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by briHass 6y ago
There's a lot of back-and-forth subsidies that often aren't considered. In Philadelphia, for example, the city public transportation network (SEPTA) also serves the suburbs. In fact, the bulk of its revenue comes from train servic
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by briHass 6y ago
I love doing this. Often, they'll give a range e.g. 5-15% to protect their 'trade secret', but it gives you a decent-enough idea of what's in there. Always fun to lookup some kind of expensive cleaning product (e.g. til
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by briHass 6y ago
One of the few films that haunted me for many days after viewing it. Beautiful, tragic, and too real. It can be a hard watch, if you're not in the right headspace, but it's so totally worthwhile.
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by briHass 6y ago
1.6% death rate is not conservative or based in reality. The CDC's best estimate for the IFR, currently, is 0.65% (almost 3x less.) As a population average, even 0.65% doesn't paint an accurate picture. We know deaths are dispropo
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by briHass 6y ago
It's essentially the same (unless you use one of the DIY kits with pre-charged lines) as a full sized split system (traditional AC unit.) You (should) pressure test your lines and vacuum them out before releasing the charge. You also h
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by briHass 6y ago
Largely because we have an HVAC cartel that charges insane hourly rates for even the simplest jobs. To be fair, a Mitsubishi mini split is going to run closer to $1200-$2000 for the unit itself, but you can expect to pay $2000+ to install o
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by briHass 6y ago
"Jobs are in the cities" Yeah, except for agriculture, energy production, mining, large manufacturing, warehousing and other critical industries that city dwellers like to forget exist. All of these require people, and those peopl
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by briHass 7y ago
It's interesting that you chose that example, as I'm very familiar with the location. For what it's worth, that area is undergoing massive development and change. Not sure if you've been by recently, but they're add
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by briHass 8y ago
In those cases, it probably mostly washes out. The commuters are paying taxes for the road use (gasoline taxes) and are also contributing to the tax base of the 'subsidizing' urban areas with local/city taxes on their income
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by briHass 8y ago
Don't forget, that rural infrastructure that is being 'subsidized' by urban centers serves a pretty important role in, you know, growing and delivering food consumed by those urban dwellers. Also: electricity production, natu
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by briHass 8y ago
There's more to zoning than just wanting nice looking grass. For areas not originally built to house 3-4x the density, there's likely issues with capacity for: utilities (sewage/water), roads/traffic, stormwater runoff,
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by briHass 8y ago
That's exactly how I have KeePass configured on Windows 10. I've set my keyfile (additional entropy for the encrypted password DB, combined with master password) access to only allow the Admin account. Then, I set keepass.exe to a
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by briHass 8y ago
True, but at least in theory, the FICA (payroll) taxes fund programs that directly benefit the employee: medicare, social security, and unemployment benefits. The reason these appear more regressive than income taxes is due to how Social Se
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by briHass 8y ago
> There was no permanent waste in that process that he can recall. Except for the energy wasted to manufacture the glass bottle, clean it, transport it back to be cleaned, and the increased weight/fragility over a similar plastic c
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by briHass 8y ago
This is really going to depend on the region you're building in. In much of the North Eastern/Mid-Atlantic USA, assuming a plot with good drainage/grading, basements are awesome. They're a perfect place to put the house
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by briHass 8y ago
Maybe, but I think the concept of metro areas doesn't help much when trying to define people moving from small towns to cities. For example, the Philadelphia metro area has over 6 million residents, while the city itself has only about
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by briHass 8y ago
I think it depends on how you rank growth. Sure, in terms of raw persons, the large cities are adding more people, but in terms of percentage growth, many of the fastest growing areas are actually small-mid sized towns/cities in the So
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by briHass 8y ago
How do you compare/compete against something like Azure Scheduler which gives you 500 jobs with unlimited executions (max 1 per minute) for $14/month. The Azure service also supports logging (60 days), retry options, and advanced
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by briHass 9y ago
That's a bit extreme. Walmart is the largest company in the world by revenue (by far), at over 4.5X what Amazon pulls in. They have almost 5000 locations in the US and an extra 4000 worldwide. They've spent the last few decades e
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by briHass 9y ago
Check this article out for some food for thought: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2017/04/01/what-causes-heart-d... In short, alcohol may be slightly toxic to brain cells, but it may also significantly reduce h
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by briHass 10y ago
Having started, but not completely finished (time constraints) a GameBoy emulator, I would actually say it's deceptively difficult. The "easiest" part is emulating the basic Z80 CPU operations, but even that implies the indiv
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by briHass 10y ago
Just be careful. Technically, modafinil and it's newer cousin armodafinil are Schedule IV controlled substances in the USA (same as many of the benzos.) I don't think there are (m)any cases of people being busted for importing&#x2
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by briHass 10y ago
Why is palm oil bad for your health? I always considered it to be one of the better plant-oils, with a low polyunsaturated fat composition similar to coconut, though really actually closer to butter (50% saturated, 40% mono, 10% poly.) Not
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by briHass 10y ago
Loved my early 2000s KLR 650. I'm hardly a mechanic, but I did my own top end and bottom end work on it (full engine teardowns), and it always started back up. Motorcycles require quite a bit more maintenance than cars, and having one
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by briHass 10y ago
It's not irrelevant, because it allows you to understand what words like "militia" and "well regulated" meant at the time. They don't mean what a casual reader might think they do. The Supreme Court frequently
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by briHass 10y ago
The examples you chose are interesting, not only because they reveal an obvious bias. I think the correct interpretation of the various amendments is to view them in conjunction with the ninth. That is, the default should be to argue in goo
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by briHass 10y ago
Don't forget all the BS drawn from epidemiological "research". We ask 10,000 people how many cheeseburgers, eggs, tomatoes, etc. they eat in a week, at the start of the study, extrapolate that out for 10 years, see how many d
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by briHass 10y ago
Maybe it will hurt them, but it may not as well. Tech, for better or worse, is moving so fast that working on the same codebase for 5+ years is likely to greatly reduce your marketability for a new job. While that loyal individual may have
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by briHass 10y ago
One problem with the Roth IRA is the income phase out limits. If you're single, if you AGI is >117K, you can only contribute some percentage of the $5000 allowed for the Roth. If you're >132K, you can't contribute anyth
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by briHass 10y ago
New frameworks/tools/libraries are fun and cool, but wait until it has widespread adoption before choosing it for a large project. It's OK to be a late adopter of new technologies.

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