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How Big Is an Acre?(thecalculatorsite.com)
2 points by caseyross 6y ago|2 comments
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by caseyross 6y ago
There's plenty of good reasons for city pop to see a resurgence at the current moment. Many of which are mentioned in the article, such as the now-lost innocence of a time when capitalism seemed fun rather than threatening. But one fac
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by caseyross 6y ago
I get that it's Bloomberg's duty to root for the landlords, but to me the data in the article shows a very clear win for renters. If I'm reading the graphs right, price controls in Berlin have slashed rent price growth by nea
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by caseyross 6y ago
Previous discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17089175
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Basic Income, Not Basic Jobs: Against Hijacking Utopia (2018)(slatestarcodex.com)
2 points by caseyross 6y ago|1 comments
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by caseyross 6y ago
I also think it's important to think about the other side of this, which is why nitpicking happens in the first place. In my experience, the underlying reasons why people nitpick code have little to do with shipping the best possible
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by caseyross 6y ago
Wow. Seems like NYT's headline might even be underselling this story. Looks to me like this isn't so much a "standoff" as a "former Army private using credible threats of deadly force to intimidate neighbors and loc
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by caseyross 6y ago
I found this tidbit from the interview interesting: > I’m an independent person; I’m apolitical. We want to unify India. I've started noticing more in the world how sometimes, people promote their stances as "apolitical",
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by caseyross 6y ago
One thing I really like about this approach is that it creates strong incentives for engineers to write maintainable code. Code that is expedient but brittle or hard to understand will be noted as blocking progress for future changes, while
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by caseyross 6y ago
The settlement provides for one-time payments averaging <$500 for each wronged individual. Given the amounts of money the company throws into salaries already, it's hard to imagine this coming anywhere close to just remuneration for
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by caseyross 6y ago
Software takes a long time to build because it's always new. That is, software is trivially copy-able, so there is no reason to spend effort duplicating any software that already exists. (Legal reasons and "not-invented-here"
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Kóryos(en.wikipedia.org)
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How coronavirus vaccines will be shipped and distributed using 'cold chain' tech(usatoday.com)
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The secret “anti-languages” you’re not supposed to know(bbc.com)
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optical data transmissions(oklo.org)
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Real Guns, Virtual Guns, and Me(kotaku.com)
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How Modern Warfare smooths over the horrors of war(arstechnica.com)
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How to Be a Leader – For Someone Who Hasn’t Been a Leader Before(medium.com)
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One of the Most Insane Flights in the World(fodors.com)
14 points by caseyross 7y ago|2 comments
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How Metal Gear Solid manipulated its players, warning us of an age of Fake News(gamesradar.com)
3 points by caseyross 9y ago|0 comments