angiolillo

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by angiolillo 7mo ago
> some sort of mechanism for variable-length IP duration is needed I've always liked the idea of a Harberger tax-style patent enforcement fee: The patent owner declares the value of their patent on an annual basis and pays 1-5% of t
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
The framing of "low trust" vs "high trust" is useful but another important distinction when conducting business in different jurisdictions is whether *institutions* or *counterparties* are more trustworthy. If institutio
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
> [funding at the state level] could only work if the state was "richer" than the local district It's not whether the state is "richer", it's whether the state has a more stable percentage of student-age chi
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
The country as a whole may be "rich" in terms of GDP but school districts are funded locally and many towns are struggling or underwater in terms of finances. I lived in a working class town with a school district that built up a
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
> it did not justify the hundreds of hours I invested in this project. I agree with this but minimizing the cost changes the ROI. Personally, I've discovered useful insights tracking various life metrics. But I also found quickly di
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
> That only works if your printouts aren’t too long It depends on what you mean by "too long". A few folks in my office have binders with dog-eared code printouts for some of the more stable internal libraries in our codebase.
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
Sounds lovely. Our kids enjoyed the local bikepacking trips we did this summer, perhaps our next will visit the area. (In the off chance you have personal recommendations for bike touring companies/routes, let me know.)
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
I have a general sense of the difficulty based on preliminary discussions with an immigration lawyer, but the Netherlands seems like one of the easier routes we're considering. The reason it's "daydreaming" is that we&#x
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
> the friends are mostly here to get a feel for the place and see if they want to emigrate As a US citizen who has daydreamed about moving to a Dutch city like Ultrecht I'm curious what they found, and how it feels to be an immigran
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
Well, if the chardet relicensing stands then something like this will eventually be real, though perhaps not so publicly shameless. (The page is still a fantastic find though.)
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
That's amazing! But are you sure that the page is not satire? > Tired of putting "Portions of this software..." in your documentation? Those maintainers worked for free—why should they get credit? ... Some licenses require
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
My situation was similar. I lived in a small city that trumpeted their aspirational walking and biking infrastructure but did nothing to change a driving culture and police force that were actively and physically hostile to anyone on foot o
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by angiolillo 7mo ago
For many years I commuted by bike in a city that prioritized driving convenience, speed, and free parking over safety and sense of place. I tried convince my neighbors that we ought to make different tradeoffs to improve safety and I volunt
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> Nannies are obviously not making more than the vast majority of Americans. Experienced nannies in high-cost-of-living areas do. Many charge $35 to $55 per hour [1][2][3] and at 45 hours a week, that is $82k to $129k a year or $6,825 to
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
Note that my response above was solely responding to the question of how to handle freeloaders. Of course the more fundamental question is whether the whole scheme is even worthwhile. Clearly the Irish government believes that their trial i
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> You then brought up cost as the reason. To be clear, I said cost is one root cause, I did not say it was the root cause. > Cost can basically be removed as a reason. How have you come to this conclusion? From an empirical standp
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> Are you going to force artists to make the specific art that the community is in need of, or can they just do nothing? My understanding is that the Irish scheme doesn't force any specific work for the three year period, though I&
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> My take is that modern culture just doesn't want kids. This is true for many people. I know a few childfree couples that you could offer them a hefty salary to raise kids and they would decline. However I know even more people who
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> one might wonder why they apparently are not able to sell their art for the same amount of money "Public goods" like parks, museums, bridges, roadways, transit, nature preserves, community spaces, and public safety services p
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> Are you saying that Israelis are more likely to have kids mainly because Israeli society is more tolerant of kids? Yes, absolutely. I used to work in a big city where friends, neighbors, and coworkers with young kids had to sacrifice t
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> It depends on the area, but a nanny is typically nowhere near $6k/month. Agreed that it depends on the area. In high cost-of-living areas, both nanny and childcare can be (significantly) higher than $6k/mo, and in lower cost-
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> Why would somebody ever pay that much rather than just hire a private nanny? In my experience the price distribution for nannies and infant/toddler daycares in the same area are largely overlapping bell curves so the decision typi
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> vehicle changes lanes in front of you; you slow down to maintain a safe following distance, another car sees a gap and changes lanes in front of you. Repeat for your entire commute. For the sake of argument, assume you follow the &quot
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> It can be psychologically frustrating because you see all the cars around you moving at X mph but your self-imposed constraints mean you can only make way at (X minus Y) mph. This is correct, but I get the sense that people overestimat
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
> Slowing down on a busy highway does not reduce turbulence at all, it add chaos and unpredictability to the system. Once car suddenly slowing down... I agree that slowing down "suddenly" causes turbulence. However, slowing dow
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
Many years ago I watched someone marched out of the room in handcuffs by military police for plugging a USB thumb drive in the wrong computer. My current situation isn't anywhere near that strict, and I agree that many security posture
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
No, that's why I said "This doesn't look like a suitable solution for me, but I understand the need."
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
Officially we have a similar policy except that it's a paper list next to the pantry. But with a half-dozen people in our household the likelihood that everyone has been 100% reliable in adding finished items to the list and there are
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
I'm curious what makes you think the solutions of the past have been forgotten or that they were somehow more reliable? (They're certainly simpler, I'll give you that!) I have printouts of school/camp calendars taped to
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by angiolillo 8mo ago
Samsung makes an "AI Vision" fridge I looked at briefly, but it didn't come close to making sense for us given the unreliability of the vision system, the cost of replacing a couple fridges, and the comparative simplicity of

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