WoahNoun

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by WoahNoun 2y ago
Most US homes have at least one 220v split phase line for major appliances like stoves or AC.
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by WoahNoun 2y ago
I've bought many leather wallets in the US even from seemingly upscale places like Nordstrom's. They all kinda fell apart after a few years. I bought a leather wallet in Italy near the Trevi Fountain for roughly the same price alm
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by WoahNoun 2y ago
Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire
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by WoahNoun 2y ago
[2006]
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by WoahNoun 2y ago
The policy doesn't say all outside works is banned. It says approval must be sought. Do you have any evidence Inskeep didn't have approval to post on Substack?
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by WoahNoun 2y ago
>Its application last April said the company had hired 6,939 employees for qualifying jobs, out of 8,000 total positions in Arlington. Amazon’s report this year said it had filled 6,644 qualifying jobs and had 7,791 total employees assig
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
US manufacturing output is at an all time high. It just requires less employees to produce due to automation.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
Boeing's previous CEO was an engineer.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
It's a running joke that Wolfram is a jobs program for math PhD's. The difference isn't necessarily technical, but the sheer amount of labor that has gone into adding more edge cases and niche use cases. Sympy is great but li
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
There's an ongoing insider trading case where an executive at Company A learned that Company A by might acquired. He then bought call options on his closest competitor assuming that the news of Company A being acquired would cause the
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
Where does that dissent say 40% disagreed? It only uses the term majority.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
The testimony and article was about the removal of a nypost story about Hunter's laptop. Not that they are never in contact with government officials.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
If there was any actual evidence, they'd be in jail for lying to congress.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
No, they fear that enterprises won't buy their product.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
From your own link: >[Twitter] officials emphasized there was no government involvement in the decision. >“I am aware of no unlawful collusion with, or direction from, any government agency or political campaign on how Twitter should
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
One is a company freely deciding what it's product should and shouldn't do and the other is forced by the government.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
They created a new enforcement division and doubled the number of positions working on crypto enforcement last year. https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2022-78
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
The difference is the software/forums encouraged the landlords to all leave more units empty then they normally would to raise prices.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
I don't see where in the article they imply causation. They use the words "linked" and "associated." In fact, they specifically call out they don't have a causal explanation. >As an observational study, the
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
Law enforcement is a broad term. 15 years ago oxycodone pills were everywhere. With the crackdown on "pill mill" doctors/pharmacies and prescription monitoring, it's almost impossible to find those pills and the alternat
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
It potentially could have. For example, post-signing he had a big fight with twitter's lawyers over the right way to measure bot accounts. If he could prove it was much higher than twitter's SEC filings, he might have been able to
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
Elon specifically waived the ability to withdraw because of post-signing due diligence in his offer to twitter's board. It's one of the (many) reasons he had little ability to get out of the deal once he changed his mind.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
>Neil Lindsay, former head of the Prime team He now runs their healthcare teams (pharmacy/pillpack and one medicine). His background is marketing and not healthcare.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
The mythbuster's didn't blow stuff up or set things on fire without having the FD there.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
I use a nose mask and my CPAP is great. No snoring anymore, the mask doesn't bother me, and I wake feeling much, much better than before.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
Math overflow and math.stackexchange are still pretty fantastic and the content does go "stale" as fast as programming / software engineering.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
More worryingly, typos to US military addresses from external address will now be routed to Mali. From Matt Levine this week: >Millions of US military emails have been misdirected to Mali through a “typo leak” that has exposed highly sen
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
As always, XKCD is on the case: https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
>"build a pipeline and feed data into it." Arrows in Haskell are actually pretty good at building functional left to right data processing pipelines.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
The Department of Education issued the loans. They should be able to decide if they want to collect them. The money has already been spent so the only "cost" is the opportunity cost of collecting. So it's not an appropriation

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