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by pmiller2 6y ago
Regarding your comment about how the entire ruling centers on this one point, would this mean all the US would have to do to get it overturned is pinky promise they won't throw Assange in solitary? What if they then put him in solitar
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Useless pedantry, and wrong, to boot. Given a low enough baseline exposure to the virus, which would otherwise cause disease, it certainly is possible that wearing a medical grade mask could lower one's exposure sufficiently to not ge
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by pmiller2 6y ago
This seems to be less about "tech" compensation than "startup" compensation, on a first reading. The bits about having to wait for liquidity don't apply when working at a public company, and 4 year vesting schedule
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I'm not sure if that's a normal spike, or not, but the recent spike in the graph there for AWS is a little ominous in context.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
For those who don't want to sign up with NYTimes.com: https://archive.is/3AZmg
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Out of the Matrix: Early Days of the Web(blog.yax.com)
1 points by pmiller2 6y ago|0 comments
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by pmiller2 6y ago
And just as logical as saying taking a pill, or getting a medical procedure violates the Catholic Church's "sincerely-held religious beliefs."
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by pmiller2 6y ago
This sounds like the academic equivalent of giving everyone a participation trophy.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
So? The political boundaries between the states lie inside Lake Superior and Lake Michigan, respectively.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
He didn't say they weren't effective. He said it wasn't worthwhile to be walking around wearing one at that time . The virus wasn't anywhere near as prevalent then as it is now, and, people had no real sense of how q
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by pmiller2 6y ago
No, when you're the CDC, you disseminate the facts as they are known at the time. You don't lie to supposedly keep masks from being hoarded. Considering that's exactly what happened, I fail to see how it could have turned
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Do I need to comment on the irony of a killed/flagged comment replying to yours stating that unpopular opinions are killed or flagged here immediately?
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I don't think so. Here's a study looking at Beijing that estimates about 15% of cases were transmitted presymptomatically: https://jech.bmj.com/content/75/1/84.full
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Where did you see that? What I remember seeing from the WHO and CDC was that wearing a mask wouldn't prevent you from catching the disease, period.
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How the Satanic Temple Could Bring Abortion Rights to the Supreme Court(rollingstone.com)
14 points by pmiller2 6y ago|2 comments
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I don't know. Can you claim not to be "prætentious," while throwing around words like " Sprachgefühl ", as if this isn't a forum for communicating with ordinary people in plain English? PS, 9th century is fro
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Well, there was that one Republican guy who attempted to vote on behalf of his dead mother. That's voter fraud though, not election fraud.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
That’s true. But, it doesn’t make things any better knowing we have the choice between a bad party and a worse party. First past the post, the Electoral College, winner take all style contests, and campaign finance law all work together to
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Not terribly insightful, but this is definitely my favorite comment that I made: > Yeah, TIL Mathematica knows what a goat is, and can recognize one on sight. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24489614 I had fun wri
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by pmiller2 6y ago
People do still write it, for fun: https://ang.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heafodtramet Here's a more fluent reading, if you like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CpKlEiahtI Enjoy it, don't enjoy i
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Both parties are beholden to the wishes of corporations over natural persons. About 5% of the Democrats holding national office don’t fall into this category, but they’re so few in number they can be ignored when making a statement about th
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by pmiller2 6y ago
The difference here is that those 20-30% who resist public health measures to combat COVID have actual power to hurt the rest of us, by spreading the disease.
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by pmiller2 6y ago
It's a good thing, and one of the very few things I will happily stand up and commend the Trump administration for. Unfortunately, the impact on private individuals is likely to be very low, because those negotiated rates are extracte
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by pmiller2 6y ago
As someone who worked for a company that's widely hated on the internet (I'm talking front page of HN-level hate), my reaction was always to sigh and let our PR people handle it. I deliberately stayed out of any discussions invol
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by pmiller2 6y ago
You are right, of course. I didn't want to delve into that sort of complexity, because I didn't want to confuse the issue terribly much. Nonetheless, the main point regarding Icelandic that I wanted to make was about the mutual
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by pmiller2 6y ago
There are a couple of much shorter videos that present a good introduction to this theory of Wolfram's: TED talk (20.5 minutes total): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60P7717-XOQ Or, start at 14:05 or so for his fundam
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Bernard von NotHaus(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by pmiller2 6y ago|0 comments
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by pmiller2 6y ago
I have had the exact same experience with my most recent employer. They certainly didn't do everything right, but, generally, it seems they are quick to acknowledge and fix their mistakes, and, certainly they try to be as ethical as p
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by pmiller2 6y ago
That reminds me of Uncleftish Beholding : https://msburkeenglish.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/uncleftis...
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by pmiller2 6y ago
Perhaps more seriously, hæleþa gedryht , I think. :P

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