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by tanaros 2y ago
> It's not even hyper optimizing, just basic optimizing would be nice. It feels a little bit like hyper optimizing. According to [0], the US spent $14.6B on libraries in 2020. The vast majority of that was from local municipalities,
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by tanaros 2y ago
> X is the only corporate social media platform that offers this. You don't like the algorithm? Don't use it, and use X just like everybody else for the first 10 years of its life. Speaking as a non-X user, doesn’t YouTube offe
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by tanaros 2y ago
> Volvo had women design a car once. To be more specific, Volvo designed a car specifically for women and chose to staff that team entirely with women. This is quite different than asking a team of women to design a car for everyone, a
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by tanaros 2y ago
> Are you saying that corporate processed food manufacturers are not making that statement? No. I have no knowledge of what statements such manufacturers are or are not making. However, your original post said “One of the reasons that we
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by tanaros 2y ago
> One of the reasons that we don't have Universal Healthcare in the US is that things that are categorically unhealthy would be prohibited from being sold. Afterall, it would benefit not only the receivers of care but also the peopl
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by tanaros 2y ago
> Isn't it great we have a massive private entity in control of the financial system that pleasantly reminds you that it is not accountable to government laws, and by extension is not accountable to the people ("A government of
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by tanaros 2y ago
Agreed. A problem with selecting a bunch of successful businesspeople to lead the government is that the government is not, and should not be, a business.
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by tanaros 2y ago
> This reminds me of the court case where they asked the court to define child pornography and they said “I can can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.” If you’re referring to the famous statement from Justice Potter Stewart’s conc
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by tanaros 2y ago
I think you’re only seeing the intro to the article, and then perhaps your ad blocker is preventing the “subscribe to see more” bit from showing up. The actual article is longer than six paragraphs and has some statistics and quotes from mo
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by tanaros 2y ago
Why is Michigan relevant to buying The Onion?
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by tanaros 3y ago
> One of the things to come out of discovery in the Damore lawsuit was Google's head of HR declaring a moratorium on hiring white males. Do you have a source for this? The closest thing I could find is [1], which says some Google em
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by tanaros 3y ago
> OTOH, if Sam is so horrible, why did all the employees threaten to quit (we're told) if he were not returned to his CEO role? I've definitely worked for CEOs who did not inspire that type of loyalty. Most/all of them. Mo
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by tanaros 3y ago
> False DMCA claims are technically considered perjury I think. The problem is that most so-called DMCA claims are actually not using the DMCA mechanism at all […] The other issue is that, if I recall correctly, the perjury penalty is no
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by tanaros 3y ago
> and yet Greenland is gaining ice Your first link doesn’t seem to show this. It shows that the rate of loss has slowed over the past few years, but it’s still losing mass every year.
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by tanaros 3y ago
The picture in that Kickstarter doesn't look particularly identical to the picture in the article.
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by tanaros 3y ago
> the cost just gets passed on as lower worker compensation This applies to payroll taxes, but I don’t think it applies to corporate income taxes. Since corporate income taxes are typically levied against profit, not revenue, wages are
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by tanaros 3y ago
> Code generation: the change they report is that the newer GPT-4 adds non-code text to its output. They don't evaluate the correctness of the code. They merely check if the code is directly executable. So the newer model's att
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by tanaros 4y ago
> Combine that with that UK city that wants people to get permission to leave there zones... If you’re referring to the Oxfordshire plan, this has been somewhat misrepresented. The proposal is to limit access through some specific roads
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by tanaros 4y ago
I have not watched the video, but I will note that “passing around” can mean “passing around the room [and then taking back].” The linked article says only the toys were “shown.” This is not the same as “[giving] out sex toys to kids.”
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by tanaros 4y ago
> So wait, he stole millions of dollars worth of data, got rich off of it and was sentenced to time served? She copied the data but there was no evidence she profited from it. Capital One paid $250+ million in fines and legal settlement
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by tanaros 4y ago
> end their workday at 2:30 p.m. A more positive framing of the request for more buses is that some employees would like to come in early and leave early, while others would like to come in late and leave late. It is interesting that his
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by tanaros 4y ago
What are these meat eaters consuming that’s giving them hundreds of grams of protein per day? A 14oz ribeye is only 98 grams of protein and I hardly think typical meat eaters are consuming those for every meal.
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by tanaros 4y ago
Why do you need to handle the bounces specially? I presume that whatever service you pick to send the mails will have its own bounce handling. You can give it the full list of emails and the bad addresses will be removed after the first new
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by tanaros 4y ago
While it’s clear the DNC didn’t want Sanders as the candidate, the reality is that he just didn’t have the votes, regardless of how many thumbs were on the scale. The RNC didn’t want Trump as the candidate either, but guess what? He got the
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by tanaros 4y ago
> […] and - more recently - the common person using the internet/social media to amplify troublesome anecdotes to the point where they seem like pervasive trends Which, of course, describes this entire thread of discussion kicked of
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by tanaros 4y ago
> That's called rational and responsible policy. While I wouldn’t say that the policy as implemented was optimal, I think it’s worth considering the conditions under which it was made. Each policy like this needs to balance the effi
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by tanaros 5y ago
>> Have you heard of the Great Resignation? Isn’t the Great Resignation driven at least in part by the government’s influence? COVID lockdowns and regulations heavily incentivized employers to offer more flexibility around remote work
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by tanaros 5y ago
I have no experience with this, but you may be able to install Neverware CloudReady on the old Chromebook to extend its life.
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by tanaros 5y ago
It's a nice video, but I don't really understand the formula. They make the claim that they need to price products assuming 30% goes to food / ingredients, 30% goes to labor, 20% goes to fixed costs, and the remaining 20% is
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by tanaros 6y ago
The richest person in America has more wealth than the median household will accumulate in a million years of labor (literally). Are you sure that two fridges and a lot of ice cream should be the focus here?

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