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by prirun 4y ago
As content producers yank their content from other streaming services to start their own, the good content is being dispersed over a larger number of services so the average ratings of each are going to go down. They hope their good conten
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I recently switched my plan from streaming back to DVD so I could watch movies again instead of Netflix TV series. They'll have a hard time forcing their ads onto DVDs!
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Or like shingles, where the virus lies dormant for years and then activates if the host's immune system gets weak enough, either from age or some other cause. This would make it very hard to trace the initial exposure.
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IMO, a big difference is the way food is grown and processed. When I was a kid, my great aunt and uncle had a farm and grew wheat. Now most things are grown by large, profit-oriented corporations that don't give a shit about the qual
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Oats don't contain gluten (Celiac disease), though they can have trace amounts if processed on the same equipment as wheat. That's the difference between regular oats and gluten-free oats.
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> there are no "exceptions" when running a program, only conditions that you dislike. Exceptions, aka faults, are a time-tested feature of CPUs that have been around for half a century: https://wiki.osdev.org/Ex
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“well, they may be bigots, but you need to learn to argue with bigots if you want to make progress” In my experience, the more opinionated a person is, the less rational they are, so arguing with them is a waste of time. Most bigots enjoy
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Everyone can cultivate Persistence instead of relying on "genius", whatever that word means to you. An article I found: https://exploringyourmind.com/the-key-to-being-a-true-genius... I especially liked this sent
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One of the things I really like about Python is that it doesn't (or didn't) use a lot of punctuation marks, preferring keywords instead. Makes it a lot easier to digest at a glance IMO, especially as I've gotten older and my
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You can bet the highest priority will be to Goldman, with anyone else coming after.
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If you think you might do a self-funded startup down the road, having a traditional IRA can be very useful. I was a co-founder of a startup and it took us 3 years of self-funding to get it off the ground. During those years, the payments
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by prirun 4y ago
> It's true for all laws, and yet we write plenty of laws. True, but doesn't mean they're effective. I've long held that before enacting a new law, lawmakers should be required to remove an existing ineffective, unne
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My basic stance on guns is that people who commit or intend to commit crimes using guns do not know or care about gun laws. We can pass all the laws in the world to control guns and they will be about as effective as all the laws we have t
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by prirun 4y ago
Shitty headline: the SC didn't expand gun rights. What they did is void a NY law that restricted gun rights by "requiring residents to prove 'proper cause' to carry concealed firearms in public".
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I quit as co-founder after 7 years (we were at peak earnings) because I was ready for a change, and I'm guessing that happens a lot. No wrongdoing. Money isn't everything in life.
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> That's actually what the Celsius CEO, himself, said CEO has to decide between: a) tell the truth: we don't have your money b) lie: everything is fine and we're protecting your money When people say something, try to unde
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I'm always interested in new languages and loved your write-up & evaluation of V. I really don't get the purpose of someone exaggerating the capabilities of their language, to the point of outright lies.
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And the "will enable low-fee microtransactions" argument has never panned out either.
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Seems more reasonable to compare the typical initial cost vs the increased initial cost for the higher efficiency unit that saves $500/yr. My house was built in 2000 with a regular AC unit for the main floor and heat pump for the 2nd f
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Personally, I don't like these two kinds of syntax for declaring and assigning a mutable variable, because if code is moved around - which happens all the time - I have to switch the syntax for declaration vs assignment. Same thing
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I got slammed into while stopped at an intersection last year. Still dealing with injuries and insurance companies. While I don't know for a fact she was texting, you know what the penalty is in KY for texting while driving? $25. No
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Nothing like having Microsoft monitoring every electronic communication on the planet. No thanks.
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My big distinction is programming on my own code vs programming with someone else's code, with programming my own obviously being preferred. While probably unlikely, if someone wanted me to do a new project in Fortran, COBOL, or Pascal
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I read it with NoScript blocking Javascript.
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From the Twitter link: "I was a TVC — which stands for “temps, vendors, and contractors,” a designation within Google for workers who aren’t full-time employees and are hired by third parties companies, not by Google itself. We do the
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From https://www.cnbc.com/2021/09/15/in-2020-top-ceos-earned-351-... "It used to be that in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, CEOs made 3.3 times what a top 0.1% earner made. Now, it's more than six times,&q
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Idiocracy: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/
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Your body is yours, and you are free to wreck it. However, society shouldn't have to pay for your bad behavior via higher health insurance premiums. I'm all for legalizing recreational drugs, including meth, heroin, whatever. Go
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> Make the police walk and cycle around town, not sit aloof in their metal tanks. This is such a good idea. Remember the old police shows where there were always 2 partner cops in the car? That doesn't happen anymore. Now every c
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I love the clamp / adjustable height feature. Using a laptop on a desk is horrible for your neck, and even a Mac Cinema display (has a 6" stand) was not nearly tall enough to allow looking straight out at a monitor without lookin

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