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by obelos 2y ago
Not every time. Sometimes it's DNS.
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by obelos 2y ago
This opinion piece is less a incisive criticism of NPR than it is a resume line item for Berliner applying to The Atlantic. His three leading “big” examples are largely wrong. The Mueller report didn't say “no collusion”. Barr did. The
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by obelos 3y ago
Much like the frequently vilified HF trader, the value that landlording adds to the economy is liquidity. What do these managed housing schemes provide when, for example, a household breaks up? Or two households want to merge? Or even when
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by obelos 3y ago
What's your threat model? The number one killer of children under 16 is cars.
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by obelos 3y ago
But why? If the person with the overwhelmingly disproportionate amount of power is unwilling to uphold and support the social contract, why is it incumbent upon the disenfranchised to regard the contract as valid or even existent?
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by obelos 3y ago
gerund.ing is only $45/yr!
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by obelos 3y ago
My city's transit system has this. It's convenient for if you're traveling alone, but traveling with kids now requires more logistics and planning than it used to. Their former electronic pass system was just an app that allo
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Metals from spacecraft reentry in stratospheric aerosol particles(pnas.org)
2 points by obelos 3y ago|0 comments
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by obelos 3y ago
A lot of car-centric people conflate “I don't know exactly what's about to happen next” with “danger!” What's actually dangerous is the hubristic trance people fall into when they believe they do know exactly what's abou
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by obelos 3y ago
Make those anti-eargasm prudes take a back seat for a while!
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by obelos 3y ago
Police are given a monopoly on physical violence deployed by the State. The key element here is cordoning off that monopoly on violence to apply to situations where it is most likely to be necessary. They are not the sole arbiters of confor
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by obelos 3y ago
It's puzzling to me why police need to be involved at all, save for possibly some sort of statutory restriction that ought to be removed. What is it about police's training that makes them uniquely qualified to process these image
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by obelos 4y ago
Though it hardly gets any use because s/// is so much more flexible, Perl also has a tr/// builtin that replicates the behavior of the command line tool.
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by obelos 4y ago
Oh, c'mon, “purl” was right there!
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by obelos 4y ago
Heh. I mean, I was an A student, but except for a handful of duds in the class, all of my peers produced this same kind and quantity of work. There were definitely some who were sharper than me. I did not think of myself as a particularly s
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by obelos 4y ago
“Back in my day...” when I was in my last term of CS undergrad work 25 years ago, I had already developed kernel modules (in a toy/research OS) to manage concurrency primitives, written several networked client and server programs and
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by obelos 4y ago
I got one of these recently, and it's worked out even better than I'd hoped. The way I can nestle my head into it and it just holds it in place is unmatched by any other material I've slept on. The one thing I don't like
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Kids ride a ‘bike bus’ to school. Residents line the streets and cheer(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by obelos 4y ago|0 comments
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by obelos 4y ago
Those studies also don't demonstrate any causality, only correlation. It seems not unlikely that districts willing to try an experimental voting method also are more interested in running diverse candidates.
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by obelos 4y ago
As a practical consideration, the runoff in STAR does offer a legal advantage in some districts where a runoff is legally mandated.
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by obelos 4y ago
That's more due to the proportional representation method (STV) used by Australia's upper legislative body. The lower body uses single-seat IRV and for most of the past century has been strongly dominated by two parties. This isn&
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by obelos 4y ago
Instant Pairwise Runoff and similar Condorcet methods seem like they would produce good results, though I'm averse to unsummable methods for practical reasons. But I think there's more nuance than saying a ranking method better ca
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by obelos 4y ago
Not without changing our voting. The equilibrium point of our choose-one, winner-take-all plurality voting system naturally cultivates two-party dominance.
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by obelos 4y ago
RCV lacks the quality of “precinct summability” which means that all ballots have to be centrally tabulated. This is a serious security issue because there is a single point of failure for an attacker to undermine auditing measures. Here in
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by obelos 4y ago
Bullet voting is an overblown “weakness” of Approval and Score. “I only voted for my honest favorite” is not a huge drawback, IMO. Nevertheless, in the actual municipal elections using Approval Voting in St. Louis and Fargo, voters on avera
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by obelos 4y ago
Yep. More drivers driving more miles faster.
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by obelos 4y ago
Bring back postal banking! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_S...
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by obelos 5y ago
Yeah, I think you're asking for trouble if you start squashing commits on code that has been deployed, which is the situation he seems to be describing here. I can't see any net benefit to that, and can see a whole lot of trouble.
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by obelos 5y ago
Why no squash? It's a private dev branch, so it doesn't throw off anyone else's work. Just commit to your heart's content for every little experiment. Write trivial commit messages like “checkpoint” because `git show` wi
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by obelos 5y ago
I feel downright minimalist now with my 120A/120V grid service.

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