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by pradn 6y ago
Well, the thing is that most people who are below the poverty line do not work and should not work. Of people that are poor, 80% are nonworkers. https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017... Nonw
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by pradn 6y ago
You have a rather charitable interpretation of the show. I saw 4 powerful combative "investors" holding ordinary folks in their fists, playing with their lives, and sometimes even verbally abusing them. The show offers a lottery t
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by pradn 6y ago
He's an opinion columnist, which means you can say pretty much anything, without regard to journalistic standards. Opinion columnists only lose their jobs to bad scandals - you can advocate for awful wars or policies that kill millions
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by pradn 6y ago
The poverty rate is an awful metric. It simply counts the number of people who earn below a certain income. So people dipping $1 below the line are counted the same as those dipping $10,000 below the line. So, poverty-rate alleviation measu
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by pradn 6y ago
That is a good point.
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by pradn 6y ago
I don't understand how the crisis in Yemen, greatly exacerbated by MBS and supported by the US government, a crisis in which 200k+ Yemenis have been killed (including 80k+ children dead who starved to death), 3 million+ displaced, with
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by pradn 6y ago
I wonder, too. Yet I still see these issues.
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Ad blockers have false positives.
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by pradn 6y ago
There aren't always alternatives - think shopping for certain items, government forms.
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Question about pihole: is it possible to turn off blocking for a website? Do you have to log into the pihole web interface to do that? I often go to websites where some crucial functionality is blocked by my adblocker (ublock origin), where
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by pradn 6y ago
I am being harsh, but this company is the equivalent of a chemical company that poisons the river. Sure, there's a benefit of revenue for publishers (powering journalism and other writing / photography / video), but it's
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by pradn 6y ago
You do bring up an important point. Have there been successful cases of taking several levels of the code at the same time? Is there a JIT that uses both the bytecode and the AST together? Some things are easier using some data, for sure.
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This doesn't get around the egress pricing for sending data from AWS to another company's data center, yes?
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And there's not a way to remove the egress pricing moat because it's so natural. Of course it costs less money to move data within a datacenter than outside of it. So, why wouldn't it cost less to do everything inside AWS? Eg
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by pradn 6y ago
In South Asia, bull herders often have nails at the end of their herding poles. I asked my grandfather if it hurts the bull, and he said, "of course not, they have thick skin".
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by pradn 6y ago
A few things to note: 1) The American conception of free-speech absolutism is unique and an extreme point compared to the rest of the world. For example, Germany forbids Nazi symbols and India forbids speech that may rile up religious/
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by pradn 6y ago
The Vedas do not mention monkey people (vanaras), but the Mahabharata and the Ramayana do. The Vedas were composed 800-1000 years before these two epics. So the invention of the vanaras probably happened later, perhaps due to influence from
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by pradn 6y ago
Unfortunately, it's inevitable, since presenting a regular file explorer looks like they're competing in the commodity file syncing / backup space, not the higher-value enterprise collaboration space. They're trying not
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The link didn't work for me, which gives me pause about the availability of this technology. For most, simply going to Wikipedia's Sci-Hub page to get the current domain is easy and good enough, as the domain rarely changes.
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In the humanities, authors often upload to Academia.EDU. It doesn't seem to have as much use among scientists.
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I recall trying to build a can-and-string phone. There's something magical about remote communication, especially if it's completely analog - just the power of your voice.
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It's refreshing to hear someone write well about some technology that has improved their lives. :)
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Moreover, credit unions seem to have good relationships with each other. I've never actually even seen a branch of the credit union I've been using for ten years in real life. But, if I need a notarization or to deposit a cheque,
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by pradn 6y ago
I also loved making spreadsheets as a kid. I remember I'd get books about dinosaurs and add information about them to a sheet - latin name, size, height, etc. IIRC my dad accidentally deleted the file at some point, or it got lost some
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How can the PM who initiated Emergency to overturn an election and reduce press freedoms be a "great democratic force"?
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Yes, AI translation tools could produce starter text that a human could fix later. I assume the text is placed in speech bubbles manually? Perhaps in something like Photoshop? In that case, AI can also place editable text boxes at the speec
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An AAA RPG these days needs to have depth and power, as table stakes. In a world after Witcher 3 and Red Dead Redemption 2, audiences expect more. Moreover, expectations were sky high for Cyberpunk after Witcher 3 managed to move the entire
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by pradn 6y ago
Companies take a big brand hit if they increase prices to match their low output. Adidas, too, can sell Yeezys for $1000 a pop, but chooses not to. It also helps keep the hype for the products up.
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What I'm getting at is that we're misconstruing a storage system (git), with a user-friendly interface. Ideally we get the ubiquity and interoperability of git with a WYSIWYG editor. A website that lets you edit files in the brows
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by pradn 6y ago
Yes, that same hypocrisy applies to Mozilla. And it's been a total and unfortunate way to run a nonprofit - getting money from a direct competitor that wants to pay you as little as possible. The lower the browser market share, the wor

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