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by abakker 8y ago
For lighting, definitely. I'm not aware of it having ever been used for heating at any scale?
902.
by abakker 8y ago
The lack of a minimap is pretty awesome. There is a careful balance between preserving adventure vs making the game frustrating; between convenient and immersive. I very much liked the early days of D2 when you had to legitimately watch out
903.
by abakker 8y ago
It's been years since I played any games really. I enjoyed D3 and really committed for a while to WoW. personally, I don't really like free to play as it distorts the gaming experience too much. Take WoW for example: when it start
904.
by abakker 8y ago
I am pretty sure Bank of America has this. I use their generated cards for several subscriptions.
905.
by abakker 8y ago
There is actually some incredible footage of Jaguars inside Indian cities in planet earth 2. In case anyone is curious.
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by abakker 8y ago
I don’t think I’ve hear it anywhere else but a guy at work calluses these kind of things “retronyms” for retroactive acronyms. Maybe more common in enterprise tech marketing than law.
907.
by abakker 8y ago
Their pro devices are excellent, though, and support a lot of commercial drone markets from law enforcement, to search and rescue to film to surveying. Why would they not sell those devices?
908.
by abakker 8y ago
Not on the topic of software, but with other crafts, I like to think about the idea "Nothing is hard, it is just slow". the biggest beginner mistake in woodworking is trying to work to fast, same with welding, same with music. If
909.
by abakker 8y ago
Utility weighting is fine and good, but rationality in the long term is definitely constrained by uncertainty. Rationality cannot be perfectly optimal, because perfection would require closed ended choices. If you don't know the size o
910.
by abakker 8y ago
The end of alchemy, Mervyn King. There are several very interesting points and mental models in there. Eye opening for someone that did undergrad Econ.
911.
by abakker 8y ago
Oh, great. More product to sterilize the soil and reduce microbiome. I've had farmers tell me that they wanted a more accurate free-carbon soil test because it was indicative of microbiome activity, and by extension indicative of healt
912.
by abakker 8y ago
Yes, this is right. Large increases in the workforce have increased the supply, reducing real wage growth, household earning has grown by adding a second earner. More work is getting done to get the same economic outcome. Put one way, this
913.
by abakker 8y ago
It's so cool to see your old classmates published! It's also sad to see the conclusions be so dire. It always amazes me that in the triumvirate of Environment, Politics, and Economics, it is so easy to discuss optimization of Poli
914.
by abakker 8y ago
I think this behavior is probably driven by people like me, who use youtube mostly for music. I repeatedly listen to/watch performances on youtube because to me it's the only streaming service I have. I frequently come to youtube
915.
by abakker 8y ago
Automation is just "Outsourcing to a computer" Seen that way, many outsourcing companies are just a halfway house to stuff that isn't quite fully automatable yet, but which might become so soon.
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by abakker 8y ago
Timothy Geithner's book "Stress Test" does a great job of explaining this, IMO. The trouble with derivatives is that they are contractually bound to reflect some price that is locked to the price of a primary asset. If the de
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by abakker 8y ago
Or, critically as another comment a few days ago put it, "automation crowds out those who are just starting their careers, more than those who have already started". Automation can easily prevent you from entering the workplace an
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by abakker 8y ago
I've heard this said in another, less correct way: "the real number of 1960s equivalent college graduates has never changed, its just become harder to find them based on a label". But, broadly, I've heard a lot of acknow
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by abakker 8y ago
As a high schooler, I remember buying citi stock for $2.60 or something like that. Just an anecdote, but my teenage self just said, “come on. It’s still a bank!”
920.
by abakker 8y ago
Favorite saying: “ when you owe the bank $100,000, you have a problem. When you owe the bank $1,000,000,000, the bank has a problem”
921.
by abakker 8y ago
No, they’re junk bonds, I.e. not investment grade.
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by abakker 8y ago
A public company is just packaged up its equity into securities and sold them to investors. The mortgages of 2008 were to the real problems, the sudden lack of liquidity in the markets for trading them was. Sure, some mortgages were hurt, a
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by abakker 8y ago
If governments do not control debt, at least in theory, though, it is very hard to remain a reserve currency. The definition of a reserve currency is one you can have confidence in, one that will be managed well. If we decided we were not g
924.
by abakker 8y ago
Sure...the gist though is that the central bank responses to any situation with only two tools, interest rate, and money supply. If the situations shows them that there was too little money, they add money. A reason why thy might not have h
925.
by abakker 8y ago
Hubris?
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by abakker 8y ago
God, I hate how G commands are sticky in Mach 3. Much sadness indeed.
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by abakker 8y ago
This is a great point, but, as someone who makes furniture, I think there is also great validity in owning temporary pieces. There are things that are good when they are heirloom pieces (I think good chairs and bookshelves are highly underr
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by abakker 8y ago
FWIW, California changed the minimum ticket for noise violations on vehicles to $1000 this year. They are apparently cracking down on it, as they have abolished the “fix it ticket” that used to allow the vehicle to be repaired and then the
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by abakker 8y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hTgvNsqb9Y I love how that track ended up in Halo, also.
930.
by abakker 8y ago
Its definitely a thing there. http://myth.bungie.org/legends/delusions/blackcompany.html Thats a pretty great and detailed page about the parallels. Reading into TBC gave a lot of us a lot of fun when playing Myth

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