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by profile53 3y ago
Yes, however people who willingly violate laws are more reckless. Insurance is heavily regulated and the rates are set by actuarial data. In other words, insurance companies can only charge high rates for speeders if they can prove their pa
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by profile53 3y ago
That article seems to prove the parent poster’s point, no? It says that it’s no longer for sale but still playable afaict
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by profile53 3y ago
> completely baseless allegations of systemic racism Pretty much all scientific literature in the last 40 years agrees that there is systemic racism throughout the legal system. Your choice not to believe it does not make most existing s
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by profile53 3y ago
Man… the backstory behind anything in windows is always some insane mishmash of backwards compatibility, repurposed tooling, and other assorted insanity.
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by profile53 3y ago
I don’t think the parent post was engaging in an ideological flame war. As a way to start educating yourself, I’d recommend reading about the correlation between long jail sentences and African American heritage. https://www.open
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by profile53 3y ago
It’s a pre built widget because Microsoft wrote it for WordPad though.
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by profile53 3y ago
There’s a dead reply to your post saying that this occurs because of the insanely litigious nature of the USA. I think it’s worth highlighting — business/property owners are essentially trying to use contract law to route around the fa
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by profile53 3y ago
AFAIK Tesla does sell parts to owners, you’ll just have to go in person to a dealership. Anyone with a Tesla able to weigh in?
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by profile53 3y ago
That is actually super interesting, thank you for explaining how that works — I appreciate the thoroughness. Agreed that 35” tires on an SUV is absolutely insane.
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by profile53 3y ago
50mm sidewall /25.4mm/in = 2 in sidewall 24” wheel + 2 in above wheel + 2 in below wheel = 28” diameter, which seems much more reasonable. Am I missing something?
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by profile53 3y ago
That’s a terrible idea. Legally your doctor’s office owns your medical records and HIPAA is the only reason why the ER/a new doctor/urgent care/etc can access your medical history.
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by profile53 3y ago
That’s a bad faith interpretation of what I wrote and you and I both know that is not what unions do. I’m not going to respond after this because either you have no idea what you’re talking about or you are intentionally arguing in bad fait
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by profile53 3y ago
These are anti union talking points and only a single one has a grain of truth. If you are certain the others are reasonable, please prove it. > Conversely, what happened if a new-hire lacked qualifying experience and you wanted to bring
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by profile53 3y ago
Huh, the numbers I’ve seen are much higher than that. 18% for prescription drugs [1], ~6% for retail drugs [1], and 34% for admin costs depending on how it’s accounted for [2]. A lot of places don’t seem to account for insurance related cos
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by profile53 3y ago
IIRC about 40 percent of all medical expenses are administrative costs and about 20 percent is drug costs. Improving those could drop healthcare costs by nearly half, without lowering healthcare salaries. To lower medical salaries, we need
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by profile53 3y ago
I don’t think the driver benefits in this arrangement. I suppose I should provide an example. On a $60 airport fare, Uber+Fees was about $35 and the driver received $25. Two years ago, that trip was maybe $40, so if Uber took 25% and taxes
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by profile53 3y ago
I’ve chatted with about a dozen Uber drivers about this and it’s between 40-60 percent. This is in half a dozen different locales at all times of the day.
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by profile53 3y ago
Wouldn’t that be a good thing given that much of it is security theater?
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by profile53 3y ago
A lot of those five-year contracts were negotiated before Covid and I suspect they will expire in the next year or two. After a certain point, the building owner will have to choose between lowering rents, or having the building foreclosed
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by profile53 3y ago
Isn’t the problem that there is more empty space than needed now so the rents *should* fall?
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by profile53 3y ago
Ok that is fair. I read into the OP’s response being dismissive but did not hold the same standard for the first reply.
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by profile53 3y ago
I think this dismissive response is a pretty good example of why people are distrustful of startups/apps/etc. The person you’re responding to has almost definitely been burned by a shitty app copying everything on their clipboard…
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by profile53 3y ago
I think they take less risk in each hiring decision and because of that, can take on more risky / less proven candidates, ergo more risk acceptance in the hiring practices.
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by profile53 3y ago
Basically because of very precise hardware timings. One tick/cycle of the CPU must correspond to exactly X ticks of the GPU since the code runs very close to the hardware and depends on specific behaviors (e.g. a memory store to this b
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by profile53 3y ago
They’re used for: - lab equipment since they’re extremely non reactive - semiconductor manufacturing for the same reason as above - coatings inside engines/hot, high wear areas, far prolonging their lives - rubber seals preventing chem
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by profile53 3y ago
I think the brittleness is an accepted tradeoff here. In theory, people save many more times than they open a file in this sort of program (and in games), so it's advantageous to make saving a fast path and loading a slow path.
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by profile53 3y ago
Can you give a few examples on this? France is not known for industrial espionage so your claim is the counter to the common narrative
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by profile53 3y ago
IIRC California prohibits raising rates by more than 5.9 percent per year.
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by profile53 3y ago
The core problem with this argument is that if China were to detonate a nuclear weapon high in the atmosphere the US will immediately retaliate with massive nuclear strikes in which case the world would effectively end
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by profile53 3y ago
WoW64 just handles DLL loading/memory mapping/kernel interfaces. It doesn’t do binary translation of the user code at all. Windows x86 on Windows ARM does binary translation.

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