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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
Here's something that always trips me up when I look into non professional software for double entry accounting (or more accurately, instructions around them). It's been a long time, so I may be getting it wrong, but I do have som
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
I'm curious what corruption means here. From what I can tell, a 10x return over 75 years is about a 3% annualized return. That's not a tremendous return during the Zero interest rate phenomena. It's almost a money loser in to
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
And yet, it seemed bad but the consensus in the mid 20th century was that cigarettes were good for you. You can watch Tour De France videos of bicyclists smoking while biking because it was supposed to provide energy. And the fact that the
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
> Dear god, each US citizen smoked 5 cigs per day on average in 1930? It's mind-boggling. The US population was smaller at that time, so it was probably more. It also peaked at about 4500 in the 60s [1], so it was even higher then.
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
1% of the population of the US is about 3million people. A 60% increase means an additional 1.8 million brain or spinal cord tumors. Now multiply that by about 10 to cover the global urban population. If some of the findings are real the im
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
The per capita cigarettes smoked in the US went from nearly 0 in 1910 to about 1500 per year per capita in 1930, and yet following those 2 decades despite far more obvious negative impacts of smoking smoking continued to rise peaking at abo
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
Yeah, I'm seeing this with new hires as well. Several of them don't own computers and rely entirely on smartphones for their computing needs. It's frankly a worrying trend. Smartphones are consumer devices that do not allow t
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
Let's not ignore the stoner college kid demographic. You're sitting smoking up in a tiny dorm and the most dominant item almost certainly was your computer. Having it be Bondi Blue colored with beautiful curves made that experienc
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
Sometimes I wonder how different the world would look today if Apple had become large enough to justify the investment the G5 required and macs were running on those.
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
Cameras issuing tickets to people driving 11 miles over the speed limit "on streets that are hot spots for street racing, or are in school zones, or have a high number of collisions" is where you draw the line?
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
I think you've described the salient issues here very well.
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There's a long history of nearly every major freedom supporter or civil rights supporter being investigated and wrongly imprisoned and even killed across the world. And that's just the famous ones we've heard of. There are an
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
It's not illegal, but how is this not unethical?
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
The Pareto effect applies to alcohol consumption as well. 20% of the people consume 80% of the alcohol.
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
The Chevy Bolt is reflective of what no other car company is being able to compete with Tesla. Dealers. The Chevy Bolt was a great product that owners almost universally loved. However, Chevy dealers would refuse to sell customers one. They
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
Americans have a strange idea of what cities are because the vast majority of Americans live in suburbs, or cities that are basically suburbs, or cities that have been modified to cater to suburbs.
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
While I think the people who think this is a good thing are out of their minds, Detroit had entirely different issues, and probably is not a good example for what could happen to SF in the worst case. 1. Detroit has none of the natural adva
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
Privatization can, and has, worked well in several monopoly utilities, where the privatization is structured appropriately. Forced percentages to be set out for infrastructure improvements, profits capped by regulation, debt cannot be piled
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
They announced and showcased designs, which is nothing like any version of Thunderbird.
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
People using Thunderbird are not basing its "trustworthiness" on the alignment of ellipses. Given the laundry list of issues they need to resolve, and as apparent from this thread the choice by UI experts to complain on HN instead
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
102.13.0 was released a few days ago. 102.x has been out for a while. When you receive an update to it depends on your distro or whether you have it installed as a Snap or Flatpak, etc.
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
Misaligned lines are not bad UX. They are bad design/UI, but misaligned dots have no impact on the UX.
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
This is absolutely not expected for normal businesses. Normal businesses provide other businesses a service, charge them a profitable fee for services rendered, and make a few tens to hundreds of millions in profit a year and keep sharehold
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
VS Code has stopped opening for me for certain codebases. And to be honest, these codebases aren't even that large. I also have 0 extensions installed :( VS Code used to be my quick and dirty IDE when I didn't want to open somethi
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
> How is an empty office that costs the same as a full one any worse on a balance sheet? It isn't. The random companies are spending tons of money to bail out Property Owners meme is a nonsensical conspiracy theory some people have
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
This writeup definitely makes me want to try Helix. But I am worried that it won't suit my needs because of 1 of the 2 issues I have faced with all non VIM/Emacs editors I have tried. It's largely focused on programming and w
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
> This prevents me from renting a Bixi bicycle in Montreal. While I suspect this is a screwup on the part of Bixi, you're making the mistake of confusing bikeshare with bike rental. Don't worry though, you're in good compa
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
Similar actions preceded either Sundar Pichai or Ruth Porat. It doesn't seem like they're the primary drivers, even if they are the executors of this vision because they happen to be in the C positions that would execute this.
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
I'm completely in favor of regulating "illegal" drugs instead of prohibiting them outright. But I think it's also pretty clear that is a significant political leap that may even be at least a couple of generations away.
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by asdajksah2123 3y ago
I've always been a good tipper (> 20% even before the pandemic), but I'm increasingly unwilling to do so. My argument is fairly simple. Tipping is a tax on decency. Decent people tip well. Assholes don't tip. And it's

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