throwway120385

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by throwway120385 2mo ago
Most of Dang's day is spent shuttling HN titles into the archives in a salt mine in Nevada in between moderation.
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
Some day you might need the welfare. Not everyone is infinitely healthy for their entire lives.
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
We could actually hold our elected officials accountable for gutting Social Security instead. Then we wouldn't have to add "stock exchange expert" to our ever-growing list of job titles.
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
I think if we hadn't we would've figured it out anyway. Someone would have found them interesting enough to study.
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
Free trade isn't the issue, the issue is monopolies. When there were 60 or 80 companies all in the same industry but in different states or counties, the economy was much healthier because those 80 companies had to have their own indep
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
> Can you blame them? Would you sue if the government suddenly decided your industry has to pay extra taxes, or they tried to restrict your advertising? No. I'd probably try to understand the purpose of the tax and what it was being
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
In the 50's you'd buy it in an 8-oz can. The sizes we're getting out of vending machines are pretty absurdly large for something that basically started out as a dessert you'd buy to top off your small sandwich and cup of
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
"Heat" is really entropy gain, and so in order to do useful work you have to increase the entropy of the system to higher and higher quantities. If you want to move entropy from one closed system to another(to cool one system down
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
We could easily create a duty at the state or local level if we wanted to. The US Constitution is pretty silent on a lot of issues that are remanded to the states.
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
Two egg rolls is also a meal by calorie content.
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
Maybe we could take a page from the SWEBOK here, which contains a lot of previous thinking on this topic.
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
Just putty over it and get a slightly matching high-gloss or semi-gloss enamel and nobody will notice it. I've put tons of holes in things in rentals over the years and basically nobody will care as long as you restore it to like condi
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
This is a killer use case, but you should also take a peek at the Human Factors Handbook -- it's got great information about how to architect buildings like homes that will help you avoid some pitfalls I've seen in custom homes th
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
USB-C would suck. Part of the purpose of that proprietary plug is that it's very water resistant and very durable. Imagine getting mud or coarse sand in your USB plug and not being able to charge anymore.
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
Because a vaccine is much easier for the doctor to administer and manage. My GP won't put condoms on me but they do have a list of shots I get basically once and then never again.
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by throwway120385 2mo ago
Which medications were they trying to get? Plan B or something that works later?
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
ApplePay doesn't communicate with Apple through your phone, it presents the card details as a contactless EMV transaction through the card reader, so it's pretty much spot on as an example of how this should work. Just so you know
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
You can use pipe dope instead of PTFE if you want. It's just more expensive.
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
It's perfectly legal in the US. In fact it's legal to lean out your window and yell at them. It's protected speech here, and for good reason. Otherwise the cops could just say your speech made them feel disrespected and you c
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
It's hard to justify an iPhone Pro Max as a "cheap travel phone" though so you might actually need to buy a cheap travel phone.
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
What makes someone a monster in my book is their willingness to depersonalize other people to accomplish their goals. I haven't met Qiu and this is the only article I've read about him. What I think is that he did something really
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
I didn't read it as making the doctor a monster. What I saw in the story is an example of how the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
You really shouldn't apply statistics this way. Expected value is useful if you're an insurance company because you can price insurance products slightly above the expected value, but if the fine is $100, batteries are $90, and yo
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
Another fun fact is that it was impossible to deduce from any of Ben Franklin's experiments what material was transferred and what material remained in place to give rise to "charge" as we think of it. So he picked a conventi
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
Nvidia's software support remains "best in class" so they've become the default for a lot of this stuff. To overcome that I think you'd have to get a lot of hobbyists and by extension interested young people using y
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
I'm more excited about the future partnership between Oscar Meyer and Intel. Behold the future of meat.
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
What's different is that the period tracker apps have women provide that information pretty directly. The data broker probably had to do a lot of work and then estimate with a confidence level. So there's a significant difference
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
Does it generate the same extremely fat binaries? I've seen Go binaries get into hundreds of megabytes for things you could do with C/C++ with a few megabytes. Most of it seemed to be string tables and other things that could be r
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
My truck will actually play MP3s off of a data CD. Maybe I should try that.
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by throwway120385 3mo ago
We really need to finish the Gollop Chamber.

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