bryondowd

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by bryondowd 8y ago
Presumably, if you have unlimited resources, you can create most, if not all, of what makes that land in NYC valuable. You could create enough city districts to meet demand. There's lots of factors that go into the value of land. Avail
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by bryondowd 8y ago
I didn't go to school for it, but I did manage to apply for an opening, get through the initial screening, and go to the academy as a trainee. Washed out in the finals by a few points. From what I saw of the entire process, the biggest
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Yep, my dad spent his entire career as first a contractor for the FAA, and later an FAA employee. Modest pay compared to private sector, but the stability balanced that out. Worked in the same place around 30 years, in a low cost of living
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by bryondowd 8y ago
My experience with a BS in CS degree was that 60% of the classes provided no career value at all. There's all the general ed classes meant to make you well rounded, and then there's classes in the core that are either useless (Cal
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by bryondowd 8y ago
While I knew of Carmack and Torvalds, I only recently read a bit about Kernighan and Ritchie. And that was only because I got roped into doing some maintenance on a rather old system, programmed in C, which used a syntactic style that I had
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Most of the places here in the US seem to have gone to chip only for small payments, with a signature on amounts over some limit, dependant on merchant. Wish we'd catch up and use pins.
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Interesting, I've been using a Discover as my primary payment method for a couple years now, and I think I've run into maybe two businesses in that time that accepted Visa/Mastercard but not Discover. Perhaps it's region
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by bryondowd 8y ago
To play devil's advocate, any unnatural pattern would suffice. You could tap out 'shave and a haircut, two bits' and probably more people would recognize it. Bonus, you could tap the first part, and many people would probably
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Presumably, the second was shorter, rather than the day was longer. EDIT: More specifically, if you take an average rotation of the Earth as 86164.1 seconds, and divide by 10, then 100, then 100, you get 0.861641, which would be the convers
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by bryondowd 8y ago
I think the idea is to counter one artificial construct with another. It's been shown that otherwise identical resumes are less likely to be selected when the name is clearly female or minority rather than a common white male name. Tha
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by bryondowd 8y ago
That would seem to indicate that reducing civilian loss wouldn't be a likely result of targeting improvements. After all, we ended the war in Japan by intentionally inflicting civilian casualties to force surrender. Seems likely future
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by bryondowd 8y ago
You do, however, see them tell the engineers they can't have product X they requested, because product Y is the same thing but about a half million bucks cheaper. Then the engineers have to add a year of extra development to make produ
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by bryondowd 8y ago
I doubt anyone is driving out competition with free product, but using free product to hook a new client is definitely a thing that happens. That's not too say that there's guys on street corners offering free drugs to random pass
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Have to remember the world population was much smaller. Maybe 150 million in Alexander's time and 400 million in Ghenghis Khan's. They'd have had to do a much more efficient butchery to reach the same raw numbers. That said,
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by bryondowd 8y ago
If you don't pay, it destroys your credit rating, which in many areas means you won't be able to rent a place to live from anything but a private party. I believe they could also potentially get an injunction against you and garni
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by bryondowd 8y ago
What math are you using? By my understanding, women are able to reproduce for around or close to half their lives. First result[1] I found while googling defines women of reproductive age as 15-49, and claims that group makes up 24% of the
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by bryondowd 8y ago
He didn't say anything about making it more valuable, just that it would increase liquidity. In other words, the idea would be to prevent property from sitting dormant in a bad market, as an owner who has no profitable use for the prop
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by bryondowd 8y ago
I would think zoning laws would get in the way there. You'd have to get the area re-zoned from commercial to residential. Which gets into whatever the local politics of that happen to be.
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by bryondowd 8y ago
That's twisting some assumptions of the comparison. The comparison was to casinos, which do not bet decades of profits on a single day's gambling. The equivalent would be investing in your index every payday for decades, not sudde
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Exactly. Seems to me it would be more plausible for a candidate without deep pockets backing them to be able to run a competitive campaign on issues the district cares about. Simply because they could just go around knocking on doors. A can
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by bryondowd 8y ago
That would result in Wyoming congressmen having less than 2,000 constituents each, while Californian congressmen would have over 127,000 each. Wyoming voters would have about 65x as much power as California voters in the house.
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Removing wealthy 'special interests would probably have some interesting effects. Off the top of my head, I expect we'd have better regulations on banks and the like. And perhaps Mickey Mouse (and everything else more than 75 year
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by bryondowd 8y ago
Ok, but who gets to decide where to draw the line between harmful behaviors and nonharmful ones. One could argue that just about everything we do has some degree of risk, some more than others. As you say it's a continuum. Should we ba
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by bryondowd 8y ago
There's a clear difference between gambling/drinking/smoking/drug abuse and the crimes you mentioned like embezzling and human trafficking. The former are self victimizing while the latter directly victimize others. That
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by bryondowd 8y ago
I usually consider gambling a form of entertainment. By that note, it's no more impoverishing than anything else people blow their money on for their own amusement. Some people have a gambling problem and spend more than they can affor
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Either all three must be lying, or all three must be telling the truth, right? So wouldn't you have to discard the probabilities of them disagreeing? There would be a 1/27 chance of all lying, and wouldn't there only be an 8&
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by bryondowd 9y ago
18 maybe for physical appearance, but mental maturity and brain development completes in the early-mid 20s. I would definitely be the odd one out at my current age if I were stuck with 17 and 22yo me, unless you were just using physical app
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by bryondowd 9y ago
My school didn't allow us to use the showers after PE. First period PE meant you could either minimize your participation or be sweaty all day. The showers were only available for the sports teams after school. Don't know how comm
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Well, if transmission charges factor in losses during transmission, then the generation cost would influence some part of the transmission cost. If generation was an order of magnitude cheaper, then presumably the amount of power lost betwe
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by bryondowd 9y ago
Being able to use the same amount of energy cheaper is only half the equation. I'd be more interested in what we can do with 10x as much energy at the same price, or 100x. Could open up entirely new industries or make things that are c

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