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by aphextron 5y ago
>The people who complain about homeless camps are also the same ones partially responsible for it in the first place. We are all responsible at some level for not holding politicians accountable for a problem that they created. The real
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by aphextron 5y ago
They built an encampment like this under the 27th street overpass in West Oakland. It immediately turned into a festering cesspool of filth. Putting people in doghouses is not a solution to the homeless problem.
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by aphextron 5y ago
>"Presently, you won't be thrown in jail if you don't get it. But you can't go to NYU." You also can't go to NYU if you've never had an MMR. What's your point?
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by aphextron 5y ago
>I don't particularly feel the need for gods, ancient traditions or worship You do. It's just that in modern society we've substituted these for more easily digestible, commodified, manufactured replicas. Hollywood celebri
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by aphextron 5y ago
Well sure, but this isn't for applications. It's to quickly and simply toggle a class or throw some AJAX functionality onto a page, which is all the vast majority of sites ever need to do. I can see it being super popular with the
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by aphextron 5y ago
>As a house buyer you need only 10-20% down and can mortgage the rest. Or less. Zero down mortgages are absolutely a thing right now. You can get $250k of margin on an appreciating asset for nothing more than your signature, credit score
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by aphextron 5y ago
>Before 2009, appraisers would just appraise at the sale price because the real estate agent that hired them wouldn't hire them again if they didn't. Appraisals are made by the lending institution. That would be a very obvious
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by aphextron 5y ago
>The similarly sized house next to it sold for $149,000 in 2012. This is looking pretty bubbly to me. But 2012 was also the absolute bottom of the worst housing slump in US history. If you averaged out the appreciation of a median priced
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by aphextron 5y ago
Well that's capitalism. Adapt and grow, or die. OP's business going under is not going to make the demand for beer gardens go away. Someone more efficient will fill it. Labor has been forced to operate under the same rules for dec
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by aphextron 5y ago
This one's pretty contentious. I strongly prefer the flat edges. It's one of the main reasons I've held on to my SE for so long. The 12 is the first phone I've considered upgrading to in years.
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by aphextron 5y ago
The network effect is what makes it desirable. Anyone can push bits these days. Web technology is completely commoditized. But a strong brand and a great product team is priceless (or at least worth more than $10bn).
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by aphextron 5y ago
>Look how big the escape key is on that keyboard, finally, revenge for the touch bar! Jony Ive's departure is the best thing to happen for Apple products in a decade. They're actually *gasp* listening to their users again. Th
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by aphextron 5y ago
Inflation is the result of rising wages. However, we're in a place now where wages haven't even matched inflation for decades. Suddenly things start catching up and everyone loses their mind, claiming it's the fault of unem
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by aphextron 5y ago
Or someone more adaptive and innovative fills your economic niche in a way that you couldn't by dealing with the market realities and investing in their employees. Capitalism is amazingly resilient to rising wages.
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by aphextron 5y ago
Theres one single solution here: higher wages. If you can't afford it, then your business probably shouldn't exist. Cry me a river for the people that can't find someone to slave away for $9/hr with no benefits.
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by aphextron 5y ago
If you can't pay a living wage, you don't get to exist. The labor market goes both ways.
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by aphextron 5y ago
Every other car manufacturer makes it a point to ensure that drivers are never under the impression that things like LKAS and ACC are meant to supplant the drivers undivided full attention to the road. Toyota specifically has held back thei
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by aphextron 5y ago
Remember websites?
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by aphextron 5y ago
This is a great example of sales and marketing outpacing technology. Tesla has been absolutely negligent from the very beginning by marketing Autopilot as "full self driving". Full level 4 self driving capability does not exist, a
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by aphextron 5y ago
It is one.
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by aphextron 5y ago
I had a pair of White Oak 501's, and honestly they were inferior to just about every other pair of Levi's I've owned. The denim was rough and coarse, and they ripped fairly quick.
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by aphextron 5y ago
This is just my personal experience. I've been successful in this industry for nearly a decade now, working my way up from junior to senior dev as a self taught programmer that dropped out of high school. It can absolutely be done. But
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by aphextron 5y ago
I would second this, and also say get any degree. A real accredited CS BS degree is incredibly difficult and time consuming. But a BA can be knocked out in 2 years and makes you infinitely more employable on paper than just a high school
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by aphextron 5y ago
Stop bothering with Fortune 500, and SV "sexy" companies. They get hundreds of applicants every day. There are thousands of small shops out there who always need WordPress monkies and "stick this snippet into a PHP page"
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by aphextron 5y ago
>also airbnb is not dependent on the value of a speculative asset. What do you think US real estate is?
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by aphextron 5y ago
With this + workers it's pretty exciting to have a legit AWS alternative for a serverless stack. Excited to try that out.
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by aphextron 6y ago
>A lot of the best musical rule breakers were classically trained and knew their shit. Classical training is a different story. Musical theory is endlessly useful to know. But jazz has been stuck in a certain kind of sound for the last 4
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by aphextron 6y ago
This is the problem with modern jazz. Treating it as some kind of canon is the antithesis of what it was in the first place. It's tantamount to writing down a conversation between two ancient philosophers and repeating it ad nauseum, e
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by aphextron 6y ago
Rememeber how great the web used to be?
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by aphextron 6y ago
>I’ve seen this in action already and it works quite well. A company called Optimus Ride is shuttling people between an apartment building and a local dc metro station on a mostly private road. The real question here though is "Is t

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