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by tfehring 6y ago
Floyd went from walking around, talking, and apparently able to breathe with no problems, to dead, during the first ~5 minutes that Chauvin's knee was on his neck. Is your claim that Chauvin's actions had nothing at all to do wi
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by tfehring 6y ago
Inoreader does this too.
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by tfehring 6y ago
It's pretty clear that you don't get to keep your knowledge of the world as it is today - if you did, the question would collapse to "Do you support slavery?" which is much less interesting. Asking what your ancestors be
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by tfehring 6y ago
SSC famously made and extended this argument a few years ago [0]. I like that essay's example of creationists even better, because it's a shockingly huge group of people - over 40% of Americans literally believe that the Earth was
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by tfehring 6y ago
I live about a mile from the middle of downtown in a mid-sized US city, in what is ostensibly one of that city's most walkable neighborhoods. I don't think there's a single mom and pop store within comfortable walking distanc
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by tfehring 6y ago
I'll also plug https://www.electionscience.org , an awesome and underfunded nonprofit that helped get Fargo's approval voting initiative passed. (I've donated to them but have no other affiliation.)
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by tfehring 6y ago
The fact that it's an imperfect filtering function doesn't mean that it's not a filtering function.
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by tfehring 6y ago
Others have mentioned that "insider trading" isn't the right terminology here. But more generally, I honestly don't think this is an issue from antitrust perspective. Imagine that instead Facebook granted exclusive acces
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by tfehring 6y ago
I wouldn't take a penny from either. It's a wide world with an unprecedented amount of capital in the hands of wealthy investors. There are plenty of funding sources that are neither surveillance monopolists nor government adminis
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by tfehring 6y ago
Conversely, I saw Paul McCartney in 2013 (at age ~70) and to this day it's the best concert I've ever been to. But I saw Bob Dylan around that same age (I think in '09 or '10) and he managed to underperform my incredibly
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by tfehring 6y ago
Even ignoring the drone strike part, that whole category of jokes needs to die. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMSAcZ90QI8
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by tfehring 6y ago
The fact that you can reliably add Signal users using only their phone number is a feature for the users who don't care about that level of anonymity, though apparently not a feature the developers care about preserving.
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by tfehring 6y ago
None of the features of CLIs that you described qualify as discoverability IMO. Tab completion, etc. only work if you know the name of the command that you need, and few to no CLI utilities or commands are named well. Say you need to remove
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by tfehring 6y ago
Being fired because you're perceived to be looking for other jobs probably isn't a realistic concern. But being passed up for promotions or missing out on desirable opportunities because you're perceived to be looking for oth
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by tfehring 6y ago
I can see why the ability to store a social graph and other metadata on Signal's servers would be a useful feature for users who don't want to tie their Signal data to their phone number and/or a plaintext social graph, and i
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by tfehring 6y ago
The same is true of Amazon, but in Amazon's case it doesn't make a difference because of inventory commingling. It looks like Walmart just launched its third-party fulfillment service a few months ago [0], but if they don't e
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by tfehring 6y ago
In addition to all of this, part of the reason that the cost of debt has been so low to begin with is because this implicit backstop compresses credit spreads (a measure of the riskiness of corporate debt). If it weren't for the assump
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by tfehring 6y ago
Here's PG's response from 2001: http://www.paulgraham.com/road.html
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by tfehring 6y ago
Do password managers really just send a series of keystrokes, as opposed to just detecting elements and populating them directly? This problem actually sounds familiar from the first time I tried using a password manager, over a decade ago.
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by tfehring 6y ago
True, but I'm not sure that's equivalent. A company that employs onsite employees in a high cost of living area is demanding that they pay higher rent as a condition of employment and should bear the associated cost. It may still
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by tfehring 6y ago
For reference, GitLab are fully remote and publish their rationale [0] for paying regionally-adjusted salaries. Some of the arguments I don't really buy (for example, I don't think you need to hire anyone from very high cost of li
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by tfehring 6y ago
Pre-existing conditions are not omitted from the 0.5%/month mortality rate. They just aren’t as impactful because most 80 year olds don’t have immediately life threatening medical conditions. For every 80 year old who will die this m
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by tfehring 6y ago
The baseline mortality rate for an 80 year old is about 0.5% per month. The mortality rate for an 80 year old with coronavirus is about 15%, with nearly all deaths occurring within a month. So treating all deaths in coronavirus patients as
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by tfehring 6y ago
They might not be penalized by Tesla directly or explicitly, but will they lose access to unemployment benefits if they have the opportunity to go back to work but elect not to? (This is a sincere question, I don't know the answer and
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by tfehring 6y ago
Possibly "tolerance" to high levels of CO2, and/or a baseline level of cognitive performance that's already impacted by chronic exposure to high levels of CO2?
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by tfehring 6y ago
Have you used the data model features in newer versions of Excel? I haven't really used them myself (I generally keep all my code in SQL and just use Excel as a frontend) but my impression is that Microsoft is trying to do exactly that
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by tfehring 6y ago
Is the Bay Area unique in the US for being progressive, relatively walkable/bikeable, and having great weather? This is a sincere question, by the way. (It's also a practical one - I just accepted a fully remote position, and I&#x
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by tfehring 6y ago
I live in Minnesota. My impression is that employee turnover is ~2-3x higher in coastal markets, which I'd expect to lead to (1) less willingness to obtain company-specific/business domain-specific expertise, (2) more fire drills&
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by tfehring 6y ago
The fact that his Wikipedia byline is the strongest evidence of any engineering expertise is telling.
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by tfehring 6y ago
For all ages with non-negligible COVID-19 mortality rates (i.e., everyone over ~60), the baseline total mortality rate over the course of a few weeks is orders of magnitude lower than the mortality rate for COVID-19 over that same time peri

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