ThirdFoundation

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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Do cost of living calculators take into account the more static pricing of non-necessities? For example, maybe an apartment in the Bay Area costs, say, 300% what it costs in a major mid-western city. Groceries are 150% more expensive and o
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
These studies never take into account that the game is still ongoing while the ball is not in play. A lot of the game takes place before the snap, as does the strategy. The offense after a big play sometimes struggles to get to the line of
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
Interesting you say that. Where are you from? The reason I ask is I've always learned to put a space in front of the parentheses and a quick Google search also only yields sources that say to do so. That being said, I'm American
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by ThirdFoundation 8y ago
There's something about the Asimov books that make the mundane interesting. I loved the planning aspect of the foundation's millennia long plan. I'm dubious how a book that focuses so much on slow progress progress and averti
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by ThirdFoundation 9y ago
Yea, reading his description of the Excel data problems his girlfriend had hit very close to home. A large swath of my current job responsibilities often involve automating these type of data aggregations so that non-technical users can do
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by ThirdFoundation 9y ago
I wonder if the current high wages in Silicon Valley are a function of job competition in other cities (tech jobs in Austin, Denver, NYC, etc) plus a highly mobile workforce. Tech workers tend to skew younger and are also able to work remo
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by ThirdFoundation 9y ago
I think it is for the same reason that many STEM programs require their undergraduate students to "apply for entry" to the STEM part of the program. For example, at $GenericUniversity all CS students are listed as pre-engineering
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by ThirdFoundation 9y ago
Well, I think it could make sense in that this new healthcare company's goal is to lower the costs Amazon, Berkshire, and JPMorgan pay for healthcare for their respective employees. So I think it's possible that the healthcare com
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by ThirdFoundation 9y ago
...mediocre old domestics cost closer to $2. I can find that in Philadelphia, Ohio, NC, and even parts of NYC for less than $5.
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by ThirdFoundation 9y ago
It's funny, that's how things should work, but the crypto space has been so irrational it is not how things have effectively been priced in other splits. For example, Bitcoin Cash's split ended up being free money for consum
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by ThirdFoundation 9y ago
Would a quantum computer be capable of brute forcing private keys?