MrApathy

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by MrApathy 5y ago
But they have! The Ford Bronco was introduced in 1965. The Jeep Cherokee arrived in 1974. I remember seeing a lot of them as a kid, though if I had to pinpoint the start of the SUV craze, it would probably be closer to 1990 when the Ford Ex
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by MrApathy 5y ago
I work for a bulge bracket bank and have been on a VDI for the past five years, currently on my third desktop. This is extremely common in finance, most developers are running on VDI's since it's much easier to manage and lock dow
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by MrApathy 5y ago
Very important. The centerpiece of this article is the 421-a exemption which was repealed last year. New condos being sold today are subject to the full assessed amount. All stock currently in the 421-a program is subject to a phased increa
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by MrApathy 6y ago
My own admittedly uninformed understanding is that there was cheating all around, but VW was by far the most flagrant. BMW and Mercedes diesels required DEF (diesel exhaust fluid), whereas VW did not. Marketing and/or executive leaders
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by MrApathy 6y ago
You build a big grid. Wind won't be light everywhere. Load is lower at night, so lack of sunlight is less of an issue. Maybe people start placing battery packs in their homes. Battery technology has seen large investments over the past
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by MrApathy 6y ago
Nuclear is one notch above dead, though I'm sure it won't officially die for another few decades. As a former proponent it's hard to argue against the significant advances made by renewables over the past few years. Sure, nuc
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by MrApathy 6y ago
Context: bulge bracket bank. Within my area, data sourced from just about everywhere, Oracle, Maria, SAP, SharePoint, flat files, etc. Alteryx and Informatica used to structure data, with some Python at the more advanced level. On the visua
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by MrApathy 6y ago
In the specific context of Bitcoin it may be true that the preference is for ASIC, but (1) some Bitcoin is still mined using GPU's and (2) there are several thousand active digital currencies, many of them favoring GPU's. Grandpa
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by MrApathy 6y ago
The custom mechanical keyboard community has been slowly growing for years and at the high end figures probably weren't too impacted by WFH since the supply is as constrained as ever. The "good" stuff is run as group buys and
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by MrApathy 6y ago
I think it's in part related to fractional scaling, which hasn't been sorted everywhere. Text at 4k on a 27 inch is too small to run at 100%, too much of a waste to run run at 200% (equivalent to 1920x1080). So you're running
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by MrApathy 6y ago
Also a Fastmail user with my own domain. Reliability has been excellent, their web-app is great, and their documentation is very helpful. I've never had to contact support (in over five years), so can't comment on that. Two minor
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by MrApathy 6y ago
But the issue is that in having his account terminated, he's also losing access to all historical purchases made over the years. The CC company may be willing to accept a charge-back on recent purchases, but what about the application&
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by MrApathy 7y ago
Yes and no. I work for a bulge bracket bank and we're moving a significant number of applications to the cloud, including AWS, GCP, and our internal cloud offering. But we have literally thousands of internally developed applications.
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by MrApathy 9y ago
Backscatter is (I think) when the target server of a spam mail bounces the email back to me, the rightful owner of the domain, typically because the address is not valid (though I sometimes also get out-of-office messages or mailbox full er
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by MrApathy 9y ago
I've been a FastMail customer for about four years and overall I'm really pleased with their service. Like you I have my own domain, previously used Gmail, and provide custom email addresses to every site I register with. Interest
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by MrApathy 11y ago
> What's wrong with Google shopping? I've found deals using it, it's had greater than zero value for me. The Google shopping that exists today is not the same service that was originally launched. It used to function more
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by MrApathy 11y ago
There's a TV show called "Mighty Ships" that profiles various larger ships (mostly commercial, though some passenger or military). One episode focuses on the Tyco Resolute, a cable laying ship: http://www.smithsoni
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by MrApathy 11y ago
It's an argument that's highly dependent on how high rents and purchase prices are correlated. In many markets the two are somewhat aligned, but on occasion the two diverge significantly. For example, if the cost to rent is $3k an
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by MrApathy 11y ago
What about an EB-5 visa? Isn't that somewhat similar? This doesn't directly buy a US passport, but it does allow for citizenship within a few years (and then, by extension, an American passport).
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by MrApathy 11y ago
The Manhattan standard for landlords is 40x annual rent, or $119k.
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Your comment is based on the presupposition that lower income kids have: (1) An internet ready device. (2) Reliable internet service. (3) A quiet environment where they're able to study undisturbed. (4) Have the time available to study
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Their coverage maps offer a good indication as to what to expect in a general area, but they lack the precision necessary to perform due diligence before making a switch. I work in Manhattan, where I've twice had the misfortune of occu
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Spotify is not like Netflix. Spotify is solely dependent on content creators who know exactly how profitable Spotify is at any time, and therefore how far they can be squeezed for royalties. Netflix has two major advantages: (1) consumers a
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Most chronically homeless people suffer from mental illness or substance abuse, but there's a distinction between the long term homeless and those who are temporarily down on their luck (like one woman mentioned in the article, who m
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Generally, but not always. An article in The Atlantic a few years back explained how one whale took a trio of casinos for $15M: Johnson did not miss the math. For example, at the Trop, he was willing to play with a 20 percent discount after
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Yes, many economics papers are at the intersection of economics and psychology with a focus on human behavior. One of the broad assumptions of economics is that individuals are largely rational, but controlled experiments sometimes show tha
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by MrApathy 11y ago
Given the shift in your responsibilities over the years it may be worthwhile to take the effort to put together three or four slightly different resumes, each highlighting a different aspect of one of your prior roles. When submitting a res
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by MrApathy 11y ago
I have made the below recipe before and it came out very well. With a cup (uncooked) of rice it makes five servings. Two possible shortcuts: (1) use a store bought rotisserie chicken and (2) leave out the cilantro, so that instead of having
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by MrApathy 11y ago
I prepare most of the meals that my wife and I eat. I find that having a routine is highly beneficial and keeps me on track. Here's what works well for me: * Each week I make one meal from each of the following three categories: soup (
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by MrApathy 11y ago
I have variously seen the upper boundary for Gen X as 1976, 1979, and 1982. Having been born toward the end of 1980 and comparing myself to those born in 1970 and 1990 (squarely in the middle of their respective generations), I find myself

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