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by njovin 2y ago
TBF the best example of a program like this that currently exists is the National Flood Insurance Program which covers many sub-multi-million dollar homes and is billions of dollars in the hole.
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by njovin 2y ago
There's plenty of water for Californians in California + The Colorado River. The problem is that our government has spent ~100 years ensuring that corporations have easier and cheaper access to it so that they can grow feed for farm
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by njovin 2y ago
Then China would just fall back to bombarding them with propaganda on one of the other large social media platforms that are prone to both known and unknown influence.
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by njovin 2y ago
Wouldn't it be somewhat trivial to set up honeypots?
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by njovin 2y ago
10c = 50F and this got me curious at which temperature the mountains turn blue on the Coors can [1]. Coors has apparently determined that 40F-48F (4.44C - 8.88C) is the perfect temperature for their swill. https://www.youtube.co
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by njovin 2y ago
Twilio actually does allow companies to opt out of the automatic STOP handling (I've done it while working on a txt automation system). There is a tiny bit of vetting involved and you've got to be a slightly larger account, but it
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by njovin 2y ago
I wouldn't call it useless, the decision is pretty clear on when property can be held: > If the rationales that justified the initial retention of the plaintiffs’ effects dissipated, and if no new justification for retaining the eff
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by njovin 2y ago
This is so true. I worked for a company that demanded NET90 payment terms from all vendors and frequently wouldn't even begin processing the invoice until 90 days, resulting in the contractor getting paid closer to 100-120 days. They
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by njovin 2y ago
They realized it was cheaper to buy politicians than to actually change anything.
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by njovin 2y ago
Doesn't work for me. On the "lucky" page I enter a prompt, it goes through the progress steps (generating lyrics, cover art, finalizing music) and then...nothing. It goes back to the initial prompt page and nothing is liste
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by njovin 2y ago
I had the opposite experience. Frustrations whilst coding could be severe but were mostly things within my control. Sure, we had major failures and outages which spiked stress, but these were rare and we learned and grew from them. As a m
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by njovin 2y ago
Even in the southwest this is a problem - peak output from residential rooftop solar is mid-day but peak demand is early evening when people are getting home, cooking dinner, charging their EVs, etc. Without some major changes to residentia
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by njovin 2y ago
I don't know about Aldi's but Trader Joe's (which also uses a lot of in-house brands) seems to suffer from this but to a lesser extent and with some lag compared to the competition. This is all anecdotal, but when egg prices
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by njovin 2y ago
They have been fined $38m for killing 8 people, which amounts to a tad over 1% of their 2023 revenue. I'm very happy that an example is being made of them to warn other corporations that committing murder to protect your profits may ca
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by njovin 2y ago
Not sure where you're at but in California the gov't incentivized everyone to install rooftop solar and now that Sempra isn't increasing revenue at the same rate they did before, they're aggressively lobbying to increase
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by njovin 2y ago
This should be retitled as "I'm getting annoyed with the Microsoft/Windows UI." Two of the three complaints are about Windows specifically (resizing windows and lack of application titlebar info). The 3rd appears to be
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by njovin 2y ago
You can have a a ~20 line docker-compose.yml file that only requires you to `docker compose up` and you're up and running. It's gotten insanely easy to run php-fpm + nginx + [whateverdb] in a set of docker services that require v
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by njovin 2y ago
I would hope that this results in a reduction of companies seeking to go public in the first place. We've seen many cycles of: innovation -> growth -> IPO -> happy customers + employees -> not enough growth -> PE ->
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by njovin 2y ago
...likely while worsening the customer experience (less hands-on support, less engineering, less reliability). For a company like SquareSpace unless they're massively overspending and they are rife with inefficiencies I don't see
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by njovin 2y ago
MS has absolutely squandered the potential of the XBOX with their mismanagement of exclusive IP. Sunset Overdrive was incredible but they let Sony buy the IP and the sequel was scrapped in favor of Spider Man. Halo is a shell of what it onc
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by njovin 2y ago
The Ars writeup is blogspam, the linked original post has much more detail: https://cohost.org/ghoulnoise/post/5286766-do-not-buy-hisens...
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by njovin 3y ago
I don't see how email-based 2FA is more secure than SMS. With email, if an attacker gains access to my email account she can remotely de-auth my mobile device's email client, reset my password for service X, and sign in to service
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by njovin 3y ago
The problem isn't the form factor, it's the purpose. Wearing sunglasses is beneficial because it protects my eyes and makes it easier to look at you when you're talking to me. Wearing an AR device is like telling you somethi
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by njovin 3y ago
I don't think I know a single engineer that would tolerate working in this environment.
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by njovin 3y ago
This is so dead-on it hurts. The "taming" of the rivers in the American west by the Army Corp of Engineers has been romanticized and the underlying motives have been swept under the rug: we prioritized these massive public works
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by njovin 3y ago
All the science I've seen has shown a strong correlation between increased levels of phthalates and a wide range of fertility problems in human males and females. The terrifying thing is that phthalates in mothers not only cause develo
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by njovin 3y ago
Depends on the EV. A few years back I did a ~400 mile road trip in a Model Y. We had to make one top-up charging stop which took about 15 minutes. We walked to a spot and got a snack while we waited. A similarly-sized ICE vehicle could h
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by njovin 3y ago
I'll pile on and point out that Cox is a horrible ISP for a variety of reasons. My primary issue with them is that they will continue slowly adding fees and raising prices until your bill is almost double what you initially agreed to.
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by njovin 3y ago
The difference is that the by allowing business to pay under minimum wage (in some states), the business get to create an adversarial relationship between the staff and the customers, and blame the customers when staff don't make as mu
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by njovin 3y ago
Imagine that I go to a movie theater and order a soda and a beer. The cashier pours the soda into a cup from the fountain machine. The bartender pours the beer into a plastic pint from a tap. Why is the bartender deserving of a tip in this

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