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by pakitan 5y ago
> My kids' mental health would be pretty heavily impacted by the death of their grandparents. Yes, because without covid their grandparents will live forever.
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by pakitan 5y ago
> Well, since the booster seems to protect, no? That hasn't been proven, as far as I know. Pfizer did some in vitro study but we still have no idea if that translates to real world results.
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by pakitan 5y ago
It contains titanium dioxide, for which there are plans to ban it across EU. Though, there isn't anything definitive about it like "you need such and such exposure for so many years to increase your risk of getting cancer by X%&qu
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by pakitan 5y ago
Thanks!
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by pakitan 5y ago
Is this information freely available anywhere? I mean volume breakdown by the type of buyer/seller (institutional/retail/market maker)?
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by pakitan 5y ago
Don't try to paint yourself as the good guy, Peter Vessenes. You may be able to bamboozle someone who is not familiar with the process but not me. The "option for an early payout" is not something to be proud of. Your company
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by pakitan 6y ago
If by "these people" you mean the "googlers", yes, I'm one of them too and I think the same applies to most developers so I know how to approach harder problems. However, I was curious about the employer's pers
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by pakitan 6y ago
> The speed at which someone can process search results and stackoverflow responses to filter out crap and find the solution is the best proxy I've found for developer productivity. That's interesting. What is your experience w
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by pakitan 6y ago
Well, given a choice between the 2 hypotheses: 1. Lots of people with lots of time on their hands did something that we'd be currently hard pressed to do but no one has really tried yet. OR 2. Two aliens land on Earth and one of them s
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by pakitan 6y ago
Doesn't backgammon lose a lot of its appeal if you're not playing for money? Kinda like poker.
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by pakitan 6y ago
> One of my dreams is when I retire to finally go to university and get a proper degree.This more for emotional sentiment I'm around same age and experience, though I'm actually getting a degree now. My advice is - don't.
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by pakitan 7y ago
It's the lesser evil, IMO. Nuclear waste may kill us but burning fossils will kill us.
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by pakitan 7y ago
Half of those predictions read like "the thing that is a trend now, will continue to be a trend". I can be a prophet too - Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft are not going to be displaced in the next decade.
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by pakitan 7y ago
Nice photos but they are very "run of the mill". I can probably find thousands of "snowy mountains" pics, many of them with a free license.
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by pakitan 7y ago
There is a sound clip in the article. I'm not a Scot and not even a native English speaker but I can recognize some Scottish "artefacts" in her speech. Nevertheless, she definitely didn't go full Braveheart and is nowher
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by pakitan 7y ago
My point is that there are couple of problems/unknowns with UBI: 1. Where do we get the money from? 2. What will be the long term effects of UBI and does it constitute progress compared to the current system. I have no idea whether the
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by pakitan 7y ago
You're mixing tax policy (land rent) with tax income distribution policy (UBI). I think property taxation should be improved and Geolib is one way to do it. However, if we assume that Geolib is the optimal taxation policy, by no mean
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by pakitan 7y ago
What you call "anger" is probably just common sense that people express when proponents of basic income try to present such studies as a proof that basic income is the way. Of course a rich entity giving money to a limited numbe
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by pakitan 7y ago
For me, no, I don't think I can do that. For years I've been doing the "Electronics is cool, I should learn more about it but not today" routine. Now, I started doing some heavy research into solar energy, for purely pra
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by pakitan 7y ago
> We just believe we are owed a fair adjudication of our contract and have proceeded both in confidence on the merits of our case and with the fundamental confidence that a party harmed by breach of a contract has the right to have damag
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by pakitan 7y ago
Renting the land essentially means you temporarily own it, along with all the benefits you may get, including subsidies. Subsidies definitely don't go directly to landowner. Only indirectly via the rent payments.
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by pakitan 7y ago
At least for my country, NYT is correct that a large portion of the subsidies goes to few companies but that's not the whole story. Quite a bit of those companies are renting the land from regular people - land ownership is very fragme
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by pakitan 7y ago
Yes, and that impression is correct because "blind" means someone who can't see. At all. The people you mention are usually referred to as "visually impaired" or "legally blind".
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by pakitan 7y ago
> In fact, UC Berkeley case is the only data point I've seen from you here; which feels sparse given the blanket statements you've made about the intentions of various groups of people. You've been too busy twisting my arg
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by pakitan 7y ago
No goalposts were moved by me. In this thread, the only thing I've been saying from the very start is that the majority of these ADA lawsuits are shakedowns and the UC-Berkely case is just one more datapoint. I provided an article with
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by pakitan 7y ago
Yes, of course.
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by pakitan 7y ago
OK, here is a case that we do know something about: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/why-uc-berkel... Is that frivolous enough for you? That's the same law you're defending here and when
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by pakitan 7y ago
> It also sounds like you don't really believe that disabled folks deserve any consideration. No, that's not at all what I believe so let me clarify what my objections are. First, by its very nature "accessibility" is
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by pakitan 7y ago
You're really intent to get me on a technicality. Fine, I'll concede - somewhere out there, there is a blind person whose pride in life is finding the best auto insurance deals for his relatives. And somewhere out there, there is
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by pakitan 7y ago
On the contrary, the power dynamics is completely different. It's one thing to come up with a ridiculous policy (which is easy for a politician to do) and put the onus on minority of affected people to fight it, while the majority is n

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