beervirus

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by beervirus 5y ago
Power plants are more efficient at generating electricity, mechanical work, etc. than small generators. They are certainly not more efficient at generating heat than just burning the gas is.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Shhhhhh. Something must be done, and this is something. Therefore it must be done.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Ask your shadiest friend who his shadiest friend is.
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by beervirus 5y ago
I mean yeah. But for a few years there, they were at least not as obviously horrible as they used to be, or as some other companies were.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Y’all are not entitled to the benefit of the doubt any more than obviously-evil companies like Facebook are.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Nobody’s impugning their honesty. Just pointing out that this is a model, not data.
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by beervirus 5y ago
“Deserve” is maybe a little too normative. Certainly they shouldn’t act all surprised pikachu when it happens though.
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by beervirus 5y ago
>showstopper That’s a funny word for “extremely minor visual artifact.”
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by beervirus 5y ago
Sure, but people understand negative numbers. The pony is that if my profit margins are slim, then a smallish loss in theft can be a big deal. Comparing theft loss to gross sales just obscures the reality.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Article: thisisfine.jpg But if the retailers are closing up shop, it is not fine. They wouldn’t forego the profits this article assumes exist just to make a political point.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Loss as a percentage of sales is an odd way of quantifying it. Loss as a percentage of net profit seems like a better figure of merit.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Not at all. But getting run over is certainly the reasonably foreseeable consequence of your actions. It’s not victim-blaming to suggest that people are ultimately responsible for their own safety, and they ought to take precautions.
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by beervirus 5y ago
I mean I already bring my phone with me on those errands. My location isn’t exactly a secret. It sucks, and I hate it. But the car isn’t any additional problem.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Why? We get a flu booster every year, and that’s fine. I’m happy to get a shot every so often if it means I can go about my life like normal.
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by beervirus 5y ago
> When asked to grade the severity of symptoms on a scale from 1 (no symptoms) to 5 (significant symptoms), 42% (33/79) reported level 3 symptoms, whereas 11% (9/79) reported level 4 symptoms. None of the cases required hospita
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by beervirus 5y ago
It’s a survey question.
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by beervirus 5y ago
A human research study? Give me a fucking break. >someone asked me a question and it scared me
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by beervirus 5y ago
DOS defrag goes back a lot farther than that. It even predates FAT32, let alone NTFS.
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by beervirus 5y ago
> We can already see having consequentialist ethics that don't care about your freedom do a lot better at fighting pandemics Can we? I have no idea how many people in China have died from covid, and neither do you. All we have to go
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by beervirus 5y ago
>I mean, it can. >Not minutes So… it can’t?
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by beervirus 5y ago
Power cycling during a defrag seems like a good way to lose data.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Money doesn’t fluctuate in value 50% on a timescale of minutes.
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by beervirus 5y ago
Bitcoin isn’t money. It’s a gambling token.
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by beervirus 5y ago
https://frinkiac.com/meme/S05E12/1100532.jpg?b64lines=T05MWS...
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by beervirus 5y ago
That’s cool but I hope you like automatically being opted in to have your data slurped up since you won’t click on links or investigate whether they’re real.
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by beervirus 5y ago
GDPR is good in its intent, but not great in its implementation. We can do better.
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by beervirus 5y ago
I mean of course there are.
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Tell HN: If you use Verizon, opt out of “Custom Experience”
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by beervirus 5y ago
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by beervirus 5y ago
> Most senators condemned her because Omarova has proposed nationalizing the American financial system, empowering the Federal Reserve to take over consumer deposits, and “effectively end[ing] banking, as we know it.” It is Omarova who p

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