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by csa 4y ago
I mean, I think $2100 only gets you a studio in “the city” (probably in/near tenderloin) or maybe a 1br in sunset/Richmond. Where are all the sub-$2100 places that make this the average? Are they counting rented bedrooms?
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by csa 4y ago
> Well, I've obviously learned English well enough to fool you Cheers. I walked straight into that. That said, I imagine that there is more to that story. Fwiw, IQ is mildly correlated to a lot of things, including academic success.
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by csa 4y ago
> while in some like learning a foreign language or music or art it's not You absolutely must be joking. This tells me that you have never learned a foreign language to a high level of proficiency, and that you know very little abou
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by csa 4y ago
IQ is not a measure of low functioning or high functioning or “effective capacity”. I certainly have never claimed that it is. I think many people put the onus of predicting success on measures of IQ, and most/all good IQ tests don’t c
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by csa 4y ago
> This is what we call being talented for something, it's not necessarily related to the one's IQ. I think you’re just playing word games here. My slightly different short definition of IQ is that it is an indicator of the capa
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by csa 4y ago
> Wonder if the MFM acquisition factored in this How so?
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by csa 4y ago
Often times answers are the easy part. It’s unfortunate that this comes across as the basis for much of US education, especially K-12. As most (all?) researchers will tell you, asking good questions is the often times the hard part. A good
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by csa 4y ago
Typepad… the high-quality blogging platform of the 00s. The web was so much easier back then.
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by csa 4y ago
I loved that cheat! Easy way to get the high score when visiting an arcade. It was also fairly to see if the locals knew the cheat — the high scores would be unusually high. Then the challenge was just to get on the board, especially if one
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by csa 4y ago
> I’m becoming more and more convinced that they’re preparing for a global recession. I think it’s more like “we are trimming some of the aggressive hiring we did during COVID now that current revenues tell us that the online economy par
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by csa 4y ago
At many/most bars in these areas, the answer will be “yes”, and they may show you the background image on their phone with bare breasted women or will regale with stories about the “good ol’ days” with calendars at work that had bare
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by csa 4y ago
My guess is that making a match-killer would barely move the needle for FB’s bottom line. If they could figure out a way to combine dating with effective ad delivery, then they might be onto something bigger.
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by csa 4y ago
> That's sounds like a church, lol. Probably more like a synagogue, but point taken…
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by csa 4y ago
> If someone's going to drive company culture, why shouldn't it be HR? Because HR people are natives of HR culture and only have second hand knowledge of what “engineering culture” or “finance culture” or $WHATEVER culture is,
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by csa 4y ago
> But I'm not sure you could get away with that today. As long as an applicant meets the minimum/lower-end standards for admissions, Ivy League professors in grad schools (law, mba, and PhD-track… not sure about medicine)can an
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by csa 4y ago
I think many people base their entire impression of teslas based on these reports, which are at best incomplete truths/summaries. Things that I can attest to (for HN folks who may be considering a Tesla): 1. Model Xs always have proble
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by csa 4y ago
> someone described their Tesla as "Imagine if your printer was your car." I hope you don’t defer judgment on other things to this “someone”. There are many Tesla owners (e.g., myself and several of my friends) who are just qui
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by csa 4y ago
> but more elaboration on what they didnt get, how things really went so bad would be nice. The article addressed this, imho. 1. Software from the 90s was neglected (cost center that didn’t improve roi, with roi being a focus of the new
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by csa 4y ago
> The article makes the point that the number of SWE job openings are way down, -50% YoY. I wonder what percentage of those cut job posts were actually needed by the company versus being vanity job posts or a “we’re always looking for ra
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by csa 4y ago
The bottom two charts don’t seem to reconcile. 10-11cm on the bottom euro chart is AA. 10-11cm is about 4 inches. 4 inches is a D cup on the US/UK chart above it. I don’t know much about bra sizes across different regions, but this see
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by csa 4y ago
I’m not sure if this falls under your definition of “technical books”, but Michael Hartl’s Rails Tutorial is an incredible example of a 1000 fans-esque type of (light) technical book. That was started in 2010, and for a long time the online
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by csa 4y ago
This already happens in many states. Annual egistration for EVs in California (where I live) is a few hundred higher for EVs versus comparable ICE vehicles.
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by csa 4y ago
> FSD as a product is a gimmick. > The way FSD is marketed is borderline misrepresentation. Only one of these two statements is correct. FSD is a gross misrepresentation of the function’s capabilities. FSD is not , however, a gimmick
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by csa 4y ago
> unanimous lack of confidence in "autopilot" I've witnessed in owners You must talk to a very narrow band of Tesla owners. Auto pilot is basically enhanced cruise control, and Tesla do this quite well. If you’re referring
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by csa 4y ago
> Cars still need physical buttons for critical control systems and systems that consumers need to control often (radio, climate control, windshield wipers, cruise control, etc.). Radio - volume and track control are physical, more techn
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by csa 4y ago
> In some places (i.e. the U.S. iirc), COVID actually caused a mild baby boom rather than suppressing childbirths. Sure. But the response to covid in the US and the response to covid in the Asian countries mentioned was quite different b
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by csa 4y ago
The article compares data from 1990 and 2020, yet doesn’t mention covid as a confounding variable (while talking a lot about housing). I think the more telling numbers will be over the next few years. Will there be a post-covid bump and the
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by csa 4y ago
> At 1 am the winter, it doesn’t matter if it is 8am or 5pm, it’s still dark out. So why does it being 1am matter? Again, I’m no AK expert, but my initial thoughts are: 1. There are still 5 hours or so of sunlight. Maybe try then, at lea
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by csa 4y ago
> we couldn't buy pizza for research lab meetings It’s probably not worth the time, but there are usually ways to use the rules to get your way with the business office. “Team building”, or whatever category that falls under, might
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by csa 4y ago
That’s something like 50 miles (eyeballing the distance). … as the crow flies … at 1 am … in northern alaska … in the winter I don’t know that much about living in Alaska, so I don’t know which side of the brave/stupid line this falls.

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