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by ryathal 3y ago
Forcing cops to double as firefighters helps a lot to keep undesirable officers out. It forces all cops to be in firefighting shape, which is significantly more difficult that the average police requirements. It also means cops need to be w
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by ryathal 3y ago
They weren't actually interested in being unbiased though, they only like attacking Republicans, and as political power shifted, they ran out of credible targets.
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by ryathal 3y ago
In about the same period Taco Bell had the .79/.89/.99 menu options. You could feed a family of four for about $10. Now even the $5 combo box is becoming rare.
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by ryathal 3y ago
It's about insuring employees, not the items. Businesses have insurance so that if a worker is hurt during work, they don't have to directly pay the related bills. That company will assume the risk that an employee helping a custo
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by ryathal 3y ago
I really don't know why it's so hard to get basic competency in public sector to use bcc or restrict send access to large groups. That said, I enjoyed the drama when an email devolved into requests to stop replying all and request
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by ryathal 3y ago
US unions are notoriously anticorporate, they generally despise the idea of stock based compensation.
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by ryathal 3y ago
It's amazing to me how many people are so far removed from food production in modern times that they've forgotten what most of our ancestors knew, "Subsistence farming sucks."
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by ryathal 3y ago
Someone dug into this recently, it's over 50% of steam games haven't made $1k in sales. The vast majority of steam by game count is complete trash.
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by ryathal 3y ago
The closest I've seen to Tesla using more automation was just Musk spouting off random bullshit. Actual deep dives have shown that the automation tesla was trying to do isn't ready and they spent as long or longer fixing every car
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by ryathal 3y ago
The problem is getting people to actually agree to plug in their car and let the power company run it. That's a huge ask to get people to agree to, it's going to take serious compensation that power companies won't want to do
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by ryathal 3y ago
Disney is definitely active in shaping narratives on Rotten Tomatoes. The best example is probably The Last Jedi, which has had several people document the removal of negative reviews multiple times.
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by ryathal 3y ago
It used to, the professional critics were mostly just those that were paid by newspapers or similar. Lately as in the last few years the gates were opened to basically anyone with a blog viewed by more than their parents. This let everythin
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by ryathal 3y ago
The same way it does now. Simply having a character resurrect in a story doesn't violate copyright of the Bible; Game of Thrones; Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe; Harry Potter; Lord of the Rings; etc. Writing a Story About Luke Skywalker as
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by ryathal 3y ago
With collisions that out of sync it suggests Waymo is behaving in an uncharacteristic way compared to most drivers and is causing accidents.
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by ryathal 3y ago
You need more training data and more sensors and completely different rules that are often opposite the rules for good conditions. The things you really need for snow/ice that are hard for computers are anticipation and flexible rules.
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by ryathal 3y ago
You've drastically altered the reality of US history. Violence and guns were a huge part of it. Labor unions had actual shoot outs with union busting officers, Malcolm X was absolutely using guns (King also had them), some draft protes
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by ryathal 3y ago
That's like 90% or more of programming jobs is just making different APIs talk to each other. Just because you may not like doesn't make it bad.
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by ryathal 3y ago
There's maybe 3 fantastic indie games per year and millions of garbage ones. It's also full of clones of the popular games that aren't quite as good or downright terrible. The reason indie games seem to be better is the massi
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by ryathal 3y ago
Exactly, we see this almost every year when a southern state gets a light dusting of snow.
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by ryathal 3y ago
It's been a while, but I'm not convinced there is a truly accessible date picker out there. Allowing manual typing of the date seems like the best and only viable option.
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by ryathal 3y ago
Something I've started mentioning, is the US immigration and customs is also pretty rude to their own citizens. Coming back to the US has been the far more stressful border crossing in my experience.
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by ryathal 3y ago
I don't think being opinionated helps. TFS is extremely opinionated, and has gotten more so, but I can't say it's better. It's just as easy to make a convoluted mess that doesn't mean anything. It's only real a
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by ryathal 3y ago
I'm pretty sure it was a configuration issue at my last company, but I would constantly get massive >90% packet loss for audio, on my laptop but could call in through wifi calling just fine. Others also had issues with audio or vide
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by ryathal 3y ago
You better be ok with building your own car then, because every major player is adding subscriptions for various features. Remote start and remote lock/unlock are the most common, along with satellite radio.
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by ryathal 3y ago
Yes. if a non-profit receives most of its finding to end homelessness for example, the last thing they want to actually do is end homelessness, because their funding then goes away. What they want is homelessness to remain somewhat constant
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by ryathal 3y ago
Pretty sure the UK already ran into this problem when the North Sea had low wind for a prolonged period. This year wildfire smoke would have cut into the valuable days for many solar installations in the northern US/Canada, many hazy p
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by ryathal 3y ago
Most movies seem to be "written" as a collection of scenes that the directors and producers want to see and then they tell the writers to make those fit together in a story.
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by ryathal 3y ago
What surprised me is the number of companies that declined free money from Netflix and decided that the cost to actually make a streaming service was negligible. They could just 2 or 3x that money in a year or two with massive subscriber nu
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by ryathal 3y ago
The big thing is childcare from stay at home parents. That counts as 0 GDP, but put them in daycare and give the parent a job that's a net loss financially to the family and GDP has grown considerably.
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by ryathal 3y ago
5-10 years after the US is serious about wanting them.

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