OldHand2018

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by OldHand2018 5y ago
LA was never a good natural harbor - in fact I think it was pretty terrible. But they had a lot of cattle hides to export, so ships came, which built up the city, so more ships came, and on and on and on until it was worth building the por
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Did it help? That's the question. We should have enough data to get preliminary results. I search Google news just about every day and all I can find is people patting themselves on the back for getting the rule changed, but nothing
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
The medium post predicted that the ports would start implementing fines for slow moving freight as a money making scheme, because they know the freight can't move any faster. You know, your second point leads to a question: what would
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> If you try to modify the weather without permission I had to laugh at your wording :) I am picturing someone with a drone carrying a sack of silver iodide suddenly having a very bad day.
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> Great Depression could have been averted by throwing $100 bills from helicopters A lot of people don't know this, but the main reason Calvin Coolidge suddenly, and without warning, decided not to seek reelection in 1928 was that h
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> I do not believe that there are other solutions which would scale. If you can see a viable liberal means to keep people safe other than “the status quo, only moreso” then do please let me know. Hello Alec, if you are reading this. This
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Oh absolutely, they're great. My last MacBook Pro was around $2500 or $3000, if I remember correctly, and it was a very good price for what you got. Don't think that I'm being overly negative here. These look like outstandi
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
It's been a while since I bought a "Pro" computer from Apple. I am kind of wondering about the perf-per-$$$ factor. With a starting price of $2000, these are expensive computers. But maybe they are worth it! The M1 compute
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
That’s a really interesting article, but it also points to a different answer. Instead of shipping low-value raw specialty soybeans to Asia where they will be transformed into a high-value product, they should be creating the high-value pr
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
If they’re so valuable to people in East Asia right now, then people in East Asia have an incentive to take a more active role in getting them back. How much is a train ride up to the Port of Oakland? Less than $5k per rail car? Probably
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> That day I learned that my money is only actually mine (in the sense that I can use it as I please) if the bank decides to allow me. It’s possible that the kind of account you have with that bank plays a role here. There has been a l
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Hmm, you may be somewhat more correct. At lot (most?) of the fire debris went to fill in the space between the "lakefront" and the Illinois Central tracks. Northerly Island was built in the early 1920s, supposedly with a lot of fi
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
The Chicago Fire Department training academy occupies the site where Mrs. O'Leary's barn stood. Also, if you'd like a souvenir from the Great Chicago Fire, head over the 12th Street beach any time there a big storm out of the
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Chicago allows mass timber buildings up to 6 stories, although a developer has proposed an 80-story mass timber building. So that guy may do all the work to open the door.
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Ha, you beat me to it. It would be really nice if there was a chart that indicated who was in what category - Household wealth of $X or greater puts you in the top 10%. But even that needs some more information. How are houses counted? I
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
The woman that does the voice of Bart Simpson is frequently asked if she has ever met the guy that does the voice of Bart Simpson. How's that for not being famous?
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Bill Murray at White Sox games? Surely you mean the Cubs.
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
One might argue that modern dentistry is just barely keeping up with the ability of modern society to destroy teeth.
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
It is curious - according to the article the tests were cancelled due to budget issues. How expensive is this testing? Is it really believable that we couldn't actually afford it??? I notice the attempt to blame common core, but...
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
He spent a lot of time working to make “good” houses more affordable, and was constantly pushing the limits on materials and techniques, which is a large reason why his houses are such maintenance nightmares 70+ years later. https:/&#
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
The pressure is on. Didn't Apple give themselves a short time window when they introduced the M1 for a full-lineup changeover? Like 2 years, or something?
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> I feel like a lot of people are commenting about sport Take another look. They're just bikeshedding. Everyone knows that if the US would just change the name, they'd win the World Cup. That's clearly the most important
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> because you need an accountant that gets all this, As someone who has been through this, perhaps you can explain why this is. What makes it so different from US taxes for people living in the US? You definitely do not need an accounta
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> I routinely get flights delayed on Southwest like no other airline, even the budget ones. Now I understand why. Sure, but Southwest has always been the kind of airline that rewards people who play the game. Let’s say you are flying fro
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Southwest had the most cancelled flights, Allegiant had the second most, and Spirit had the third most. I googled “Allegiant cancelled flights” and got dozens of news stories. The FAA problem was in Jacksonville. Wikipedia lists Allegiant
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
You know, I have noticed some of this when going over research papers, but I don't think I'm fully appreciating the significance. I appreciate the response, although it is going to force me to do more research and do a lot more t
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
It's not obvious that it is gamed. In the short-term these adjustments feel wrong. But at what point does a no-adjustment inflation measure stop measuring inflation? Buggy whips and hats are not in current inflation measures. Long ag
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
Aldi also relies on the "white-label" supplier approaching them to develop a product. https://corporate.aldi.us/en/suppliers/become-a-supplier/ Working with want-to-be suppliers is a full-time job f
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
> I guess just eat out less, right? Yes. Adjusting behavior based on increasing prices (or, alternately, increasing wages) is normal.
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by OldHand2018 5y ago
A very timely submission! I've been looking into performance optimizations on heterogeneous multicore systems and much of what I've seen published recently on Arxiv seems to point to tasks, their granularity and their scheduling a

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