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https://gisapps.chicago.gov/mapchicago/ has more information. Your city probably also has a GIS page - just look up "gis <city>" and you will probably find it.
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The zoning makes a lot of sense. The place where white people live is zoned to have nice, single-family houses with a huge yard that takes up a ton of space and is given outsized say in local politics. The place where black people live is z
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Good accessibility tip: Enable any accessibility options you need to, and then turn your monitor off. If you can't navigate your website, there's an issue.
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When I enter into the AI, Firefox blocks an insane amount of popups. The counter for blocked pop ups quickly reaches >100 where it stops counting. What is it trying to do?
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Holy shit, this is awesome
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Whenever I see "bare-metal" thrown around, I think about how Atari Pong was literally all hardware , as in the entire game was printed on the circuit board as actual physical logic gates. With the advancements of modern technolog
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Scan lines?
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This person needs to be in a mental institution, not their house. This is also closely related to the crime problems people have with high-density living. The complete and utter failure of our society to correctly put people away is not a k
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Well that and also to house the gigantic concert venue that's inside of it.
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It was revised and updated by Munger - it's better than the original because it has more experience and information. The old one is fine too, but is harder to read and a bit more dated.
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Everybody should read his speech, "The Psychology of Human Misjudgment": https://fs.blog/great-talks/psychology-human-misjudgment/ It's a fantastic read that can really help you understand why suppo
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Why is it every other day there's a thread that goes something like "We used AI to find a new way to avoid jail time completely in the Prisoners Dilemma"? Yeah, if you defect you gain benefit for yourself while making the wor
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"What's your opinion on Effective Altruism?" If they say anything positive, you know to run the other direction.
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Right, so you type in a topic and you instantly get blogspam that is made perfect for SEO. There is no other use for this other than making every single search engine even worse than it already is.
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> I had a chance to learn SEO/content principles from people who are responsible for creating content strategy for some of the most successful startups. The main thing that I want to achieve with this tool is to allow teams of one t
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If Mr. Market was perfectly rational and correct, profit would cease to exist.
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Why did you post this with such an editorialized title?
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What on earth actually happened yesterday?
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I think the bullshit is a part of the fun, to be perfectly honest.
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This is super fun. I don't know how you get around the exploit of saying you survive and tasking the computer with coming up how though. If you feed it the conclusion, the AI will try to justify it.
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The biggest politician on the side of the telecoms is Ted Cruz, who has this to say on the matter: > Despite admitting there's 'little to no evidence' of discrimination by telecommunications companies, Democrats are hoping
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The lesson you learned is that you chose the complete wrong demographic. "Her" should have been called "Him" - women are much, much higher users of these services.
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> This is not Apple opening up iMessage to other platforms. Instead, it’s the company adopting RCS separately from iMessage. Very important.
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The plural of anecdote says prices are not increasing at the rate they once were.
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Sure, I'll list every single time unemployment broke 10%. - 1981-1982 recession, caused by the oil crisis a few years before, had 10.8% peak unemployment - The Great Recession (again, there was deflation here) with 10% peak unemploymen
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The average price of eggs hit a high of $4.83. Eggs were extremely expensive for a very short period of time, but have gone down to normal levels. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111 Trying to guess econom
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> Moreover, deflation encourages less consumption Where do you think your income comes from?
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Our economy did great, except for the: - Panic of 1785 - Copper Panic of 1789 - Panic of 1792 - Panic of 1796–1797 - 1802–1804 recession - Depression of 1807 - 1812 recession - 1815–1821 depression - 1822–1823 recession - 1825–1826 recessio
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Inflation is the change in prices. We ideally want a little bit of it to get money moving around the economy. With stimulus checks and low interest rates, there was too much money chasing too little goods, causing prices to rise and YoY i
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A "typical startup" loses unfathomably large amounts of money.

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