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by sagarm 6y ago
As noted in the article, the EPA estimated this rule change would have saved 12,000 lives per year. For reference, 30,000 people are killed by drivers every year. 50,000 people die from suicide. So changing this rule is equivalent to reduci
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by sagarm 6y ago
Looks like this is a problem to be solved with the application of law and order. If a few extrajudicial executions happen along the way, it's just the price we pay for an orderly society. After all, all lives matter.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Or in economic terms, these companies currently benefit from unpriced and unmitigated externalities and to nobody's surprise would like things to stay that way.
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by sagarm 6y ago
And when the self-certification is fraudulent, presumably they will face few or no repercussions.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Why should religious groups get special dispensation to discriminate against protected groups, even when performing work for the government? Both are based in the first amendment. IMO the press protections are a more legitimate application,
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by sagarm 6y ago
AMD laptops are also crushing this generation of Intel laptops. AnandTech's comparison shows that M1 vs AMD is mostly a power/performance trade-off at the moment. Not that the M1 isn't exciting especially in the ultrabook seg
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by sagarm 6y ago
The other implication of exponential data growth is that shortening retention periods is only a short term solution to storage costs.
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by sagarm 6y ago
That kind of sociopathic behavior is natural outcome of business culture that is solely about maximizing shareholder value. I'm not sure what can be done to fix it.
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by sagarm 6y ago
It does work with Hue lights. You need to connect your Hue lights to your Google home app first, though.
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by sagarm 6y ago
I've written APIs that require extra bytes. The exact requirements can be complex to explain, so to minimize complexity I would just put the maximum over-buffer size in the function docs. As for _why_: knowing that you have a buffer of
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by sagarm 6y ago
Gas taxes pay less than half of the costs of maintaining roads.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Mountain highways I've traveled have substantially more damaged right lanes from all the semis.
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by sagarm 6y ago
We need transportation networks for goods. Rail is at least one alternative.
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by sagarm 6y ago
USB SD card readers are cheap, if you need one. Many hubs have one built in anyway.
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by sagarm 6y ago
To be fair, at the time ventilators were being rationed. Of course the need for ventilators was predicted well before the rationing was occuring, so if the administration had acted sooner rationing may have been avoided. Instead ventilators
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by sagarm 6y ago
Blue cities are denser than outlying red areas. Density means more opportunities for transmission. All else being equal, they would see higher transmission and per-capita infection rates. The fact that we see the opposite is unfortunate and
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by sagarm 6y ago
Photos you've already uploaded remain free. In fact I believe photos uploaded until some time next year still won't count towards your storage.
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by sagarm 6y ago
I am and was a US citizen. All US citizens are full citizens; we don't have second class citizens here. There is a legitimate way to debate immigration policy. It's the intentional infliction of cruelty and dehumanization that mak
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by sagarm 6y ago
Yes, that was my point.
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by sagarm 6y ago
Most of the people in camps on the southern border are seeking asylum. That is an established legal process. Nonetheless these people were demonized and subject to family separations and lesser cruelties.
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by sagarm 6y ago
I resisted associating with a party for a long time, but Trump changed that. I was legitimately afraid for my family, who were at the time green card holders from a Muslim-majority country. Trump tried to cancel green cards, along with othe
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by sagarm 6y ago
The family separations policy was applied to asylum seekers. Seeking asylum is an established legal process, so 'illegal immigrant' doesn't apply.
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by sagarm 6y ago
The really interesting thing is that when Democratic platform proposals are on the ballot, they pass even in red states. For example, this year Florida voted for Trump by 2% AND a $15 minimum wage by 20 points. The actual policy is extremel
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by sagarm 6y ago
Impeachment was intended to be used in the context of an elected president. It's kind of the point.
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by sagarm 6y ago
There are tapes of Trump sounding like a two-bit mobster. The GOP did not dispute the evidence, they just refused to convict because it wasn't "serious" enough. If Trump had backed down that might have made sense, but instead
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by sagarm 6y ago
Translation: all votes are equal, but rural votes are more equal than others. Therefore it's "just" for a house, senate, and president representing a minority of Americans to raise taxes on urban Americans (70% of the economy
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by sagarm 6y ago
Do you remember how we gave Uber/Lyft drivers unemployment in the CARES Act even though they never paid unemployment insurance? Privatize the gains, socialize the losses. The oligarchy wins again.
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by sagarm 6y ago
According to Wikipedia, the 2018 ACS estimated SF is 40% White, 5% Black, 34% Asian, 15% Hispanic, and 5% mixed race.[1] Are you really surprised that sharing a party with white nationalists makes you an outcast in a city as diverse as San
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by sagarm 6y ago
The Bay area and tech is not predominantly white. While hispanics and black people are underrepresented, Asians (both south and east) are dramatically overrepresented. In addition, Bay area people are from all over the country and from dive
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by sagarm 6y ago
This is a common misconception. Usage fees (gas taxes, tolls, etc) only cover ~50% of road costs, and that doesn't account for any of the negative externalities imposed on society in terms of air, ground, water and noise pollution. The

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