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by reallydude 7y ago
> hobble the USPS in 2006 by requiring them to suddenly pre-fund their pension obligations Maybe it's a flawed methodology (arguable), but being fiscally responsible about pensions is something that should be encouraged. In Californ
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by reallydude 7y ago
As someone who avoids pain medication for medical diagnostic reasons, I have had FAR too many prescriptions for opiates in my 20s and 30s. They were unnecessary 75% of the time that had automatic refills! There was no oversight or followup
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by reallydude 7y ago
> that's a bit less than healthcare as a fraction of the nation's GDP Let's assume you're talking about just the USA> What do you mean by "a bit"? How did you just calculate healthcare, given the massive
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by reallydude 7y ago
That is demonstrably incorrect. My first post advocates for benefits that might be found in a discussion without using specific verbiage.
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by reallydude 7y ago
I saw a pile of leather pieces outside a home, on the street, near Seattle with a sign that said "free leather". I'm not sure why anyone would want it, but it looked sad...like someone had died and they were clearing the home
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by reallydude 7y ago
> that you should strive I think that terms like "should" or "ought" are toxic. I can try to express ideas in an objective way with limited assumption, starting with how I present the ideas. Typically, I have found
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by reallydude 7y ago
Perception, Comprehension, Analysis, Publication repeat. Somewhere in there, it's doesn't matter if it's "advice" or whatever you want to call it, as long as it's shareable elucidation you can apply your own re
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by reallydude 7y ago
> It's a shame that so much activism is spent on nonsense and even outright destructive nonsense. All that energy could be going toward improving things that matter. I did not vote on it, but this is obvious pablem. An analysis of &
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by reallydude 7y ago
> "attracting" homeless to the city, despite the fact that the data show this trope to be a fiction. This is incorrect and I think it's constructive to address it. People talk about numbers, but it's mostly just whate
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by reallydude 7y ago
> So, you are giving about $2,000 a month of value to students? I would think access to the internet is worth more than that. There's some implicit assumptions making with the conversion to dollars that make me think it isn't t
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by reallydude 7y ago
It's important to notice that online dating is how most couples meet, but what constitutes a "couple" here? I don't believe it means a long term relationship that lasts more than months. For my fiancee and I, we know lot
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by reallydude 7y ago
I wasn't trying to be obtuse. I'm not sure what's confusing. Is it in the best interests of all the people to have proportionate power? I believe so. I don't believe they (rural vs metropolitan citizens) should have some
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by reallydude 7y ago
"doesn't mean that we should give the rest of the state disproportionate power." Is it in the best interests of all the people to have proportionate power? I believe so. The EC is an abstraction, which philosophically and pr
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by reallydude 7y ago
After the computer revolution of the 80s and 90s, timesharing was reserved for only the largest mainframes (you might see a bunch of people huddled around a large cage in an Exodus colocation). I stand by the fact that it was exceedingly ra
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by reallydude 7y ago
> He doesn't get to keep the boat, He doesn't keep the title, but otherwise he keeps the boat. It's in his slip, it's maintained by his crew (well a company he pays to crew it). That's how it is, today. You can
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by reallydude 7y ago
Binary data is lossy over json without more encoding/decoding, for example. HTTP is slooow, which is fine for stepping. But step debugging is not a problem that needs solving...unless.... This is a move toward being able to debug progr
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by reallydude 7y ago
Exactly. It fits for the world-wide inflation. > In economics, hyperinflation is very high and typically accelerating inflation. > It quickly erodes the real value of the local currency, as the prices of all goods increase. This is in
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by reallydude 7y ago
If I can pay for the sign on a boat instead of the moon, and it just says that politician's name, and the politician gets the boat, the difference is negligible.
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by reallydude 7y ago
The purpose of PHDs are to move human knowledge forward. You have to do an analysis of something that, in all likelihood, nobody has done before (or not enough to be considered settled).
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by reallydude 7y ago
> Think that’s producing the best scientific results? That's a strawman. The answer you were looking for is, "I don't know". I don't know either.
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by reallydude 7y ago
> companies did IN FACT time share servers. Ok. It was so uncommon that I didn't encounter it for the 15 years preceding AWS. It's like pointing to a car that runs on vegetable oil. Yes there are IN FACT cars that run on vegeta
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by reallydude 7y ago
If I don't have to talk about servers, there's no difference in optics to saying serverless. When I go to a Jimmy John's, I'm never served by Jimmy John. So what? It's great marketing, albeit not what every person i
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by reallydude 7y ago
https://nuclearsecrecy.com/nukemap/
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by reallydude 7y ago
I wouldn't build anything beyond what the server logs, which I do by default in the server config. Having an access log and error log is sufficient, until you know what you want to query. Writing a script to do some custom query is a f
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by reallydude 7y ago
That's a bastardization of the headline and inaccurate. Do a little substitution over there... and here... and away you go! No Evidence that you have been employed without killing my pet Liger Proving a negative, is possible. It's
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by reallydude 7y ago
You mean Cigna? Not sure why you think they would hunt you down for name dropping. These policies aren't affected by you mentioning them on HN.
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by reallydude 7y ago
> OP wasn't saying it's a moral failing The morality and intent is irrelevant to my core assertion. A criticism of contravariance (if that makes it clearer) followed by a usage of it is unexpected hypocrisy, which is ironic.
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by reallydude 7y ago
That wasn't the implication. The issue is an hypocritical assertion. If treating a large group as a unified actor is improper, then giving another group another label and doing the same thing...because it's that group is in a diff
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by reallydude 7y ago
Leveraging Amazon's disinterest in its own processes, to the MAXIMUM effect, surely is brilliant social engineering. It required knowing how return products are handled and treated, which is basically "they are weighed and forgott
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by reallydude 7y ago
I don't see anything there about specific numbers of deletions, but I do see 2 things that worry me. 1. "I don’t think you could find a voting systems expert who would think the deletion of the server data was anything less than i

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