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by sparrc 5y ago
Fleabag and Marvelous Mrs Maisel didn't seem very safe to me at all
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by sparrc 5y ago
I have the same issue. I use sparr.email and it fails validation on a few critical websites, namely my online utilities account (seattle public utilities) and payroll processor (ADP).
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by sparrc 5y ago
I have my own custom email domain (sparr.email) that fails validation surprisingly often.
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by sparrc 5y ago
The vaccine rollout has been great in the US. The anti-masking and politicizing of the pandemic has been terrible. I guess the deaths per capita will be fairly high in the US but it varies a lot from place to place. Many places did very lit
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by sparrc 5y ago
In my experience moving the engineering-minded founder(s) to some other role like CTO and getting a more experienced "business school" type CEO is very common at some stage of a startup's life. If he was refusing to make this
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by sparrc 5y ago
is there a source for that besides youtube? all the scientists, UN, environmental orgs, etc. seem to be in agreement that animal products use the most water.
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by sparrc 5y ago
Personally I was very unimpressed with this documentary, especially the episode on avocado farming actually. It felt like they were trying to create a story out of nothing. The fact is that crops take water to grow. All crops do. Avocados a
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by sparrc 5y ago
Have you tried backblaze b2 storage? Requires more work client-side but is around 1/4 to 1/5 the price. The only issue is whether or not you have a CDN in front of this data. If you do then backblaze might not be much cheaper than
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by sparrc 5y ago
Probably makes sense for you to wait then, I think most people are happy with 200-250 miles (I certainly would be)
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by sparrc 6y ago
yet everyone in the comments is sounding off as if this scientifically proves their random anecdotes about fasting
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by sparrc 6y ago
It's always strange to me how certain studies seem to gain so many upvotes on hackernews....a few thoughts: 1. This is a single study published in 2015, what does the wider literature say? Any dieticians or clinicians recommending anyt
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by sparrc 6y ago
I'm no fan of Seattle's government, but FWIW, I have lived in one of those Desert cities (San Diego). They have a sewage pipe that goes about 2.5 miles into the ocean [1] and spews out "lightly" treated sewage water. The
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by sparrc 6y ago
density is not really a challenge, it's just a question of city laws and zoning. if you allow 5-6 story apartment buildings and eliminate onerous process and requirements (like parking minimums, setbacks, design reviews, "environm
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by sparrc 6y ago
Having lived in both countries, in my experience UK towns are a lot more dense than American suburbs.
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by sparrc 6y ago
Flagged for misinformation. There definitely was an uptick in deaths and pneumonia. Scans of patient's lungs showed new symptoms not normally associated with pneumonia. This happened over the course of a few months and is what tipped o
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by sparrc 6y ago
Because ultimately you are drawing a line between two for-profit corporations and asserting that one of them is exploitative and selfish (Amazon) and one of them is not (Elastic). In my opinion, Elastic is being just as selfish and exploita
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by sparrc 6y ago
should we also rename coconut milk? coconut cream? peanut butter? should we rename mincemeat since it rarely if ever contains meat anymore? and what about hot dogs...those don't contain dog do they? do we have to rename those too?
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by sparrc 6y ago
That hasn't been my experience at all.
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by sparrc 6y ago
flagged for misinformation
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by sparrc 6y ago
No, they haven't. Johnson and Johnson hasn't applied for emergency authorization yet. Assuming they do next week and all goes well it will likely be available by March.
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by sparrc 6y ago
> caused by financial firms selling a lot of crazy mortgages to people who could not afford them unless housing prices went up forever. When the crisis hit, the firms got the blame, not their customers. This is not totally correct. 2008
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by sparrc 6y ago
> If a customer falls down on a trade, it is ultimately liable.... Robinhood induced them to buy through its gameified interface Why would robinhood be any more liable than other online traders like Fidelity or etrade? > What I can gu
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by sparrc 6y ago
Decent summary but a little out-dated on DNS load balancing. Major cloud services like AWS support health/status checks through DNS these days: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/Route53/latest/DeveloperGuide/re
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by sparrc 6y ago
fair point, by "progressive left" I meant in comparison to the US in general. Most of the "homeowner-aligned conservatives" in Seattle would be considered left-wing progressives by national standards. In context these ar
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by sparrc 6y ago
This exactly describes the progressive left of my city in the US (Seattle) too.
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by sparrc 6y ago
in response to (a). I think too much censorship is bad, but there is some amount of censorship in every country in the world. We do censor speech in the USA. IMO we could go a little further without being at all "Orwellian". Many
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by sparrc 6y ago
Just wanted to say thanks for the entertaining article, I learned a lot and especially enjoyed the FAAMm acronym XD.
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by sparrc 6y ago
what would be the benefit of this versus a reserved t4g instance on EC2, for example?
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by sparrc 6y ago
I use AWS Workmail. If you have a personal aws account then it's very easy to setup. The web UI is pretty basic but I just use Apple calendar and Spark for email anyways so it doesn't matter to me. It's $4/month and you
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by sparrc 6y ago
It's the single largest category of spending, outside of medicare and social security, which are taxed and funded within their own category separate from regular income taxes, and are "mandatory spending". Also note that Broo

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