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by zzzeek 2y ago
OK but if someone with very low income and a "fixed rate" starts using thousands of kwh to mine bitcoins (which are also pretty easy to hide from income!), that still would run up their bill I hope
782.
by zzzeek 2y ago
I don't really understand this article. "The new California charge will be $24 for most customers, but lower income households, who already qualify for discounted electric rates, will see fees of either $6 or $12.". What?
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California's electricity rates will shift to a fixed fee based on income(calmatters.org)
32 points by zzzeek 2y ago|51 comments
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Astronomers finally detect a rocky planet with an atmosphere(reuters.com)
23 points by zzzeek 2y ago|7 comments
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Number of dead sawfish soars to 40 as reports of spinning fish continue(local10.com)
13 points by zzzeek 2y ago|3 comments
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Zombie Trainers and a New Era of Forced Labor(newsweek.com)
1 points by zzzeek 2y ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 2y ago
this is a good article with a bad headline. The headline is going to cause a big long thread here about "globalization == bad". The actual article though doesn't really point to globalization as a failure, only that there&
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by zzzeek 3y ago
it was ridiculous that after an absolutely awful earnings call, TSLA stock still jumped because Musk promised to start making cheaper cars. As though he won't screw that up also
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by zzzeek 3y ago
FireChat is gone because apparently it wasn't open source, otherwise it would still be here
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by zzzeek 3y ago
> Some of my children are naturally good at soccer and some aren't. Doesn't matter. I don't play favorites with them or any other kids on my soccer team. in our town we've met some coaches like you and a lot of others
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by zzzeek 3y ago
> As a result, I picked up sports I could do on my own, such as lifting weights, biking, swimming, and running. Individual sports such as golf and tennis followed naturally. good for you but yes, you had people in your family who were at
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by zzzeek 3y ago
i watched a basketball coach literally pass over my child twice in a basketball-skills display for the parents, as he is mildly autistic and was not lining up with the other kids (not at lot of kids, about 15 kids) cleanly enough for the co
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by zzzeek 3y ago
less anxious / depressed kids get to do more sports in the first place. kids without "the right attitude" or a lack of innate ability are routinely excluded from sports, as im sure many of us here have experienced.
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WHO Broadens Definition of Airborne Diseases(nytimes.com)
2 points by zzzeek 3y ago|0 comments
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Number of dead sawfish soars to 40 as reports of spinning fish continue(local10.com)
1 points by zzzeek 3y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 3y ago
it's important to note that the fake panic over beepers is not related to the current concerns that kids shouldn't be on their phones all day long and at school. The former is a "fake moral panic" based on the premise t
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by zzzeek 3y ago
holy crap you people are HUMORLESS. so sad.
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by zzzeek 3y ago
The circular screen is supposed to display the words "PLEASE DISPLAY YOUR PAPERWORK, CITIZEN", otherwise what's the point really
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by zzzeek 3y ago
right, "middle of the road" is now "far left", "crazy batshit rightwing BS" is "the truth". This is overton window war stuff. > And I have no idea where people who are saying NPR has made some ki
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by zzzeek 3y ago
mongodb is not very good, is the difference
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OpenSSF/OpenJS Foundations Issue Alert for Social Engineering OSS Takeovers(openssf.org)
5 points by zzzeek 3y ago|0 comments
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by zzzeek 3y ago
> Certainly a human driver could have easily made this mistake. except a human driver in front of the Mach-E did see the car and avoided it successfully. that's why cars with driver assist features are supposed to be using radar t
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Is the Atlantic Overturning Circulation Approaching a Tipping Point?(tos.org)
14 points by zzzeek 3y ago|1 comments
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by zzzeek 3y ago
> I'm sure you're not too surprised to learn that the lions share of code in csvbase is calls to SQLA core. Really! a bit surprised sure, wasn't really sure what the tool was actually doing to persist data :)
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by zzzeek 3y ago
pretty sure they just pushed it live without any messy "testing"
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by zzzeek 3y ago
he is an extreme narcissist and is very mentally unhealthy / unstable. X is his favorite letter. it's not "cool", he just fancies himself to be King Joffrey who can do anything he wants on a whim.
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by zzzeek 3y ago
> On csvbase, you can just curl any table url and get a csv file. that's still an API
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by zzzeek 3y ago
a name is a name, if someone wrote an all new ORM for Python and called it SQLAlchemy++, as the creator of SQLAlchemy I'd be pretty pissed
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by zzzeek 3y ago
Ironic that an app whose name itself was co-opted from the Microsoft product name now has to deal with someone else re-co-opting that same name.
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by zzzeek 3y ago
thanks, that's an answer that makes sense but also contradicts the original parent that had me going: "Decriminalization of drugs creates better health outcomes for drug users.". but we're saying, the recriminalization

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