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by Afforess 9y ago
I love fish shell, I love the autocomplete, but I've been forced to switch back to bash lately, because fish syntax is just different enough from bash-isms to break too much scripts / tools / commands. I know I could just inv
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False dichotomy. Yes, emergency rooms are a marvel of modern planning and materials. But just because they are impressive does not mean they need be expensive, or that such efficiency must be difficult to implement. The initial costs for th
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No, it's not. There are an infinite number of conspiracy theories. There is no value in considering them.
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No, No, No! Conspiracy theories attract attention because they make the world seem more legible, when it's not. In this case, exchanges are not being attacked by shadowy corporations for short contracts. Attention from price surges inc
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That's pure pessimism. You can compare the previous-year government budget and next-year government budget and work out the gaps. Sure, the money might have all sloshed together in the general fund, but the average values are all mat
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I love calculators. What I haven't seen yet is a calculator that shows you where the money originated from. How much of my tax deduction is new debt, vs money stripped from Medicare, Social Security, College Graduate deductions, etc. I
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Traveler does not follow the rules, abuses a Transit visa to cover non-transity-things, and is surprised when he is punished. He might not have been familiar with the exact rules governing travel, but it is fairly clear from his account tha
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Public services are for the working poor, and politicians don't represent the poorer classes. The wealthy and middle class are larger, more dependable blocs, and politicians support policies that favor these two groups. Few in either o
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> If a ripped 6'4" male model called himself @sexyengineer and posted pictures of him building things shirtless, I would roll my eyes and call his legitimacy into question. Doing the same to a woman isn't some sexist consp
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An Equilibrium of No Free Energy(lesserwrong.com)
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I really appreciate this essay, if just for categorizing a type of argument I've run into multiple times myself. I've often shared ideas with others and found that when ideas cross a certain "weirdness threshold" and are
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I find it interesting the default commentary to this sort of event - ballooning budgets on underbid projects - assumes that bad faith on the part of the bidder is the problem, and that if only we could punish these few bad apples - punish t
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The federal reserve is keeping the federal funds rate low to try and run the economy "hot", and grow inflation. This is in the hopes that a "hot" economy will also grow wages and decrease unemployment further. Inflation
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> China is evil I can only imagine that the Chinese middle-class feel the same way towards the USA. > Their democracy is even more of a joke than that of the US I never understood the idea that democracy was a superior form of gover
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> full speed transfers over the USB Type-C / TB3 ports. The NVMe SSDs in the Macbooks are significantly higher throughput than USB-C ports support.
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This is the result of entirely understandable forces, with no solution in sight. High school students (and their parents) select Universities based on status first (or second), and education quality nearly last. Worse, this is entirely sens
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I was under the impression the opposite was true. There several ride-sharing services in Austin for a while but their service and quality were abysmal, pickup times were long, and they all collapsed as soon as Uber and Lyft returned.
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An even more interesting arctic graph. Arctic sea ice extent by area: https://goo.gl/b5ciWZ Which year is not like the others? Most of the arctic ice extent in the last decade fell outside of the 2 standard deviations, but
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned Nick Bostrom's book, "Superintelligence", which directly covers this topic. The thinkers you cite: Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, (and possibly, Putin) have derived much of their current f
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You say that like it's some damning put-down. Of course he didn't succeed; the elites usually win. That's why they are elite. It's no shame to have tried and lost.
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Normal humans also run red lights when the yellow-to-red light time is too short. Transit guidelines generally state that yellow lights should stay lit 1 second for every 10mph of the speed limit. When the yellow light is shorter than this,
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This article contains a rather poor explanation of what LIBOR is and the history around it. Matt Levine does a much better job: https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-27/the-end-o... Back in the 196
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I rented before, so I considered equivalent to be the same sqft (900f sqft), same quality neighborhood. I'm sure you could save some by getting a roommate or smaller living arrangements, but that wasn't what I wanted to compare.
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Six figures in San Francisco is a joke. I was working out of Raleigh, NC until recently, with a take home pay w/benefits around $85k. I calculated to have an equivalent standard of living and spending money in SF, I would need to take
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I read the memo and didn't find it particularly persuasive; but this dismissal does further its core point. It's a bit tone deaf of Google to fire an employee concerned about groupthink.
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Books are a bad way to measure - varying length and all. I read ~100,000 words a week.
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This subway crisis and others like it is the end result of the cycle of "Crisis Management". We have politicians who "never let a good crisis go to waste", a media which practically requires a constant state of crisis so
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At the risk of confirmation bias, this seems to back fairly common beliefs in developer communities... namely that developers are individually optimistic and problems are largely the fault of mismanagement or other externalities. > sof
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Late Stage Capitalism is the realization that mankind produces enough material wealth to satisfy the bottom two tiers of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs for every single person in the world and the frustration that we haven't bothered
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The crowds here saying that Soylent is "just" rebranded Ensure/Slimfast/etc sound like the same voices that said Dropbox was rebranded rsync/scp/ftp. The arguments are cookie-cutter and wrong for the same reaso

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