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by xyzzyz 4y ago
People who don’t want to get exposed can just continue to stay at home. Sure, they might not like it, but my children don’t like the house arrest either. The difference is that I’m not forcing anything on you, it is you who are forcing thi
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
That’s also why the “remote learning” during Covid was such an infuriating joke: the main purpose of schooling (which is daycare) was destroyed, and the learning was marginal at best. This is all while the elementary school children were a
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Teachers are paid more today than they have ever been.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, and that policy turned out to be a huge mistake that the Chinese government is now struggling to reverse.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
The entire paper is a joke. Monopoly in the construction market? Dude, there are multiple competing contractors in every field even in smallest towns. In fact, I’d endeavor to say that construction is probably the least centralized major in
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I’m quite sure I remember Charles Darwin already observing it in The Origin of Species.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Smaller run? Such an optimist.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It is not unreasonable, I agree. However, the privacy laws passed by government are mostly intended to play performative and punitive role, and actual interest of the people in balancing their privacy and usability concerns are tertiary at
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
With a century of experience with the US government policies bringing damage to the country’s food supply, I don’t understand why so many people think that FDA is somehow good now. They could solve the baby formula immediately by just allow
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
In the old days, the alternative to store bought baby formula has not been a home-made one, it has rather been a wet nurse. At the time, people had more kids, so there were usually wet nurses available close by.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
If you want a good crust, put a Dutch oven in your oven as it’s warming up, so that it also gets hot, then take it out, drop the dough into it (has to be low hydration to keep shape), cover with lid and put it back into oven. This will keep
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Interesting, which city is that?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It shouldn’t then be hard to point out to an old suburb, for which tomorrow already came. Where are they?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
There are plenty of suburban towns exhibiting exactly the same allegedly fiscally disastrous pattern of development, that are 50+ years old, and so the infrastructure debt should already catch up to them. Where are they? Strongtowns tells v
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Strongtowns is literal misinformation. The story about infrastructure costs killing municipalities is entirely false, and can be seen as such with only bare minimum of research. Infrastructure costs are typically around 10% of the budget of
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
It’s not TCP, it’s TCP without head-of-line blocking, which makes it much more suitable for real time games.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Most of Europe outside of large metros is the same as well.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
A great comment from someone very knowledgeable in the field.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Fiberglass is not plastic. It’s glass, bonded by epoxy resins. I guess epoxies are a kind of plastic, but they’re completely different chemicals than the polymers typically used in plastic items, and so likely would be immune to enzymes in
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
That depends on what the ROI is.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
What a great answer to losing a great deal of money: just don’t treat it as an asset! Just ignore the loss, who cares! Sure it’s nice being wealthy, ain’t it.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Hint, it is cheaper to make your house warm than it is to keep it cool. This really depends on what two places we are comparing. It’s definitely cheaper to heat your house in Bay Area than to cool it in Texas, but the story becomes dif
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes. https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0133 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-2028 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=C
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Sorry, I don’t get understand your response. Most Caddy’s competitors use OpenSSL, and so are vulnerable to bugs in it. A lot of those bugs, like for example heartbleed, are only possible due to the nature of the C language. Those kinds of
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Uh, google “heartbleed bug”, that’s just one example of a massive and catastrophic result of lack of memory safety in C. It probably costed something on the order of $1B for remediation efforts globally.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Abortions, vaccinations, climate change combatting are supported by the majority of the population, yet no law on either can really be passed due to arcane rules and the refusal of one party to do anything that might benefit the other
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I don’t like it either that the right to jury trial is overwhelmingly bargained away, but having the right and bargaining it away is still preferable to not have any right in the first place.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This country became a world superpower with 100 million residents before it got any of the modern administrative state.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> Those bureaucrats are appointed by the President, whom you vote for, and by Congress, whom you vote for, and may be fired by the former. I wish this was the case, but it is not: only a minuscule fraction of government bureaucrats is po
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> On a basic level this seems to make sense but the practical application of this would mean that legislators would need to explicitly pass legislation anytime a regulatory body needs to address a specific issue or regulate some behavior

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