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by pbourke 5y ago
> The lesson here is clear: do not cooperate with the police. They are not your friend, they are not trustworthy, and they will hurt you, badly, and suffer no consequences. Would that have changed the outcome in this case?
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> All other red states continue to be. Yes, due to Roe and against the concerted effort of their Republican politicians. If the Texas law cannot be challenged then Roe is done, and those red states follow Texas’ suit. What a disingenuous
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> It's not their fault, there is some mechanism inside their brains which makes them highly suspicious of everything. Some “highly suspicious” individuals are ingesting ivermectin paste for horses from the farm supply store.
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No, those are called deferred comp plans and they’re a whole separate ballgame. MBDR is much more accessible to your average six-figure earning employee.
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> You’ll NEVER get rich by working for someone else Counterpoint: I know many people who have done just that. If you want to define "rich" as hundreds of millions of dollars, sure - start your own business. Otherwise, a few mil
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by pbourke 5y ago
The problem with any "second device" is that it needs to be with you and charged up when you need it. My phone fits the bill already, so adding a fallback for ubiquitous basic connectivity would be a win.
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Fowler also wrote about "cookie-cutter" scaling of monolithic applications. Seems to me that the fault lies with the people who cargo cult approaches rather than reflecting on them and adopting them if and when they make sense.
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I’m a big fan of hosting stuff myself, but I will nope out of email at the first chance I get. I would just use AWS Simple Email Service, Mailgun, Sendgrid, etc.
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SARS-CoV-2 RBD antibodies that maximize breadth and resistance to escape(nature.com)
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Indeed, but they control the supply chain risks to a much greater extent now.
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Apple’s move, a decade ago, to control their own silicon seems quite prescient.
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All PhDs are not the same.
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The close button is a convenient 10x10 square consisting of a light blue X on a light gray background. It moves when you zoom in on mobile to click it.
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Has there been a flu season in recent history that caused the hospital system to collapse?
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I’ve always thought that one of the most important functions of the judicial system is to balance the equities of majorities and minorities. There are numerous examples of courts striking down unconstitutional laws with majority support.
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These speaking fees were earned while she was a private citizen. She took office in Jan 2021 and these are from 2019-2020. Her tenure at the Fed ended in 2018.
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> If 50% of Canadians died next week, you think what, Canada would cease to exist? It’s possible. Canada’s nearly broken up* in recent memory over regional differences. 50% of a population dying is a massively destabilizing event that co
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by pbourke 5y ago
Assuming that there is only one driver, 750 miles is 12.5hrs and 1000 miles is 16.6hrs at 60mph average. Both of those are above the 11 of 24hrs that a commercial truck driver is permitted to be on the road in the US. Say what you want abou
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> More regulation about how much you can drive would do a lot. Isn’t there already a ton of quite stringent regulation around how long you can drive? Or do you mean outside of the context of activities regulated by the FMCSA in the US?
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I think pensioners would be covered as “lenders”. I interpreted lenders to mean those who have savings or are the beneficiaries of savings, such as pensioners, in addition to the obvious meaning of entities that hold fixed-rate debt as an a
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by pbourke 5y ago
That amount of money buys a lot of tiny houses - maybe 2 for $60k.
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We also know that confirmed cases are mainly among the unvaccinated and serious outcomes are nearly all (99%) among unvaccinated, despite fully vaccinated and unvaccinated being roughly equal populations in the US at present.
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by pbourke 5y ago
I don’t import-star in the console or notebooks (PyCharm, specifically) because autocomplete works better with the module to scope the search. So I end up doing a lot of aliased imports like “import numpy as np”
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> America does not have significantly more homicides then other western countries. The US has 2-5x the murder rate of peer nations. US 4.96/100k Canada 1.76 UK 1.20 Germany 0.95 Japan 0.26 Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.
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by pbourke 5y ago
The Unix CLI skills that I learned in the late 90’s in university have had the longest staying power of anything in my career. They have extended their usefulness to Mac and now Windows with WSL. Pretty cool.
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The point is “don’t be fucking around with options if you’re a US Congressman trading options in a company regulated by your committee”. I favor the broader “Don’t be fucking around with derivatives or single names if you’re a US Congresspe
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> Much of technology is pure fact I think there are actually very few bedrock facts in computing - a program executing as intended on a CPU is fact. Nearly everything else is culture or opinion, including the programming language that pr
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There’s an exit tax that applies to long-term green card holders and people who give up their citizenship.
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Hypocrisy is not an endearing leadership trait
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> I mean the term "conservative mayor" is pretty much unheard of in terms of party lines. Is that true? The current mayor of Toronto was the leader of the Ontario PC party.

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