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by runako 2y ago
Local retailers would oppose this in very strong terms as a thumb on the scale in favor of online retailers. Online retailers would presumably still be able to show pricing before knowing a shipping address, so their pricing would be pre-ta
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by runako 2y ago
ZIP codes are not specific enough. In some areas, sales tax is actual multiple taxes from different overlapping jurisdictions: state, county, city, and sometimes special tax district. ZIP codes don't align with any of these, so you nee
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by runako 2y ago
> Nor does it have anything to do with "palatability" Conflicts with other rights is a really good point that I missed. > Birthright citizenship is relatively unambiguous And yet it is currently a topic of debate. It's
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by runako 2y ago
I would say they are specified well, but the ramifications of those specifications are not politically palatable much of the time. As a current event, look at the push to reinterpret the Fourteenth Amendment provision on birthright citizens
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by runako 2y ago
> the Bill of Rights only works because it's been endlessly litigated, developing a large body of specific interpretaions. As a follow-on to that, it is still being litigated and the interpretations continue to shift over time. For
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by runako 2y ago
> Is a $8000 MBP regular consumer hardware? May want to double-check your specs. 16" w/128GB & 2TB is $5,400.
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by runako 2y ago
This from the site feels reassuring: "Your funds are held in your name at Apex Clearing, one of the largest US Custodians holding over $114B in funds." The "in your name" part is specifically what I was looking for.
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by runako 2y ago
Air travelers are not expected to have a full understanding of how to operate a jet airplane, or an airline, in order to not be cheated out of their fares. Similarly, they are not expected to plead their case in order to not be cheated by a
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by runako 2y ago
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by runako 2y ago
You missed the point of my comment. The "services" I was referring to was "health insurance," and the "for money" is the monthly premiums. In too many instances, people pay the premiums and then do not get the
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by runako 2y ago
> I pay my health insurance because it covers the services I need I think that, aside from the cost, this is probably the biggest issue most people have with health insurance in the US. UHC makes a lot of money specifically in part by no
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by runako 2y ago
Couldn't one say the same thing about using any framework that provides capabilities that otherwise would have to be learned?
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by runako 2y ago
https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=38 The US scores are relatively consistent going back over a half-century. TikTok and Cocomelon are not the culprits.
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by runako 2y ago
They're saying "thousands of new homes." If they can build that many homes for a billion dollars, that doesn't sound like its' all luxury housing.
825.
by runako 2y ago
You are correct in the legal/technical sense! Technically, anyone could offer five- or six-nines and just depend on most customers not to claim the credits :-D Actually hitting/exceeding four nines is still tough.
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by runako 2y ago
No dog in this fight, all props to the Fly.io team for having the gumption to do what they are doing, I genuinely hope they are successful... > It's still 99.99+% SLA But this is simply not accurate. 99.99% uptime is < 52m 9.8s
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by runako 2y ago
> very close proximity to the Middle East Israel is in the Middle East.
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by runako 2y ago
You're describing conditions that occur in many asymmetric/guerilla wars. None of these are novel tactics whose acceptability must be evaluated from first principles now. Further, none of these should come as surprises to Israeli
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by runako 2y ago
It looks similar to a cable/fiber rollout where they have to onboard each region individually. I know they are currently doing this in the Atlanta metro. Like cable/fiber, once they have good models of the business and what it cos
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by runako 2y ago
Isn't Waymo operating an autonomous taxi service for 100k trips per week an object example of outperformance? Shipping working product should count!
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by runako 2y ago
> the vast amount of training data they are collecting They keep pushing this point. And they do appear to be collecting an absolute firehose of data from the millions of vehicles they have on the road. By comparison, Waymo collects a lo
832.
by runako 2y ago
No you're absolutely right. I was inartfully making a claim that voter apathy is a big thing, and as a result no winner can ever really claim to represent a majority of Americans. IIRC 2020 was the only election of modern times where a
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by runako 2y ago
If you read through the examples on that site, it's actually pretty difficult to find any that have anything to do with ID. There's things like: - felon (this appears to be far & away the most common) - moved - shouldn't
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by runako 2y ago
> these are the actual majority of America as indicated yesterday. Less than a third of Americans cast votes for Trump in this cycle.
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by runako 2y ago
Do you remember John Kerry by any chance?
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by runako 2y ago
A lot of reasons! Some I have heard: - Homeownership comes with responsibilities that people may not want - They prefer to invest the money elsewhere - They expect to relocate on timeframes shorter than those that make homeownership a good
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by runako 2y ago
Without taking away from the reality of housing costs, the long-term chart [1, chart is a year old but looking for trends] suggests other explanations. In particular, the average of first-time buyers was 35, up from 30 as recently as 2010.
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by runako 2y ago
> Hacker News handles a huge amount of traffic to dynamic pages Traffic is not the primary driver of staffing. For a simple app, it is relatively straightforward to use commodity cloud offerings to scale to large volumes of traffic. Even
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by runako 2y ago
> masses of people being forced to prove how they voted, or bribed to do it LOL Would you believe that in some households, the husband considers his wife's vote as his property? And that there are lots of households like this? It do
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by runako 2y ago
> common understanding of blockchains This is funny because as a CS grad, I cringe about 75% of the time when blockchain enthusiasts make pitches that are oblivious to the workings of blockchains, the tech underneath, and their alternati

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