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by sigstoat 6y ago
i'll throw out a mention of the youtube channel Sampson Boat Company: https://www.youtube.com/c/SampsonBoatCo it's one guy and various volunteers working to restore a >100 year old wooden sailing yacht. wh
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Now swap the guns with... muscles? upper body strength? that free gun world sounds pretty good. > Apply it now to crowds. If everyone owns the same gun, it takes far fewer people to band together and take physical control of a certa
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Both have an understanding on how things work and/or an intuition, either by studying theoretical concepts or via practical, hands on experience. hands on experience with regular expressions manages to fail a lot of people with pr
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by sigstoat 6y ago
there's nothing stopping the NYT from being more ethical than US law requires them to be. and they regularly argue that current US law isn't sufficiently ethical (though perhaps not on this issue).
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> There will plenty of metals on the surface. we've even brought a lot of them closer to the surface, refined them, and alloyed them!
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> You see this in upper management all the time; execs are friendly and graceful with each other because their material success is guaranteed, and promoting collegiality among execs is usually an orgizational goal. i assume this is some
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Shareholder Short-Termism Theory Has Died of Covid-19(chrisstucchio.com)
1 points by sigstoat 6y ago|0 comments
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by sigstoat 6y ago
the forensic toxicologist and biochemist sitting next to me, who also has at least as much experience with LSD as any of you lot, sees nothing at all improbable about the events described.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
he was cleaning it off using solvents and no gloves. that’s exactly how you get things through your skin.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Third, you really underestimate electricity costs if you're running a server 24/7 at all cores. not to mention the cooling, or the per square foot cost of renting the space for this hardware. anything close to what's bei
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by sigstoat 6y ago
who makes the non-proprietary CPUs that will provide competitive performance here in 2020?
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Somebody has to do them. Why are sanitation workers getting paid less than stock brokers when sanitation workers are doing objectively harder work and are at far more risk (especially now)? do you propose to pay sanitation workers hund
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by sigstoat 6y ago
"$state music teachers association" "music lessons near $location" the challenge will be entirely in trying them to see who you like, not finding them.
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> I don't know if ZFS supports variable compression levels (maybe per dataset) > Thus it's possible to use a higher level (high compression ratio, slower speed, more CPU and RAM) for e.g. an initial archive. And later use a
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> At that point, things that people thought were secure assets (like, say, their bank accounts) what possible justification is there to be worried about their FDIC-insured bank accounts? even sticking that in as an off-hand comment is s
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by sigstoat 6y ago
it might very well kill the person you were responding to, or their loved one were they to bring it home. supposing that's not a concern, and you're not emotionally impacted by the possibility of hundreds of thousands of additiona
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> Sure, that's something I _could_ do. but that's drastically more expensive then if I run everything inside of AWS. oh no! engineering tradeoffs!
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by sigstoat 6y ago
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/12/americans-spend-over-1000-do...
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by sigstoat 6y ago
there are alternatives to believing that the value of the entire housing market is going to drop: 1. your last N years of work/credit history are currently less predictive about future income/repayment ability than banks would lik
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by sigstoat 6y ago
> I don't know if he's actually close to Zuckerberg, but the Banjo CEO has been telling many people in Utah that he and Mark Zuckerberg are close friends, at least as a recruiting hook. ...does that work for some people?
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Besides, costco is not a monopoly, and I can go to target or safeway if I want to... amazon doesn't have a monopoly in online retail, and i can go to any other website just as easily. far more easily than you can drive to a differ
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Should we be stockpiling oil like crazy right now when prices are low just in case (while also artificially driving up demand)? yes? there's a national strategic oil reserve. that's exactly the thing it should do.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> How does the Bose app talk to the device? what options can there possibly be? it uses bluetooth. > Wireshark can probably be used to analyze it. bluetooth has reasonable security built in. bose products make use of it.
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Are nurses guilty of ‘price gouging’ for being paid $10k per week in NYC?(aei.org)
2 points by sigstoat 7y ago|5 comments
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> For some reason unfamiliarity with the term "leverage", probably
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by sigstoat 7y ago
the constant stream of articles on here about how folks can't pay for any emergency bills would have us believe they're all broke anyways. doesn't seem to have been a problem for the restaurants.
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> Yeah, but the office was buying it at Costco too, and now they aren't. office depot delivers TP with the copier paper and kleenex. IME that's been more common than costco for any business large enough to have an office manage
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> It's interesting that paying people's rent for them is on the table, but denying rent to the literal rent-seekers isn't. As though ensuring those who collect rent get their rent is more important than keeping people in h
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by sigstoat 7y ago
> domestic production is less valuable than a multi year stockpile nobody is going to stockpile food or consumer goods when you're demonized for charging more for them when the demand goes up. there's no way to do anything but
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by sigstoat 7y ago
you’re thinking of just covid-19 cases. but they compete with all other cases for medical care. if you come in messed up from a car accident and you need 5 doctors to survive, or those 5 doctors can keep 5 covid patients alive each, you’re

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