jrkatz

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by jrkatz 2y ago
We have a hybrid solution: A joint checking & savings pair (+ credit card) into which paychecks are deposited and against which living expenses (mortgage, food, etc), are drawn; and personal checking & savings accts with monthly tra
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by jrkatz 2y ago
Physical certificates are not a thing of the past and can be restored upon loss or destruction: https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
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by jrkatz 3y ago
For very long term effects (e.g., the impact of painting every surface of your website in ads which will certainly drive users away), hold backs aren't enough because it's too hard to consistently identify users. If ads will drive
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by jrkatz 4y ago
I was in a similar position, but highly motivated to switch due to advancing RSI symptoms. I waited to switch until a low-code, long-duration project came across my desk and was pleasantly surprised by how quickly my old habits were replace
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by jrkatz 4y ago
Heat pumps use energy to _move_ heat, not create it. Your refrigerator, for example, moves heat from inside the fridge to outside the fridge. Your AC operates on the same principle. Pump the refrigerant in the other direction (note: mechani
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by jrkatz 4y ago
Right, I am suggesting that a city can play out this competition by paying higher wages, i.e. paying suburban workers directly, rather than indirectly via subsidy. The experiment here is in wondering what those same workers would do given a
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by jrkatz 4y ago
Asserting that the cost is necessary is a _big_ assumption. It's subsidized, sure, but that doesn't imply that it needs to be. If the subsidy ends, maybe wages will rise to close the gap, or maybe they won't, and suburban res
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by jrkatz 4y ago
This is exactly why I buy presents. If I give my dad $250, he will not buy a smart thermostat. The economic utility to him of a smart thermostat is not that high versus, say, $250 in gasoline or food. He'll fill his tank every time. He
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by jrkatz 4y ago
> If they're taking shots at you with the intent of harming you, that's already a crime; in most jurisdictions it's called assault with a deadly weapon or something similar. The basis for such laws is that having someone i
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by jrkatz 4y ago
> The only moral principle I have stated is that one should not impose punishments on people who have not caused actual harm But isn't the risk of death a harm? That's what I'm driving at here. It's about where the li
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by jrkatz 4y ago
I'm sorry, I should have been clear. The 'certainty of punishment' bit should be understood as a probability. The gist of it is that a person considering criminal behavior isn't worried about the severity of the punishm
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by jrkatz 4y ago
> lock their car and take them to the police station and let them contact someone from there. But don't force them to pay a fine or go to court if they haven't caused harm. Supposing at least some drunk drivers are aware they a
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by jrkatz 4y ago
And let's not even get into all the bishop-free houses with cathedral ceilings. People have no respect these days.
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by jrkatz 5y ago
A basic step for securing a resource intensive API from DDOS attacks and some user impersonation attacks is to rely on a security token in a cookie set in the response to an earlier request. For example, a user may land on a web page and re
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by jrkatz 5y ago
Yeah, it turns out all the "An X and a Y walked into a bar" jokes are based in reality. Many years ago, my friends and I had a night in our favorite dive. That bar draws college kids, Brazilian immigrants, alcoholic townies, yuppi
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by jrkatz 6y ago
Nothing will be hidden except the edit history in the screenshot...
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by jrkatz 7y ago
Some animals are better than others for eating and spreading seeds. If a plant could choose it might prefer birds eat its fruit, especially over animals with molars that crack the seeds. Not coincidentally, the active ingredient in hot pepp
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by jrkatz 7y ago
This is not so clear, especially on the darkness point (though I'm sure uber is pleased their message has taken the day in some circles). The car knew it needed to brake over 1 second before impact but failed to apply the brake. [0] A
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by jrkatz 7y ago
Reducing income inequality has direct effects on education quality. Much of the public school budget is drawn from local funding. In short, impoverished areas beget impoverished schools and wealthier areas have well-funded schools. Parents
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by jrkatz 7y ago
Or split into steam-the-platform-the-company and valve-the-games-company - and if that happens I predict half life 3 really will follow.
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by jrkatz 7y ago
It's _like_ rainbow parties, except for the explicitly political bent that seems only to advance white nationalist motives/politics. Certainly, creation by 8chan users does not disprove white nationalism. If anything it makes it m
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by jrkatz 7y ago
White nationalists are trying to ruin the OK hand-sign for everybody else by posing for photos in large groups while making the OK hand-sign. As far as I can tell they're attempting the following: 1. Poison the OK hand-sign in politica
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by jrkatz 8y ago
I have periodic trouble with panic attacks at night, when I'm trying to sleep, usually linked to times of external stress. I thought it was insomnia. In the moment, they're miserable - rapid pulse, cold sweat, numb hands, impendin
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by jrkatz 8y ago
Which people? Is it when they banned Lauren Southern for actively interfering in rescue operations in the Mediterranean (i.e., trying to get people killed)? Or is it when they banned a leftist/antifa group (IGD) for doxxing, as well as
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by jrkatz 8y ago
Right, but if they acquire $6000 for 20000 tether (that they paid $0 for), and promise that tether is full redeemable for $20000, they are $14000 short when the tether holder comes knocking.
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by jrkatz 8y ago
You're assuming they'd be using that to filter people out, but they could simply target ads emphasizing different aspects of the company to different age groups. 'Great kegerator!' for twenty-somethings and 'Great 4
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by jrkatz 8y ago
That's not a closeup of the hips, that's the entire body of it. I think you're being thrown off by the weird angle of the shot - the hips are in the top right, not the bottom left. This shows the legs tucked forward with the
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by jrkatz 8y ago
The signature doesn't have to be from the developer; it could be a signature from google that marks the extension was compiled from/matches the specified source. If you're running chrome and installing extensions from the chr
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by jrkatz 8y ago
You bring some good information into this, which also gets more to the point I was trying to make, specific math aside - though I am comforted your math shows my flights are probably safer! Given that neither airplane journeys & miles n
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by jrkatz 8y ago
Deaths per mile is a good metric in that it is the same for everybody, so to speak, but this is also a weakness. Some people fly far further than they drive or _would_ drive, so for them we should look at per-journey metrics. This must be c

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