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by cjf4 6y ago
Any book club that gets people to read and show up is not "doing it wrong." I'd be interested in a format suggested by the author, but I think I'm the only one in my book club that would. The fact that I'm regularly
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by cjf4 6y ago
>But would the middle class still demand suburbs if they had to stomach the higher taxes to honestly pay for them? That is the open question. A huge challenge here is that no one ever has to actually face that, because they can just move
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by cjf4 6y ago
>that suburbanites like suburbs is so obvious to not need stating. That's not what I said.
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by cjf4 6y ago
I get frustrated reading Marohn sometimes because he describes American development and it's impact extremely well, but generally avoids the number one factor driving this development, which is middle class likes suburbs and continues
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by cjf4 6y ago
Another element to insurance I haven’t seen covered here is that they have their own micro cycles somewhat independent from the macro environment, called hard/soft markets. What happens is at some point new entrants or firms that want
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by cjf4 7y ago
I agree for JSON, not JWT.
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by cjf4 7y ago
Reasons for hope are that Jeopardy fans (and the public) have a very specific idea of what Jeopardy should be. I'd optimistically like to think that it's strong enough to hold that line.
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by cjf4 7y ago
One of the things I'm constantly baffled by given the growth of data science and analytics is that data modelling isn't treated as a first class concern. It's absolutely fundamental to doing quantitative work efficiently at a
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by cjf4 7y ago
Third- for an analysis project, I had to look ahead to the next transaction. Tried a bunch of implementations, ranging from offset self joins to iterators to recursion. Turns out the fastest and simplest solution, by far, was a mix of windo
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by cjf4 7y ago
Comparing bankers to the people who carried out the Holocaust is a bit of a reach.
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by cjf4 7y ago
>When I started programming, I heard a lot about how programmers are down to earth, not like those elitist folks who have uniforms involving suits and ties. You can even wear t-shirts to work! But if you think programmers aren't eli
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by cjf4 7y ago
Military spending is less than a quarter of the budget. Medicare/caid is 55% more than the defense budget, to say nothing of social security or other domestic spending. These may not be the right allocations, but domestic spending is h
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by cjf4 7y ago
Interesting parallel story about Sun's "Sun Blade". https://twitter.com/mcclure111/status/1196557401710837762 Summary: they solved a technical problem without a clear user story, and were ultimatel
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by cjf4 7y ago
As it relates to the US, this post had interesting ideas regarding urban development, and no grasp at all of suburban development. While urban lifestyles are becoming more fashionable in the US, growth is higher in the suburbs[1]. Whether t
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by cjf4 7y ago
There’s an assumption underneath the Gawkersphere snark (that this piece is a part of) that the correctness of one particular far left political worldview is unassailably true. This assumption undermines the entire article, because it leave
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by cjf4 7y ago
WeWork is ultimately a feather in modern finance's cap. Wall street didn't buy the scam, and now the company is re-calibrating. Isn't that the way it should work?
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by cjf4 7y ago
>Anyone can have an MBA from an elite school. You just need the money and be willing to spend it on a degree. This is not true at all. Regardless of the value of the degree/experience, elite MBA programs are still difficult to get i
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by cjf4 7y ago
I thought about addressing that, as there is a huge scientific component behind baking, and if you could control every variable perfectly, you would get exactly the result you wanted. However, reality is there are wayyy more variables than
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by cjf4 7y ago
At first I scoffed, because making good pizza is essentially the same as making good bread, which is more of an art than a science. After reading through, it became apparent that this isn't geared at good pizza, it's focused on ba
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by cjf4 7y ago
I appreciate the historical perspective on US suburbanization here as a welcome and more substantial reprieve from the "stupid lazy Americans and their stupid cars" takes that tend to dominate these types of discussions.
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by cjf4 7y ago
>where investors can look at that company and think it's a good and growing investment to sustain their public pension or hedge fund returns This hasn't happened, hence all the flailing.
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by cjf4 7y ago
>But what is it about a light rail that causes a poor person to look at it and walk away deciding it's not for them? It simply doesn't make sense. Build LRT to a poor area, people will use it. It's generalization based on
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by cjf4 7y ago
What too many people are missing is basic statistical and probabilistic concepts that allow one to evaluate and contextualize data they are constantly exposed to, and calculus isn't needed for this. Calculating the area under a distrib
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by cjf4 7y ago
If you're into fantasy football, footballguys is still very active, and tends to be a mature forum.
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by cjf4 7y ago
Kind of funny to refer to Palo Alto and New Haven as "ancient" adjacent to Rome.
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by cjf4 7y ago
The market forces element is the one that people tend to ignore in these types of conversations. Americans couldn't wait to move out to the suburbs.
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by cjf4 7y ago
The car industry influence played a role but is always overplayed in these kinds of discussions, and ignore equally if not more important factors. -On macro scale, the US is bigger, more spread out, with tons of land, and there's somet
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by cjf4 7y ago
These sound like the assessments of someone who read a critique of the articles, but not the articles themselves.
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by cjf4 7y ago
What stands out to me about Kranz's view of technology and the future is his optimism. While it might be tempting to dismiss this as dated postwar scientific idealism (e.g. Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y."), Kranz walked the walk
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by cjf4 7y ago
Having just gotten back from Nashville, their implementation is not really working. The sidewalks are now stressful to walk on as scooters fly above 20 MPH in all directions, with the rider often yelling "Sorry! I don't know how t

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