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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Wouldn't a parachute work? I know very little about flying/aerodynamics, so I might be missing something obvious.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Marines demonstrate boarding with jet pack”, and every time it’s just the creator cosplaying as whatever service he’s trying to sell it to this time. Didn't an actual Royal Marine do this recently, in a training exercise? https:
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
No, he's also talking about severe illness and death. He's saying that prior infection is a good substitute for the vaccine in preventing severe illness and death. The corollary being that we should consider "vaxed or prior i
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
My impression is that this was due to some legal constraint. I vaguely remember hearing about some legal pressure that prioritizing YouTube results was abusing monopoly power, and then shortly after that noticing as a user that YouTube beca
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
The parent comment wasn't talking about systemic risk, but personal: anybody who's able to grok the parent comment's point about this potentially not providing any incremental safety is capable of understanding that it doesn&
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This is so obviously the case that it's difficult to read the GP comment as anything but a troll. The idea that harebrained monetization schemes have taken over gaming to the point that you avoid it is just flatly lunatic. I barely eve
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This comment encapsulates what confuses me about commentary on the way videogames have evolved. I fully understand and support the idea that monetization has had a negative affect on many games. But the idea that "games aren't fun
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yes, it's a pretty widely-used term. Eg https://www.thebalance.com/real-estate-market-tiers-5207240 > Anyway, in San Francisco I order food and the driver doesn't move for an hour and a half. I call in to custo
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Could you say more about the fraud problem? I've used Ubereats a few times a week for a couple of years and I don't think I've had a problem, though only ever in a tier 1 city.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Covid was never thought to be risky for children, especially under 5s, even when we didn't have a vaccine. This is likely correct, but > Omicron is much less risky than other kinds of covid. There's some indication (though
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea I was going to say this. I moved to downtown Manhattan and finally mustered up the courage to start road biking after ten years of avoiding it in SF and.... It's amazing and feels almost 100% safe on the routes I take. The only rea
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I've generally people to have been badly calibrated about the level of risk their children faced throughout Covid. But there's some indication that Omicron's reduced severity runs the other direction for children: the focus o
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> when companies act shady Is it shady to communicate to employees the company's view that unions aren't good? Ie, is it that much different from the standard company public statement sayijng something like "we do not thin
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I agree, except citizenship has significant hurdles to immigrants. Agreed, this is a significant mitigating factor, which might make the policy make sense in any given situation.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
My read of the article is that it's the latter
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Total tangent but: Ignorance of the federal structure of the US is unbelievably rampant, especially at an intuitive level and even (or especially?) among educated parts of the population. I recommend keeping an eye out for it whenever you&#
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> Where someone lives is the biggest investment they can make. It cannot be collected by rich people, and even poor people invest where they spend their time All of these arguments apply to citizenship too, even more strongly. I've
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
It's beyond silly to declare that there's One True Way to implement braking. The article's point is far more relevant: if the system works one way, changing it silently is extremely dangerous.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> entirely
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> a Linux machine cant be used to develop iOS apps Of course, and serious gamers or users of specialty software may still need Windows, etc etc. These are examples of the "billions of reasons" that I alluded to in my comment, a
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> There was no period in which it had super strong lockdowns or super excessive restrictions. "America" is 300 million people and 50 separate states in a federal system. The reflexive urge to treat it as a single entity is cent
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm in agreement with the general principle: I'm constantly low-level baffled that the default for the computer-savvy isn't Linux, given my smooth experience with it over the last 15 years and the primacy of having control ov
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> I don’t understand why remote learning during this surge isn’t acceptable. I’ve seen opinion piece after opinion piece go on and on about how we need to have kids in school. I agree that this would be a great time for temporary remote
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I agree broadly with the sentiment, but this isn't very helpful to OP.
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> hjkl with Vim using Dvorak was just too hard to get my brain around Why not just remap? My intuition is that the cascading conflict wouldn't be that hard to resolve (at least compared to learning Dvorak...) but maybe I'm wron
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
Yea, I have no idea what the reasons are, that could totally be a factor. It's not a super high-quality commenter community, but the vote patterns are more bizarre than a lot of decidedly lower-quality fora, so there are clearly other
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> EDIT: Interesting. I’m picking up downvotes for this, is there some way to achieve this (other than jailbreaking) I’ve missed? Downvote patterns on HN are the most lunatic of any I've seen, including on much lower-quality fora. I
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
I'm glad that the article specified that individual effort is important. Too often, people act as if a collective solution is exclusive of the ability to improve your personal situation in the meanwhile (this accounts for probably 95%
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
> the worker gets screwed Are you referring to the guest worker here, or the general labor class in the host country? I'd imagine the former gets a substantial net benefit too, relative to the counterfactual in which he's makin
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by wutbrodo 5y ago
This doesn't encompass the issue the author is describing. There's an axis of personality that looks something like "intellectual curiosity", which exists independently of social skills, and isn't filled simply by h

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