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by yojo 5y ago
The part of this argument that feels shaky to me is it ignores externalities. If it were possible to risk an infection with no impact on others then yes, the conversation is over. But diseases don’t work like this. If you get sick, you will
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by yojo 5y ago
Honestly hadn't considered that angle. I assumed the writing was intended for public consumption, but you're right, I should have checked. I'm attempting to contact Bruce, though it seems I'm past the edit window on the
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by yojo 5y ago
It's mostly text, though there are some pictures at the end. Here you go: Bruce Dembecki August 12, 2019 San Jose Fire had an impossibly complex incident scene that will be the subject of countless Battalion Chief exams in the future.
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by yojo 5y ago
Dropbox had Carousel, a mobile first photos product that was decently well regarded. They killed it, presumably for cost/benefit reasons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropbox_Carousel
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by yojo 5y ago
This exactly. I’ve been researching specific house repair issues and just get nothing but content spam. Whenever I want specific information I find myself adding “reddit” to the query string, which will usually turn up a thread with links o
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by yojo 5y ago
I haven't had a chance to try it yet, but I'm skeptical of the time savings claim of copilot in its current form. At least working on a large code base, the things that take time are: 1) Understanding the data model and logic of t
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by yojo 5y ago
There was a program in place to allow (some of) the Afghani helping the US to immigrate. It is just moving a lot slower than the troop withdrawal, leaving them to die. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/19/1004991965
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by yojo 5y ago
Armed insurgents != elected officials. Myanmar is a good example of this. Typically the people with the guns can seize power. This does not mean it is the will of the people. I heard an NPR story that there is a large backlog of asylum requ
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by yojo 5y ago
Fair. I’m late 30s, my dad is 74 and can work circles around me. He definitely started manual labor young. I did some of it in high school but have been behind a desk since college. I do consider myself very fit/active, but it’s not th
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by yojo 5y ago
This. My dad is a contractor. I’ve been taking some time off SWE work to try to learn some of what he knows while he can still do it. It is just hard on my body, half the days I wake up with the wrong kind of pain. Hanging drywall, digging
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by yojo 5y ago
I experienced the exact same thing (graduating in 2005) to the extent that it dissuaded me from getting a CS degree at all. Outsourcing was supposed to be the end of programming jobs in America. My career took a 6 year detour until I finall
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by yojo 5y ago
Can you elaborate on the ad revenue vs subscriptions issue? Naively it seems like people are more likely to subscribe to news that aligns to and reinforces their political ideology, which could lead to more polarization/bifurcation, no
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by yojo 5y ago
One option for saving a few bucks on fees is to try to disintermediate on booking. Especially where I tend to look (Oregon coast), most properties are run by a management company that will include their name in the listing. Once I find som
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by yojo 5y ago
Here’s a different lens: tax is a mechanism for determining who pays for shared infrastructure and social services. Any entity that has to pay obviously has other ways they can more productively (as seen from the entity level) deploy the ca
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by yojo 5y ago
I assume they have to pay for the testing. Search suggest ~$30/test/person. Not sure how many tests per year, 4? With 1m+ workers that’s a decent sized budget line item.
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by yojo 5y ago
Yeah, there was a bad spell in the mid/late 2010s with the butterfly keyboard failures and the "stage light" display issues. I skipped these on my 2012 personal mac, and somehow work issued devices never ran into them. Assumi
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by yojo 5y ago
I'm also a fan of kombucha (and make it at home), but it's not quite a non-alcoholic beverage. Commercial kombucha is generally < .5%, homebrew can be up to 10x that. It's a two step process - yeast ferments the sugar int
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by yojo 5y ago
Yes, that’s what I did. The Super Jolly I bought is a commercial machine (by Mazzer) and I put new OEM steel burrs in it.
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by yojo 5y ago
I have a Vario, that has struggled with a fine espresso grind. The burrs are ceramic but the carriage is plastic and it affects the tolerance. I gave up repairing/troubleshooting it and bought a beat to hell SuperJolly off EBay for $17
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by yojo 5y ago
Macs are not generally repairable, but some models are incredibly reliable. I’ve been using a 2012 MBPr that still works great/is pristine, other than losing some rubber feet. Having a user friendly OS with *nix-ish tooling in a high b
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by yojo 5y ago
Not exactly what you’re asking for, but a lot of the cool stuff seems to stem from appreciation of wabi-sabi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabi-sabi
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by yojo 5y ago
HN to me has always been about exploration and craft. This usually ends up manifesting as technology news, but particularly interesting crafts (or explorations) feel like fair game.
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by yojo 5y ago
I researched the heck out of this before getting one for a rental. Mitsubishi is the way to go if money is no object and you want the most reliable/lowest hassle system. If you want to save a little money, Daikin is almost as good and
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by yojo 5y ago
It is almost impossible for someone to physically steal my house. Certainly improbable. And it would be easy to recover with the help of the police. It is by comparison easy for someone to steal crypto keys, or for them to be lost. If we ad
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by yojo 5y ago
There are undoubtedly technical solutions for resyncing the block chain to reality. But once you need them, you’re effectively saying the block chain is not the source of truth, and it’s governed by the same inefficient system that managed
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by yojo 5y ago
If the block chain is not the source of truth, and an external body can enforce changes on it, how is it in any way better than a database under control of the state?
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by yojo 5y ago
Back to the point of this article: if someone steals my private key, do they now own my house? What about liens? Will I as the owner agree to let an unpaid contractor put a lien against my title? Or can they somehow do it without my consent
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by yojo 5y ago
As I understand it: Value DeFi is a company that provides infrastructure for some kind of lending. Money (in this case cryptocurrency) is locked up in a “smart contract” that acts as a sort of bank account. If all is working correctly, the
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by yojo 5y ago
The economist has a nice chart on this. The US has a lower share of taxes paid by corporations relative to other sources than our peers. https://archive.is/ND3cQ
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This was 13 years ago, so the political situation may have changed. But this guy was very much operating in the open, and definitely breaking all kinds of laws. He’d been doing it for more than a decade, and no jail time yet. He did also fi

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