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New Zealand to cut ‘low-skill’ immigration and refocus on wealthy(theguardian.com)
1 points by vonmoltke 5y ago|0 comments
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Merkel breaks with Biden on US plan to waive patent protections for C19 vaccines(thehill.com)
3 points by vonmoltke 5y ago|0 comments
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Scientists Need to Admit What They Got Wrong About Covid(wired.com)
11 points by vonmoltke 6y ago|8 comments
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
There is an option under "Display options" to change this.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
Depends on what you need. I just paid three times more to get my dog a flu shot than it would have cost me to get for myself without insurance. I agree, though, that doctors for non-humans are generally cheaper than those for humans.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Biden is described as "radical left" Only by far-right nutcases. > in most other developed countries he'd be considered center-right, or center at the minimum I read this frequently here, but when I look at parties co
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> 1. The non-www version doesn't seem to work. Common for "internal" USG sites. I don't know if it's intentional. > 2. If you try https://www.intelink.gov/ , the browser immediately warns you
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> the sole goal of outrage to get more views and more ad revenue How does outrage lead to more ad revenue? Who wants their brand advertised next to outrage? How many outraged people click on ads?
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
If there's anything to the timing, I think it's on the OFAC side, not the GitHub side. I doubt the OFAC would fast track this just because of a Twitter controversy, though, so it's probably just a coincidence.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
As stated on that page, motor gasoline was 45% of US petroleum consumption, so 23% of that 68% wouldn't be touched by electric cars. There's also a relatively small amount that ends up in small engines[1], but I'm willing to
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Yup, 6 months is a write-off ... any kind of reasonably sized existing project will take weeks to months before one can reach anything approaching full capacity I won't speak for the GP, but I think you and I have differing defini
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> But you handed them in, in person I have done that exactly once, at a college recruiting event in 2002, and the person who took it and gave me the pre-screen interview never saw me again until after I was hired. > and had an in pers
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Now I feel obligated to add that footer: We're hiring! ;-) Side note: you should put some contact info in your profile so people know who you are hiring for anf how to contact you. :)
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> they're gonna lose it regardless if they can't make those ballooning payments That's a reason to never touch an ARM, not to avoid buying a house.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> I have to subtract from that about 3% for interest, 2.5% in property tax, 1% for maintenance. You need to subtract those anyway, as they are baked in to your rent payment, though the interest will depend on the landlord's circumst
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> I've heard this is usually the case in the USA Where have you heard that it is usually the case in the US? I have put money into two different housing markets (Dallas-Ft. Worth and northern New Jersey) and it was not the case
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Still Disinfecting Surfaces? It Might Not Be Worth It(npr.org)
4 points by vonmoltke 6y ago|0 comments
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> every kind of engineering other than "software engineering" requires occupational licensing No, it doesn't.[1] Licensure is required for an engineer to provide engineering services "to the public". The large
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Corn grows in north america and sugar cane doesn't. Sugarcane most definitely grows in North America. Florida alone produces hundreds of thousands of tons of raw sugar annually.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Again, if there should be some issue with the supply chain, then the first dose could be 'wasted'. It's not "wasted". As noted in the article, the first dose alone is ~50% effective; the second dose is require
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Doctors routinely need to update their certification by taking a formal exam They don't in any place in the US I have lived.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
On the Spanish Flu specifically, the evidence indicates most people who died were killed by secondary bacterial infection, not the virus itself[1]. This was the result of a combination of poor hygienic conditions and lack of antibiotics.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
PyCharm is fine for me. IntelliJ, on the other hand, will periodically freeze my work Macbook when trying to reindex parts of our monorepo[1]. Makes me wish I wasn't forced to use a laptop... or a monorepo. [1] Note, just a handful o
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Because VC funded startups are forced to grow fast or die a lot of good, profitable, user focused ideas are trashed because they won't lead to rapid enough expansion. I have noticed that, to some people, "VC startup" is
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
From what I can tell, it isn't approved for home use anywhere.
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
In the supply chain, not necessarily. Any software that goes onto a classified information system is supposed to go through a security review and audit, though. Based on my first-hand experience with various DOD agencies, though, I don&#x
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
> Just across the border, you dont pay city income tax, but you pay absurd property tax. Well, how good a deal that is depends on your household AGI versus the value of the property you own/rent in each location.
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Plastic pipes are polluting drinking water systems after wildfires(theconversation.com)
16 points by vonmoltke 6y ago|7 comments
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
In general, sellers only need to collect sales tax if they meet the legal definition of "reseller". The test varies from state to state, but is generally a combination of gross annual revenue from sales and number of sales transa
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by vonmoltke 6y ago
Agreed. If you go up two graphs to "Excess mortality for all ages"[1], though, you can see the same stat as a percentage delta from the average of the five preceding years. [1] https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mo

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