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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Picking a Mercedes Benz as the example of a "safe eco friendly" car is a strawman.
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
> Once you get into higher skilled positions, the roles become much more flexible and negotiable. So make the salary range bigger.
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Citation needed on homes losing 35% of their value. I've paid a lot of attention to predictions on home values and the only people that are predicting drops that big are /r/rebubble and low quality media outlets. I have yet t
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
> Why would any company keep more employees than they need? Because layoffs severely damage morale and make hiring significantly more difficult. Sometimes it's cheaper to just slow down hiring and let people leave naturally.
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
A reminder that NoSQL stands for "not only SQL"
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
I would be more worried about the undersea fiber optic cable. There's 13 cables that provide the vast majority of internet into the country and they're deep underwater where they could easily be destroyed with no defense.
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Worth noting that this is the statement of a "product expert" which is just some random person not an employee of the company our the actual policy. This might be true but this isn't a reliable source.
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
False dichotomy
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
The idea of a courtesy tow is such a violation of justice where the government can dole out a punishment worse than the law allows without a trial. The police are effectively the judge jury and executioner. They find you guilty of some law,
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Agreed. This and the recent controversy around the HyperSocial CEO posting an emotional layoff post on LinkedIn makes me wonder if the new trend in layoffs is to try to make us relate more with the CEO than the laid off employees and take s
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
> Trimming the fat is a commonly used idiom, not only in business but anywhere there is excess and unnecessary items not helping the bottomline There are lots of commonly used idioms that are gross, especially in certain contexts. > A
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Please don't refer to people and their livelihoods as "fat." Cheering people losing their jobs is gross.
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
I think your argument is best summed up as goodharts law. Weight is a good metric for measuring health, but when one targets weight instead of targeting health, it stops being a good measure of health.
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Are you aware Snapchat has a two billion dollar contract with GCP? GCP isn't some rinky dink hobby computer company.
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
> The city is optimized to make travel distances as long as possible. No matter how you power those trains, shorter routes are more economical than longer routes. Not true. What's more economical: a train straight up a very steep mo
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
This is not economics 101 and it's more nuanced than that. Stimulus checks can make inflation go up, but they can also do nothing. And it's important what type of inflation it causes, because California is only giving it to lower
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphabet_Inc#Structure
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Not really that crazy when you have 174,000 employees. A 20% increase in employees isn't really that high when you also have a 13% increase in revenue.
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
That would make the gas tax a tax on the poor, whom cannot afford electric cars
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
But it's not more privacy, that's the entire basis of what I'm saying. In this hypothetical, you're already monitored by cameras. The only difference is that the subject doesn't own them. The privacy is the exact sa
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
So don't take my position to the extremes. Top level comment was a very general blanket statement. I'm saying there's a middle ground.
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
> First, they're taking a stand based on principal. I'm all for that, but taking a stand doesn't benefit the individual. Taking a stand is for the benefit of society and requires the collaboration of society > Assuming
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Under the hood, almost every data structure is a graph. Linked lists, trees, and heaps are all just graphs with certain requirements about their structure. Everything else can be represented as a graph, just not as elegantly. Also as a data
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Everything is a graph doesn't mean you can make a graph from other data structures, it means you have to make other data structures from a graph. A graph isn't defined as a list of nodes. A list is defined as a directed graph wher
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
I live in a community like yours and IMO you're just hurting yourself. Your home is probably already covered by everyone else's cameras and they can just pull the footage from them. It seems like the only person that doesn't
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
I dislike these beliefs that idealize a world with no trust or cooperation. Humans are social animals and we do our best when we work together. We don't need to throw the baby out with the bath water and private host everything on our
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
This is the third time I've seen this on hackernews and I'm always happy to see it. I comment this everytime this is posted: this is my favorite startup, period. Vidaliaonions.com is American capitalism at its finest. Someone saw
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Xcel energy has that. They'll pay you to only charge on off peak hours and it's completely automatic
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
Bitcoin also processes over a 10,000 times less transactions than the fiat system
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by chickenpotpie 4y ago
> Current Bitcoin usage is literally a rounding error of global energy usage (0.1%) and if wildly successful would still be < 1% of energy usage. https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-energy/ That author doesn't

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