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by rswail 4y ago
This is complete nonsense. There are many distinct advantages to using the same weights and measures as the majority of the world, except the US (not excepting the US military, that have been using metric measurements since the early 80s).
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by rswail 4y ago
Or select "reader mode" on firefox.
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by rswail 4y ago
This looks interesting :) Not sure about YAML, been burnt with OpenAPI, but it looks good.
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by rswail 4y ago
Inefficient though compared to induction isn't it?
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by rswail 4y ago
F-35 pilots would also tend to disagree, sure, their helmets have been through a lot of revision and development, but they do provide (apparently) good enhancements for pilots coming from more conventional (eg HUD) environments.
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by rswail 4y ago
AR for museum guides? For tourism? New sports? Not to mention all the business, industrial, and other applications. Medical AR, overlaying imaging during surgery, or visualizing heart rates, electrical activity, O2 concentration, etc. The u
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by rswail 4y ago
> you graduate high school/college at 18-22... > That's 18-20 years without a profit!?! Same same, but different.
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by rswail 4y ago
> A lower rate for the same amount of income in capital gains compared to salary makes sense. Why? This argument is often given as an axiom without any reasoning behind it. There is often handwaving about "risk", but a worker h
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by rswail 4y ago
Realized capital gains should be taxed as income. They are income. Your second sentence applies to labor as well: "I'm the one doing the work, yet the government benefits..." Either "all taxation is theft", or &quot
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by rswail 4y ago
Please define "being part of a well-regulated militia" in terms of bearing arms in the current US situation. The entire premise of individuals owning weapons is based on that "well-regulated militia", yet no such entitie
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by rswail 4y ago
The only person shot was an unarmed terrorist that, after repeated warnings not to proceed, while attempting to break through a barrier that was keeping a mob away from elected representatives, broke through that barrier. I think it shows r
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by rswail 4y ago
They have and they do. If you recall, there were marches and protests across the US after the Parkland school shooting. However, there are 50+ Senators, disproportionally representing low population, rural states, that are beholden to the N
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by rswail 4y ago
Absolutely. Nowhere else in the civilized world do people rely on having a gun to "protect themselves or their family". Perhaps you need to look at why, in your society, there are so many "opportunities" for "defens
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by rswail 4y ago
On that reasoning, all of the "lockdowns" and "active shooter drills" and all the other bullshit that the US makes its children undertake in school are a complete waste of time. Are you seriously trying to argue that sch
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by rswail 4y ago
How about basing policy on not getting innocent children and adults mass murdered on a regular basis? They are outliers of outliers in other countries. In the US, it's once a week.
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by rswail 4y ago
Until Americans realize that owning a gun is a dangerous thing, there will be no change. Guns are a force multiplier, they allow someone that is armed to have much greater lethality than someone that is not. No, I don't care if you go
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by rswail 4y ago
I think though that the fact is that these biomes are evolving already means that irrespective of this research or its development, natural evolution is already responding. If we stopped polluting tomorrow, which I wish we could, we would s
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by rswail 4y ago
What makes you think that the researchers would not also be investigating for unexpected and potentially dangerous side effects before "toss[ing] this stuff in the ocean at scale"?
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by rswail 4y ago
As a 58 year old developer that start at 18, it's about finding the right place to do stuff that is the right level of challenge for you. It's also about adopting the attitude that "I can always learn more". Just by read
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by rswail 4y ago
I can empathize with this, but I also have the problem that I'm nearing 60 and I'm working with guys in their 20s and 30s. So now I'm trying to become more of a "mentor". Particularly now that everything is WFH and
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by rswail 4y ago
Sanctions when applied properly can work. They need to actually impact directly on those who are politically powerful, while also imposing difficulties day-to-day on the general population, which encourages unrest and internal disputes. Rus
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by rswail 4y ago
Only a relatively wealthy population can afford fast food. The "convenience" of fast food is something that poor people (actually poor, not Western poverty) can't afford. So yes, in the US/EU etc, McDonalds is seen as &q
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by rswail 4y ago
Wasn't there a joke about a "Zebra crossing" that didn't translate? "Oh, that was easy," says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.” App
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by rswail 4y ago
Probably because when watchfaces were invented, the hour was much more important than the minute or the second. People wanted to look up to the town hall or church clock and see what hour it was, maybe quarter hour. Maybe keeping it more di
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by rswail 4y ago
Teaching kids about analog clocks isn't just about telling time. It's teaching them about how gauges work. If they can understand how the hour hand goes around, they can understand how a fuel gauge goes from Full to Empty. They ca
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by rswail 4y ago
Considering Apple added the Command ⌘ key in 1984 and the original cut/copy/paste as being command-x/c/v, it's more like the others didn't follow convention at the time.
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by rswail 4y ago
So let me get this straight: There are bitcoins. They get mined and etc. There is ethereum, it processes transactions and people pay for the processing with "gas". Gas is ETH. ETH need to be mined and etc. This could all happily w
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by rswail 4y ago
gee, that sounds like... a bank run.
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by rswail 4y ago
Any telco has been separating out call data records, billing rules and billing for years. You should also differentiate between selling a product/plan and fulfilling it. What you sell and what you fulfill are two different things, one
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by rswail 4y ago
OK, here's my take, based on 30 years of being a programmer and "manager" and "architect" and other position buzzwords. I hate the title software "engineer" because engineering is a set of practices and

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