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by senkora 1y ago
An optimal society would provide no-cost embryo screening and IVF to couples with the gene for HD, because that cost is certainly far <50% of the lifetime cost of living with HD in treatment costs, lost income, and lost QALY's. I ho
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by senkora 1y ago
I think that you might enjoy this (paid) zine: https://store.wizardzines.com/products/terminal > The terminal seems simple at first (you type in commands and run them! no big deal!), but the more you learn, the more
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by senkora 1y ago
All of NYC except for the southern part of Staten Island.
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by senkora 1y ago
Yeah, this seems reasonable to me. The better thing to get annoyed at Apple for is being slow to implement web standards. I guess you could make the argument that they are choosing to work on stuff like this instead, but I think that’s a we
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by senkora 1y ago
This definitely seems like a case where continuing to increase the price makes more sense than shrinking the box. Maybe we’ll see a reversal if sales actually go down?
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by senkora 1y ago
I still use it (and pay for it) because it is the only option that offers a Linux client.
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by senkora 1y ago
It sounds like a very painful experience. Thank you for writing about it and sharing what you have learned.
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by senkora 1y ago
Basic economy tickets do not always include a carry on. https://www.united.com/en/us/fly/travel/inflight/basic-econo... > Carry-on bags are only free on flights* to South America, across the Atla
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by senkora 1y ago
There’s almost always still a parking lot because of zoning laws, so you can eat in your car while parked.
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by senkora 1y ago
I believe it. I still walk almost as fast as the 14th street buses, which the article lists as an example of a fast bus line.
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by senkora 1y ago
> This is really bailing out current management-- letting them be replaced by the more capable TSMC people The trouble with a competent organization buying a decadent organization is that leadership at the decadent organization is often
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by senkora 1y ago
AIaaS seems like the right term: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/cloud-computing-...
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by senkora 1y ago
> You don't actually want 300 calories of refined flour. Personally I always want this.
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by senkora 1y ago
I have an (unmodified) Super73. There is a mode selection between pedal assist and throttle. You can hit 28mph with only pedal assist.
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The Burdens of Ownership(josvisser.substack.com)
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by senkora 1y ago
> It reminds me of my short stint writing C++ where I'd read undefined memory in release mode, but when I ran it under debug mode it just worked. I assume it’s far too late at this point, but that almost always means that you’re inv
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by senkora 1y ago
You should do it if and only if backwards compatibility is more important for your project than development velocity. If you have two layers of types, then it becomes much easier to ensure that the interface is stable over time. But the dow
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by senkora 1y ago
The LIRR is heavy rail rather than light rail. I don’t know the regulations but that’s probably why.
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by senkora 1y ago
> In-ovo sexing is still at the beginning stages of its rollout, and while it has become substantially cheaper since it became available 7 years ago, it still adds a few cent per dozen to the production cost of eggs. I’m sure we’ll get t
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by senkora 1y ago
+1. Wikipedia has good info: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercontinent_cycle Take anything past 1 billion years ago as highly provisional. I also really like this site: https://dinosaurpictures.org&#x2F
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by senkora 1y ago
Where should I address the billion dollar check?
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by senkora 1y ago
You still can in some limited situations (like being under 30 years old) through “catastrophic” health plans.
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by senkora 1y ago
+1. We really need better words for this because I have to look up which is worse every time.
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by senkora 1y ago
MMAcevedo, the TV series Pantheon, and the play The Summerland Project are all excellent treatments of the topic. If you enjoyed any one of those three, then I recommend the others.
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by senkora 1y ago
The article is about Nike. I think that Nike is an interesting case study but I don’t really like this article. A fitness YouTuber / influencer who I follow thinks that part of Nike’s issues was that they never had a good strategy for
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by senkora 1y ago
These short videos should clear it up: Backstroke start technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwq-IsGNa28 Backstroke flipturn technique: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-WNtRGwSjQ Underwater dolphin k
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by senkora 1y ago
I just quickly tried to look up the current state of Threads-Mastodon integration, and I think that this is the current state: - Threads users have to individually opt-in to seeing Fediverse content - Threads keeps Fediverse content in a se
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by senkora 1y ago
I appreciate the Fediverse integration of threads. I follow a couple threads accounts through Mastodon and it works well (at least for passive reading, I don't know the current state of how replies/boosts/favorites federate b
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by senkora 1y ago
I wonder if you could simulate driving on the left by 1) flipping the entire screen left-to-right, 2) flipping the controls left-to-right, and 3) getting really good at reading mirrored writing.
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by senkora 1y ago
This is true, but it was surprising to me because I know that the gravity on the moon is 17% of the gravity on earth. It turns out that what I was missing is that an object on the surface of the moon is much closer to the center of the moon

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