asoneth

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by asoneth 2y ago
It's been ages since I've driven there, but SFpark[1] was (and maybe still is?) considered the gold standard in demand-based pricing. One interesting finding from the initial research reports was that it achieved the goal of impro
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Others have mentioned the unfairness of asking taxpayers to subsidize drivers. This is particularly egregious in Midtown Manhattan where many taxpayers are not drivers and many drivers are not (local) taxpayers. But even as a driver I prefe
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> Plenty of cities, internationally, demonstrate this time again, particularly in much of Europe and East Asia, and even some domestically in the US. I agree that NYC's transit system is significantly worse than most European and Ea
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The implication that companies use H1-B visas primarily to find candidates willing to work for less (e.g. 70%) of a qualified domestic candidate seems like the underlying loophole we should try to close, not just the "fairness" of
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by asoneth 2y ago
I'm curious what makes you think tech workers would monopolize the top spots? I would expect that companies desperate for experts in medicine, research, engineering, law, business (which, like tech, already pay high salaries) would be
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I wonder if switching from a lottery to an auction would help curtail some of the abuse? That is, for each position a company wants to fill with a non-citizen they also have to bid on the visa fee they're willing to pay. The highest ~7
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> It seems strange to call now early on rust given how long it has been around. The first stable release of Rust was almost ten years ago at this point so I agree that this isn't particularly "early" in technological timef
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> You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library. Does the rest of the movie support that claim? Will Hunting had book smarts but required significant effort from several people to get him
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by asoneth 2y ago
> some of those people with "no time" and it has 15+ hours on ticktok this week... Sometimes this is the result of black-hat products hacking their dopamine cycle, in which case screentime or a friend can help. However, I'
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> you telling me you cant find 4 hours a week to read a paper? For me, four hours a week is sufficient to stay up-to-date on an active research area but making forward progress requires at least twice that. > You are awake for at lea
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by asoneth 2y ago
I helped develop software for warfighters and it became clear that the most effective officers and enlisted members were those who understand when to follow doctrine and when to exercise independent judgement. Think of the last time you int
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Once upon a time I'd use the same monitor for several generations of desktop. But lately monitors feel like they're advancing more quickly and computers more slowly such that I end up replacing them after about ten years. I person
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> I think you can be wise without being clever (having a high IQ). I think it depends on how you define "clever". Does knowledge of things like how to sort a list correlate with cleverness? I know wise people who don't hav
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As a metaphor I'd suggest that (Wis = IQ * EQ) might be more accurate -- it is difficult for someone with low emotional awareness to make up the difference with intelligence alone, just as it is difficult for someone of low intelligenc
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> It would be an example of ruinous empathy. Setting aside empathy, giving some thought about how we can slow the rate of change and/or cushion the fall for those affected is also in our self-interest. As the number of people who ha
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by asoneth 2y ago
> not everyone can afford to live in cities ... not everyone can afford to live in areas well connected by public transportation Looking at it from a theoretical standpoint, physically co-locating living space allows for a number of sign
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My guess is that you're thinking of https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/
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My sense working at an adjacent company and having talked with folks there is that they are more successful with their government projects than their corporate ones.
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> Either the lockdown policy before March 2022 was correct or the sudden "back to normal" after March 2022 was correct It's also possible that both instituting a lockdown and subsequently removing that lockdown were both e
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> These judgments are often subjective and could be heavily influenced by individual teachers' biases. When I taught design I ended one of my courses with a lecture and discussion on ethics, and I'd like to think I was pretty e
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My grandfather lived to 104. More impressive was that he still played tennis regularly in his 90s. It's not his lifespan I aspire to, but his healthspan.
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> I would understand if the phenomenon was largely limited to my family, call it genes then Perhaps there are other shared variables besides genes? For one thing, blindness is associated with higher mortality [1]. And even within a coun
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I wouldn't have thought this kind of thing would be useful, but after trying a few pomodoro timers I ended up with one (TimeTimer Plus) that is so large that it had the unanticipated benefit of notifying others how long I'll be bu
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by asoneth 2y ago
Agreed, guessing only gets you so far and unfortunately the symptoms of iron overload can look similar to those of iron deficiency. Before self-diagnosing and supplementing something like iron (or B12, D, calcium, magnesium, etc) it's
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Oh absolutely, that ship has long since sailed, it's just me lamenting a world that could have been if something closer to simple.css or tufte-css had been the norm. Though with "reader mode" becoming more popular I wonder if
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> The decision to skip CSS by depending on https://simplecss.org/ is smart I was always a little disappointed with how most web browsers choose to render HTML pages that had no explicit styling information. I'm not
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Whether it happens in tens, hundreds, thousands, or more years, every physical product has a finite lifespan. So it might be simpler to charge a fee when a product is initially manufactured that is based on the current cost of disposing tha
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Is this really a change among modern readers? As a young reader many years ago, I gravitated towards stories that were the most alien -- not just science fiction, but history, cultures, and experiences that were completely different from my
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I've been a designer for a long time, and none of my contracts have ever paid based on the number of things I put on the screen. The design effort required to make a grid or list of data dense or sparse is pretty much identical. (At le
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> It's being actively promoted by companies in order to cut design costs I'm curious why you think it reduces design costs to put less information on the screen? My experience has been the reverse -- the companies that chase tr

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