kharms

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by kharms 6y ago
Millions marched for women's rights, millions marched for gay rights, millions marched for voters rights, millions marched for democracy. Now this desperate man called for protest, and what did he get? Thousands. It's a tough mome
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by kharms 6y ago
There is a little 3.5mm-to-lightning dongle that came with at least the iPhone 7. Not sure if it comes with the current model, but FYI. https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MMX62AM/A/lightning-to-35...
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by kharms 6y ago
You probably know this, but worth saying just in case: you should look into unemployment assistance. I believe that the CARES Act applies in case of reduced employment, and the $600/wk benefit is always given in full.
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by kharms 6y ago
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by kharms 6y ago
>What really is the issue? That Amazon is leveraging its success to be successful? The issue is that over the long term, Amazon is lowering the ROI on innovating and taking risks in the consumer goods space. It's able to do this bec
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by kharms 6y ago
Alternatively, they are people that pay attention to their bodies and have intolerances that aren't strong enough to warrant a medical diagnosis but still make them feel shitty. I'm also skeptical of the idea that they make it har
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by kharms 6y ago
France blocked the export of (purchased) masks to Switzerland, and other nations. https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/coronavirus_medical-goods-from-...
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by kharms 6y ago
You ever breathe out on a cold winter day? Your breath is humid.
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by kharms 6y ago
>Undocumented migrants have for all effect become the modern day equivalent of slavery without the associated compasion. Except for the fact that it's a choice - they aren't kidnapped and sold, they are choosing to work in (to
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by kharms 7y ago
>>What if a seller increased the price of a good or service because the seller’s costs of providing the good or service increased? >If the seller can prove that the increased price is directly attributable to increases in the cost
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by kharms 7y ago
Price gouging laws typically apply at the consumer point of sale, I'm not sure they prevent a higher price from factory to store.
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COVID19: U.S. Officials Warn Americans to Brace for Likely Outbreak(nytimes.com)
42 points by kharms 7y ago|19 comments
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by kharms 7y ago
You traditionally can't get a warrant to get the DNA of the cousin of a suspect in a crime. With a centralized DNA registry you can get partial matches. So perhaps those are opt-out?
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by kharms 7y ago
Bad programming was not the sole or root cause but it was a cause, and people died. You can't punt on that unless you want software engineer to actually mean code monkey. The same way a building architect has to sign off on the design
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by kharms 7y ago
I miss the escape key as well, here’s one way I addressed it: using BTT I added another button to the Touch Bar. This was a second escape key, placed right next to the original. Now the first two inches from the left are one big escape key,
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by kharms 7y ago
Kind of funny how every random period happens at the end of a word and never during it.
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by kharms 7y ago
Why would the U.K. be concerned with the U.K. as a security risk?
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by kharms 8y ago
For anyone else curious about what DAL means: Design Assurance Levels (DAL) DAL A describes flight electronics hardware whose failure or malfunction could cause a catastrophic, hazardous, or severe condition that would result in the deaths
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by kharms 8y ago
>HBO has never been the best place for comedy series and, good as Crashing was, it remains an also-ran there as well. That might be true in terms of popularity, but in terms of critical success Veep & Curb Your Enthusiasm were pretty
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by kharms 8y ago
I read that as saying the nose holes on the broken statues don't look "black."
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by kharms 8y ago
We have some idea of a crash rate for safe airplanes. Something like: P(Crash|Miles Flow & Hull Age) If we assume this airplane is safe, we can apply that probability to it and then ask P(2 Crashes|N Miles & 350 New Planes). You wou
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by kharms 8y ago
The car was traveling at 44mph. A speed reduction to even 14mph would have probably made the collision survivable. If your argument is that the car was unable to drop 30mph over several seconds without causing an accident or swerving into o
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by kharms 8y ago
Whether something is "inherently" wrong depends entirely on your own moral philosophy, but one downside to parental dependency is that it perpetuates and exaggerates class division.
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by kharms 8y ago
An interesting challenge might be the computational cost of conversion to the "standard" reference given a speed near c. If a single CPU tick takes a "standard year" to compute how do you do you account for all ticks in
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by kharms 8y ago
How would such a standard handle time dilation?
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by kharms 8y ago
>My shock is the dual narrative on "tech pays too much -- down with tech" "tech pays too little -- down with tech." What's shocking about this? If you're uneducated and barely scraping by in LIC and Amazon m
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by kharms 8y ago
It's weird to me that there's so much attention given to AOC. She has no hard power in domestic NY politics. She didn't stop the deal. State politicians threatening the permitting process stopped the deal. If NYC has a proble
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by kharms 8y ago
>The suicide and assault rates, including school shootings and other mass shootings, has only increased over time, with more deaths every year. Citation needed. A cursory look at Wikipedia for suicide rates suggests that they took a dip
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by kharms 8y ago
An approach that's being tried elsewhere is a vacancy tax. This encourages either private use or leasing of the properties.
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by kharms 8y ago
For someone who has worked with both: which offers a better developer onboarding experience, for small web/data apps? Ease of learning and use wise.

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