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by rosser 7y ago
Assuming no other conditions change, and that the object crosses Earth's orbit as the planet is passing by, and so on. I'd be willing to bet, however, that this object's orbit permutes a bit with every pass, especially dippin
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by rosser 7y ago
I have quite successfully run pg atop NFS — even, in limited, point-solution type roles, in production. My experience doing that didn't leave me with the impression that it was a particularly egregious thing to do, though I would defin
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by rosser 7y ago
The trope that waits are materially worse in single-payer systems is precisely that: a trope. I have had to wait "until some time early next year" to get a diagnostic procedure scheduled (my consult was in September ), and the
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by rosser 7y ago
Or the entire article. Sure, the foreground story is about a serial fraudster, but its substance is the cavalcade of systemic failure to do anything about him, or, by implication, any of the innumerable others like him, bilking the system.
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by rosser 7y ago
Insult or not, destroying it is irrelevant to any tax liability it might have triggered upon inheritance; it still came into their that way. If you inherited a Picasso, you'd still owe tax on it, whether you hung it, or tossed it in a
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by rosser 7y ago
My first trip overseas was to the UK, during university, as a term abroad kind of thing. One night, some of my peers and I went round the pub, and I got to talking with an older local. I commented that it was a strange and perspective-shift
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by rosser 7y ago
I imagine you saw a bit of a dopamine spike when that message came in. Was it enough to mitigate the physical symptoms at all, or was that purely mental, I wonder?
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by rosser 7y ago
"Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed." — Herman Melville
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by rosser 7y ago
I don't think the severity of the crisis necessarily is the most relevant characteristic. We're in uncharted territory here. Any example of how to weather something like what either city — or any of the dozens more to come — has s
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by rosser 7y ago
Would it not be even more in Amazon's interest to cultivate labor practices which make their warehouses places people might want , instead of merely being willing, to work? "Oh, the market..." Bullshit. Amazon can afford to
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by rosser 7y ago
> For some reason you are defending them instead of advocating your position reasonably. You know when I said we were talking past one another? This right here is why. You're attributing a motive to me, which "you can not pos
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by rosser 7y ago
> Anyone critical of the plan had ample opportunity to post a substantive complaint instead of a handwavy dismissal of the idea of root comment. And, per my linked article, other experts did . When an idea that obviously terrible gets
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by rosser 7y ago
> Would you care to explain why? For one thing, the ur-comment never even allows for the possibility of non-"armchair expert" criticism of this approach. "Experts who make this their livelihood recommend this course of a
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by rosser 7y ago
I find it just as plausible a read of the thread that the root's take-away was "trust the government," as you seem to find "skepticism is good" to be "a defense of ignorant reactionaries." If there's
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by rosser 7y ago
> i'm talking about close to 10 years observation on 8 farms each usually having 5-10 ferals. I kind of doubt that all the research you refer to can match that. So, to a Fermi approximation, what's that, a hundred total anima
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by rosser 7y ago
Quoting myself from elsewhere in this thread: > It is less plausible to me that a caution towards "healthy" skepticism is advocating some kind of utter credulity, than that it is doing exactly what it calls for: cautioning tow
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by rosser 7y ago
> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith. [0] It is less plausible to me that a caution towards "healthy" skepticis
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by rosser 7y ago
> Anecdotally observed... Yeah, I'm talking about actual research, conducted on large colonies of ferals, not a couple cats at grandma's farm. Some links: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/fer
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by rosser 7y ago
> It is healthy to be skeptical does not imply > we should take ignorant reactionaries seriously
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by rosser 7y ago
I have an uncle who's a retired Game, Fish, and Parks warden from Alaska. From his stories, at least, it's far less thankless a job than your comment would make it out. To be sure, he caught no end of flak and abuse from people wh
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by rosser 7y ago
Feral cats are profoundly destructive to bird populations.
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by rosser 7y ago
Anyone who's anything-er than you can be your teacher in that thing, if you approach them that way — even if only in your own mind. If you bring envy to your interactions with these people, the things you'll tend to notice are tho
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by rosser 7y ago
That is to say, if all five of the users with whom you've tested your application say it's confusing, or it sucks somehow, it is diminishingly likely for that population to be the outlier [0], and if only you had tested with a few
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by rosser 7y ago
Having worked for a few shops where the internally developed software I helped write was seen as an expense, and a tool to facilitate the company's real work, I'm skeptical this will work all that well in the general case. My da
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by rosser 7y ago
Best of luck in your experiment! Please consider writing up your thoughts afterwards, and perhaps sharing them with HN.
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by rosser 7y ago
Sometimes, sure. I've definitely had a few of those. Other times, it's because you really shouldn't have been tripping in the first place.
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by rosser 7y ago
The shots of food are amazing and brain-bending, but that Milky Way picture is stunning. I really need to spend some time in a southern hemisphere light desert.
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by rosser 7y ago
You're absolutely right that "100% right" is an unreasonable standard. I submit that knowing that there are places on the planet where, at times, the sun doesn't set, however, is a reasonable thing to expect of someone
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by rosser 7y ago
Right? I am reliably put into this weird emotional state of being simultaneously entertained and chagrined at the propensity for technologists (and I very much include myself in this criticism) to make these kinds of assumptions, and the ed
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by rosser 7y ago
An outlier on a meaningless metric is a meaningless data point.

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