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by surfmike 5y ago
I think this is an honest perspective, but it directly contradicts the article which is saying "basic income would not reduce people's willingness to work." Menial labor or being berated by customers rather clear-cut example,
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by surfmike 5y ago
All I can say is I’m thankful for Elon Musk. The electric car revolution would not have happened without him.
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by surfmike 5y ago
This made me wonder what happened with LightSail energy, and found this takedown: https://www.greentechmedia.com/squared/letter-from-sand-hill... Compressed air still seems like a promising idea to help solve the scale
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by surfmike 5y ago
Slack, Spotify, and Obsidian.md are other apps where I couldn’t really care that it’s using electron.
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by surfmike 5y ago
It wouldn’t matter if Google or Facebook’s profit was denominated in ETC, BTC, or fiat; those companies are massively profitable.
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by surfmike 5y ago
I think there's power in the idea of structured objects in a shell, but is there a community that actually feels that PowerShell is a productive language? I'm biased coming from a Unix/bash background, but the times I've
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by surfmike 5y ago
The same shift has been happening on game engines, with Entity component systems.
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by surfmike 5y ago
At the end of the day most people want more of their bit of space (indoor and outdoor) for the money. Which inherently pushes them to suburbs.
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by surfmike 5y ago
I see a lot of defensive comments here, but this post made me aware of the fact that there are a lot of documented cases of adverse effects of meditation as well. TLDR: > Willoughby Britton is a clinical psychologist, neuroscientist, and
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by surfmike 5y ago
This still leads to frustrating behavior, where changing one line of a file might end up reformatting all of it (and this often obscures the actual change itself).
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by surfmike 5y ago
On Nextdoor you can see the settled Californians complaining about the traffic, crowding, and wanting to stop development. The housing crisis doesn’t register for them at all since they got theirs.
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by surfmike 5y ago
I don’t know that anyone has said Canada is going great on vaccination, especially compared to its neighbor. The delayed 2nd shot is a resourceful strategy (also employed in the UK) to get higher population immunity from fewer shots in the
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by surfmike 6y ago
Yes, good analysis and would have hoped that an alarmist article would grapple with that data point. I think there’s a very good chance the strain is behind our second wave too.
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by surfmike 6y ago
Odd that there’s no discussion of the fact that case counts are currently plummeting in California.
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by surfmike 6y ago
Right, I think parent isn’t talking about slowing the spread, but fatality rate in isolation. Since the deaths are highly concentrated in older people, once they’re all vaccinated then COVID will, on average, be much less lethal and there w
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by surfmike 6y ago
Long term we got pension issues, but yes in fact, our previous governor was great at cutting back spending and was very fiscally responsible. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/dec/18/jerry-brow..
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by surfmike 6y ago
Data point: Most of my single co-workers, most of whom have roommates, would like to return to working in an office. They miss the social aspect of work, and for some of them it’s hard to work from home.
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by surfmike 6y ago
ANGLE (Chrome’s OpenGL ES backend) has a Vulcan backend as well, although I haven’t seen any performance numbers. It’s made to run WebGL though so strong incentive to have good performance. https://github.com/google/ang
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by surfmike 6y ago
It Is Difficult to Get Someone to Understand Something When Their Salary Depends Upon Their Not Understanding It
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by surfmike 6y ago
I see. Any parts of the law I can cite if I complain? At least in my case and OPs it doesn’t seem that the law is being followed in practice.
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by surfmike 6y ago
I’ve had that experience too. What makes you think it’s illegal?
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by surfmike 6y ago
Even insurance doesn’t protect against this. Case in point: family member battling cancer had over $50K in costs not covered by insurance. Not to mention costs that they had to pay initially until the insurance company accepted the claim. (
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by surfmike 6y ago
NGDP targeting has been advocated by some as superior to interest rate targeting. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nominal_income_target
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by surfmike 6y ago
It not only avoids the battery problem, but can be a solution to the battery problem.
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by surfmike 6y ago
They got a reprieve until the election. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/08/20/app...
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by surfmike 6y ago
I used to work at https://maishameds.org/ which is working on pharmaceutical distribution in East Africa.
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by surfmike 6y ago
Eastern Europe (outside of Russia) has been quite happy with NATO’s increased involvement on their borders. I hope this does not change, and don’t anticipate it will under Biden.
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by surfmike 6y ago
Their point was that Asian countries are more in the “eliminate the curve” camp that you are arguing against, and that they are doing much better economically and health wise as a result.
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by surfmike 6y ago
Our crime rate is probably 4x higher than developed European countries, so we could still use more of the security product. It’s not clear that they’re mutually exclusive anyway—you can push efforts to improve justice while improving polici
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by surfmike 6y ago
I think their preferred route is to continue to make the emulator better instead.

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