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by bckygldstn 4y ago
In case anyone else was wondering the aspect ratio of eyes: it's about 4:3 to 16:9 [0]. [0] https://biology.stackexchange.com/questions/5128/preferred-a...
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
I do think increased building standards and expanded city amenities explain some small part of price increases. But not like 10%+ increases over inflation year after year as is seen in many areas worldwide.
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
Rising prices are bad for all but the most wealthy * It’s bad for people who don’t own a house, which disproportionately impacts the poor and the young. * It doesn’t really help homeowners either: their property taxes go up but the increase
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
That’s a surprising pair of crimes to equate, as to me they warrant very different police responses. Police violence ought to be a last-resort tool to e.g. prevent further crime or injury to innocents. Not as a punishment that scales with t
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
I run a one-person load-balanced SaaS on Hetzner. In the 2 years since I started I've had no customer-facing outages. Over the same period, I think there's been two outages of AWS us-east-1 and a multi-region GCP outage. Plus wee
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
By the same logic, income tax comes from working, which is how productivity gets done! Besides, what are the wealthy going to do with their excess wealth except invest it?
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
Interesting! This was ~2018. My memory is a little hazy, but I remember having the photo taken at USCIS, walking over to a photo booth which asked to confirm some information like name or number and maybe a fingerprint too? Anyway, it wasn&
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
Interesting, I didn't know about this. I've wondered before if Airbnb could do a Guest Plus: instead of paying a massive service fee (which likely goes towards insurance and customer support) and cleaning fee, a guest could clean
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
Agreed. Though I recently helped my partner sign up for a bunch of these types of benefits at a new Big Corp job: it took half a day entering the same information in different portals from different providers, plus figuring out if a perk wa
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
This depends very much on the subreddit. There are still some fantastic communities with top-notch discourse! On the other hand, I don't remember discourse being worthwhile on large subreddits even in the good old days of 2015.
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
One more story. When applying for an Amex card they had my name as "Andre" instead of Andrew (this one is probably a typo on my end). Before approving the application, the Amex agent did a 3-way conference call with me and an agen
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
My green card had my name correct but someone else's face printed on it! Unfortunately they didn't look at all like me, it took ages to get fixed. I wonder if someone else got my face on their card, or if they use a grumpy bald ma
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
BlaBlaCar is extremely popular, though doesn't operate in the US. Trust seems like a tough chicken-egg problem for a new app to bootstrap. I wonder if someone like facebook could successfully launch a carpool service piggybacking off t
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by bckygldstn 4y ago
There's more details on https://github-wiki-see.page/ and https://github.com/github/feedback/discussions/4992#discussi... > we have also introduced an x-robots-tag: none in the http
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
There's plenty to be up in arms about over forced arbitration and indemnity between well-funded corporations and customers just trying to get home safely after a night out. Bird in particular likely knows 90% of their customers are vio
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
Oh hey I built this! It's inspired by Our Incredible Journey [1], which collects announcement posts from startups that have been acquired by mega tech companies. In each post the founders struggle to contain their excitement and expres
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
Amazon also owns bookdepository.com (and goodreads.com)
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
Without installing or rooting anything, if you tap the correct part of the about screen it pulls up a browser and you can go to netflix.com (there's instructions floating around for this, I can't remember the exact incantation)
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
https://www.teamblind.com You sign up with your work email, and if enough (~30?) of your coworkers have done the same you get a chatroom/forum for people that are anonymous but verified to work at the company.
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
Yep thanks, you can tell I use a "guess and check" approach to writing sql and pandas...
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The syntax isn't self-describing and uses lots of abbreviations; it relies on some R magic that I found confusing when learning (unquoted column names and special builtin variables); and data.table is just a different approach to SQL a
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
The interview process is onerous more than difficult: mostly leetcode style questions that need lots of practice for, plus a basic but time-consuming take-home task. And for me the scheduling was super difficult: the whole process took week
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
Not OP, but I do about 50% of my freelancing though Toptal (the rest through my network). I see them as having 2 advantages over other sites: 1. Unlike smaller sites and job boards, they have lots of work available. Every couple of days som
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | SF Bay Area | Remote OK | Geospatial development and data science I help companies manage and extract value from their geospatial data. A typical project for me might involve • Frontend development (webmaps, interactive visua
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
I just started making my own yogurt, it's fun, cheap, and really tasty! The basic process is the same between recipes (eg https://www.seriouseats.com/homemade-yogurt ) but it might take a couple of failures and tweaking
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
New Zealand Post does this: https://www.realme.govt.nz/
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
I can't find a good reference for the German market specifically, but in some countries/regions most milk is ultra-pasteurised and unrefridgerated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_process
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
Rclone is fantastic. It's much easier to use that most of the cloud storage APIs themselves. Plus rclone makes it easy to migrate between providers. I just moved a backup process from Gcloud to B2 now my side business is growing up: yo
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by bckygldstn 5y ago
SEEKING WORK | SF Bay Area | Remote OK | Geospatial development and data science I help companies manage and extract value from their geospatial data. A typical project for me might involve • Frontend development (webmaps, interactive visua

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