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by vitus 5y ago
By "markets working as intended", I mean "if one provider of a service has a critical flaw that's specific to that provider, and that flaw is a dealbreaker for some customers, then they ought to be able to vote with thei
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by vitus 5y ago
No offense taken! I do wish that the market would work as intended such that failures in handling abuse (e.g. frivolous accusations as we're plausibly seeing here) would lead to organizations moving away from Zoom to competitors, wheth
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by vitus 5y ago
Oh, I agree that the carrier isn't going to work with just any website. But companies like Zoom (as would be relevant in this scenario) might hold more sway, especially if the looming threat is "deal with this on your end, or we w
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by vitus 5y ago
> If you have an idea on how abusive actors behind CG-NAT can be identified and blocked without blocking the entire CG-NAT Working with the carrier? Depending on the kind of abuse, it could very well be against the ISP's ToS, and th
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by vitus 5y ago
That particular figure makes me think of the derisive backronym for emacs ("Eight megabytes and constantly swapping"). (Long-time emacs user here)
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by vitus 5y ago
You can actually solve that problem by asking just one assistant "What will the other assistant say?" If you're asking the truthful assistant, then it'll correctly tell you that the other assistant will point at the wron
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by vitus 5y ago
Yes, both helium and hydrogen are much lighter than air. But that doesn't significantly impact rarity of hydrogen, as it reacts very readily and is typically found in compounds. You don't find much hydrogen gas in nature (~1ppm in
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by vitus 5y ago
Yes. More precisely, helium is an element that doesn't readily form compounds. Hydrogen does, and as such can be extracted from, say, water via electrolysis. The secondary issue with helium is that it's much lighter than air -- th
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by vitus 5y ago
This reads like a standard payday loan, to be honest. Which is to say, it's absolutely taking advantage of people who already can't afford it, but it's also not a new phenomenon. A standard payday loan might be 10% on a $100
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by vitus 5y ago
It was actually the other way around. :)
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by vitus 5y ago
While Albertsons itself might be mostly in western states, the parent company owns plenty of other chains in other states, e.g. Safeway or Jewel-Osco. These chains all run the same promotions, carry the same generic brands, etc.
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by vitus 5y ago
> In November 2020, Apple Inc. launched the M1 chip, a desktop- and laptop-grade systems-on-chip (SoC) based on a British processor architecture known as ARM. Seems strange to call this out and not mention that the Exynos SoC is also bas
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by vitus 5y ago
While it's possible that decide can be traced back to caedere (to cut, kill), it's also plausibly related to cadere (to fall, die; more relevantly, come to pass). The latter etymology also gives rise to words like "coincidenc
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by vitus 5y ago
Maybe, maybe not. Those numbers include pedestrian deaths, which the same wiki article states "began rising in 2010, and exceeded 6,000 by 2018" (constituting a higher percentage of deaths in 2018 than in 2010). If you subtract of
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by vitus 5y ago
I could believe that, if I were living on a college campus. But no, I'm using a residential ISP, and every geoip site I've checked in the past agrees re: my ISP. I recall in the past when I was on a university connection, I was al
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by vitus 5y ago
Ars Technica has the pictures from the paper: https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/05/what-cats-love-of-bo... But, also, I was able to find a PDF download through Google Scholar ( https://scholar.go
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by vitus 5y ago
(Thanks for the very detailed response.) (Immigration quotas are a weird one -- on one hand, you want to keep all the H1B visas from going to the mega-consultancies like Tata or Infosys that end up not paying very much, but on the other, of
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by vitus 5y ago
There are more factors to systemic racism than just worse economic outcomes, so it's naive to assert that only black people experience its negative effects. Immigration comes to mind, where profiling is rampant in enforcement (but only
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by vitus 5y ago
Any chance there's correlation between a spike in the price of lumber and the cost of housing? As another commenter says, sawmills are capacity-constrained. New construction being much more expensive would certainly add supply-side pre
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by vitus 5y ago
I'm not sure I understand the math in the thread that arrives at 8.75% inflation (or 8.75% off). 160 / 140 yields 14% increase in price per unit, and (1 - 140 / 160) yields a discount of 12.5%. But also, this isn't neces
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by vitus 5y ago
It's not just Facebook. It's easier in a conversation to refer to an outage that was caused by a system called Maya by a descriptive canonical name like "Mayan Apocalypse", than to refer to it as 14351. As companies grow
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by vitus 6y ago
Divides. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Divides.html
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by vitus 6y ago
What's the argument for building in debug mode vs specifying -g to the compiler to build with debug symbols? I've previously encountered bugs that stubbornly refused to reproduce in a non-optimized build. One thing that comes to m
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by vitus 6y ago
> We are now 16 months into the most serious global pandemic since the Spanish flu of 1919, and we still don’t know the origin of the virus. Weird way to start out the article, given that we don't actually know where the Spanish flu
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by vitus 6y ago
That works great for strings / numbers, not so much for objects (unless you really want to see "[object Object]" in your debug strings).
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by vitus 6y ago
Go doesn't allow for specifying multiple short flags all run together, or for flag args without spaces, so neither of those are directly relevant here. Also, that first issue happens with POSIX flags (with the GNU long flag extension,
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by vitus 6y ago
Oh, I agree. I ran into a related issue a couple of years back where people were using single-dash flags for a C++ project that was using Abseil flags in conjunction with getopt parsing of short flags (for legacy reasons). Why were they usi
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by vitus 6y ago
By standard, do you mean -s for short flag, and --two_dashes_for_long_flags? Because if you don't care about chaining together short flags and just want to use two dashes for your long flags, Go will happily accept that. https:/&
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by vitus 6y ago
> Approximately 56% of Israel’s 9.2 million citizens are vaccinated and another 15% (approximately 700,000 people) How do those numbers work, now? 15% of 9.2 million is 1.38 million, not 700k. Even NYT's tracking which has 835k posi
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by vitus 6y ago
These points look cherry-picked to support your argument. To cherry-pick a few more points: Bangladesh, India, Nigeria, Pakistan. All of these were British colonies prior to Hong Kong (which was a British territory from 1841 to 1997). All o

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