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by yojo 3y ago
Maybe not exactly what you’re looking for, but the Gaia hypothesis is the theory that the inorganic and organic parts of the Earth influence each other such that you might describe the convoluted system as “alive.” https://en.m.w
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by yojo 3y ago
Not sure why you’re getting downvoted. I disagree with the idea that everything be pre-allocated, but you make the point in a civil way. Earmarking everything is almost impossible to do right. Tax revenue streams go up or down from forces o
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Any economist worth their salt will advocate for putting a price on carbon emissions (like cap and trade), and letting the market work it out. If you’re concerned about regressive impacts (e.g. the price of gas increasing), you add a tax an
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by yojo 3y ago
The most reliable number I can find for patients without comorbidity is ~.4/100k[0] (so about 1/250,000). A study specific to dental anesthesia produced a similar number (3 per 1,000,000)[1]. I couldn't find any mortality num
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by yojo 3y ago
Can confirm re:opioids, the dentist prescribed Vicodin (acetaminophen + hydrocodone) post surgery. It seemed pretty excessive.
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by yojo 3y ago
I had a cavity filled without local anesthesia as a poor backpacker in Thailand. It hurt. Not as bad as I thought it would, but I’ve never felt the need to turn down local since. I also had my wisdom teeth out under local. The pain was bear
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by yojo 3y ago
The average 4 person house uses 190 gallons per day . About 4 of that is drinking water. So my wastewater contains about 2% more PFAS than a household not using an RO system. Assuming that all of it ends up in my body and not in the toilet
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by yojo 3y ago
That’s… not how it works. The RO membrane keeps contaminants on one side of the barrier, but it requires that they still be in solution. It’s not like you isolate all the bad stuff then mix it back in, you’re just siphoning off some clean w
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by yojo 3y ago
Reverse Osmosis gets more than carbon filtration. Buy one that accepts standard filters and you should be good to go. Reddit recommends this one: https://www.bulkreefsupply.com/brs-5-stage-drinking-water-ro...
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by yojo 3y ago
RO systems use a lot of waste water. So the contaminants get concentrated into that and go out the sewer. I’ve got one set up for my drinking water and it’s 1:1, so a gallon of waste water for every useful gallon. Others use even more.
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by yojo 3y ago
Margins go up when firms have pricing power. This happens when demand outstrips supply. The system is set up to raise prices to allocate that supply to whoever values it most. You can argue for different systems of allocation, but right now
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by yojo 3y ago
The article says the law mandates each station must still staff half its pumps. So obviously this means full service isn’t going away (it’s still legally required), but if it’s very popular, there might be a line for the full service pumps.
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by yojo 3y ago
Agreed, I am advocating for deterministic behavior for all feature flags in the test suite. If you’re testing a new feature, you should have explicit tests for the enabled state (along with existing tests for the disabled state). If you hav
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by yojo 3y ago
I agree that this is a real and separate problem, but I believe the solution lies outside of the test suite. One way I have seen this handled is to enforce restricting rollouts of a feature flag to 95% at most. That way turning a feature al
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by yojo 3y ago
I strongly disagree. If you have non-deterministic tests, you are going to have builds breaking for unrelated changes, seriously hampering developer productivity as teams chase down failures unrelated to their change. Nothing kills confiden
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by yojo 3y ago
Yikes! FWIW, I think best practice here is to hardcode all feature flags to off in the integration test suite, unless explicitly overwritten in a test. Otherwise you risk exactly these sorts of heisenbugs. At a BigCo that’s probably going t
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by yojo 3y ago
Dental floss is easy - the widely available/cheap waxed Reach floss tested negative for PFAs[1], and it does a better job of cleaning too. The non-stick flosses miss stuff for me. 1: https://www.mamavation.com/beauty&#x
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Quibble: It's probably not going to be a 1:1 loss of jobs. A call center's goal is to find the right spot along the cost/satisfaction curve. You can pay more money to answer calls quickly and increase satisfaction, or a small
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by yojo 3y ago
Facebook's average revenue per user (ARPU) is ~$10/quarter[0], and 6x that in the US. Which is honestly kind of stunning. Reddit is presumably much less than that, but they might be reasonably gunning for a number better than Pint
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Sounds like similar tech to the Kold-Draft machines in the US market.[1] During the height of the pandemic one of my neighborhood bars was selling bags of their cubes to stay afloat. Only good thing to come out of covid. 1: https:/&#x
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by yojo 3y ago
My kindergartener has a laptop, which I thought was ridiculous. But they use it to do adaptive math and reading programs, which actually seem useful to let the kids learn at their own speed. OTOH, the best would be if the teacher was delive
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by yojo 4y ago
Ah, gotcha. I was focused on my use case of static text. If your charting library runs server-side and outputs HTML/CSS, then it'd work fine, but most of that stuff requires javascript, and yeah, WeasyPrint doesn't have an in
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by yojo 4y ago
It's possible the only people who bought were technothriller enthusiasts, but I think it's likely that at least some of them are not. Traffic spikes are actually a common occurrence in book sales. My understanding is that some of
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The objective was to get a print book while minimizing time and money spent. I happen to have a lot of experience with CSS, which is why I reached for the tool. I've never used latex, but the impression I have of it is that there'
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by yojo 4y ago
I'll answer the question: a handful at most 7 ebooks ordered as of 10:15 PST, and 10 subscribers for the free novella. I have no idea how many people read the post, I assume lots? I'm hosting on Github pages and haven't added
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Author here: I'd like to think it's a little bit of both, but mostly "here's a silly hack." I tried to separate the marketing from the content as cleanly and honestly as possible. I'll give you a peek inside my
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by yojo 4y ago
Good point. My goal was definitely just getting to an output that satisfied me as a reader, but there are certainly people out there with more refined aesthetic sensibilities that are going to spot the places I fell down. The part that seem
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by yojo 4y ago
Thanks for pointing this out. I came across paged.js but for some reason thought it wasn't implementing the margin boxes – I think I just searched their documentation page for @top-center and didn't find it. Looking again, I see t
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by yojo 4y ago
> meaning you need to render the html and css in some form before passing it to weasyprint I'm not sure I understand this part. WeasyPrint is a rendering engine; it takes an HTML file as input and outputs a PDF. I can't speak t
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by yojo 4y ago
If you're self publishing (like I was), your publisher is probably Amazon, and they take a PDF, which is the output of weasyprint. I haven't looked at wider distribution, but I believe most of the print on demand publishers accept

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