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by ralph84 4y ago
> I don't recall transmission ever being promised, only a substantial lower chance of severe infection and death No, that was the spin after it became clear they didn’t prevent infection or transmission. When they were given EUA the
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by ralph84 4y ago
Is there someone who lives in the US who can co-sign with you? It shouldn't be surprising that people who don't live in the US have trouble getting unsecured credit in the US. Creditors want to at least have the option of suing if
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by ralph84 4y ago
Why can't they file a lien on the campus and foreclose?
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by ralph84 4y ago
Red Hat is the exception that proves the rule. Canonical and Suse haven't been huge successes from a financial perspective. They've survived mostly by investors hoping they'd turn into the next Red Hat but they haven't.
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by ralph84 4y ago
The AT&T logo on the cover is a reminder of how many of the foundations of modern computing came out of Bell Labs.
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by ralph84 4y ago
In accrual accounting payment has very little connection to when revenue is recognized. In order for revenue to be recognized the product has to ship.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Call it whatever you want but by and large people prefer to live around other people with whom they share the same culture and language. Even in countries with large amounts of immigration people self-segregate to be around people like them
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by ralph84 4y ago
Women who dress that way are doing it to compete with other women, not because men told them to.
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by ralph84 4y ago
We haven’t had runaway inflation like this in the US since the late 70s/early 80s. At that time it did indeed require interest rates higher than inflation to stop it. It took a fed funds rate of 20% to reverse 14% inflation.
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by ralph84 4y ago
> whether inflation is being caused by currency policy ... or being caused by actual supply constraints No reason it can't be both. Plus USD is still viewed as the safe haven fiat currency (deserved or not), so USD always displays r
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by ralph84 4y ago
And here is where the number 3 lane splits into two lanes. Definitely looks like the lane follow assist decided to keep right which put them in the exit lane for the rest stop. https://goo.gl/maps/txcPoS9HB8HbfPFS8
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by ralph84 4y ago
A $15k econobox with automatic emergency braking can avoid a forward collision like this. No "autopilot" or "full self driving" required.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Boeing ended production of the 757 18 years ago and they still have no strategy for a successor besides more duck tape on the 737.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Well, yes, when you are unable or unwilling to build the product to modern safety standards, you should be forced to cancel it.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Did anyone really expect a private equity guy to prioritize safety?
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by ralph84 4y ago
> Gas is more expensive than electricity. This is heavily dependent on where you charge. California has the highest gas prices in the US but gas is still cheaper than charging at a public charging station in California.
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by ralph84 4y ago
A cost-benefit analysis can have different answers when applied to an individual vs. a population. That something is rare isn’t much comfort when you’re the one in a million rarity.
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by ralph84 4y ago
Path dependence. For an existing 737 operator, a completely different type has to bring more to the table than about the same price.
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by ralph84 4y ago
iCloud Private Relay is helping here. The network I’m on right now doesn’t have IPv6 but with iCloud Private Relay enabled visiting the IPv6 testing sites shows IPv6 in use.
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by ralph84 4y ago
From the Great Resignation to the Great Layoff. For the first time in 50 years workers started to have some leverage on employers and it only took a few months for the coordinated response to shut it down.
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by ralph84 4y ago
> basically a money market fund When money market funds were all about to break the buck in 2008 the Treasury department stepped in with a $50 billion insurance program and the Fed started buying commercial paper to prop them up. Will th
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by ralph84 4y ago
California's ban on non-competes was foundational to the emergence of Silicon Valley. It's really silly that other states wanting to "promote innovation" haven't picked that low-hanging fruit.
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by ralph84 4y ago
11 days is a very long response time, but do you really think a quicker response would have changed the end result? GitHub is a massively multi-tenant SaaS. When they have an outage there’s really not much customers or GitHub’s support team
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by ralph84 4y ago
Or it's a nice way of saying he's a micromanager.
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by ralph84 4y ago
And you know the exact moment GitHub became aware that passwords were exposed and that they "sat on" that information? If you actually did work with those people, that's even more reason to assume good faith. Saying "I c
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by ralph84 4y ago
I take it you’ve never been involved in a breach investigation. Figuring out what an attacker had access to and whether they exploited that access isn’t trivial, especially for a heavily used service like npm. To say they were “sitting on”
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by ralph84 4y ago
Economic inequality has massively increased since abandoning the gold standard. Of course academic economists carry water for the people at the top benefitting from the inequality.
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by ralph84 4y ago
How is it directing more resources to allow students to take courses at their level? It's not like you have to pay high school math teachers a higher salary to teach calculus. Your typical public high school in California has 1,000+ st
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by ralph84 4y ago
About 10 years ago I worked for a vendor of PCIe cards that were mainly sold to OEMs as a component of systems with 6- or 7-figure price tags. One of our customers discovered a critical bug that required reprogramming an FPGA on the card to
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by ralph84 5y ago
Taxes aren't about funding the government, they're about surveillance, control, and wealth redistribution.

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