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by whyenot 5y ago
I don't know about that. Modern mirrorless cameras have far fewer moving parts than the SLRs of old.
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by whyenot 5y ago
Because I am a public employee, anyone can go online and look up my salary. I've often wondered who might be doing that. Of course, where you live and if you own your own home are both publicly available and already pretty good proxy m
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by whyenot 5y ago
It would be interesting to know what the Chinese leadership think about the world's reaction to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and how that may affect their designs for Taiwan.
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by whyenot 5y ago
Even if it's possible, for Apple, it would be an utterly disastrous thing to do. Imagine the damage to its reputation. If they were to do it in this situation, the argument would go, what about other situations? What about all the phon
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by whyenot 5y ago
Discretion can be abused. "Normal, reasonable people," can be anyone with an 11-99 Foundation license plate holder. Apparently those things actually work, at least in the Bay Area. Otherwise there wouldn't be fakes and people
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by whyenot 5y ago
Since we are sharing anecdata, CHP are camped out on southbound 280 by 85 almost every morning. They usually have someone pulled over. More broadly, I think it makes sense to automate some law enforcement activities by using speed cameras,
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by whyenot 5y ago
For those in the SF Bay Area, there is actually a 100-150 year old chestnut orchard in the Santa Cruz mountains that contains American, Asian, and European chestnut trees. The orchard is open every fall to the public and you can go and coll
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by whyenot 5y ago
I would argue that they destroyed Instagram in the process. It set them on a path where they add more and more "features" to Instagram for legitimate strategic reasons, but in the process it turned a focused app into something now
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Lessons from 22 Months Rebuilding a Ghost Town(medium.com)
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by whyenot 5y ago
California is one of those states, yet as a state employee, my compensation history is a public record. Anyone who wants my info can find it with a simple search online. I can understand the good in disclosing this info for public figures,
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by whyenot 5y ago
I joined HN 12 years ago and I don't remember things that way at all. My impression is that it's extremely rare for anyone to claim that FB's demise is imminent, but it seems like it has become more common for HN posters to
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by whyenot 5y ago
This whole discussion reminds me of Reddit's imfamous /r/findbostonbombers. Humans seem to have this need to find and punish cheaters (see for example some of the experiments by Cosmides and Tooby). Sometimes we get things wr
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by whyenot 5y ago
Yes, but it also demonstrates how difficult complete eradication of invasive species actually is. In this case, there was only a single location, and eradication still took decades and large amounts of money. Now imagine if there had been c
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by whyenot 5y ago
RSS/Atom was the way to do this. It's a huge shame hardly anyone (knowingly) uses it anymore.
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by whyenot 5y ago
Wallet is also good for holding things like boarding passes, Clipper (transit card), passes to things like the SF Conservatory of Flowers, and your Covid Vaccine record. I would think twice about deleting it. It's actually kind of usef
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by whyenot 5y ago
Yes, but I think the person you are responding to has a good point: it should be in the headline, as adding one more word ("unregulated") is a pretty significant distinction.
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by whyenot 5y ago
Yes it is and it's perfectly fine for house plants. TDS (total dissolved solids) is usually below 30 PPM, at least for me. But, there are parts of the Bay Area with less pure water.
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by whyenot 5y ago
I don't see it as unfortunate. It shows that Java is a living language that continues to improve and change to match the needs of its users. Compare this to Common Lisp, which has not change in any meaningful way since 1984. A lisp-er
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by whyenot 5y ago
They also created hardened wooden nails and hammered them into wooden planks. That seems like a better example.
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by whyenot 5y ago
It's a three shot vaccine that only gives protection for two years. Considering how rare rabies infections are in humans, it seems like it makes more sense to treat people after they are bitten and only vaccinate those who may come in
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by whyenot 5y ago
It's becoming increasingly clear that social media needs to be more strictly regulated. How to do that in a free society is a difficult question. OTOH, if we take too long to figure this out, it may be too late. In fact, it may already
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by whyenot 5y ago
> Wray said the case was presented twice for possible prosecution and declined, but he deferred to federal prosecutors to explain their reasoning.
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by whyenot 5y ago
What warehouse workers need is a union or some other structure that represents employees and can bargain on their behalf. Yes, there have been a lot of problems with unions, in the US, in the past, but that doesn't mean the need for wo
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by whyenot 5y ago
The NFL might have moved past denial, but the NCAA and high school sports don't seem to have traveled very far along that path. It's profoundly sad that institutions of higher learning are promoting activities that they know can c
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Attack of the superweeds: herbicides are losing the war(nytimes.com)
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by whyenot 5y ago
You can also write an address on a fresh coconut, add postage, and mail it, at least from some locations (pretty sure this doesn't work from Floida to California).
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by whyenot 5y ago
As mentioned in the NPR story, it's about 10% of their distribution and transmission lines.
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by whyenot 5y ago
Voters like police unions and teachers unions, but what they don't like is paying more in taxes. As a public employee, I make $74k a year while living in the Bay Area. I'm at the top of my salary band. Sure, I've got pretty g
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by whyenot 5y ago
flavored sugar water with vitamins 32.5g of sugar per bottle, most of which is fructose.
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What to save? Climate change forces brutal choices at national parks(nytimes.com)
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