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by wycy 6y ago
Interesting grouping. I would've put The Atlantic and The New Yorker in the reputable group, and Bloomberg in the BS group.
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by wycy 6y ago
> Words leave nothing to the imagination. Words leave plenty to the imagination too. Interpreting what authors might've meant in books is all we ever did in English classes in school. Interpreting what the founding fathers might&#x2
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by wycy 6y ago
I guess this is just a point upon which we disagree. I'd rather any given dose make it into the arm of a some rich asshat than go down the drain.
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by wycy 6y ago
I don't know that this situation is that rare. I just got Moderna dose 1 last night and heard the nurses talking about no-shows and how many bottles they were going to have left over (I didn't catch the number). Anecdata of course
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by wycy 6y ago
It would be so simple to have a system where everyone can sign up with the local health department to receive extra doses at the end of the day. If there are extra doses, you receive a text message and have 10 minutes to confirm that you&#x
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by wycy 6y ago
> Celebrities aren't in positions of public service, so the whole concept of a "bribe" doesn't apply. To add to this, we should also be holding Presidents to a higher ethics standard than, say, Kim Kardashian.
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by wycy 6y ago
If only we could all get on the same page about this as a society. The previous administration ran the single swampiest administration in American history. The current administration is dramatically less swampy, but still as swampy as a typ
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by wycy 6y ago
That actually did answer a lot of my questions--thanks
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by wycy 6y ago
If the author is reading this, would you be able to explain your maneuvering model? I browsed the source a bit but couldn't find it, though I see references to OpenFOAM. Is the maneuvering based on interpolating on CFD results, is it a
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by wycy 6y ago
No. I have several pieces of Ikea furniture that've survived multiple moves and are still rock solid. It's light, cheap, and sturdy. I don't care if my furniture has craft or history.
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by wycy 6y ago
Do both vaccines require 2 doses? Also, is the second dose different or just a duplicate of the first?
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by wycy 6y ago
Semi-related: Fortran has a where() and elsewhere() statement for applying a mask to part of an array. e.g., where (C/=0) A = B/C elsewhere A = 0.0 end It blew my mind the first time I saw it. I’d
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by wycy 6y ago
This guide was incredibly helpful a few years ago for one of the Advent of Code challenges.
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by wycy 6y ago
The New Yorker author responded. I tend to agree with his response. Quoted below. > Benedict - thanks for your tweet. I'm a fan of your newsletter. Although VC might have a specific and limited definition in your book - as a certain
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by wycy 6y ago
The point was that Kavanaugh's opinion was that networks must call the election night-of or immediately thereafter, which is not an originalist interpretation.
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by wycy 6y ago
> Despite Koch's calls for unity, his political contributions largely favored GOP candidates in the 2020 election cycle, with $2.8 million donated to Republicans and just $221,000 for Democratic candidates, the Journal reported. Thi
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by wycy 6y ago
Living through the past 2 weeks reiterates that Kavanaugh’s opinion was implicitly about AP/NYT/CNN being able to call the election despite the guise of “originalism”
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by wycy 6y ago
Now that we're 2 weeks after the election, zero states have reported final results, and all of our understanding is based on TV networks calling the results, have you changed your tune on this?
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by wycy 6y ago
I still don't think I'd trust it. While it's probably true that they fixed the software to never again produce this kind of error, I don't like the idea of software being used to correct the fundamental physics that the
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by wycy 6y ago
Media networks are the only entities that can call an election on election night. States can't and don't do that. Therefore, Kavanaugh is either talking about (1) the networks "calling" the election or (2) he's ta
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by wycy 6y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/us/kavanaugh-voting-right... Also funny about his opinion is that he doesn't seem to understand that states rarely (never?) "definitively announced results on
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by wycy 6y ago
The idea that the conservatives on the court are "originalists" is a complete farce. Kavanaugh just wrote an opinion last week that it is critical that election results must be called by TV networks on the night of the election.
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by wycy 6y ago
The concern is less that Roe v Wade will be overturned outright so much as it will be de facto overturned by death by a thousand cuts. Dozens of abortion-rights cases are heading toward the Supreme Court, and Mississippi's attempt to p
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by wycy 6y ago
That sounds horrific. Did you ever find out what the cause was?
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by wycy 6y ago
> I have a car that can now do software unlocking of physical features (e.g. rear heated seats) Was this a permanent unlock, or do you need a subscription to unlock the rear heated seats?
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by wycy 6y ago
I use Siri on my phone all the time, but for one thing and one thing only: reminders. "Hey Siri, remind me in 2 hours to do X" "Hey Siri, remind me when I get home to do Y" "Hey Siri, remind me next time I go to Cos
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by wycy 6y ago
> ex: NYT NYT is a great example of this. It took me multiple attempts over a span of 2 days to cancel my NYT subscription. There have been a few times since then when I've been tempted to re-subscribe (their election results tools
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by wycy 6y ago
As a current federal employee in DC, I've been long interested in working for USDS--in fact I've had a USDS jobs tab open in one of my long-lived browser windows since 2019. The one thing that has dissuaded me from applying is the
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by wycy 6y ago
I dealt with getting blasted with the "No signal" thing on my LG webOS TV for several months before finally figuring it out. I wish I could remember how and tell you, but I can't recall. But don't give up! It is possible
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by wycy 6y ago
Is a patched in-place binary identical to the binary that would be generated from a clean compilation?

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