tomoyoirl

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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Eh. If one wanted to do charity for the less fortunate, it might be better to just work for or give to bona fide charitable causes - rather than operating a marginal, possibly unprofitable Android app.
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Imagine $FOOTBALL_TEAM fans vs $OTHER_FOOTBALL_TEAM fans, except instead of their fervor being a minor factor setting the general mood in the arena, it’s the actual competition
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
I’m not sure how any program to recycle plastic bags (etc) is supposed to show 60% recycling-compliance without labeling instructing consumers to recycle the bags. Wouldn’t it just be simpler to ban the plastic?
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Amazon is kind enough to include unit pricing on many UI elements. It does seem to be less than consistent about the units, though. $/count, $/oz, $/g, $/lb, all on the same search page? Yes, and more :)
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Don’t be ridiculous. Plea deals were created by prosecutors so they could eliminate the right to a jury trial by overcharging and making it far too risky to exercise.
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
It’s also a pressure tactic to extract a guilty plea because there’s no negotiation and a one week deadline.
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
I don’t look forward to taking them and choose other drivers, mostly because the price and wait time dynamics are a little funny, but I am glad I did take a ride or two. They’re much better drivers in the sense of “not interested in pushing
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
I assume all regular customers will be paying a fare of $3.25 or less per ride on the reusable Opus card (fare purchased in a 10-ride pack). Essentially you’re paying for the chip with the very-occasional-commuter one-ride convenience fee.
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
How big a trend is that, though? Most companies are all too happy to do a capitalism and move office expenses into OpEx, to improve their return on capital by being a pure-play widget company instead of a hybrid widgets / real estate d
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
The pundits say the economy is fine, and that the labor market is still really tight (but slackening gradually). They do note that economic sentiment is really, really bad, and it seems to be for non-economic reasons (residual inflation sho
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
With respect, 2/3 of the carbon dioxide out there is purely natural such that “icky” isn’t an appropriate foundation for the relevant public policy
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
“Free coffee”? Look, if you’re going to allege corruption and votes for sale here, I think it’s a little more potent when you suggest he’s gotten better compensation than some “free coffee”
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
An exception? Like how the CFPB was created independently such that it didn’t answer to the president? (Actual exceptions like this would violate separation-of-powers principles and typically get struck down.)
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Some particularly weird parts of that have come when the protection of the union actively conflicts with other employer mandates, like hostile working environments — e.g. from 2015-2017 the NLRB went after Cooper Tire for firing an employee
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Maybe you could train it explicitly on modus ponens et alia.
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
There’s a lot to say about the structure of health care, but the classic “Now” lecture isn’t it. Most people make key decisions about provisioning and paying for their health insurance months before they actually need it, and likewise estab
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
The Romans also used the March-based year; that’s why February has fewer days and why October is literally the eighth month
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Decibels are logarithmic; a 1 dB reduction in sound is ~26%.
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
A key benefit is that it might be able to perform follow up screenings that make sense for that type of cancer, rather than expecting absolutely everyone to take all the tests ever at the same rate, at significant inconvenience and expense.
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Look, the other elephants start out the stork delivery scene declaring they’re part of “a proud race” and end it gossiping about “what would Mr. Jumbo think?!?” and “Jumbo? More like dumbo…” We also see what happens to certain black men in
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Do me a favor. Go back and rewatch Dumbo (1941) and prepare a few thoughts regarding its treatment of hot-button issues like miscegenation (hint: what kind of elephant has big ears?). Then, comment again on Disney’s recent discovery of “pol
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
No. It’s only efficient when property rights are enforced, barriers to entry are low, and transaction costs are minimal. Wheelchairs are regulated (barriers to entry), pollution is the nonexistence of property rights, and your take-it-or-le
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Okay, I’ll eat it. I am sure it will be all flavorful and delicious. But how do I get it, to eat?
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
To say nothing of mod_gzip
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Infiniband is a network too… But even if we set that aside you’ll get access to your data over a network connection because these are expensive nodes running batch jobs with finite disk space, not personal workstations.
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Not sure if those are spectacularly crowdsourced like the others unless you count “crawlers”. (Is Waze somehow super crowdsourced? Idk much about it. Either way it’s just a top three.)
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
> ... after regulation, court orders and fines have failed One question for you. In this hypothetical where AGI is truly considered such a grave threat, do you believe the reaction to this threat will be similar to, or substantially gent
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
> What do they care how many employees Kagi has or how much they spend on t-shirts. Spending a third of your round on t-shirt manufacturing equipment is possibly not the best sign of the focused leadership that will bring your company su
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
> In the sense that any other government regulation is also ultimately backed by the state's monopoly on legal use of force when other measures have failed. Good point. He was only (“only”) really calling for international coopera
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by tomoyoirl 2y ago
Mere raids from the authorities? I thought EliY was out there proposing airstrikes.

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