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by spfzero 5y ago
Taiwan actually rounded up tourists from the mainland and sent them back home, then locked down travel for all. They took it seriously from the start, ignored what the WHO and CCP were saying. I don't doubt there were many more reports
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by spfzero 5y ago
It is a political wedge issue because it generates fear. Anything that causes people to be fearful is going to be exploited, and amplified, by political parties in whatever way they feel would benefit them. It's a handle they can pull,
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I agree. Wikipedia "watered down" the meaning of "conspiracy theory" so that it could be used in situations it couldn't before. In effect, defending its use in closing off argument and discussion. Anytime you have a
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by spfzero 5y ago
Sometimes it’s hard to appreciate but humans living 10’s of thousands of years ago were as intelligent as today. They could have figured out a way to do pretty much anything that could be done with the materials of their day. Someone wantin
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by spfzero 5y ago
I think it’s implied that the “many” today, is a much smaller “many” than before.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Before you got very far into this it would be really hard to stay curled up in a ball.
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>1. The Western nations didn't do much in terms of actual nation building and giving the country perspective beyond daily drone strikes, poverty and opium harvesting. Yes, there were a couple of schools built, but that doesn't
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by spfzero 5y ago
>Anyone have theories/guesses on how the Taliban are able to pull this off? No one in the US agencies who planned the pull-out and advised the Biden administration, apparently.
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by spfzero 5y ago
The peak of the US "lead" would seem to be the fall of the Soviet Union. Vietnam etc. was long over by then. Not saying Iraq and Afghanistan weren't unnecessary and expensive. The U.S. and the world would have been better off
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by spfzero 5y ago
Product-Market fit is of course important. No point in marketing Red Bull to older demographics; the product was not designed for them. Aside from products targeted at one demographic or the other, older audiences are more skeptical, and ha
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by spfzero 5y ago
The long-tail subs will never get too crowded. If you have found a niche where like-minded people hang out, there will never be a whole lot more of them, and however many more there are, it's a positive. I'm thinking vintageaudio,
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by spfzero 5y ago
That demographic is most sought-after by advertisers because it is the easiest to influence. The ads work better on them. For whatever reason, maybe just because they've seen more ads, older demographics are harder to reach.
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No, because pollution (CO2, etc.) is the problem. Energy use would be irrelevant if it did not harm the environment.
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by spfzero 5y ago
If generating electricity could be done carbon free via nuclear/solar/wind, and that electricity used to produce hydrogen via electrolysis, you'd have something for industrial/transportation uses.
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One is the capacity, the other is the load they actually were carrying?
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by spfzero 5y ago
It was common in the US in the 70s too.
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by spfzero 5y ago
But some of the businesses we’re selling your data to, are small businesses. See? See how that turns everything around?
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by spfzero 5y ago
The article points out that the person who first spotted the smoke also saw the man walking back from the location of the starting of the fire, about 10 minutes after it started. Now that they have a warrant and can track his movements, he
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Former college professor accused of serial arson is denied bail in California(npr.org)
77 points by spfzero 5y ago|73 comments
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But you're trusting the ratings and the safety records.
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We already have trusts in case that ever happens.
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I get it. I'm pretty sure they don't! Although Bezos has stopped running Amazon in order to do what he loves, Blue Origin. And Elon is already doing what he loves. If either of them had been commuting to a cubicle to work for BigC
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by spfzero 5y ago
A person in their mid forties is not looking back on the prior 20 years of adulthood as their "entire life", I can assure you. Nor are they regretting the dollars they've saved so far.
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by spfzero 5y ago
If they were able to save a million, they wouldn't be getting an average social security check. They'd be getting probably the max, at 40K or so a year. Plus, they could safely draw 4%. So that person would be at around 80K a year
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by spfzero 5y ago
One thing is, the benefit of IRAs and 401Ks are capped so that you can't put more than (20-25K?) in them each year. Anything else you want to save comes from after-tax income. Still, even with only half of your income available after t
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Because I Am Bored(antipope.org)
204 points by spfzero 5y ago|191 comments
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And then there's the whole thing about measuring productivity. It's very hard for many managers to understand the qualitative status of a codebase, and to connect future task effectiveness with past decisions that affected that qu
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by spfzero 5y ago
The team here is part of the company that markets Codespaces. They're not actually representative of other companies, so I wouldn't take this as a direction all software development would be taking.
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Yeah, love the dig at terminal editors with "ed". Anyone using one of those must be stuck back in the 70s on a 16-bit minicomputer terminal.
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by spfzero 5y ago
Haven't used Perl but they're in a lot of languages, Lisps, Python ("""), Ruby, PHP etc. but C# does at least have the verbatim-type of strings which would be good enough. Don't use the interpolation features t

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