YokoZar

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by YokoZar 3y ago
Absolutely nothing is preventing you from celebrating your birthday the way we do Holidays. My birthday isn't September 22, it's the third Saturday in September. Heck it's not even weird to not bother with this redefinition
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Why not prohibit right on red for just these specific vehicles then?
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by YokoZar 3y ago
>any counterpoints that would bring housing prices far lower Policy changes allowing substantially more construction finally bearing fruit? We have a long way to go but there has been some significant movement in that direction, particul
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by YokoZar 3y ago
According to the article, the criminal charges against that specific defendant were dropped
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by YokoZar 3y ago
This was from The Far Side. The image depicts a broken window and a man reading a piece of paper presumably attached to the brick, with the note "Bricks thrown thru your window? Call Al's Glass" and then a phone number. Whi
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Wage theft has a different, specific meaning than what this case is about (pay discrimination).
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by YokoZar 3y ago
It's perfectly possible for there to be many of them and for them to also be monopolies over their respective regional markets. Compare with cable companies carving up territory and agreeing not to intrude on eachother's turf.
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by YokoZar 3y ago
There are tea drinkers that believe very strongly in using water that isn't "stale" (eg, leftover in the kettle from the last time). Presumably water from the hot water tap would be stale for similar reasons. I think the the
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Our python tooling enforces an 80 character limit and every time I run into it I make my code worse in some way to comply. Usually it's just less descriptive variable names, sometimes it's less readable autoformat. I've give
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Is the assertion here that Twitter is employing H1-B fashion models?
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Is there a similar list of more generic or common mechanics? I've always been curious if a list that contained things like "tiles-based", "roguelike", "rhythm game" would yield interesting results if comb
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by YokoZar 3y ago
Japan has vehicle weight taxes. The US has the inverse (trucks and SUV have laxer fuel economy standards)
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by YokoZar 4y ago
Sounds like the company's problem. Maybe they should change their incentives so that managers actually want the right things.
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by YokoZar 4y ago
I once clicked on a restaurant website. It was plain text on an empty background. The only content was their address, phone number, hours, and a link to a PDF of their menu. The site asked for forgiveness and assured me that it was "u
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by YokoZar 4y ago
What if you need more than one load of dishes done per day?
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by YokoZar 4y ago
The payroll tax is an income tax with the following brackets: 0-147k: 12.4% 147k+: 0% The number goes down at the higher income bracket, which means you pay less % of your money in payroll taxes the more you make. That is the very definiti
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by YokoZar 4y ago
I don't know who needs to be told this, but human circadian rhythms vary considerably from person to person. Some are very early, some are as late as a literal owl. Telling them to follow the sun will be about as successful as telling
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by YokoZar 4y ago
Specifically, if I own game X and you own game Y, then with sharing I can play your Y while you play my X at the same time. But if I buy game Y, and play it, steam will then prevent you from playing my game X at the same time.
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by YokoZar 4y ago
> Housing can not be both an investment and affordable. If old homes were somehow better and more desirable, they could theoretically be both. But homes aren't like comic books or magic cards: newer-built ones are generally better
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by YokoZar 4y ago
It's not. GDP grew in Q4.
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by YokoZar 4y ago
Planet Money had an episode this week showing a poll where literally 99% of CEOs responded that they thought a recession was going to happen in 2023.
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by YokoZar 4y ago
Most "karaoke versions" of songs are by cover bands.
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by YokoZar 4y ago
Twitter had been posting profits since 2018, with the exception of last quarter (billion dollar lawsuit payout) and Q2 2020 (pandemic start) https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom... Post Mus
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by YokoZar 4y ago
> drove some large cost savings projects Having worked as SRE on efficiency projects for BigCo, it is not at all uncommon to recover more than your lifetime salary in company savings with only a few months work or even less. The scale o
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by YokoZar 4y ago
When the "hard reset" causes revenue to evaporate as advertisers leave, the balance sheet is not "much better".
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by YokoZar 4y ago
Naively, you would expect a bit of a drop in productivity when going to full employment, as the least productive workers are generally hired last. Total production, notably, is still increasing.
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by YokoZar 4y ago
No, you can't. Well, maybe you personally can. But all the actual science says that willpower, sleep hygiene, and sunlight exposure only move the margins a bit for those with inflexible night-time chronotypes. Doing everything "ri
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by YokoZar 4y ago
The article mentions that people with late chronotypes get less sleep due to early work hours, and that lack of sleep causes productivity issues.
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by YokoZar 4y ago
I've noticed some streaming platforms (eg Paramount Plus) occasionally fail to make use of the center speaker entirely when supposedly in 5.1; this makes the dialog nearly inaudible. I only get this issue with some content sources, and
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by YokoZar 4y ago
Likely the victim's medical or comprehensive insurance - most states only require very small liability limit policies that won't really cover much in a big crash. California, for instance only requires ~30k injury coverage and ~5k

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