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by sgustard 6y ago
Mentally I've compared this experience to the Blitz, which my grandparents lived through. Heightened fear of death or injury striking without warning; massive changes to daily routines; no timeline for how long it would endure but the
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by sgustard 6y ago
The point is, even if there weren't lockdowns , the psychological toll of the virus would be huge. Plenty of people would self-isolate anyway out of justified fear of the virus. In fact, being surrounded by people who recklessly disre
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by sgustard 6y ago
Impressive effort by the reporters: "The AirBeam reports data through a phone app, but we wanted a fallback, so we connected the AirBeam to a tiny Raspberry Pi computer. We modified open-source software to control the AirBeam and downl
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by sgustard 6y ago
When I Google "who won the election?" it clearly shows Biden won. Is this equally objectionable behavior by Google?
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by sgustard 6y ago
Your argument that the president's 34 indicted colleagues were actually guilty of X not Y is adorable.
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by sgustard 6y ago
Elect a cheater, and then claim the next election has the "most cheating in history." Amazingly, that's an accurate statement, because of the cheater. I am willing to be "exposed to the idea" as you say. I have to a
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by sgustard 6y ago
"Where Georgia’s Hand Recount Differed From the Initial Tally, by County" in the NYT - https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/11/19/us/elections/... Far from claiming "no missin
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by sgustard 6y ago
Also debunked as false. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/clinton-received-debate-qu...
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by sgustard 6y ago
There's a fallacy in here somewhere. Let's say you pick a common sequence, and you win but have to share the winnings with several people. You say "Darn, I should have picked different numbers!" But then you would have w
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by sgustard 6y ago
In what state won't you be prosecuted for murdering someone stealing your laptop?
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by sgustard 6y ago
Has Tulsa agreed to look for the mass graves of its citizens killed in the race massacre yet? Seems like that might deter the level of "diversity" the city is looking for.
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by sgustard 6y ago
I was hoping someone would make this comment. White flight to a red state is nothing new. My neighbors in the bay area represent dozens of cultures and no one's going to pay me to give that up.
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by sgustard 6y ago
I agree Trump is much more of a "proof of concept" of how an actual fascist could operate. Instead, as you say, he is blisteringly incompetent and lazy. Remember he accidentally became president when all he wanted was to build a h
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by sgustard 6y ago
Trump's weakening of the US's global influence and dissolving its alliance with the EU has been the greatest gift to China in a generation. All China wants is to be an unchallenged world power.
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by sgustard 6y ago
Oklahoma City is a huge sprawling area on an essentially infinite two-dimensional plane. Population density of Helsinki is 8x that of OKC, plus it has natural features, so it's really going to have a different feel.
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by sgustard 6y ago
I just downloaded the free chapter. I don't see a Rails version number, but it does mention Ruby 2.6 and the book is dated thusly: > This Version: April 2020 (Free-Chapters Edition) > Rebuilding Rails is copyright Noah Gibbs, 201
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by sgustard 6y ago
Can someone give me specifics on who's affected by "cancel culture"? It's a meaningless label to me. I mean, I think Bill Cosby has been cancelled. Colin Kaepernick was for kneeling. And the lady who called the police on
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by sgustard 6y ago
I have been that boss. Is that you, Wendel? In any case: the deletion even had a "type your app name to confirm" prompt, but I knew I wanted to act on production; the issue was deleting the wrong one of multiple production databas
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by sgustard 6y ago
The US is willing to run at a $3T deficit so the concept of needing tax money or fiscal viability to build things is tenuous at best. Did taxpayers get slammed when we built the transcontinental RR?
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by sgustard 6y ago
A couple years ago all you heard about was kids who didn't want to get shot in school. Now it's communities of color who don't want to get shot by police. It sure is a lot nicer to keep my head in the sand.
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by sgustard 6y ago
I don't remember companies passing those savings along when they moved from offices to cubicles to save money.
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by sgustard 6y ago
No, in fact they publicly state their admissions are "need blind". However, certainly a slice of wealthy and legacy students get favored admission. Those two things are not necessarily in conflict.
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by sgustard 6y ago
The idea that you'd walk around the campus of Yale and conclude "whites and asians" to be "racially disfavored" is ludicrous.
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by sgustard 6y ago
My company's head office has been vacant for six months while everyone works from home. Nobody's reading the mail. No wonder our cancellations are way down.
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by sgustard 6y ago
People don't have large families because their cars are too small? That sounds backwards to me.
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by sgustard 6y ago
The most useful outcome to society would be for every 100-year-old piece of PG&E infrastructure to be replaced, at whatever cost to the company is necessary.
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by sgustard 6y ago
The year 2020 is providing all the Big Questions we can handle. How do we stop a pandemic? Climate change driven fires the size of a continent? Reforming the police to stop racial violence? Fighting bots and trolls that threaten democracy?
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by sgustard 6y ago
I'm at a company that grew from 10 to 200 engineers. Basically the first 10 build the actual product, and the next 190 build one-off customizations for enterprise customers.
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by sgustard 6y ago
Unity's homepage lists four industries they target and Games is only one of them. Seems clear they also want to sell into Manufacturing, Construction, Film, etc.
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by sgustard 6y ago
How do you know those two engineers aren't $457k richer now?

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