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by ashark 9y ago
Taking Fussell’s Class as a guide, this seems normal. New money will act like middle or upper-middle folks, but their kids or kids’ kids will be lower-key, fully upper-class. If they keep money in the family long enough they may enter Fus
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by ashark 9y ago
I do ~39-42/wk with an ~20-25min commute each way, and the only time I see my kids during the week that I'm not frantically prepping them (and myself) for the day or frantically prepping them for bed is while we're eating din
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by ashark 9y ago
TL;DR taxation is ultimately backed up by the use of force, and is therefore morally identical to some asshole mugging you on the street. (no, I'm not on board with the idea, but that's the gist. IMO it's a transparent rhetor
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by ashark 9y ago
Property taxes also tax improvements to (and structures on) the land itself. Land value tax does not. So, an empty acre of land across the street from Central Park (I know, I know, but pretend it exists) is taxed the same, under an LVT, as
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by ashark 9y ago
Part of it's the size of the area in which the inhabitants consider themselves Midwestern, and the lack of unifying landforms (a mountain range, an ocean) to give them common experiences, I think. For instance, it seems like when the M
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by ashark 9y ago
Do people actually use phone-based VR for anything? I got to try one of the Google phones in VR mode for a few minutes and was... thoroughly underwhelmed. It was ugly and unconvincing enough, and so low on interactivity (necessarily, best I
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by ashark 9y ago
As much as I dislike JS, my experiences with React Native (JS but largely native UI elements) and Electron (JS with some native elements, but largely HTML+CSS) has convinced me that that HTML+CSS is my real (performance and battery life) en
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by ashark 9y ago
> It would be also nice to make time much slower at the beginning and much faster towards the end, as it really is IRL. I find this effect kind of terrifying. I'm in my early 30s and would estimate my perception of time is at least
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by ashark 9y ago
Their value is that they make the client comfortable with estimates that are explicitly fuzzy BS, which is vital since there's no way it makes sense for the client to pay for the time it'd take to give them a non-fuzzy, non-BS e
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by ashark 9y ago
I find this even in well-respected and oft-recommended but relatively light non-fic outside the self help genre. Sagan's A Demon Haunted World and Cialdini's Influence both struck me as being twice as long as they had any reas
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by ashark 9y ago
> We used to let our 3 y/o watch youtube. She learned lots of things from there which was amazing. Colors, Numbers, the alphabet; all by the time she was 2. I'm not a teacher by any means so it was awesome to see this happen. I
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by ashark 9y ago
Removing much of the motivation for this crap by outlawing exploitation of user data, and making even having it very expensive and/or risky, through huge bond or insurance requirements to cover data breaches for anyone who stores suc
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by ashark 9y ago
No MMS without a data plan. Unless something's changed.
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by ashark 9y ago
I checked coinbase expected exactly that, thinking "oh man, I'm glad I didn't sell my eth a month ago to buy into bc trying to capture free altcoins like others did and like I considered doing, it'll be down like 10% at
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by ashark 9y ago
Could probably use a NSFW warning on that link. The woman from the linked article is also pictured there, but in even less clothing.
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by ashark 9y ago
"Trickle down" has never made any sense to me. Maybe it's different at big companies, but at small ones 100% of the hiring I've observed goes something like this: "uh oh, we have[1] more business coming in than we c
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by ashark 9y ago
I've not personally encountered an NPM bug ever, as far as I can recall, and hit a couple inside a week of using Yarn. So I'm gonna keep not using it for the time being, since there's no real difference aside from not having
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by ashark 9y ago
Apparently-idiomatic (I think—I can't tell) Haskell reads like line noise mixed with pig latin to me. I've bounced off it harder than any other programming language I've ever taken more than 15 seconds to try to understand. I
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by ashark 9y ago
It seems to me that modern JS and CSS are mostly used to make much-worse-performing and even-more-annoying replacements for frames, and a plague of worse-than-ever popups. :-/
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by ashark 9y ago
> Yarn is a perfect example. It came out very recently, relatively speaking. And yet it's clearly the future. Like, the only reason not to use yarn is if you have a legacy app that explodes for some reason if you try to type "y
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by ashark 9y ago
> it’s bottom-feeding scum behavior any time you see it So, if you see it, then...
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by ashark 9y ago
> US population growth has continued to erode toward barely expanding, and that's with immigration included. That decline is going to get worse by the decade, while simultaneously boomers continue to plunge out of the labor force ov
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by ashark 9y ago
Sometime around the housing market crash (though unrelated, I assume) Google seemed to give up on fighting spam sites and just harshly down-ranked anything that's wasn't an ultra-high-traffic site. A little while later (2010? 2011
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by ashark 9y ago
You wanna search by obscure-to-outsiders collection names. “No intro”, “tosec”. That kind of thing. Pretty sure they have n64, in with the rest of a large multi-system collection.
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by ashark 9y ago
It’s the Internet equivalent of guys who go door to door selling old people driveway treatments and crappy brick façades they don’t need, at obscene markup. Preying on the least able to defend themselves. If you have any friends or relative
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by ashark 9y ago
archive.org is the unofficial official source for ROMs on the Internet now, FYI.
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by ashark 9y ago
I’m still surprised the resistance-to/wailing-about Google’s placing ads inline with search results died down as quickly as it did. It’s a total shitbag move on their part. Bottom-feeding scum behavior, right there in your face at the
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by ashark 9y ago
Spending’s not the problem. Income just happens to correlate with having kids who aren’t disruptive and (are made to) care about education. The money itself isn’t the main reason for different school outcomes.
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by ashark 9y ago
Javascript's not the worst part of Electron (performance/size-wise). HTML+CSS is. See the imperfect, but much better, experience with React Native on mobile.
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by ashark 9y ago
You... prefer the version that makes everyone pay for telecommuters, rather than making only those who directly interact with non-telecommuter companies pay, and which is more open to being gamed/scammed? Why?

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