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by tshaddox 1y ago
For what it’s worth, you don’t need a randomized controlled trial if you can offer an explanation for how microplastics affect human health. Hence the classic joke “As with many interventions intended to prevent ill health, the effectivenes
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by tshaddox 1y ago
The precautionary principle is bad epistemology and shouldn’t be used to argue in opposition to anything. If we’re considering actions to ban or reduce microplastics it should be backed by a reasoned explanation for why we should do so.
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That’s probably fine for dates that people have memorized, like their birthday. But it’s certainly not great for something like flight search, where I might know I want to leave in early April on a Friday or Saturday. For that I really need
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by tshaddox 1y ago
There are a lot of things people might mean by claiming that something "is just JavaScript," but one possible meaning is that the source code you write can run in the browser without any build whatsoever. For React, that's tr
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And also in essentially any relevant private market for goods and services where capacity is limited, especially when there are more and less desirable times.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
How do people find out how much traffic congestion there will be for an upcoming drive when they need to be at their destination at a specific time?
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You can also do out-of-order HTML streaming without JavaScript using declarative shadow DOM. For example: https://lamplightdev.com/blog/2024/01/10/streaming-html-out-...
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> e.g. you probably aren't going to be murdered because no one has anything more effective than a plastic spork Except for the occasional murder who has access to the flight controls.
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by tshaddox 1y ago
My guess would be that a lot of living room deaths are due to illness which would make the person unlikely to board a commercial flight, or other categories which certain individuals could reasonably exclude themselves from (drug overdose,
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by tshaddox 1y ago
Ironically, I have the opposite complaint with YouTube, particularly with these new Twitter web views. It takes 3 “navigations” now to get to the iOS YouTube app: one to open the Twitter web view, one to open that URL in Safari, then one to
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Also, I can't find any mention of Accrue on any previous Gusto or Guideline communications or any of their online FAQs about the acquisition. "Accrue 401k" seems to barely exist outside of its own website and a few third-part
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So you'd recommend they rewrote their Python project in Java (assuming the rewrite itself was a good idea)? I don't have any experience on a production web server written in Java or C#, but they both seem like a more difficult tra
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Same reason you posted that comment: it's sometimes interesting to discuss a thing even if you dislike the thing.
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Indeed. I suspect that generally the older a web feature is, the more difficult it would be for a new browser lot implement.
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It’s just spring physics, hardly a slippery slope to a Newtonian physics engine let alone a relativistic or quantum physics engine. I wouldn’t describe the math as significantly more complex than Bézier curves.
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The article mentions spring animations, which is essentially a basic physics simulation. They’re very commonly used in higher level JavaScript animation frameworks, but not supported in native CSS.
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Presumably many of the people who currently attribute China’s ability to build infrastructure to authoritarianism would also attribute America’s past ability to build infrastructure to authoritarianism. They would presumably also decry any
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No one would be surprised if you showed that you could cut a hole in pretty much any normal door given the right cutting tool. Yet people seem to act surprised and betrayed to learn that a normal lock can be picked or broken given the right
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Can impeachment be used to invalidate a federal pardon? My understanding is the President could certainly commit a crime by granting certain pardons, and could be removed by impeachment for that, but the pardon would still take effect over
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It’s easy to focus on the exceptional cases and say we need “one more level” to be able to override all the other levels. But it’s not clear to me that this is a useful way to frame things. After all, what do you do if you’re “one more leve
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> If the branch responsible for making and changing laws was also responsible for the reversion of enforcing those laws - effectively what a pardon is - then there's absolutely no check on gratuitous law being passed. I mean, it is
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> I think a congressional pardon power to allow national leniency on previously accepted sentences that are now viewed as unjust might be worth holding onto. That sounds like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. For the branch of governme
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There’s no chance that it’s actually privately funded, right?
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> Yes, there's an agument for voting for the lesser of two evils, but it's not a great one. This is only a remotely viable claim if you think the two evils have extremely similar amounts of evil.
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I only listened briefly on laptop speakers, but it did sound like sometimes the same note of a chord would play at a different octave, almost like it was trying to do voice leading from the previously played chord.
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I first became aware of this concept many years on Gary Garrett's blog, where he primarily refers to it as "the lattice." His introduction to the concept gives a brief history: https://www.garygarrett.me/?p=34
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That's a pretty rude thing to call young children.
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Do you think a sitting President could ever be charged with a crime (apart from impeachment)?
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That seems like it could have been a headline in a nonpartisan newspaper.
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It's controversial because of how specific the hypothesis is, now novel the physical mechanism would be if it existed, and how little evidence there is that it exists. I don't think it's controversial because people that evol

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