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sharx··on Titanic director James Cameron accuses OceanGate of cutting corners
There are externalized costs besides death though, like the resources deployed in the search and rescue effort. In the case of aviation you can also cause collateral damage or death.
sharx··on Why are online recipes so long-winded?
these days there is almost always a "jump to recipe" button at the top in my experience
sharx··on UBS Acquires Wealthfront for $1.4B
I've heard that when you leave direct indexing you end up with all the individual stocks in your new portfolio, or you have to sell them and eat the capital gains tax. Was that your experience?
sharx··on Why admitting Covid is Airborne is so hard
"slow the spread down slightly to reduce impact on the healthcare system" is pretty important during these big waves. Banning outdoor gatherings is probably overkill though, I believe the worst places still have maskless indoor activities.
sharx··on Viral 'I'm not a cat' filter is decades-old software
Most likely it derives from Instagram filters, which derives from lens filters.
sharx··on Application Load Balancers enables gRPC workloads with end to end HTTP/2 support
Re: the verbs, gRPC is built on top of HTTP, and does not use the verbs (it's always POST). So I think it was fair to call them "REST verbs" in this context.
sharx··on Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis
aren't you proving their point? You're tunnel visioning on a couple uncertain solutions instead of firing all ammo we have at the issue.
sharx··on Quake speedrun record broken after 17 years
I didn't expect to watch the whole thing but wow was that entertaining.
sharx··on Recognizing the signs of disruption in our urban habitat
There are other options beside selling e.g. reverse mortgage or heloc
sharx··on The Beginning of the End of the Beef Industry?
The way I see it, we've exited the food chain. We systematically breed and "process" animals for consumption in astounding numbers. Also meat makes up a much larger proportion of the modern American diet than it did for our early ancestors.
sharx··on A Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets
If your original lender were to refuse you could refinance with a different one. Your lender knows this and therefore will let you refinance to keep your business (I'm actually doing this now).

You do have to pay loan original fees again though which can be 1-2% of the balance of the loan so you have to compute when it actually pays off for you and whether it's worth it.