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thgaway17on Nvidia Limits RTX 3060 Hash Rate

Yeah it would suck, but if Ford F150s were selling for $100,000 because drag racers were buying them up, I don’t think I’d mind.

thgaway17on United B772 at Denver on Feb 20th 2021, engine inlet separates from engine

It was a bird strike.

thgaway17on How to Destroy the Earth (2006)

Shhh. Some of us are trying to make a living selling green energy.

thgaway17on The Object-Oriented Amiga Exec (1991)

TIL Carl Sassenrath is at Roku.

thgaway17on Intel ordered to pay chip fab worker almost $1m after he was gassed in 2016

That’s exactly what WC covers.

thgaway17on Researchers looking for mRNA were ridiculed by colleagues

I just want to thank the person who posted the Biontech / Friedman / RNA herpes vaccine story here on HN in October ‘19. Got in on BNTX @ 15.

thgaway17on Intel ordered to pay chip fab worker almost $1m after he was gassed in 2016

Can someone familiar with Arizona law explain why this wasn’t covered by Worker’s Comp?

thgaway17on I am a heroin user. I do not have a drug problem

Who is the “they” you’re referring to? Both groups in your example need therapy, not hormones.

thgaway17on Before buying a NYT subscription, here's what it'll take to cancel it

Not paying the bill worked for me.

thgaway17on Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 Follow-Up]

From MW

Definition of illustrative : serving, tending, or designed to illustrate

illustrative examples

art that is illustrative of provincial life

thgaway17on Blue beads could be the oldest evidence of European goods in North America

It’s to demonstrate that other experts in the field, who don’t have a connection to this particular study, found the results significant. Seems useful to me.

thgaway17on “Silicon Valley’s Safe Space” has misinformed readers

I’d say it requires humility.

thgaway17on Leaving Mozilla

There’s all sorts of age, gender, and racial diversity in that photo. Just no black faces.

thgaway17on Terraria on Stadia cancelled after developer's Google account gets locked

You are 99.5% wrong. See Federal Arbitration Act and ATT v Concepcion.

thgaway17on Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit

false positives would result in more sales.

That seems highly unlikely. Prosecutors, like all attorneys, talk. It wouldn’t take too many getting burned by a false positive before word would get out (regardless of any nda).

For example, once an expert gets Dauberted, you’ve got to think long and hard about being the next guy to use them.

thgaway17on Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons

Men can have kids well into their 50’s. If a girl wastes her 20s on the carousel, by the time she’s in her 30’s, her reproductive opportunities are starting to dwindle.

Women’s attractiveness starts declining in her late 20’s much faster than it does for men. We shouldn’t pretend like it doesn’t, and pretend like we don’t understand why women in their 30’s can’t find Mr. Right.

thgaway17on Parents of daughters are more likely to divorce than those with sons

Unfortunately, my marriage resembles that of your parents. My only counterpoint to your belief that they would be happier if they divorced, is to suggest you may be minimizing they value they get from stability and certainty.

There’s value in knowing who’s going to care for you when you get cancer, even if there’s a lot of animosity now.