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by piker 2y ago
Yes, in many contexts that may well be the correct conclusion. Your comment presumes that regulation here has proven itself useful and not resulted in a single point of failure which potentially reduces overall safety. It’s of course the co
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by piker 2y ago
Broken regulations? Fix by adding more!
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by piker 2y ago
Also, as with the starving artist, supply may be artificially high.
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by piker 2y ago
…penicillin?
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by piker 2y ago
Given the reference to “the well”, it’s likely the parent was referring to mass.
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by piker 2y ago
Do you have a metric to support that theory? It’s good for the European story for that to be true, but hard to quantify.
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by piker 2y ago
Between endless builder patterns and the let if/match syntax it does get quite wide and ugly relative to C or something. But it definitely has its upsides.
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by piker 2y ago
Interesting how malice is implied in the safest circumstances and mistake in the most hostile in those examples.
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by piker 2y ago
pg disputing the narrative that Sam was forced out for being dishonest is totally valid, there is just some real interesting language parsing here to rule this not a “firing”. He lost employment at his employer’s behest and it wasn’t a layo
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by piker 2y ago
I start a side gig and my employer tells me to choose the side gig or my employment. I choose side gig and lose employment. I am fired.
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by piker 2y ago
> Every time I go to the grocery store to buy something and don’t have to worry about my card being declined, it feels like magic. Even years later. So this is universal!
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by piker 2y ago
I believe big tobacco was required to fund those as part of a mass tort settlement.
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by piker 2y ago
> You might notice that we’re ignoring the pockets of space between the moles. In a moment, you’ll see why. Lol!
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by piker 2y ago
The stat seems accurate on that basis. True, it may be read to imply more.
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by piker 3y ago
You’re operating under an assumption that there is an employment contract with a long notice period in place. In many (most?) American jobs this is not the case.
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by piker 3y ago
So perhaps that suggests caution be taken in meddling…
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by piker 3y ago
Dumb take. “Just run your business with 10% of the revenue? What’s the problem?” Edit: to those downvoting, yea, it’s agreed that tracking is bad but the tone of the article completely ignores that a lot of the web’s content depends on this
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by piker 3y ago
Drupal. Interesting choice in 2024
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by piker 3y ago
Isn’t the general ethos here that HN doesn’t care about some number of 9’s of reliability? They just upgrade stuff when necessary and probably bang on prod a lot more than big corporate sites. HN is a nice to have, and keeping it that way a
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by piker 3y ago
My dad is a severe paralytic polio survivor and turns 70 next year. He’s a happy man, but his life has been hard in incomprehensible ways. As a father now, I cannot imagine what his parents went through when he was paralysed in the hospital
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by piker 3y ago
Anybody who closely followed this case who could identify for the readers here any direct evidence of these crimes, or should we read this article to imply Lucy herself might be innocent?
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by piker 3y ago
Gas clouds are made of light molecules that a plant would need a large mass to retain, perhaps. Consider how Earth's gravity isn't strong enough to retain He.
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by piker 3y ago
Where is the memory holding the string in the first naive example? To those more familiar with C than C++ it seems like the function returns a pointer to a stack allocation… no?
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by piker 3y ago
Is this normalized for the base rate? Aren't baby boomers a massive proportion of the population that is just ... aging? Should any different result be expected? (There is a concern if you have a lot of old, homeless people, but that&#
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by piker 3y ago
Would be good to understand the source of the claim at the top. Not casting judgment, and they are nutrition folks, but there may be a profit motive behind the funding/research. https://www.abbottnutrition.com/our-brand
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by piker 3y ago
Fascinated / saddened by the effect of modern economic trends on music, but it is what it is. However, > Before the Temptations sing a word, an instrumental introduction featuring organ, guitar, bass, and a hi-hat cymbal ebbs and fl
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by piker 3y ago
Consider the burden of tracking unit prices a tax itself that is being shifted to the buyer in this case. So even then… inflation.
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by piker 3y ago
Maybe get a bit more info before encouraging pitchforks... was it an employee of Bank of America or First-Second Bank of Boise? Most people will likely agree that they get random views all the time. This may be entirely coincidental. The fo
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by piker 3y ago
One of the better Onion takes: https://www.theonion.com/even-ceo-cant-figure-out-how-radios... Probably some sound advice for the new owners hidden in there.
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by piker 3y ago
Seems like another example of the importance of battery improvements. With enough thrust-to-weight I've heard you can get a Buick to fly. Thus, some of the marginal aerodynamic optimizations that necessitate more complicated builds may

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