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by tzs 7mo ago
> Installed capacity is a misleading number. If you assessed the trucking industry by simply sum-ing the rated capacity of all the hardware you'd be rightfully laughed and and called a liar on the basis of all the times the trucks a
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by tzs 7mo ago
Removing protection for these particular animals will no measurable effect on US energy supply or security.
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by tzs 7mo ago
Interesting. Looks like it is not taking into account DST in the US. The time shown for Seattle and New York for example is the non-DST time.
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by tzs 7mo ago
Are Unix and Unix-like vendors making implementing this harder than it needs to be? Here is what is required for laws like California's. 1. To modify account creation so that in the scenarios where the law applies (account is being cre
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by tzs 7mo ago
Or find the best third party library and copy the code from a widely used version that has been out long enough to have been well tested into your source tree. The problem is not third party libraries. It is updating third party libraries w
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by tzs 7mo ago
> What's the actual steel man argument for why noncompetes are good? It probably depends on the kind of job. If say Walmart tried to use a noncompete to stop cashiers from going to Target there probably is no reasonable argument in
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by tzs 7mo ago
The article covers this, but probably worth having it mentioned here too: Washington already had partially banned noncompete agreements. They were banned for employees who made less the $127k/year or contractors who made less than $317
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by tzs 7mo ago
> No court is going to enforce a non-compete if it means the person who cannot compete is going to be unable to support themselves. The only time it'll be enforced is if you're already independently wealthy. The first part is p
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by tzs 7mo ago
Block pages that contain a construct that is commonly used by humans in human writing and has been for centuries because AI that trained on human writing also uses it? Should we also block pages that contain no spelling errors or no grammat
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by tzs 7mo ago
Not just Obama. It was also the UK, France, China, Russia, Germany, and the EU that had a nuclear deal with Iran. Trump ripped it up over the objections of all of them.
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by tzs 7mo ago
That's way too pessimistic. Among SUV drivers in the US the biggest segment is compact SUVs (think Toyota RAV4 or Honda CR-V). Then midsize (like Toyota Highlander or Hyundai Palisade), subcompact (Mazda CX-30, Hyundai Kona), then full
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by tzs 7mo ago
Choosing a pay band based on performance and setting the pay bands as low as they can losing all their employees are orthogonal. Suppose you are an employer and you have 5 junior engineers. You wish to promote one to senior engineer, which
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by tzs 7mo ago
There’s a reason most universities don’t hand you a bachelors degree in economics as soon as you complete EC101. You should look into EC102 and the rest of the curriculum.
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by tzs 7mo ago
How do you get from "pay band [...] based on performance" to "least they can pay me without quitting"?
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by tzs 7mo ago
Once you have a sane people in charge of policy the building out of renewables quickly using Chinese panels and turbines can be accompanied by incentives do build up domestic manufacturing for them. Solar and wind equipment lasts a long tim
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by tzs 7mo ago
> Under HIPAA requirements emailing personal medical info is a massive no-no. Doesn’t that only apply to covered entities, which the internet is telling me does not include the Social Security Administration.
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by tzs 7mo ago
It doesn't force cloud only. It defaults to cloud only. This is for both free and paid versions. It has been this way for 3 years.
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by tzs 7mo ago
> There are so many times the Oxford comma prevents ambiguity. I have yet to see a counterexample. In every counterexample that I have seen the ambiguity involves an appositive phrase set off by commas which is lurking nearby in the sent
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by tzs 7mo ago
So far only two linkable reports of his death have been found. The other is on a Twitter-like site that is so full of anti-semite, white nationalist, and similar content and has so little of anything else that it makes Twitter look like a f
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by tzs 7mo ago
I've sometimes wondered what it would be like now if some of the big names early in open source and free software had decided to take a detour of a couple decades to work in commercial software with the goal of making as much money as
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by tzs 7mo ago
Copyright is a bundle of rights and copyright licenses don't have to license all of the rights in that bundle under the same terms. You could make a license that makes copying and distribution not cost any money but charges for use. Pe
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by tzs 7mo ago
She was 16 which was above the age of consent there. From Minsky's point of view a girl who was old enough to legally consent to sex offered to have sex with him. According to witnesses at the event he turned down the offer.
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by tzs 7mo ago
Minsky turned down the offer according to witnesses at the event. The only crime was committed by Epstein.
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by tzs 7mo ago
How is that assigning the blame to Epstein's victims? The scenario being described was that Epstein was ordering some of his victims, who were ostensibly employed as masseuses at his resort, to go and offer sex to specific people who w
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by tzs 7mo ago
> How do you convince someone who might have hundreds of games tied to one online account, that it is in their interest to open a new online account with a new merchant and start over from scratch? I haven't play a PC game in a long
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by tzs 7mo ago
> Another poster child for Meta's lobbying (bribery) to encourage OS level age verification. (numerous recent references in HN posts) The references I saw showed Meta had lobbied for some of the laws that require age verification be
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by tzs 7mo ago
OT: speaking of Homebrew, I made an incorrect assumption about it that eventually led to some problems. It was me being stupid, but I bet others have made the same mistake but not yet hit problems. Hence this comment. My mistake was when I
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by tzs 7mo ago
> Is there a single person who things Trump gives a single damn about the birds? It is obviously just a pretext. This can be seen by the changes to the interpretation of the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) his administration made i
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by tzs 7mo ago
Do any RE implementations do anything like the query planning that databases do or the rewrites that compilers do that can replace the RE with a different sequence of REs or string searches that might execute faster? For example in the expr
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by tzs 7mo ago
> They will likely lose, but the goal is not to win, it's to score points with their political base and maybe bankrupt the defendants with legal fees. Or the goal might be to lose, but to establish some precedent that will hamper st

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