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by cletus 5y ago
Sure but Delta is now the dominant strain everywhere. Evolutionary pressure still applies.
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by cletus 5y ago
> Why can I be forced to use seatbelts and vaccine skeptics are not forced to get the shot? This is a good question. While I'm 100% for people getting the vaccine, I personally believe that forcibly vaccinating people is a dangerous
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by cletus 5y ago
It's almost like the existence of vaccines places evolutionary pressure on a mutating virus. This whole pandemic has highlighted something that I really prefer not to think about, which is just how irrational, selfish, incapable of ass
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by cletus 5y ago
From scanning this, it sounds like the author is specifically talking about sports trading cards, most characterized by baseball cards. This market certainly went crazy price-wise but then, as the author pointed out, tanked. It basically ta
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by cletus 5y ago
The tl'dr is it's cultural. The Japanese are more willing to live in smaller spaces and are more community-minded like just having the common decency not to throw trash on the street. In the US, for many people "freedom"
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by cletus 5y ago
This monstrosity totals at around 1.68 million square feet [1], which places the cost at around $900/sq ft. New York City for various reasons has some of the highest construction costs in the world. Residential high-rise construction c
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by cletus 5y ago
I've heard this quite a few times now and I'm not sure where the idea comes from that slavery in the Roman Republic and Empire were somehow humane but that wasn't the case at all. Roman slaves were property and could be treat
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by cletus 5y ago
Touch screens work on phones because phones have limited real estate. Even then some people doggedly held onto their physical keyboards for years (eg Blackberrys). To me, touch screens are usually an excuse for terrible UI/UX. Why? Bec
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by cletus 5y ago
This is nothing new. In tech circles we've been talking about this since at least the Zynga-Facebook era (eg [1]) and probably much earlier. I mean it's good advice. Often you don't have a choice or at least the alternatives
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by cletus 5y ago
This dorm really is an abomination and the correct response here would've been for the university to say "thanks, but no thanks" to Munger's money with the stipulations he placed on it. In following this story someone ra
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by cletus 5y ago
This has been a popular defense for several years now. For awhile I too bought into it. But there are real questions about whether it can ever work and won't in fact be vulnerable to attack. The best evidence for this is that PoS hasn&
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by cletus 5y ago
I use a password manager myself (as IMHO everyone should). It's not ideal because if your master password gets compromised it's potentially catastrophic in away that any individual getting compromised isn't. The problem with
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by cletus 5y ago
It's sad that this gets downvoted because you're not wrong eg [1][2][3]. [1]: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2284222-coal-powered-bi... [2]: https://fortune.com/2021/04/20&#x2F
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by cletus 5y ago
And so it begins. In the developed world in particular, we're seeing the move away from fossil-fuel power. This is good but currently relatively expensive. Crypto mining is starting to have very real impact on the ability of other peop
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by cletus 5y ago
I'm honestly shocked and disappointed how much credence is given to anti-vaccination beliefs or even vaccination-skepticism or vaccination-hesitancy by people with a supposed higher education, even a science education. The reasons vary
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by cletus 5y ago
I've always hated standups. Very rarely do they provide value for the ICs (IMHO) and that should be the key measure. The biggest problem is that managers can easily fall into a trap where they have everyone in the same place so they ca
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by cletus 5y ago
There's a National Geographic documentary series called Drugs, Inc. [1] that I find fascinating. Let's set aside what an abject failure the so-called War on Drugs has been in the US and the violence of the drug trade and just appr
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by cletus 5y ago
That's simply not true. Houses have labour and material components. The materials have a labour component too. It's now more expensive to build a house (per square foot) than it was 30 years ago because of wage inflation. This is
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by cletus 5y ago
Ah, this takes me back (disclaimer: Xooger, 2010-2017). It's painful and funny because it's true. Or was true. Rumour had it that the Borgmon readability requirement was removed when Sergey saw this video. I don't know if thi
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by cletus 5y ago
To clarify, "sufficiently good" doesn't imply "good" or even "competent". In a toxic work environment "sufficiently good" may still be "incompetent".
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by cletus 5y ago
Roger Sterling of Mad Men said it best [1]: > I don't know if anyone's ever told you that half the time this business comes down to 'I don't like that guy.' In all my years of working, this is probably the most i
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by cletus 5y ago
I sympathize. Unironically, I do. Truly. Be very careful over-extrapolating based on known variables. That's my point. For decades we've have the concentration of populations in a few urban centers because of employment opportunit
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by cletus 5y ago
> We really don't have any direct, past precedent for this type of situation Yeah, we do. Massive housing speculation in the mid-2000s. > The fact that Zillow failed on their initial attempt does not imply that this can't wo
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by cletus 5y ago
This is a good example of the fallacy of youth: buying too far into hype and being all "the sky is falling" with negative news. It wasn't long ago that we were reading how Zillow et al were going to buy up all the housing sto
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by cletus 5y ago
At sufficient scale anything free ceases to be so and anything cheap starts to get expensive. This certainly applies to bandwidth. I assume either the free tier was starting to get significantly expensive or it was simply so large that the
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by cletus 5y ago
Having gone through the purchase and sale of houses I'm honestly confused at how this happens. It involves a ton of paperwork, phone calls and in-person appointments, generally. If there is a mortgage on the property, the bank holds th
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by cletus 5y ago
The snide response to this is does anything in C++ spark joy? More seriously, I've come to believe that most people shouldn't be writing multithreaded code. More specifically, if you ever find yourself instantiating a thread dir
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by cletus 5y ago
Facebook thinks about social networks in two dimensions: 1. Audience size (eg <50, <500, 1M+); and 2. Format (eg text, images, video, VR, AR). You can go through the exercise of placing every social network on this grid and there are
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by cletus 5y ago
I agree with the general sentiment of your post. There is an undeniable national security interest in maintaining control over telecommunications backbones. > There is a reason China and Russia both have their own GPS alternative. As do
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by cletus 5y ago
A fallacy of youth is to overreact to things. This means you buy into hype too easily and overstate doom and gloom. After getting disappointed by hype repeatedly you start to become skeptical and hopefully not jaded. I've been watching

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