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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Thanks for writing this up — that's a really interesting perspective on the problem, and definitely worth pondering. I'm not familiar with the underpinnings of cross-country payments so I'll just take your description as val
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
> Yes, that's how it works. Specifically, the common argument that applies to most companies (incl. Rumble), is that you're trading within that country if anyone from that country is either paying for your product/service,
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Chinese Hospitals Are Housing Another Deadly Outbreak(foreignpolicy.com)
4 points by piotrkaminski 3y ago|0 comments
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Are you not a programmer because you use a compiler and "paste" its output into the executable? Or an assembler, instead of flipping bits by hand in memory? Are people making complex spreadsheets with hundreds of formulas not pr
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
> devalue the diploma from the public college Huh? How so? If the only change is that you no longer need to pay for college, but otherwise admission standards and education quality remain the same, then why would the value of a diploma
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
> That said, one of my favorite features from gerrit at a past job was that the commit message itself could be reviewed. Reviewable lets you review your commit messages just like any other file, BTW! (Disclosure: I'm the founder.)
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Most frequently, I think it's because you want a single platform to store all company code, but not all teams agree on using GitHub PRs vs a more advanced code review tool. Other potential reasons include having access to the other Gi
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
I'm curious, are you allowed to name any folks using CodeCommit? I thought it wasn't particularly popular.
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Here's how I like to think about it: GitHub is a generalist. They have a big platform with lots of features besides code review, so even though they also have lots of employees they won't be able to focus on code review as much
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
So are you saying that car-making is a natural monopoly solely because of the unions? <half-joking>
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
> it's difficult for new competitors to emerge Counterpoint: Tesla, Fisker, Rivian, Lucid, Faraday Future, not to mention all the new Chinese brands that I don't follow. Difficult maybe but far from impossible, and not at all
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
> It's not like the SF Bay Area where you have water, desert, mountains, etc all very close by. Wait, desert?!
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
This is a systematic review and meta-analysis of the literature on growth mindset interventions. The abstract's punchline: > We conclude that apparent effects of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement are likely attri
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Do growth mindset interventions impact students’ academic achievement?(psycnet.apa.org)
2 points by piotrkaminski 3y ago|1 comments
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
I'm not a lawyer, and especially not a freedom of speech lawyer, but my understanding is that everyone has an obligation to follow the law whatever it might be (modulo intentional civil disobedience). If the law is unconstitutional th
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
The law is what it is, but I thought the response from the district was quite rational: > “Frankly, we have more important things to do than spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to protect kids from books,” Exman told PopSci via
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Hmm, the latest article [1] specifically about the California authorization says: > When active, Mercedes takes responsibility for Drive Pilot's actions. and > "Mercedes-Benz Drive Pilot is the world's only SAE Level 3
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
There were a ton of articles around 2022-03-20 (e.g., [1]) that had a line like this: > Once you engage Drive Pilot, you are no longer legally liable for the car's operation until it disengages. Not quite a press release but given t
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by piotrkaminski 3y ago
Cabin ( https://www.cabinprivatetravel.com/ ) used to offer an SF-LA sleeper bus circa 2017, but looks like they're just doing private charters nowadays. I guess they couldn't make it work even with $115 one-way ti
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
> I understood the grandparent post to mean that the harm can sometimes outweigh the benefits when the vaccine is forced. Not that it's always the case. On careful re-reading I believe you're correct. Though if a hypothetical
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
> Even then, the emotional distress and reverse placebo effect of coercing people to take a vaccine if they don't want it still outweighs any benefit. That's ridiculous -- of course benefits can outweigh psychological side-effe
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
> Originally earmarked to cost no more than $968 million, the Port authority was forced to pump an additional $18 million into the project in 2021, but now there are fears an additional $78 million will need to be found to address the ga
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
> This year, Florida, South Carolina, Maryland, Tennessee, Iowa, Idaho, *Texas* and Montana lawmakers are all considering versions of the bill (emphasis added)
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
> I think an important difference is if he “owned” and solelt possessed the data, the warrant would be his to fight (or not comply with) in court. My understanding from the article is that he was, in fact, given 7 days to contest the war
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
Indeed -- curse you, irregular standard note structure!
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
Wouldn't B double sharp just be C? I guess they'd need to call it "B triple sharp", which is just getting silly.
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
> public transportation and alternative forms of transportation (ie, biking, walking, micro-mobility) In the kind of cold weather that cuts EV range, per the OP? I've been there, and thanks but no thanks -- I'm too old for tha
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
I have much the same question -- it seems like PHEVs would be perfect for the next 10 years or so, while we improve batteries and build out charging infrastructure. And yet there are relatively few PHEVs on the market, and most of them hav
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
Not OP, but I'm guessing they're referring to the "readability" approval process, which can sometimes be pretty brutal. (Or at least that was the case a decade ago, don't know how it's evolved since.)
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by piotrkaminski 4y ago
FYI, the sample demo is broken for me. When I hit play it the whole frame "vibrates", apparently switching between two (nearby) sizes every frame or so. (Hotspots are still clickable.) Resizing the window or moving to a differe

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