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by cudgy 3y ago
But will the demand be there for the new housing to live in an expensive poorly run city with fewer jobs in the commercial centers?
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by cudgy 3y ago
And even more disgusting that taxpayers and their elected representatives keep allowing this to happen over and over again. There is no accountability.
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by cudgy 3y ago
“… you won’t be confined to “a tiny black rectangle”. You’ll use all the apps you already use. You don’t have to wait for developers to adapt them. This is not a someday-maybe tech demo of a future paradigm; it’s (mostly) today’s paradigm,
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by cudgy 3y ago
Are you sure? “The United States is home to the highest number of immigrants in the world. An estimated 50.6 million people in the United States—a bit more than 15% of the total population of 331.4 million—were born in a foreign country.”
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by cudgy 3y ago
70 years? I’d argue that programming has only recently (last 10-20 years) become a mainstream source of high paying jobs. Before that it was relatively low paying or inaccessible/undesirable to most people. Recent simplification throu
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by cudgy 3y ago
What framework or approach did it recommend you use for the Android UI? Compose? XML layouts? From code? I tried using the Bing chat interface, and it repeatedly pushed me in the direction of using Microsoft tools to accomplish tasks for a
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by cudgy 3y ago
The workspaces in the photos are basically wooden tables lined up against the wall. Looks more like a library than a place to do work. The cafe looks nice though. At least you can go to “work” and drink whiskey.
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by cudgy 3y ago
Well they have to do something with all the new funding from the latest “infrastructure” bill. “helped secure a historic 50 percent increase in funding and staffing resources for the agency under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law” https:&#
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by cudgy 3y ago
Use the facade pattern so it’s easier to swap out if needed.
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by cudgy 3y ago
My worry is that the attempt to regulate AI is masking a power grab by the large, politically well-connected tech firms to maintain control over the technology.
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by cudgy 3y ago
Late reply, but it is Verizon.
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by cudgy 3y ago
“[I]n urban areas, the U.S Department of Agriculture considers a food desert an area with no ready access to a store with fresh and nutritious food options within one mile.” One mile? With such a definition of the term “food desert”, no won
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by cudgy 3y ago
“[I]n urban areas, the U.S Department of Agriculture considers a food desert an area with no ready access to a store with fresh and nutritious food options within one mile.” One mile? With such a definition of the term “food desert”, no won
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by cudgy 3y ago
Are you saying that there are not supermarkets with basic wholesome ingredients from which to make healthy meals in the United States? That you were unable to buy grass-fed organic beef, pasture raised chicken, and organic vegetables and f
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by cudgy 3y ago
I assume you are being sarcastic.
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by cudgy 3y ago
A decent lawyer costs $400+ per hour. 1-2 hours for initial consult, 3-4 hours to prepare the motion and another 3-4 hours to appear before a judge. Other side delays for another hearing and add another 3-4 hours … could cost $5000+
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by cudgy 3y ago
Sunk cost fallacy. The developer has a product to sell regardless of how much effort was spent getting there; they own it and only need to sell it or even license it. The salesperson hasn’t demonstrated they can sell and has nothing of valu
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by cudgy 3y ago
> you need to build the infrastructure to support it (homes, schools, hospitals etc). Isn’t that the point the above poster was making? If you don’t build the support, then you cannot handle the influx of people. Immigration without augm
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by cudgy 3y ago
The new 5G wireless providers are changing this some, at least in urban areas. I’m currently using one and get around 500mbits download rate. Cost is about $25 per month.
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by cudgy 3y ago
Aren’t the creditors that get screwed essentially the citizens of the countries? They pay money into huge pension programs that are pilfered with management fees and poorly structured investment portfolios. These citizens also, more importa
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by cudgy 3y ago
Pharmaceuticals?
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by cudgy 3y ago
If only AMZN represented the entire dot com bubble.
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by cudgy 3y ago
In the example I provided, it would be those that sold their commercial real estate before the pandemic. Other winners would be pharmaceutical companies, residential builders, internet retailers, people that prefer working from home, and fa
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by cudgy 3y ago
The impact is the same regardless of event. A centralized location being affected by any of these events is going to impact business negatively to a much greater degree than a company whose workers are spread out in different locations. As
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by cudgy 3y ago
Primal Kitchen makes products like this. They have a ketchup with no sweeteners. https://www.primalkitchen.com/products/organic-unsweetened-k...
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by cudgy 3y ago
Here are a few: more traffic and pollution, more traffic accidents and deaths, increased budgets for roads to accommodate, reduced family time, higher stress and increased medical costs, increased transportation costs born by employees and
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by cudgy 3y ago
Maybe the “good” people are not valued by the companies as much as you think. Companies do stupid stuff all the time.
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by cudgy 3y ago
And pay your rent or mortgage with what? I’m all for people having power, but the reality is that without a safety net of savings or the welfare of family, friends, or government this is a difficult strategy.
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by cudgy 3y ago
Where in the world is this magically efficient market based economy that you speak of? I’ve read of this beast in econ books, but I have never seen it in the wild.
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by cudgy 3y ago
True. And conversely your not smart just because your safe.

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