thrwy_918

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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> No one has had their engineer title taken away for being a crook, as far as I know This seems an absurd claim, unless you're going to get very pedantic about some distinction between "engineer title" and "legal righ
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> However, with an extensive email chain explaining the story was written as the ending of Minecraft, even going into detail about how it was to be displayed in game, an agreed upon offer (if a bit vague), and then an exchange of funds -
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>Mandatory helmet laws do not prevent people from riding bikes. Just like mandatory seat belt laws did not prevent anyone from driving cars! This is an absurd comparison. Mandatory helmet wearing makes bike-sharing programs almost comple
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
Perhaps regular people, many of whom don't drink much wine, prefer simple, unchallenging flavors that can often be found in cheap wine. Theres nothing wrong with this, but I don't think it necessarily means that wine "quality
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> I have felt that it really is the best way to create a fair market clearing price for all participants Fans don't want a market clearing price. Artists will also say they don't want a market clearing price, and some (most?
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
The partisan tone of this article is very grating and makes it hard to take it seriously. It is full of brash, opinionated statements which are not backed up by the actual study [1] the article is based on. I have to conclude that it's
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> The great thing about Bitcoin is that it’s whatever the holder wants it to be, and nothing they don’t want it to be If someone bought Bitcoin a year ago and wanted it to be a store of value, it is certainly not "whatever the holde
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> Recall that the vaccine is not FDA approved for children (only adults), it only has an emergency use authorization for children Falling while skiing is not FDA approved. A woodcutting axe applied to the hand is not FDA approved. Drinki
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> The ACA covered none of it or a very small portion The ACA is not an insurance plan, so I assume you are using "ACA" as shorthand for "ACA-compliant insurance coverage". It is simply not plausible that an ACA-compli
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> Obamacare, which was forced upon us and costs us $2,400 PER MONTH, did not cover it Can you expand on this please? I find it extremely hard to understand how an ACA-compliant health care plan could "not cover" a hospital stay
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
"stablecoins" are not decentralized. If you're going to trust a central issuing and custodial authority for a coin, do you even need crypto technology in the first place?
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>The second one is only confusing because you're trying to find a cause and effect between 2 events that simply happened to happen at the same time The author uses "because", which in context clearly indicates to me a caus
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
I find this uncharacteristically hard to understand. In the stock brokerage example, we're told: >They might allow you 2:1 leverage when you buy stock: your $1,000 buys 20 shares now. But then a couple of paragraphs later: >But y
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
Anecdotally it is much, much, much easier to get a $400k tech job in the US than a $300k tech job in the UK, so this isn't really a fair comparison when I moved from a tech job in the UK to a tech job in the US, my salary more than dou
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>It is true that generative ai technology is often trained on human artists' work. But how is that different from human artists taking inspiration/learning and adapting the style of other human artists? It's different in t
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
It seems very strange to use the existing rules of copyright as a defense of the use of this new technology. The concept of copyright was created in response to the development of the printing press. It was a reaction to a disruptive techno
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
I agree with you, but I also had instructors who demanded the same thing: essays as arguments, drawing on evidence and analysis to back up a thesis. An essay that is simply a description of the source material, or a listing of pros and cons
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
There are hundreds of thousands of households in SF. Of course adding a thousand new houses is not going to drastically reduce house prices. That doesn't disprove that it's a supply-side problem. It demonstrates the size of the su
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
I agree that your definition would be more intuitive, but I think that ship has sailed. It seems to be almost universally used to mean "performing the required duties of your role, and no more" I think it's an indication of a
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> For religions originating in the desert where meat spoils quickly, it makes sense to ban those kinds of meat more prone to transmiting deseases if mishandled Is pork any more prone to spoilage, or spoilage-related health risks, than ot
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
Beans and legumes are some of the healthiest foods you can eat, being high in both fiber and a range of beneficial phytonutrients. There is no high-quality evidence that lectins in properly prepared beans cause any health problems.
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>A musical performance is copyrightable A recording of a musical performance is copyrightable. But I believe the copyright would belong to whoever made the recording, not the performing musicians (assuming the work being performed is p
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
Perhaps the word "sprint" translates primarily to "short distance" in your mind, but I suspect if that's the case you are unusual in that regard, and most people think of the defining characteristic of "sprint&
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
The author is using the word a bit differently, but the fact that "sprint" has been normalized as a unit of work for software development, and developers are expected to be in a "sprint" more or less at all times, has al
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
> nobody I know with starlink has gotten better than 100 down. That is not really broadband AFAIK the minimum speed for "broadband" is 25 down. I am a highly online person living in a large city with many choices of ISP at many
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>sold off to developers to "fill in" with profitable (but in my reckoning totally unneeded) housing I have no idea what "unneeded" housing is. Are these units sitting empty? YoY house price growth in the UK is running
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>Visibiome has OTC and rx-only probiotics products It's worth pointing out that the actual biotic payload is exactly the same between the two products, only the dosage is different. In other words, taking two packets of the regular
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
It's really fucked up that so much discussion revolves around the more peripheral issues (the evidence from American Airlines, getting access to a lawyer, why bail wasn't set, whether or not it's appropriate for a judge to gi
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>In the world of smart contracts code is indeed law, but that doesn't change the fact that in the real world law is law I think some confusion arises because that "smart contracts" only make sense if code really is law, in
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by thrwy_918 4y ago
>In these scenarios (0.15g and 0.3g) about 90% they estimate comes from salt. I know nothing about anything, but could salt be heat-treated to burn off plastic?

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