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by thunky 4y ago
Not disagreeing, but just a note that it is possible to play Fortnite without spending a single cent or giving out a credit card. It's not a pay to play game, so you're not limiting yourself by keeping your money. You just miss ou
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by thunky 4y ago
My (limited) understanding is that a state chartered bank is still regulated at the federal level. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_regulation_in_the_United_... : a Nevada state bank that is a member of the F
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by thunky 4y ago
PyPy isn't really a subset of Python. From pypy.org: PyPy is a Python interpreter, a drop-in replacement for CPython 2.7, 3.8 and 3.9
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by thunky 4y ago
> but you can’t blame regulators When I read "regulators failed", I don't think of Joe Regulator phoning it in at work. If Congress creates and oversees regulations, then they are the regulators in my book. This may be wha
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by thunky 4y ago
It would be nice if restaurants used this technique for their menus.
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by thunky 4y ago
I didn't downvote, but I think your comment doesn't object to the idea that it's just not simple to determine what policies worked. You could probably find an asterisk to put next to any state (based on age, density, data qua
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by thunky 4y ago
How will you tell when that is happening?
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by thunky 4y ago
> Confronted with the same circumstances and choices, I don’t think any armchair critic would have done any better Maybe not, but that doesn't make it out of bounds to be critical. > The per capita rate of sickness and death in U
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by thunky 4y ago
Not saying you're lying but DC home prices overall are down 14.7% YoY, and may have only just begun. https://www.redfin.com/city/12839/DC/Washington-DC/housing-m...
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by thunky 4y ago
It's interesting, this is where we're at: 1. english -> 2. programming language -> 3. machine language We need step 2 right now because a human has to manually push text around to actually make it to step 3. But programming
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by thunky 4y ago
Cobalt is nice if you want simple: https://cobalt-org.github.io/ It's not python, but it is a single binary to be off and running.
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by thunky 4y ago
Foreign debt is only a piece of it: https://www.thebalancemoney.com/who-owns-the-u-s-national-de... . For example: think of the retiree who holds most of their nest egg in (nominal) treasury bonds.
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by thunky 4y ago
> where money is to be stole I think the big one is at the large scale: government reducing it's debt burden by devaluing the currency that is used to repay their creditors. But even on the small scale it seems like they win: Let&#x
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by thunky 4y ago
> It's not a good idea (or even a practical idea) to plot out all the work that you want an employee to do in a year, or even in a quarter I think it's possible as long as you define the work very generically. For example, repl
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by thunky 4y ago
I don't understand. Are you saying that existing for-profit health care companies are not attempting to maximize their profits?
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by thunky 4y ago
I hate to break it to you, but health care is already a for-profit industry.
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> So 0 risk for the company, all the risk goes to the employees The employees made bank from the deal. And the company could have made a different deal from the start and kept it rather than offering that compensation package. If the sto
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by thunky 4y ago
As a counterexample, I know of a church (in the US) that gives away groceries for free. It's once a month, but they allow people to take home a good amount of food, including meats.
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by thunky 4y ago
You're getting pushback but I have to agree. I'm disappointed with how unsophisticated modern web development is. Our tools and processes are extremely fragile and error prone, and frequently produce bug ridden junk. So much so th
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by thunky 4y ago
> Only a small percentage of lobbying money goes to the politicians Either this article disagrees or the lobbyists are raking it in: https://www.cnn.com/2018/02/23/politics/nra-political-money-...
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by thunky 4y ago
That assumes that most people spend most of their time on video calls now. Which hopefully isn't true. And if it is true, all of the points that Jassy makes suggests that they are doing remote collaboration wrong. For example: holding
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by thunky 4y ago
> companies shouldn't be surprised if many of their staff take a cynic view of their company values I think it's safe to assume that everyone already knows that "company values" and quotes like the ones you shared are
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by thunky 4y ago
I wish I lost that much money.
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by thunky 4y ago
> Are there any restrictions on advertising Cigarette ads were banned, that's one example.
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by thunky 4y ago
I'm not a fan of either, I would prefer counter_test.py: def test_increment(): assert ...
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by thunky 4y ago
You're probably right and I'm probably being unfair. My opinion is colored by seeing HA postgres deployed on k8s for no good reason, then having to deal with the consequences. It just seems like once you're in the k8s world,
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by thunky 4y ago
And that repo you linked to has 1846 issues, 161 open. Which doesn't seem extraordinary based on my limited exposure to k8s. Another example: https://github.com/zalando/postgres-operator/issues with 445 open
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by thunky 4y ago
You misread the title. The tools 3M made are year-old.
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by thunky 4y ago
Just for reference, this is my source: https://www.npr.org/2022/12/27/1145579337/tipflation-why-you... BISWAS: People usually assume that that money is going to the server or the employee. Anything pai
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by thunky 4y ago
Interesting, are you seeing an explosion of counter tip prompts there?

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