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by notJim 6y ago
I don't know if this is still happening, but there have definitely been issues with bus driver shortages. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-28/there-s-a...
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by notJim 6y ago
> All the artist needs to do is publicly declare that they listed their art on an NFT platform, such as Rarible or Zora or what have you and that's enough. What happens if the artist declines to participate in the NFT marketplace,
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by notJim 6y ago
Digital goods as NFTs have exactly the same problems as physical ones. There was a case where someone stole a JPEG of someone else's art off their website, minted an NFT, and sold it, claiming to be the original artist. You still need
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by notJim 6y ago
I think with the Snake River, the issue is that the river is used to ship grain on barges for export. If they instead had to use trucking, the prices wouldn't be competitive, and would lead to higher emissions.
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by notJim 6y ago
I heard a podcast (sadly hidden behind another wonderful platform startup's paywall) featuring Judith Bennett, who is a scholar on this topic, and IIRC she makes the argument that what really drove women out of brewing was access to ca
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by notJim 6y ago
> that salmon are a major part of the food chain for a lot of animals The rivers in the PNW tend to be nutrient poor, because they're mountain runoff. I've read that salmon swimming upstream and dying are a major provider of nu
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by notJim 6y ago
To be honest, I think at this point a shotgun approach is the way to go. It seems overly risky to put all our eggs in any one basket.
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by notJim 6y ago
Hydro seems to also have bad implications for wildlife habitat. Here in the Northwest US, there is a lot of desire to remove some dams to restore salmon habitat. I'm not quite sure if this is because these old dams were built before ha
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by notJim 6y ago
Do we know that this project wasn't audited?
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by notJim 6y ago
That's not what happened. This decision has actually been in the works for a while and involved a lot of discussion. > The decision to cease publication and sales of the books was made last year after months of discussion, the compa
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by notJim 6y ago
Is there a way to filter for remote friendliness on Levels.fyi? Especially since COVID it's gotten hard to keep track of who hires remote and who doesn't.
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by notJim 6y ago
My idea has always been that you can take a topic like this, and generate 90% of the discussion using machine learning. If I ever have some time, I will give it a shot, or hopefully someone else does it. Then write a forum software that jus
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by notJim 6y ago
For me, startups helped me establish a track record and learn practical skills that helped get into bigger companies. I don't have a CS degree, and didn't go to a fancy school, so experience helped a lot. But now that I'm pas
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by notJim 6y ago
Eh, they did the work to change it, the diff is pretty inconsequential and it seems like enough people empathize/sympathize.
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by notJim 6y ago
> cars improve the quality of my life (i like to drive) And if cars were primarily used as an enthusiast pursuit (like horses in the modern world, actually), this argument would make sense. But cars are not primarily an enthusiast pursui
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by notJim 6y ago
He does sound a bit like an asshole, and like he has a chip on his shoulder. It does sound like he lacking in sensitivity to others experience him. If he was my personal friend, and he came to me about this, I'd suggest he work on that
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by notJim 6y ago
For the record, they walked that statement back. It was an absurd statement in the first place, but they did walk it back. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/new-york-times-editor-walks...
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by notJim 6y ago
The level of evidence you're expecting is unreasonable given the events. Consider it from his perspective, which is what most of us are doing: You suddenly notice that you can't access any of the stuff you need to live out your li
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by notJim 6y ago
The hit on your credit report that can last many years if you pay late is far more of a risk than fraud, IME. I forgot to pay my credit card 6 years ago, and that has been hurting me ever since, including on my mortgage. Finally fell off ju
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by notJim 6y ago
What is the actual purpose of buying BTC? Tesla also bought some recently, IIRC. I assume that large publicly-traded companies aren't doing this for the memes, and it seems tangential to their actual businesses. Do they also trade othe
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by notJim 6y ago
Well, your "hair cutting machine" presumably wasn't free, so it's more like you pay a very low tax rate. How regressive of you to dodge your taxes like that.
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by notJim 6y ago
Just for the record, this writer grew up around Houston, went to high school and undergrad there, did grad school in New Orleans, then seems to have moved back to Houston.
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by notJim 6y ago
With a bar this low, that backlog must be a nightmare.
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by notJim 6y ago
At least for my workflow, I haven't run into many issues with the current VIM bindings for vscode. I agree with the commenter who says it would be helpful to understand what's missing from those.
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by notJim 6y ago
I think US democracy will survive, but it's surely not a coincidence that we're seeing more extreme, and potentially destabilizing ideas gain ground on both the right and the left amid widening inequality.
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by notJim 6y ago
I don't understand comments like this, I have never had a problem not touching the sides.
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by notJim 6y ago
> I also don't need a TV that will take up my whole field of view while bathing me in light. To have an immersive experience, isn't taking up your whole field of view kind of the point? I used to have a 9' projector screen
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by notJim 6y ago
Cute as hell
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by notJim 6y ago
Because the idea is that sunlight during a particular part of the day is more valuable. One reason I've seen given (not saying I agree with it) is that if you "move" the sunlight to the morning, it means kids won't have
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by notJim 6y ago
I have limited dev cycles, and would prefer to work on my product rather than google "how long does password reset token need to be" and writing auth forms.

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