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by breischl 10y ago
Seems like you two are using different definitions of "racism". There seem to be two floating around. 1. "Prejudice on the basis of race or color." Reference: pretty much any dictionary. 2. "Oppression based on raci
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I'm in the same boat as you on Twitter usage. But I suspect it's because being able to talk at anybody, including celebrities, is part of the appeal of the platform. The whitelisting mode you suggested makes it more like a one-way
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by breischl 10y ago
That's a near-perfect example of what the GP was referring to with "...instead of catching the low hanging fruit, people counter with bike shedding style questions of 'is it really abuse?'" And while I get your poin
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Wow, that plug is quite, well, foreign to US ears. In the US, selling a house built before lead paint was outlawed requires a lead disclosure to the buyers (at least in some states). Repainting a house that old requires capturing all the pa
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by breischl 10y ago
Fine, but then it's only helping to the extent that the taxpayer is over the standard deduction. If their mortgage interest was $1000, but they end up just $1 over the standard deduction then technically it helped - but only by 15 cent
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>>What a puny number that benefits such an enormous amount of regular people. Well, I guess that depends on your definitions of "puny" and "regular". Since 75% of the benefit goes to people making over $100k/y
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by breischl 10y ago
Look, if you want to be pedantic it's the null conditional operator[1]. But it is widely called the "Elvis operator"[2]. [1] - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn986595.aspx [2] - https:&#x
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by breischl 10y ago
Not really. Ma Bell used to own everything connected to the phone system, right down to the phone on your wall. They actually tried to keep early modems off their system, IIRC with some success. The modern version of Ma Bell would be if Ver
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by breischl 10y ago
>>real estate agent fees, serve to guarantee that no one can actually afford to sell a house for less than they paid for it. That just makes it harder to sell if you haven't built up much equity. And if you're going to sell
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by breischl 10y ago
In the long run credit is only beneficial if you use it for a productive purpose. Giving credit to people who are just going to use it for lifestyle inflation, which is most Americans, is not doing them any favors.
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Right, because you really want to use your equipment for the first time when you're in a fight. Why would you want to see if it's in good repair, train your crews with it, find the limitations, or even see if the stuff works at al
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As long as moving your read/write head around doesn't generate more heat than you can radiate away...
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The real key there is staying in the same house for the long term. It's very common for people to think they're going to stay for a long time, but then end up moving every 5 years for whatever reason (kids, jobs, schools, upgradin
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by breischl 10y ago
The two big reasons are incomplete accounting of holding costs, which you touched on, and ignoring inflation. Note that the article specifically talked about real returns, ie after factoring out inflation. For example, if somebody had bough
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Second and third tier cities and areas in the Midwest are usually better. Sometimes you can do OK in suburbs as well.
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Why would they crack down on this? It's not much different than what those companies are already doing - it's just that they strip-mine your data and sell it to advertisers instead of landlords. If anything, I would expect them to
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The problem isn't that the road is closed/restricted. The problem is that the app is telling people to use other roads that were not designed for such traffic. If not for the app, the majority of them would likely have stuck to ma
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Actually I'm a software developer by day. Polish up that crystal ball. I'm suggesting fixing the problem in the software because that's where the problem was created and where it stands a chance of being fixed. Street infrast
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Certainly knowing an area can breed inattention, or risky behavior based on familiarity. My hunch is that it still works out to be safer on average, but admittedly I have no data for that. I was always under the impression that accidents ha
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by breischl 10y ago
Spoken like someone who has never witnessed the process of changing streetscapes. There's a project on another street near me to do some traffic calming along a ~10 block stretch. It's actually a relatively small project - they&#x
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But locals also know the area better, pretty much by definition. That usually makes them safer drivers. I know that the streets near my house are filled with kids because of the three schools nearby that use the park as a playground, that
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by breischl 10y ago
Yes, but traffic calming usually involves some or all of: planning studies, committee meetings, community outreach, and voting, and building & maintaining physical infrastructure. Changing the app to just not route through there is far
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It was something written by a different team, so it was committed by the time I saw it. But I thought it looked bad immediately. Profiling later showed that it was a problem spot, and changing it showed decent improvement.
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by breischl 10y ago
As with everything performance related, it depends. I do server-side work as well, but I've seen cases where it matters. eg, somebody got overly "OO-happy" with a response object and managed to take something that should&#x27
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by breischl 10y ago
Wait, we do that already? I don't recall getting any significant amounts of money when I graduated high school! I feel so cheated. Anyway, there does seem to be a problem with loaning kids lots of money and then parting them from it, b
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It's a laudable goal, but giving a bunch of (mostly) naive, uneducated kids a lump sum of cash is a recipe for disaster. There would instantly be an industry focused on parting them from that money, one that would be extremely profitab
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by breischl 10y ago
>>... anyone can create "money" out of nothing. Getting others to accept that money is the tricky part. Indeed, especially since creating your own currency is illegal in many (most? all?) countries.
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Speculation actually does deliver value. Whoever sold to the speculator gained value - they got rid of some risk, and gained enough cash to make it worthwhile. The speculator might also deliver value to whoever they sell to, particularly if
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Definitely the culture. It seems to be a Java axiom that you should never use one object when eight will do. I've never seen another community that would actually have a builder for the configuration for the factory for the settings fo
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I had the same thought. I seem to recall that they could also link the entire brigade together into one giant air defense network. I wonder if they'll do something like that for the anti-missile systems, maybe at a platoon level. Or ma

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