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by pjfin123 2y ago
> Hurricane Helene crashed into an insurance sector facing a series of potentially existential questions, and a policy landscape in which the United States has left key decisions about how communities prepare for and recover from disaste
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by pjfin123 2y ago
> The US district court judge Brian Morris said […] deter anyone else from trying to “change the genetic makeup of the creatures”. Why does this judge feel entitled to be the arbiter of the genetic makeup of creatures on Earth? > They
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by pjfin123 2y ago
> When speaking with law enforcement, the jailhouse informant provided information about the crime that was not publicly available, yet consistent with crime scene evidence and Williams’ involvement. This is hard to fake and seems like p
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Meta has been good about releasing their NLO work open source for a long time. Most of the open source datasets for foreign language translation were created by Facebook.
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by pjfin123 2y ago
> In a release, the Senate Health Committee said it would cost the U.S. $411 billion per year if half of all Americans took weight loss drugs from Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly. That’s $5 billion more than what Americans spent on all prescr
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by pjfin123 2y ago
I know lawyers (who do a lot of very particular word processing) who kept using WordPerfect for decades after Microsoft Word had become the norm.
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by pjfin123 2y ago
I think the pay package probably isn't in shareholders value at this point. It's a very large dilution and they've already gotten the value of Musk working for free for years. However, it's totally unreasonable that his
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Even if the compensation package is very large it seems totally unreasonable to cancel it after the fact. Shareholders agreed to pay Musk with what are effectively out of the money options, a reasonable and well understood financial contrac
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Someone should jailbreak it and publish a method for installing Linux on the hardware
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Are there good open source replacements for Splunk?
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by pjfin123 2y ago
To be fair trying to do encrypted group chats isn't at all straightforward.
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by pjfin123 2y ago
It seems especially sketchy that USG is forcing TikTok to store it's data with Oracle, a company with close ties to the CIA. The timing of this move is also suspect. TikTok is the probably the #1 platform currently where users and crea
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by pjfin123 2y ago
Whenever there's an emergency, real or imagined, be very careful which rights you give up. Once they're gone they're probably not coming back even once the emergency is over. 9-11 was decades ago and we still haven't got
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by pjfin123 2y ago
How is this legal? Congress doesn't have the authority to void the Fourth Amendment.
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by pjfin123 3y ago
I developed an open source Risk clone in Godot: https://github.com/argosopentech/Conquest The biggest problem I've run into with Godot is that newer versions of the engine seem to frequently break my existing code
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by pjfin123 3y ago
Nostr is the only payment network I've ever used that lets you send payments of less than $0.10.
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by pjfin123 3y ago
I think we should build giant desalination and water distillation plants in the American Southwest where there's a lot of sun for solar power. Then we can pump the water inland and reclaim enormous amounts of currently unusable land.
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by pjfin123 3y ago
Under U.S. copyright law you can't copyright facts, only the artistic expression.
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by pjfin123 3y ago
> Keeping securities until maturity also gives it the flexibility to avert mark-to-market losses. They're still losses even if you don't mark them to the market. I think the next round of bailouts there is going to be a lot mor
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by pjfin123 3y ago
Is having a "process manager process" a good pattern? This process would have a record of all currently running processes and their children. When you want to create a new process you make a request to the process manager process.
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by pjfin123 3y ago
This would be so cool, hopefully this helps get nuclear off the ground.
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by pjfin123 3y ago
This model predicts 1 billion years until we encounter aliens: https://grabbyaliens.com/posts
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by pjfin123 3y ago
I put the metadata in a JSON file and then store the datasets as a zip archive on a Nginx server.
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by pjfin123 3y ago
I'm on an Amtrak now and just saw this on the front page of Hacker News lol
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by pjfin123 3y ago
This is a good point people often miss. It's not that houses are more expensive today in (hrs worked / square foot) people just work more for a larger house. I think the takeaway isn't that material living standard in the U.S
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by pjfin123 3y ago
I probably wouldn't recommend switching to the gold standard but I don't think the idea is "weird" or "no policy". - People ran productive economies for hundreds (thousands?) of years on the Gold standard and i
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by pjfin123 3y ago
I think the primary cause of the stagnation in the 1970s was a failure to continue to increase energy production. Other factors probably contributed, or contributed to us not making the transition to nuclear.
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by pjfin123 3y ago
Yeah financial crises wouldn't be as bad if more of people's economic activity was more embedded in a family or local community with people they know personally.
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by pjfin123 3y ago
> As this says, margin accounts used in a certain way can put you at risk to lose more than your original investment. However, they are sometimes necessary to make investments with little to no additional risk. For example I may own $50,
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by pjfin123 3y ago
> Rule 1: Your career provides your wealth > Build your wealth upon your career.You most likely will make far more money from your business or profession than from your investments. Only very rarely does someone make a large fortune f

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