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by wycy 4y ago
> Today a DC Metro ride is uncivilized, like the ancient system in NYC, with some poorly trained driver jerking you to a stop at each platform. I ride DC metro regularly and this seems like quite the exaggeration.
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by wycy 4y ago
> Ukraine [...] seems to be overrun with explicitly neo nazi groups So is the US. Rising fascism is simply the state of the world right now. To pick the first story at the top of my feed right now: https://www.nytimes.com&#x2F
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by wycy 4y ago
A major problem with that is that our political divisions aren't actually at the state level. States may be "red states" or "blue states" by their overall majorities, but it's a lot more complicated than that.
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by wycy 4y ago
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." -> "We are
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by wycy 4y ago
To be, or want to be. That is the question.
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by wycy 5y ago
I loved my OG Pebble. It really was revolutionary in the wearables market.
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by wycy 5y ago
I use Linux (RHEL7) at work and have grown to love it. I feel ultra-productive in Linux and completely unproductive in Windows. That said, some of the Windows criticisms seem silly compared to the situation in Linux, and Linux isn't wi
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by wycy 5y ago
I guess the theory has already fallen through, hasn't it? Presumably both Russia and Ukraine had McDonalds.
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by wycy 5y ago
> I have never understood why there isn't a low cost automaker that has only the bare minimum - the style barely ever changes and looks decent, manual everything, bare minimum heat/ac, minimum radio that can easily be replaced,
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by wycy 5y ago
Russia has such a history of making fake videos that hopefully any video "evidence" presented by them is immediately taken with mountains of salt anyway.
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by wycy 5y ago
There really is a lot of "squinting" in here--is there an inside joke I missed?
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by wycy 5y ago
Disagree. Space exploration requires a minimum base of technology to be available before it even has a glimmer of commercial viability. The state was able to solve that by pouring an incredible amount of resources into a field that no compa
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by wycy 5y ago
I don't think so, because as you said most went to the rich anyway. For the inflation to be caused by the stimulus, it'd have to actually be in the hands of people spending it. Demand can only go down when prices go up for elastic
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by wycy 5y ago
It's humorous how certain all the libertarian armchair economists are that this inflation is caused by the money supply rather than the extremely visible effects of the broken supply chain. No no, the everything shortage, massive backu
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by wycy 5y ago
Do you have an example context in which you'd use these? I've never thought to do this and am curious about the possibilities and use cases.
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by wycy 5y ago
I use Firefox 99.9% of the time at home on my 2012 iMac and 2015 MacBook. I have zero problems whatsoever with it.
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by wycy 5y ago
> Could you imagine a news report about how the much touted vaccine efficacy of 95% didn't really pan out? It's true. Everyone was around 6 months ago and remembered the efficacy levels being thrown around. Now people are being
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by wycy 5y ago
German numbers are basically written as: 10ⁿ 10ⁿ⁻¹ … 10⁴ 10³ 10² 10⁰ 10¹ Descending powers of 10 then the old switcheroo at the end.
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by wycy 5y ago
Doing due diligence to assess whether there could've been a nuclear incident doesn't imply we were anywhere close to a nuclear incident.
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by wycy 5y ago
> Did they navigate into one of the Chinese man-made islands? This was my pet theory as well. Man-made sea mounts would be inherently uncharted and would be a great defense against adversary submarines.
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by wycy 5y ago
> I'm not clear on how "the vaccine does not effectively prevent transmission" translates into "vaccinate everyone and give booster shots at once". It translates into "vaccinate everyone" because the fa
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by wycy 5y ago
Can confirm. I'm only medium skilled at my job, but I'm very friendly, and people seem to be quite fond of me.
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by wycy 5y ago
When we're not at war, US Navy submarining is extremely safe. No one has died on a US Navy submarine since 2005, and even that was just 1 person.
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by wycy 5y ago
Properly waterproofing the shower is a major one that can be easily overlooked and won't typically manifest in a major way until years down the road. Hope your contractors used appropriate waterproof Kerdi board or cement board + roll-
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by wycy 5y ago
> The real threat is lone wolf random attacks on the general public like the DC sniper. That's a very low-cost high-impact attack that paralyzed an entire metro region for nearly a month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by wycy 5y ago
The worst part is most of the people covid takes down have already reproduced, disqualifying them from Darwin Awards.
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by wycy 5y ago
> “We prefer to call it the B. 1.617.2 variant since that is so much more simple to say and remember,” Ting replied. Almost sounds like The Onion.
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by wycy 5y ago
To dial out at my office, you have to dial 991. It’s only a matter of time before I either accidentally dial 911 at work or accidentally dial 991 in an actual emergency.
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by wycy 5y ago
Having my resume in LaTeX offers a nice perk I haven't seen mentioned in the replies yet: under each section you can put a ton of different bullet points all commented out, and simply uncomment the most relevant ones for each job you&#
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by wycy 5y ago
What’s disturbing about it? I didn’t understand the slides or the implications thereof well enough to actually figure that out.

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