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by putnambr 4y ago
Knowing how much of a PITA even modern in-depth chain cleaning is with solvents... I can't read that article as anything but satire. Even with old roller designs, an overnight soak in paint thinner followed by an ethanol bath should ge
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by putnambr 4y ago
In addition, ask any young person involved in sports how catching COVID has affected their training and performance. For mostly sedentary people it might feel like catching a bad cold and then recovering. If you're actually consistentl
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by putnambr 4y ago
From OC: > wouldn't you need to balance the risk of death / complications from the vaccine against the risk of death / complications from covid multiplied by the risk of getting covid? For certain demographics the probabil
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by putnambr 4y ago
How about any of the reservoirs in drought-stricken North America? Water could be pumped to Lake Mead, power generated at Hoover Dam, and then enter irrigation for farmland. Same for almost the entirety of the Snake River and tributaries.
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by putnambr 5y ago
I would love having more sun after work, but I don't know that it's worth the tradeoff of safety. On the shortest days the sun rises at 8:18am for me, so I usually start biking to work shortly after sunrise. On DST that sunrise wo
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by putnambr 5y ago
This will affect people in northern latitudes far more. For me it would be the matter of 8am vs 9am.
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by putnambr 5y ago
Not sure about the morning-person thing, but permanent DST would mean that on the shortest days the sun would rise at 9:18am rather than 8:18am. I'd rather the sun rise at 8:18am to help me wake up. I don't have kids, but if I did
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by putnambr 5y ago
These responses are really unsettling to me. For how much people complain about Amazon's power and unfair treatment of workers, how it ruins small business, moves money out of rural areas, how shipping price increases are driving infla
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by putnambr 5y ago
Your local library no doubt has a copy. It's an enjoyable book.
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by putnambr 5y ago
In urban planning there's the 'law of induced demand' that has parallels to this and shows the paradoxical nature. When a road starts to see congestion, the reaction in the past has been to add lanes, widen the road, and&#x2F
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by putnambr 5y ago
'Tech' fibers such as capilene for shirts do a great job without making you absolutely miserable like cotton would in the heat. For multi-hour mid-day hikes in the middle of summer (>100F daily temperatures) I wear my 50 SPF 92
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by putnambr 5y ago
Mortgage is the minimum amount you'll pay for housing, where-as rent is the maximum. You need to factor in mortgage payment + PMI + property tax + home insurance + repairs. With 5% down, NerdWallet estimates that at $5,281.
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by putnambr 5y ago
How does it not apply here? Are you saying that no treatment (right now there are no standards of care for COVID-19) is not dangerous? If I recall correctly, that option is leading to people dying.
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by putnambr 5y ago
With a $14k fine per violation, I doubt most employers will give employees the option to test weekly. That's too much of a liability.
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OSHA to require employers with 100 employees vaccinate or test workforce(whitehouse.gov)
285 points by putnambr 5y ago|1243 comments
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by putnambr 5y ago
Every (software engineering) job I've had has had OWASP trainings, if not explicitly listed knowledge and integration of OWASP principles as a job responsibility for levels above entry. What sort of security principles do you follow?
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by putnambr 5y ago
This is impressive, but seems like a dark pattern to me a la tracking pixels in emails. An annoying use case I could see this used for is targeted spam. Say a company selling a software tool publishes a PDF of industry insights and then rea
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by putnambr 5y ago
What they're saying is that if staffed remittance locations have been locations for criminals to hang out and rob people, bitcoin ATMs surely will have the same issue.
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by putnambr 5y ago
A better (focusing on positives instead of negatives, but the media feeds off of negativity) headline would be "New Bitcoin wallets could save El Salvadorans $400M a year in Western Union fees"
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by putnambr 5y ago
Your comment doesn't make sense. A tree growing in a tree farm, and being turned into lumber will sequester that carbon until that lumber is burned. I suppose it matters if you're talking about cutting down old growth for lumber,
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by putnambr 5y ago
I'm curious about this as well. In my market we've seen rent and child care costs go up roughly 40% in the past year. But, it may well be the people leaving higher COL areas driving up the prices here.
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by putnambr 5y ago
Road safety advocates have been lobbying journalists to use 'crash not accident' for years. Even here on HN many people shoot that down as anti-motorist. People like their cars/trucks and don't like being reminded of the
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by putnambr 5y ago
Even if there's a car ahead of a lorry at a red light, I'll stick a few feet behind the lorry until I can pass it mid-block. Big truck drivers have so much to pay attention to while city driving, it's easy to forget that cycl
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by putnambr 5y ago
It's not so much anti-motorist propaganda, but rather street safety advocacy to remind drivers that 'accidents' are mostly avoidable. I don't have any news stories at the ready, but next time you see an article like &#x2
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by putnambr 5y ago
Social media is revolutionary for many people. It can be inspirational in both good and bad ways. Without social media, the Black Lives Matter movement wouldn't be as wide-reaching, but then again neither would ISIS. I would say these
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by putnambr 5y ago
You're right that the protocol is nothing fancy, and that's what makes the 'plumbing' the most important factor. Twitter could be implemented as a pub/sub message queue. That's cool, but nobody would use it if
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by putnambr 5y ago
That's exactly it, maximizing profit. Lots of rental units, at least in my area, aren't owned by individuals anymore. They're owned by corporations or private equity who have an obligation to their shareholders to maximize pr
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by putnambr 5y ago
With all the newly inflated home values, I don't expect planning and zoning committees to be able to approve anything other than single family housing.
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by putnambr 5y ago
My rent went up 5% two years ago, another 5% a year ago, and we just renewed at +33%. The housing crisis is hitting the rental market.
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by putnambr 6y ago
I don't think anyone opposes hydropower due to reservoirs, the concern is lifecycle species like salmon that are born at the headwaters of rivers, live their adult life in the ocean, and return to headwaters to reproduce. Dams get in t

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