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by wwweston 5y ago
IIRC cryptography has been classified under munitions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th... Not sure how that'd interact with 2nd amendment issues (but it did come into conflict with the
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Or use AWS as the DR site an spin it up only if the local HW fails. Yep. This seems like the obvious setup to me: 1) make the usual case as economical as possible (and ownership and the associated control will probably help here, unles
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Pandora: 752 Some streaming services are net-equivalents of terrestrial radio, where the user selects the rough genre but doesn't drive the program. Pandora's a good example. Some streaming services are meant to be in-the-clo
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by wwweston 5y ago
I pulled the trigger on an Apple Music subscription this year because it pays artists better. Spotify still considers a penny per stream "entitled" according to an exec giving one of the most absolutely tone-deaf AND nonsensical j
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by wwweston 5y ago
Am I the only person to whom significant portions of this sound like complete nonsense? > We are realigning the Talent business to focus more on customer employer branding and company awareness needs, and moving away from job slots and d
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by wwweston 5y ago
There's a real point here -- not every thing we note will ever have value to us again. OTOH, I taught high school math briefly, and this reminds me of the evergreen question "When are we ever going to use this?" And the hone
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by wwweston 5y ago
Halcyon On and On is an evergreen awesome track.
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by wwweston 5y ago
https://www.justwatch.com/
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by wwweston 5y ago
> I have to weigh in here and say that Consumer Reports is a pay-to-play service now Do you mean to say that they receive money to issue reviews (which would be alarming)? Or do you mean to say they charge fees to access review informati
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by wwweston 5y ago
> One reason so many people think they have ADHD is because they make that mistake. Speaking of which: has anyone had the experience where they sought to be evaluated for ADHD and the professional they went to said "nope, this doesn
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by wwweston 5y ago
> You choose to drive with only liabilty insurance, and are upset that insurance didn't cover an accident when you had no liability. Seems clear to me he's upset the other driver's liability insurance isn't covering t
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by wwweston 5y ago
People are motivated to lose fat already. There are immediate social and psychological costs aplenty to carrying it and immediate benefits to presenting as trim/fit. Obesity is not a motivation problem. I would believe that covid has
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by wwweston 5y ago
> CSS modules still seem to solve every problem Tailwind solves, and better. I agree with most of what you're writing, but in arguing this out with people who seem to be enthusiasts, what I think I've discovered is that while
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by wwweston 5y ago
So much this. Day-to-day I drive an older automobile (an early 90s sedan, design-similar to models as early as 1986) and every time I get in the driver's seat of a recent model car I'm reminded of how much more limited my visibili
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by wwweston 5y ago
> Capacity/density improvements are slower, but already many EVs have nearly the same range as a lot of ICE car equivalents. Correct. But what they don't have is competitive re-fueling time. You end up with full-range refractor
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by wwweston 5y ago
> the public would quickly learn that it can answer any question at all... if you don't mind if the answer is right. There appear to be an awful lot of conversations in which people care about other things much, much more than what
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by wwweston 5y ago
Electric cars are fantastic for many use profiles. Round-the-town trips and commutes with pauses in between. I'm sure they'll get better for longer range stuff and that will be part of the farther future -- but if you're maki
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by wwweston 5y ago
Amen. Also, we have term limits, they’re just not statutory, they’re democratic (and called “elections”).
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by wwweston 5y ago
I think "high degree of social cooperation," pretty big strength when confronting a socially transmitted threat.
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by wwweston 5y ago
An order of magnitude less than the covid deaths in a year. And yet automobile engineering and usage are heavily regulated in order to improve safety and reduce fatalities.
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by wwweston 5y ago
The Bangladesh study does not say that cloth masks have no effect . It said that it can’t support an impact of cloth masks usage on infection rates , but associates them with reduced severity/symptoms. That’s a notably distinct propo
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by wwweston 5y ago
Probably FB’s Hack and similar efforts were influences first, since they predate the rise of TS. On the other hand, though, PHP’s always tended to be a borrowing language that accumulates features from elsewhere, so there probably is some T
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by wwweston 5y ago
If you read the links I've posted, you'll note at least two things about them: 1) They include observation from figures who started open to the idea that the lab leak hypothesis was plausible enough to explore, but have conclude
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by wwweston 5y ago
> No it's not! Reasonably minded persons consider this entirely plausible. I didn't say it was implausible. In fact, I have at least one sentence in my comment that acknowledges it is plausible to entertain . It doesn't a
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by wwweston 5y ago
> more and more evidence mounts that it was indeed - a lab leak Perhaps you mean "less and less evidence"? https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/11/18/coronavirus... https://
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by wwweston 5y ago
Because it's almost inherently conspiracy fodder, true or not. It tickles the part of human psychology that looks for threat agents , rather than just threats. Lots of us here on the more analytical side might have trouble understandi
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by wwweston 5y ago
Where can I learn more about the soviet culture around industrial equipment that you’re describing?
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by wwweston 5y ago
Probably has more to do with how office is calculating their collective risks in business-as-usual on site than with your specific risk. And beyond that, limits on individual activity have as much to do with collective regional transmission
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by wwweston 5y ago
Old enough some people under 35 may not have encountered it… ;)
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by wwweston 5y ago
Reading these things is good advice! But it's distinct from the advice given in the article, which is about reading libraries close to the heart of the language that are written in that language itself. JS is a bit odd here, possibly f

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