nyc640

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by nyc640 18d ago
Yes, let's look at "Asia" (as if that's some meaningful grouping in this context when the countries are so different culturally, geographically, and economically). Since 2005, a huge amount of US manufacturing and resour
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by nyc640 1mo ago
Visa and Mastercard don't, but right now cash more or less does. If the state has a monopoly on digital payments, and can thus mass surveil all digital payments without any scrutiny, the state has a huge incentive to disincentivize or
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by nyc640 3y ago
> Driving is safer on a per-trip basis. You can’t make this blanket statement and I would bet on average it’s the opposite still. - Flying in the US is on average ~750x safer per mile than driving according to 2000-2010 data (it’s likely
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by nyc640 3y ago
Some caveats for others who don't want to read the study. 1. This is a study done on rats and is only a single study, so caveat emptor. 2. They administer 250mg/kg/d Aspartame (human recommended max dose is 50mg/kg/
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by nyc640 3y ago
I don't think they even plot the tag numbers on any scale. It looks from the graph like it's just graphing the "rank" (but actually inverse rank), so they sort the languages by # of tags and give each position an inverse
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by nyc640 3y ago
I should have clarified I'm not picking on the Model Y in particular because I think it's a perfectly reasonably sized car and I agree it's much safer than most full-size trucks, it's just surprising how much EVs can wei
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by nyc640 3y ago
If we're talking cars hitting you at 80mph, sure you're probably dead no matter what. But a 9,000 lb car hitting you at 35mph is traveling with the same momentum as a 3,000 lb car going 105mph. You might survive a 3,000 lb car hit
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by nyc640 3y ago
Hah, no kidding. It's undoubtedly a massive feat of engineering, but so are a lot of things that don't belong on our roads. I'd much rather live with the vast majority of smaller cars and trucks electrifying and letting the 0
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by nyc640 3y ago
If you're looking for recommendations, one option is the XC40 Recharge, which comes in at 175". But I agree they are getting so unnecessarily long. Not just in the car length, but also in the wheelbase. The Ioniq 5 (compact SUV &#
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by nyc640 3y ago
The US government was also largely responsible for incentivizing the supersizing of American cars with emissions standards based on footprint (road to hell paved with good intentions, etc.), which then had a knock-on effect on consumer dema
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by nyc640 3y ago
I am a little afraid of the long-term safety implications of people driving these massive (literally by mass, not volume) EVs. As if being a pedestrian, biker, or small-car driver wasn't already dangerous enough in the US. For context,
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by nyc640 4y ago
Not GP, but the Tundra is enormous compared to a Tacoma for someone coming from a car and not used to a full-size. I was also considering a Tundra since the model refresh, but even compared to our current truck (Land Cruiser) the Tundra fel
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by nyc640 4y ago
You’re totally right, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard RCV being called more consensus-oriented. Just that it makes it less harmful for third party candidates to participate in elections since they won’t play spoiler in the same way (Ralph
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by nyc640 4y ago
A commenter on the thread mentioned the VMWare price hikes, so it could be as simple as IBM sensing an opportunity to poach customers from VMWare (probably more overlap in potential customers than AWS/GCP/Azure) and aggressively s
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by nyc640 4y ago
FWIW, when I last bought a Pixel phone through Fi (first gen Pixel), you got support through Fi for your device and not through the Google store. Fi’s support at the time was much better and they replaced my phone without much trouble when
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by nyc640 4y ago
I just gave it a shot and it doesn't seem to work. Thanks for the tip though!
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by nyc640 4y ago
Unfortunately 1Password doesn't work. Not because of extension compatibility but seemingly because 1Password has an internal whitelist of trusted browsers that Orion is not included in. It's really unfortunate as there's been
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by nyc640 4y ago
In the case of Medicaid funding, I thought the outcome of that case was that the Federal government couldn't threaten existing Medicare funding but it was allowable that any future Medicaid expansion be denied to states if they didn&#x
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by nyc640 4y ago
This seems a little naive considering Congress has found plenty of ways to coerce states into implementing laws (national speed limit which was later repealed, national drinking age, etc.) by threatening to withhold funding and these laws h
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by nyc640 4y ago
That would be a great way to solve this issue if LinkedIn cares about users’ privacy. Otherwise I’m afraid they go the Pinterest or Quora route and just gate even “public” info behind a log in (they already do this for most user info).
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by nyc640 4y ago
I honestly have no idea because I haven't done (nor do I plan to do as I don't live in California anymore) enough research to have an informed opinion on the topic. However, I think it is generally valid to say that if you are exp
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by nyc640 4y ago
It's not that they published a paper without any Black co-authors. There has been a controversial push in California to reform public school math education guidelines called the California Math Framework [1]. It [2] frames current math
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by nyc640 4y ago
Similar tool for macOS that also controls built-in displays and Apple monitors: https://github.com/MonitorControl/MonitorControl Not aware of a similarly polished GUI tool on linux, but I use this: https://g
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by nyc640 5y ago
Thank you for posting this! Definitely had some concern about the IndexedDB leak, so good to know the new release is out (and has a fix for the issue) so I can update ASAP.
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by nyc640 5y ago
Fastmail also supports subdomain addressing for your own domains so that if your email is user123@yourdomain.tld you can use whatever@user123.yourdomain.tld rather than user123+whatever@yourdomain.tld and it will be delivered to your mailbo
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by nyc640 5y ago
If you read the link, it specifically says dependent children, which seems fair. I don't see how how the constitution protects your stock trading rights if you are likely to be privy to insider information. If you work in the financial
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by nyc640 5y ago
I think it's arguably both. Bad UX means that it's difficult to learn how to do things and can make it easy to press the wrong button even once you are used to it. However, having driven my share of cars that are exclusively touch
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by nyc640 5y ago
This is not true, you can see the data[1] yourself for in-state students. It is true that of in-state students at UCs, white students are "underrepresented" compared to their share of the population, but their share of admissions
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by nyc640 5y ago
> The report cited in the article isn't as clear on their distinction and in some cases the numbers indicate that the comparisons are among feeder, in-state high schools; and others are general enough that the lack of detail is conc
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by nyc640 5y ago
I can see how essays for graduate admissions can be more useful since you have to make a personal statement about your academic/research interests, how the program would help you accomplish your goals, etc. But for undergraduate admiss

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