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by sigstoat 4y ago
> I don't want to entrust my life and my baggage to a company so incompetent. even supposing the stories were true and accurate, if this is enough to get you to never use an airline, which ones are left for you to use?
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> It's easier to geo-engineer the atmosphere than to stop polluting it? coordination problems are tough, and there's no reason to believe that the largest one ever encountered should be easier than one organization deciding to
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> for day to day stuff there is no way I’m gonna pull another engineer in to run through these steps. which of those besides #3 requires day-to-day interaction with another engineer? and i'd expect #3 to fall out of sprint planning,
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> with the caveat that I don't do all of these things explicitly, every time, on every project which is totally fine, most of those things don't need to be done explicitly. (as such they take less time than many commenters seem
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by sigstoat 4y ago
alas, the cartels are not bound by normal lobbying rules.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> can even prescribe in Washington state how does that work? the DEA controls the ability to prescribe, and they're federal.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Same with finding exotic riding a bicycle. how many european billionaires ride a bicycle as a form of transport rather than exercise?
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by sigstoat 4y ago
the internet is full of folks lamenting how little musicians make for their music. somebody suggests that they ought to be paid more and you subject them to rudeness?
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by sigstoat 4y ago
they’re a bunch of wealthy european musicians who wear silly costumes when performing. (i say that as someone who enjoys most of their music.) what do you think they’re going to do to anyone?
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by sigstoat 4y ago
placed a backorder on mouser and then just waited. easier than constantly checking and hoping. they don't charge your card until it ships.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
this is probably the second-most studied thing in forensic toxicology after alcohol use. > Cannibis can be in your system for weeks or months and the levels of active compounds[1] in somebody recently using, vs someone months away from u
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by sigstoat 4y ago
some haphazardly chosen references from a 2013 bibliography on the subject, compiled by someone who probably doesn't want her name showing up in an internet forum. Aryana A, Williams MA. Marijuana as trigger of cardiovascular events: s
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Google did not really do anything THAT different than Alta Vista > The results were better, they obviously had a better algo i'm with walter, i remember using altavista. google was _shockingly_ better. nobody tried google and s
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Why does adding a socket into a wall cost more than $50? Should be able to just open the wall panel, plug in an extra cable, close panel, done. what are you envisioning? using cheap consumer power cables inside of walls, and paying ext
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> If a house is pre-planned, you can use a machine that cuts each board to length, and join the ends of each board using basic joinery processes that aren't practical when building a site-built home. You can pre-fabricate things lik
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> I got a B in Linear Algebra, and I still can't describe why you'd need that in the real world seems odd in a world full of 3D graphics and machine learning, which are built on heaping piles of linear algebra.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
there's basically only one kind of optical cable used in consumer audio (S/PDIF+TOSLINK, or however you want to refer to it). the trick is to arranging for both ends to use it.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
poor sanitation is a public health risk, not merely “gross”ness. i’ve seen some public bathrooms are so mistreated that i don’t know how you pay anyone to clean them. i’d certainly feel awful asking a janitor to clean them without a hazmat
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by sigstoat 4y ago
you don't do someone a favor when you lend them money they can't pay back.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> There's a real tendency to stock the neutral white, silver, black, grey colors rather than brighter colors which I assume are more polarizing. i think it's further up the chain than the dealership. when i've taken a look
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by sigstoat 4y ago
what sort of role has you taking care of things like that? i’d be curious to hear a bit more. i took a job at a consulting firm in hopes of getting a lot of variety, but i keep getting stuck digging the dumbest customers out of the deepest
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> This is so awesome for two reasons, Postgress isn't exactly easy to setup for tutorial level usage, "apt-get install postgresql-X" or installing Postgres.app has always worked perfectly. what sort of troubles do you run
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by sigstoat 4y ago
being extremely generous, and assuming he meant "martian atmosphere" when he said "air", it _might_ be a bit more challenging (depending on your process and what you've got available) to convert the CO2 at 0.095 PSI
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> As a Japanese speaking programmer I basically don’t have any competition in the job market. does this actually come up in the hiring anywhere? you tell google you speak japanese fluently and you're just in the door? in my limited
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by sigstoat 4y ago
where does that even appear in sci-fi? you're the first person i've ever seen even type out such a thing.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> the long term consequences of this exact technology for society > They don't get any say in the decision, but end up heavily penalized, barred from certain jobs for "safety" reasons, aren't desirable partners...
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> I don't know a great way to find this comment in the future otherwise. click on the time of the comment and then bookmark the resulting page?
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by sigstoat 4y ago
> Only on Wikipedia would that sort of prioritisation be normal. perhaps if you addressed your concerns to their prioritization committee, you could effect some change.
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by sigstoat 4y ago
the declaration of independence is ~1300 words. a half-assed attempt at counting the words in the article (minus of the copy of the declaration that it contains) comes up with about ~10900 words. is that strange? what ratio isn't stran
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by sigstoat 4y ago
i'd like to know the variance of the two looks like, and how much earlier transit riders have to leave wherever they are to account for it, than drivers. (this wouldn't show up because they measured door-to-door times.) admittedly

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