YokoZar

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by YokoZar 2y ago
The article warns about impending future inequality: > Imagine two employees. One can afford these medications, the other cannot. One has regulated impulses, higher energy, better focus, and lower healthcare costs. The other doesn't
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by YokoZar 2y ago
Somewhat halfway would be a slightly delayed version of the game using much better-in-hindsight decisions about which camera angles to show during a play.
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by YokoZar 2y ago
Japan has vehicle weight taxes, which directly incentivizes what you observed there.
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by YokoZar 2y ago
Every once in a while I get an email about a ten plus year old bug finally getting fixed in some open source project. If it's a good bug accurately describing a real thing, there's no reason to throw that work away rather than jus
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by YokoZar 2y ago
Unfortunately, not everyone has quite the same natural flexibility you describe. "Shift worker syndrome" has been known for decades, though a fortunate subset of people just seem immune.
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by YokoZar 2y ago
Yes. Isn't that obvious? Everyone has different natural sleep patterns, some have later cronotypes. Meetings set too early in the day for your body's preferred time to be asleep will result in having to wake up with an alarm to
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by YokoZar 2y ago
> The paradox is that the monthly cost of a unit will quickly exceed the value of whatever is stored there unless the items have sentimental value or are very expensive. Sometimes, the best place to store something... is the store.
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by YokoZar 2y ago
Out of complete curiosity, did you ever attempt to run the server software in Wine? If it happens to work well in the server use case it might be very interesting.
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by YokoZar 2y ago
So? How is a game fully running on Proton not a native game? Wine's version of the Windows API isn't conceptually different from any other cross-platform technology here. You could make a similar purity argument against using th
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by YokoZar 2y ago
> If you're a C-level at a Fortune 50 company, some massive percentage of your personal assets, if they're invested in the stock market or private equity, are in commercial real estate. > There's no mystery here. People
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by YokoZar 2y ago
Productivity growth may be slowing, but it is not "down" in general. It's the highest it's ever been. Is there a specific reason to believe Amazon would have less productivity than the rest of the economy compared with
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by YokoZar 2y ago
A night owl who feels pressured to wake at 7 or even 9am is a genuine tragedy. I am extremely fortunate to have a career where I can sleep my natural hours of somewhere around 4:30 AM until after noon. But I had to fight for it, and set bo
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by YokoZar 2y ago
I think a much simpler test is to ask if the police body camera footage is "missing", and if it is to assume they're probably lying. There is no reason to withhold it or turn off cameras in a situation like this.
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by YokoZar 2y ago
I went to a Costco in Mexico and they were very serious about making the food court members only there. Interestingly they had the same items except they had jalapenos instead of relish
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by YokoZar 2y ago
Indeed, employees often effectively sell their stock to existing owners via share buybacks. This seems entirely rational to me - I've bet a significant part of my career on the success of the company I work for, why should I also bet m
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by YokoZar 2y ago
From what I can find online, the lifetime of a BD-R disk is only 5-10 years. Those recordable Bluerays you're holding on to may _already_ have gone bad.
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by YokoZar 2y ago
How come prices go down in the markets where supply increases? Are landlords being extra generous there to fool us?
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by YokoZar 2y ago
See also the Simplicity chapter in the followup Google SRE Workbook: https://sre.google/workbook/simplicity/
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by YokoZar 2y ago
> For example late fees are illegal in California and you can basically get a pro se judgment easy peasy if a landlord even attempts to get you to sign a lease with a late fee clause, let alone collect one. Having actually gone through t
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by YokoZar 2y ago
Demand did change though - people weren't pooping as much at offices, restaurants, and retail stores. All those places tend to use "commercial" toilet paper that is not available in your average grocery store. If you looked a
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Permitting is expensive because of choices we make. Some of those choices have the explicit intent of making housing more difficult to build. We can make different choices.
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Sure. On the other hand, arresting 11 specific people reduced bike theft by 90% in London: https://www.itv.com/news/2024-02-26/a-police-sting-uncovered... When crime gets to the point where a police tactic as sim
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Yes, if you are poor you are not worth suing, even if you will surely lose. The cynical term for this is "judgement proof". Once you have any sort of reasonable income you should strongly consider buying significantly more insura
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Do we have to bury it? Why not just put it up on transmission lines? It seems weird to me that we can run Cable TV to fairly remote locations but not fiber.
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Wouldn't we need, like, evidence or something to believe that possibility? We have mountains of direct evidence with underlining theory for the straightforward explanation. Sometimes we need to believe that evidence.
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by YokoZar 3y ago
The author addresses both of the possible reasons that correlation and causation could be unlinked here (reverse causality and common cause). Did you have a comment about them?
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Yes, road safety is a serious health problem. But if it's twice as hard to mitigate, that implies we should spend some effort on reducing alcohol deaths too.
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Yes, that's exactly why "tenant buyouts" are a thing in San Francisco. They've created a property right for renters, as well as weird concepts like the "master tenant".
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by YokoZar 3y ago
There was a site just like this about a decade ago called "Honest Android Games". The criteria were almost exactly the same. It closed down as the author didn't have the time for it anymore: https://www.reddit.com
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by YokoZar 3y ago
50% of Californians live in an owner-occupied home. That's what the weirdly named "home ownership rate" measures. Move back in with your parents? Rent a room from a live-in-landlord because you can't afford your own pla

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