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by pradn 5y ago
Heck, I can be technically-savvy and I prefer the "just works" experience of Windows. It rarely gets in the way. All major software and games work on Windows. I don't even think about hardware compatibility. It just disappear
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by pradn 5y ago
Well, maybe. People do vote. You can look at the strong opposition local and state level politicians see with any property tax or state income tax increase. There's a built-in regulating mechanism. Taxes are usually one of the top issu
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by pradn 5y ago
I think this simplifies things a bit too much. Fiscal and monetary policies are administered by two separate branches of government, the Fed and Congress. The Fed is only nominally under democratic control, with just the board members appro
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by pradn 5y ago
They ended up with a billion or two users. $1-2 billion with the subscription is good for a company of a few dozen employees. They could have branched into all sorts of value-add stuff in the future if they wanted to, all without tracking a
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by pradn 5y ago
One remarkable person from this time period is Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, who had the first European child in the Americas (outside Greenland) and then made a pilgrimage to Rome. She's probably the most well-travelled woman of the 11th
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by pradn 5y ago
A camera in glasses is always going to be too intrusive I think. Norms may change, but even if there's a clear light indicating that a photo or video is being taken, it's offputting to feel the possibility of a recording happening
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by pradn 5y ago
I want to share an amazing experience I recently had. I was looking through TV consoles on Crate & Barrel and found one I liked. I was unsure if it'd be too tall for my room (it's an extra 9 inches of height over my current TV
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by pradn 5y ago
This should be allowed, because this means smaller competitors have a shot at the customer base of a more established competitor. If we ban it, it's just shoring up established players.
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by pradn 5y ago
We still seem to have >1500 deaths/day in the US. Is treatment effective but not available? Or is it just not effective?
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by pradn 5y ago
It's wonderful to see his OSS work celebrated. One can only hope to be recognized for great work like this at the end of their life. I don't do much open-source work, and most corporate systems I worked on will probably be obsolet
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by pradn 5y ago
At least in the middle of Manhattan, I've learned to rely on the direction of cars up and down avenues to tell which way I'm facing. I know that Eighth Ave goes up because I live and work around there, and so can extrapolate for t
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by pradn 5y ago
The distinction here is that this effect requires a quantum-mechanical understanding of the world to be understood at the core. It's not like the simple movement of a ball in a parabola, which can be explained in classical terms.
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by pradn 5y ago
It somewhere between "paying to not see ads" (mechanical) to "being a fan and wanting to contribute to them" (parasocial). I don't think most people care if they're a fan of a millionaire - see sports and enter
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by pradn 5y ago
Not to mention the Fed chair and board is appointed by Congress. It's meant to be an indirect choice, but it is a choice none-the-less. It's just like how Supreme Court justices are appointed. They have similarly broad powers fair
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by pradn 5y ago
There's also the element of stock comprising 30-50% of total compensation. Don't rock the boat too much.
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by pradn 5y ago
The IRS could not come up with a website and TLD that sounds more like a scam if they tried. :)
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by pradn 5y ago
Take a listen: His violin concerto: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0w0t4Qn6LY Finlandia: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5zg_af9b8c
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by pradn 5y ago
This is a rather rare occurrence, and was fixed, with legal consequences for the bank.
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by pradn 5y ago
I think, culturally, NFT boosters are close to multi-level marketers in coolness. I can't imagine them being actual status symbols, except for the way those who were able to make a quick buck are able to parlay that money into conventi
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by pradn 5y ago
I thought it was just because email wasn't secure? That's why health and banking providers send you links to their messages; perhaps this is just for health and banking info.
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by pradn 5y ago
Yes, these torrents hold hundreds or thousands of articles each. You can help preserve them by downloading and seeding them.
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by pradn 5y ago
Twitter has ended up pretty good for me. 1) I set my location to the country Chad so I don't see popular trends that aren't very interesting, or serve as sources of outrage. 2) I use the word-based content filters to omit annoying
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by pradn 5y ago
And if you compare histories, it gets even more absurd. We almost know what Cicero did hour-to-hour on some important days. We don't even know which century Kalidasa, the most important Sanskrit poet, was active in.
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by pradn 5y ago
For most people, calling AAA is probably the way they're gonna go, instead of changing their own tire.
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by pradn 5y ago
It's amazing that a company did this for such a post. I personally appreciate it, but I doubt people in Congress would find it funny - more likely flippant.
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by pradn 5y ago
I think they're saying that we can hope that three shots gives long term resistance, as it happens for other vaccines. We can only hope, and it's not a totally unrealistic hope given how other vaccines work.
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by pradn 5y ago
I think they're saying that other vaccines, not COVID vaccines, have this property. We can't assess decadal resistance yet for COVID vaccines.
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by pradn 5y ago
The police are also extremely blasé about wearing masks. They hardly did in the thick of the pandemic, let alone now. The people have no democratic control over the police. The mayor and council are too afraid to do anything significant. It
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by pradn 5y ago
It's easy to do searches on 74,000 numbers. Unpack them into an array and do binary search. No need for prefix trees when binary search will do just fine. Much simpler, too. The unpacking process is trivial if the list is packed using
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by pradn 5y ago
It's funny that you mention this because one of my fav fight scenes in any movie is at the beginning of Hero, the 2002 movie with Jet Li. When Jet Li and Donnie Yen's characters face off at the beginning of the movie, they imagine

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