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by babesh 6y ago
This comment is the most conniving one I have heard in awhile. To paraphrase, your argument is convincing and it’s similar to those who blame it on the “SJW” types so let’s shift the argument on over to those supposed people. So many assump
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by babesh 6y ago
3 billion per mile for the Downtown Extension in San Francisco. https://sf.curbed.com/2018/6/18/17464616/bay-area-subway-tra...
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by babesh 6y ago
They’ve been strongly encouraging larger developers to do this for years.
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by babesh 6y ago
That’s also the beauty of iOS, that you can go down levels as needed to get that power and flexibility.
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by babesh 6y ago
I think one misconception is the range. I think that the range is dependent on the situation both immediate and long term. The immediate situation’s range is more bounded. The bottom of the range can veer into the negative and the top can g
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by babesh 6y ago
There is plenty of critique in the community but it’s usually done in private. It doesn’t pay to be on Apple’s bad side and it’s a promotion opportunity to advocate for the newest and shiniest. Also, experience shows that you need to look a
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by babesh 6y ago
Outdoor spaces are generally not good for tech work. You can’t see your screen because of glare, run out of power because there isn’t an outlet to power your laptop, am uncomfortable because of the seating position, have a gust of wind blow
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by babesh 6y ago
The social unrest and polarization part and how that also occurred in the 1930s is striking.
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The Changing World Order(principles.com)
15 points by babesh 6y ago|2 comments
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by babesh 6y ago
Actually, the only one that is still running is Diablo Canyon. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diablo_Canyon_Power_Plant
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by babesh 6y ago
Many nuclear power plants suck in water from the ocean. In fact, 3 of the 4 in California are on the coast. You can see one of them on the drive between LA and San Diego. EDIT: That one is being decommissioned https://www.google.
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by babesh 6y ago
“ Following the order, the California Air Resources Board will develop regulations to mandate that 100 percent of in-state sales of new passenger cars and trucks are zero-emission by 2035 – a target which would achieve more than a 35 percen
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by babesh 6y ago
I went to Berkeley and this wasn’t true for Berkeley. Popular majors were very competitive and were designed to filter students out of majors. Many classes were based on a curve such that effectively 1/3 of people ended up at least lea
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by babesh 6y ago
True but the above compounds over time.
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by babesh 6y ago
Wrong. European data center due to GDPR. Ever wonder who the cloud provider of that is? https://www.computerweekly.com/news/450280565/Dropbox-gears-... Others are its own.
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by babesh 6y ago
If that is the case, that just shows that the author is on very tall stack of misconceptions. No one plays full contact football recreationally. It’s completely too dangerous. People mostly play flag football. Also most sports have leagues
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by babesh 6y ago
Yes but the thinking process as expressed in the article did not show evidence of that. It showed weakness in reasoning and narrowness of thought.
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by babesh 6y ago
Contact football even if restricted to people 150lb and below is STILL dangerous. It’s not the weight disparity which is partly how I read that. It’s that the force that even 120lb people generate is enough to cause concussions amongst peop
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by babesh 6y ago
Who said try one?
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by babesh 6y ago
Flag football is non contact. Just like ultimate that the author was considering.
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by babesh 6y ago
No. I know the poster’s point. It’s argued badly. The poster is trying to argue that tech is a monoculture using their perspective as a lens. The author instead looks like a sheep and doesn’t notice all the other tech that are not like them
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by babesh 6y ago
Because he or she wasn’t thinking rationally. He or she was just using their sheep brain.
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by babesh 6y ago
It’s because the author isn’t an independent, rational thinker and still hasn’t realized that. You aren’t a slave to your current social setting. For instance, sports. There are far more than football and ultimate. Kind of irrational to sto
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by babesh 6y ago
Most tech companies are set up such that managers are not incentivized to play defense for their team. Managers switch teams too often (usually on an annual cycle). Teams get reorganized almost as often. Managers have to please their boss o
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by babesh 6y ago
It’s weird watching Neal Stephenson novels come to life: miasma, apm, corporate-states, virtual worlds, mind viruses.
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by babesh 6y ago
Ramping employees new to the workforce is probably best done in person over the course of several months. There are so many things that someone new can spin their wheels on for hours that you can solve immediately. Younger employees won’t b
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by babesh 6y ago
There were 3 things mentioned in the article. Younger vs older, Monday and Friday vs rest of week for younger, and creativity. You could theoretically measure younger vs older in the same job and also compare those two groups by M/F vs
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by babesh 6y ago
Read the Bill Gates post in full. It is utterly simple. You have a consumption tax AND an estate tax. You don’t want to overly tax the creation of new wealth. I think history has shown that to be counterproductive. It slows innovation down
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by babesh 6y ago
- Investing in their kid’s education in a broad sense (attitude, career). - Marrying well i.e. marrying smart and successful people so that your progeny’s genes are the best they can be. The British aristocracy was famous for doing this. Ma
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by babesh 6y ago
This is a VERY well known and well defined mechanism. It’s called a luxury tax and you tax luxuries at a higher rate. Yachts, expensive cars, expensive bottles of wine, expensive artwork, etc...

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