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by sparrc 6y ago
sure, although seems a little disingenuous to compare those since medicare and social security are not funded via regular federal income taxes, they are taxed in their own dedicated categories and rates.
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by sparrc 6y ago
The proposal isn't to make everyone a millionaire, it's to give everyone an index investment at birth that they can't touch until they retire, at which point it would presumably be worth around a million dollars. btw I'm
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by sparrc 6y ago
To be fair, the USA federal government has plenty of money to pay for programs like this, they just choose not to. The lion's share of the money goes to the military, so there's quite a lot of room to re-allocate funds that would
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by sparrc 6y ago
doordash is cheap?
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by sparrc 6y ago
PSA: If you have a personal AWS account and you want some custom url path for your public images (like public.ecr.aws/sparrc/myimage) then login and create your public registry and custom alias ASAP.
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by sparrc 6y ago
Probably good for dockerhub TBH....they get less traffic so less costs but will probably remain the defacto standard and go-to spot for finding images for the foreseeable future.
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by sparrc 6y ago
They do have verified publishers, but it's tied to marketplace so not sure how they are going to do "verified" for open-source projects. One example that I've seen that already exists is "bitnami" is publishing
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by sparrc 6y ago
They rely on property owners (and probably usually property management companies) to self-declare: https://vancouver.ca/home-property-development/declare-prope...
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by sparrc 6y ago
Most vegans and vegetarians are well aware of the "but plants have feelings tho" argument. It's actually one of the most common arguments that people who like to "gotcha" vegans will bring up. The fact that plants c
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by sparrc 6y ago
Great list, I have another to add about ocean plastic :) * most plastic in the ocean is made up of abandoned fishing gear (see https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/03/great-pacifi... )
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by sparrc 6y ago
Where are you getting these numbers from? I only see 2 for Spain and 9 for Germany...
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by sparrc 6y ago
Growing and raising food requires a huge amount more water than it's literal weight once it sits on your dinner plate. As another commenter has already mentioned, most water goes to rural areas for farming, and within farming most of t
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by sparrc 6y ago
AWS is not optimized or built for people who want to reserve their own personal server for a year or more. Another cost option that the author didn't mention are spot instances. An r4.16xlarge spot instance in Paris for one year would
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by sparrc 6y ago
The article says they secured $13 million in funding. This is chump change compared to the size of the Australian beef industry. Hard to imagine that they are actually planning to roll this out on a large scale with that level of investment
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by sparrc 6y ago
> I know I'm not going to trust the Lancet or the NEJM ever again. Wait, what?? The fact that the lancet was able to determine that there were validity concerns with the data and issue an expression of concern in less than 2 weeks i
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by sparrc 6y ago
true, I should have specified "ECS on EC2", that will not likely be changing anytime soon.
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by sparrc 6y ago
Though AWS ECS is run on docker and will be for the foreseeable future.
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by sparrc 6y ago
Does this mean I can use awscli to interact with b2 by specifying some backblaze server with --endpoint-url? What is the endpoint I would use?
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by sparrc 6y ago
> Doing well at your subjects in Russia put you in the cool group. Doing well at your subjects in AU got you labelled as a nerd. Seems a bit exaggerated to me. At my high school (in the US) the cool kids were just the more socially outgo
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by sparrc 6y ago
This is good for Saudi Arabia. Their oil is largely very easy to extract so they have the lowest production costs, meaning their losing the least amount of money compared to other producers.
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by sparrc 7y ago
Hasn't been my experience. I was programming mostly in python in 2007 in applied math, oceanography, and physics classes. It had already been established in those fields (at least at my university) in 2007 so it's been at least 15
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by sparrc 7y ago
I have, my impression when doing an applied math degree more than 10 years ago was that python was by far more prevalent than R. I know through my wife that python is much more prevalent in bio-informatics and bioengineering too. Doesnt rea
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by sparrc 7y ago
You're completely misinterpreting (I'm the author of (1)). C++ and javascript are languages of professional software engineers, of which there are many many more languages with various pros and cons. Python has been the defacto st
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by sparrc 7y ago
...nobody in academia uses python? I would strongly disagree. The whole point of this Swift library is to provide an alternative to PyTorch which is clearly very popular in the community.
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by sparrc 7y ago
> However, they become less opaque as you learn the Swift ecosystem IMO that's essentially the problem. Most people* don't want to have to learn the ecosystem of a language because it's not their focus. The other issue is
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by sparrc 7y ago
That's exactly my point. The only people who use Java are professional software engineers mostly working at very large companies with teams in the hundreds. Almost nobody in academia uses Java.
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by sparrc 7y ago
IMO the first three lines of the program basically explain why academics and data programmers are never going to use Swift: Python: import time for it in range(15): start = time.time() Swift: import Foundation for it in
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by sparrc 7y ago
I grew up in suburban America and 100% agree with the author's take. It was certainly comfy but I found it unbearably bland, boring and suffocating.
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by sparrc 7y ago
If you don't think there are loads of shady rich people in the world, you need to wake up.
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by sparrc 7y ago
> Reading things like this really dampen my enthusiasm for trying Linux again. It shouldn't. If you use a major desktop distribution (ie, Ubuntu) it will be many months before you are actually using kernel 5.6.x.

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