m
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by modriano 5y ago
Yeah, I also observed it on Firefox. I was able to view emails by turning off only the "disable cosmetic filtering" filter.
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by modriano 5y ago
We've got a pretty good method for determining what's true. It allowed homo sapiens, a species that has existed for about 300,000 years, to go from developing the first working airplane to the first spaceship capable of putting a
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by modriano 5y ago
Italy's GDP is $1.87T. Russia's GDP is $1.48T, down from around $2.3T in 2013. Russia's economy is dependent on fossil fuels. While the decrease in Europe's use of nuclear power has been a gift to Russia, the future for
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by modriano 5y ago
Consumers are frustrated, or at least I am frustrated (eg when they mislead me into upgrading my plan and entering many expenses before learning the standard deduction will still grant me the biggest refund), but I'm vigilant enough to
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by modriano 5y ago
What's enjoyable about having literal slaves attending to you? I can't imagine literal slaves give off a pleasant vibe.
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by modriano 5y ago
Well, if someone says "climate change caused by globalization of industrialization will destroy the world if it expands it's capacity without revolutionary technological changes", but then backs a party that is firmly committ
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by modriano 5y ago
If only there was some way for markets to attract more suppliers when demand outstrips supply. But alas, short of increasing the price of scarce resources, I don't see any way to avoid catastrophe.
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by modriano 5y ago
The candidate that wins the most votes in a democratic election shall get the office. That principle should not be up for debate, and It's absolutely terrifying how many people are rejecting democracy in this country right now. It&#x27
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by modriano 5y ago
I was under the understanding that coal and hydro were more flexible and hydro even being pretty responsive (just reduce the flow rate and build up the water level in the reservoir). But in any case, wouldn't the surplus just cause the
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by modriano 5y ago
> excessive export means more wasted electricity. I'm not an expert so please forgive me if this is a stupid question, but how is exported electricity wasted electricity? My intuition is that (assuming the exported energy is used) i
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by modriano 5y ago
Slight correction. The bill didn't redirect funds, it proposed redirection of funds. In reality, Oakland's police department is getting a larger budget [0]. [0] https://www.ktvu.com/news/oakland-didnt-cut-any-
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by modriano 5y ago
No police defunding has actually happened though, so I'm fairly confident that that doesn't explain the increase in violent crime, much less the DECREASE in property crime [0]. [0] https://www.nytimes.com/2021&#x2F

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