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Confirms I found the correct place on street view then.
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by danielvf 3y ago
The blog post is full of very specific clues - enough to narrow it down to one house. I went on Google Street View to see if the mentioned "white rock" was still there. It looks like now there are two white rocks! https:/&#x
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by danielvf 3y ago
Here's a cutting edge modern take using GoPros and NeRF techniques. https://twitter.com/Arata_Fukoe/status/1660980297352224769
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by danielvf 3y ago
65.8% of Americans live in their own home. That's a higher percentage than the UK, France, or Germany. We aren't talking about there not being homes, it's that the youngest aren't able to. It's also a higher percent
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by danielvf 3y ago
The full report from the Department of Finance is here: https://dof.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/352/Forecasting/... Unsurprisingly, the change is not even. Central agricultural areas are still m
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by danielvf 3y ago
Here's the full version of the text as written Ryan Gosling. (7 minutes long, vs 40 seconds in the movie) Interestingly enough, the original author version doesn't follow the part in the article about each key word appearing in th
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by danielvf 3y ago
Looked up a Waffle House job listing in the Deep South. Looks like the answer is yes on health insurance: Server Requirements: · Entry level, no experience required · Must have a positive and friendly attitude · Teens welcome but must be 16
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by danielvf 3y ago
I pulled my number off full time Amazon driving, vehicle provided, which is about $20/hr here. Most low skill jobs in my area are around $12-$17 an hour. Eleven or below is there, but rare. We're probably a slightly more happening
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by danielvf 3y ago
Chattanooga has a 3.3% unemployment rate. By comparison Berlin, Germany has 9.1%. It's definitely an super hot labor market right now.
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I live in the southeast US, not Chattanooga, but not too far by US standards. At the moment basic, low skilled jobs are in high demand - almost every restaurant or store has a now hiring sign out, and the wages are 50% to 100% higher than b
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by danielvf 3y ago
Lol, for the "human" just doing discord spam.
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by danielvf 3y ago
I did do my math wrong. 220 gallons of gasoline for 3,000 lbs of timber
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Another way of thinking about this: if you burned 1,600 gallons of gasoline to sequester one 3,000 lb pine tree, you'd be net ahead. Unless I'm really off on my math.
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Trees are roughly 50% carbon by weight. Each pound of carbon represents 3.67 pounds of cleaned carbon dioxide. Each pound of lumber represents 1.8 pounds of carbon dioxide our of the air. It looks like both logging trucks and flatbed timber
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by danielvf 3y ago
For stage directions there's also "House Left" and "House Right", which are from the perspective of the audience.
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Atlanta does have trains, and in fact has the 8th most annual riders of any US city, right behind the Bay Area. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARTA_rail
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by danielvf 3y ago
I mean FTX had over 300 million dollars moved out of company funds, without company authorization, by parties unknown, and with insufficient monitoring to even know it happened until third parties let them know. So kind of depends on your d
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by danielvf 4y ago
An LLM like ChatGPT ends up with a bunch of probabilities for the next word-ish. A random number generator then picks from them, weighted by probability, and then the process loops. So while the weights are static, the actual execution is v
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by danielvf 4y ago
Or for an even more funny take, see https://rekt.news
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Most large crypto bounty programs are paid in things that are instantly convertible to dollars (mostly USDC, some DAI/USDT or occasionaly ETH). There are a few out there but in general the dollar numbers are real.
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Say what you want to about crypto, the bug bounty payments are enormous: From the https://immunefi.com/leaderboard/ #1. 4 paid reports: $13,010,000 total earnings #2. 2 paid reports: $10,020,000 total earnings #3. 8 pa
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gmail
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The Farm only lasted 12 years as a commune, before switching over to people earning their own income and paying rent. Still perhaps comparable to the amish though.
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by danielvf 4y ago
A line item under reasons that Binance falls under US jurisdiction. "Binance relies on the Google suite of products for information management and email services." That's got to make companies around the world feel more comfo
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USDT is actually from "Bitfinex", not from "Binance".
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> ...“Like come on. They are here for crime.” Binance’s [money laundering reporting officer] agreed that “we see the bad, but we close 2 eyes.” [Edit: Used to link to the PDF from the CFTC in this comment, removed since hn story now goes
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by danielvf 4y ago
The USD 90% income is 200K USD. That's 300K AUD. The Australian 90% percentile income is 131,000 AUD per tax office stats. [1] That's less than half that of the US 90%. In fact, the threshold to move to a 99% income in Australia i
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90% is a a poorly chosen threshold for making America look bad vs other countries. American has a ridiculous number of upper middle class. The 90% percentile income in America is around $200,000 per year. (Pre-tax). The 90% percentile house
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by danielvf 4y ago
The advice about going outside is great. It's really good to have repeatable weekly interactions with people too. Your hobbies, or your kids hobbies are easy ways. But how bad things are online, I've only only heard about, and rar
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Link 2 is clearly content marketing. It's a blog with only one post. Though it claims to be a comparison of tools, it only mentions the name of Dot3D, refers to all other tools by number, so you can't look at them, and is written

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