ryathal

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by ryathal 5y ago
Blizzard doesn't have much of an e-sports scene. The leagues are largely independent at this point for most of the games.
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by ryathal 5y ago
The vast majority of developers on modern games are interchangeable peons that are essentially working high paying gigs as they get laid off when the game ships.
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by ryathal 5y ago
Structural battery sounds like Pinto 2.0.
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by ryathal 5y ago
It doesn't matter that someone had X for a time. You don't get justice by taking two eyes for an eye just because someone had three once.
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by ryathal 5y ago
That number matters for herd immunity, but it's basically unknowable, it's likely that puts the US above 70%.
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by ryathal 5y ago
There is a minor defense that a lot of evidence police care about can be destroyed using this method as opposed to no knock raids, the army isn't concerned with jury trials. I don't think that's a good justification for 99% o
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by ryathal 5y ago
Still small businesses.
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by ryathal 5y ago
100k is pretty easy to hit with 75-100 employees. 100 desks, chairs, and computers is going to be at least that much. hopefully you don't have meeting rooms, printers/copiers, a waiting area, a break room with fridge/microwav
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by ryathal 5y ago
Legalizing drugs at best reduces the black market/removes some of the danger. There are still plenty of black market weed dealers in states with legal recreational use. For that matter, there are still people selling cigarettes in a bl
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by ryathal 5y ago
The armed anti-lockdown protests were handled far more peacefully than any BLM protest that happened.
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by ryathal 5y ago
Having QAs that technical would be amazing. Most of the time I find that anything more complex than basic JSON editing is the limit of their technical abilities.
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by ryathal 5y ago
Those parked cars generally bring the people providing that tax revenue, or they bring the people working in the shop to have it be open in the first place.
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by ryathal 5y ago
Carless grocery shopping for a family sounds awful. If the kids are too young to ride a bike, you lose cargo space on your bike to haul a kid, or need the other parent to be available to take care of the children while one shops. You can&#x
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by ryathal 5y ago
It's not about not getting fired. It's about having the person that can make the cold dispassionate, but ultimately best choice. If we are still getting decisions based mostly on emotion the usefulness is vastly diminished.
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by ryathal 5y ago
Lack of School can cause harm. We know there is a fairly limited window in which learning is significantly easier and more effective.
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by ryathal 5y ago
The entire point of a republic and bureaucracy is to have that dispassionate cost benefit analysis. It's to be done by people that shouldn't be subject to the mob mentality.
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by ryathal 5y ago
blockchain seems like a terrible solution as it directly ties every person to their vote in a non anonymous way.
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by ryathal 5y ago
Its not just heavily regulated, it's also one of the most indirect markets that exists. People often have no idea how much their health insurance actually costs in the first place, and they have no idea how much their insurance may or
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by ryathal 5y ago
I think it's Korea or China that requires the rates to be published, so they might be available somewhere already.
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by ryathal 5y ago
Maybe on restricted access highways, but self driving isn't coming to dirt and gravel roads any time soon.
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by ryathal 5y ago
Increased rates in the future will drop purchase prices, but it's likely that it either slows the rate of increase or doesn't drop them to below current prices. There aren't many markets even after 2008 that weren't at o
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by ryathal 5y ago
Four: a 1-3 month pause in new construction, and construction materials. Five: record low interest rates are here to stay so borrowers can pay more up front for the same payment.
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by ryathal 5y ago
His advice is for the masses, so it's don't play the unicorn game. The vast majority of startups are going to end in failure, so not tying your entire personal wealth into them is good because you will more than likely lose it all
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by ryathal 5y ago
He tells you to do this in the extreme short term. The goal is 18-24 months to pay off debt, not 50-10 years. Ultimately this isn't a huge some of money even if you run it out 30 years. The point is getting out of debt and not going ba
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by ryathal 5y ago
building a weapon that goes boom from hitting critical mass of uranium/other radioactive element is pretty straight forward. Getting enough uranium is one of the hard parts, but it's not the only hard part. getting a nuke somewher
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by ryathal 5y ago
There is basically no good place to build high speed rail in the U.S. Cross country routes aren't remotely competitive with air travel. Regional routes only make sense on the coast where they have unfavorable terrain like mountains, an
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by ryathal 5y ago
The last few years C# has had a massive adoption of functional paradigms. This is great for programmers as you can use OO or functional styles where they fit best. This definitely sucks for newer developers as functional concepts are often
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by ryathal 5y ago
Fired might be different, but if you leave some places won't pay out vacation or only 50%. Some places have learned not paying out banked leave leads to poor outcomes but others still get away with it. Not paying out vacation is a good
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by ryathal 6y ago
This generally happens when committees are too far away from the actual development. It happens all the time at companies too with non-coding architects too. Standard setting bodies need to understand the pace of modern development, they sp
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by ryathal 6y ago
It also provides a necessary check on unions, they have to provide a better service than base level employment. Many unions are taking dues while providing little to no benefits for large portions of their members.

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