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by degrews 6y ago
> In the end the dead bodies count and it doesn't matter whether a cautious or inexperienced driver killed them It matters to the safe drivers. Bad drivers are mostly a danger to themselves. At only "1.5x as safe as average&quo
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by degrews 6y ago
I agree, but I think that in order for that to work, we would have to accept much lower salaries for junior/apprentice engineers (until they've proven they can add value). And maybe also a higher tolerance for firing engineers who
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by degrews 6y ago
The speed of cars mostly comes down to how much power they have. The main reason for having more power is not to increase top speed, which is limited by law, but to increase acceleration, which is not.
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by degrews 6y ago
Sure, but the comment above is talking about "how valuable that space in major city centres is". The opportunity cost of 1 sqm of street parking space is not 1 sqm of "living unit", but 1 sqm of land. If 1 sqm of apartme
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by degrews 6y ago
I still don't get it. How are we supposed to recognize his face?
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by degrews 6y ago
> He says that "Pinboard has more than 350K commits and is 20GB in size when cloned fully." I'm not clear though, exactly what "cloned fully" means in context of the unoptimized/optimized situation. It proba
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Repossessing Degrees(jefftk.com)
10 points by degrews 7y ago|6 comments
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by degrews 7y ago
Using an incognito session on Chrome worked for me.
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Online lender backed by Nas says it was hit by security breach(nypost.com)
2 points by degrews 7y ago|0 comments
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How a Silicon Valley startup is trying to rebrand payday loans(vox.com)
3 points by degrews 7y ago|0 comments
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by degrews 7y ago
Having 100 items on the checklist doesn't mean you need to act on all of them. You can go through your normal packing, then take a few minutes to scan through the checklist for anything you may have forgotten. Most items may be irrelev
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Value of Working in Ads?(jefftk.com)
2 points by degrews 8y ago|0 comments
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by degrews 8y ago
Okay, I can appreciate that observation. But I don't think that the advice to individuals to stop worrying about luxury daily coffee spending follows from that.
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by degrews 8y ago
> The article isn't advocating that you buy a coffee every single day. It's saying a. focus on larger issues and b. it's okay to do a little self care and a little self indulgence. I agree. But I don't think the peopl
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by degrews 8y ago
I think most of this argument is based on a false dichotomy "Saving on coffee is bad advice because there are other things wrong with our finances that have a much bigger impact". The author is also not making a clear distinction
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by degrews 8y ago
I agree that testing for knowledge of specific tools is probably not what you want, but I find that among people who do have significant experience with git, ability to use it effectively seems to correlate pretty strongly with overall prog
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by degrews 8y ago
I don't agree with the original article at all, but I find this comment quite ironic. Almost no European except for the very rich is thinking about owning a 6000 square foot house, it's just not a priority. But it doesn't sur
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by degrews 8y ago
See Paris Syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
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by degrews 8y ago
I also recommend jk or kj over jj. Much faster and less strenuous. And it has the added benefit that, if you type it when already in normal mode, it's effectively a no-op (as opposed to jj, which will move the cursor two lines down).
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by degrews 8y ago
Here's another one: i-told-you-it-was-private Ruby gem by Xavier Noria https://github.com/fxn/i-told-you-it-was-private
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by degrews 8y ago
The Effective Altruism community has produced a lot of discussion about donating early vs saving and giving later. This post does a good job of listing some of the trade-offs and includes several links to more discussion: http://
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by degrews 8y ago
I agree it's frustrating that most sites leave it up to each individual user to decide what each star rating means. On the other hand, I don't think it's really a problem as long as users are consistent. It doesn't matte
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by degrews 8y ago
> The best way to do this is to try to identify the good part or motivation in a student's statement, regardless of anything wrong that might be in there too Your example sounds very reasonable to me, but do you think that this is e
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by degrews 8y ago
Of course I'm not saying anything like that. Just pointing out that the people who seem to be publicly talking about this the most also reject the use of "reasonable" as a synonym of "rational" [0] (LessWrong might
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by degrews 8y ago
I take your point but even the current "rationalist" community (LessWrong, Eliezer Yudkowski, etc.) don't seem to use the word "reasonable" in that sense.
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by degrews 8y ago
The author was using the "pay 50k to win 1M at 1:400 odds" example to illustrate how the calculating the expected value (in a mathematical sense [1]) does not always result in the "most reasonable" decision. If I underst
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by degrews 8y ago
> “an influencer with 100,000 followers on Instagram can charge around £2,000 per picture (approximately $2,700), while celebrity influencers with between four million and 20 million followers can charge £5,000-£13,000 ($6,700-$17,500).
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by degrews 8y ago
It's very similar in Spain (and I imagine many other European countries). Your grade (a single number representing a combination of high school grades and standard university admission exam results) determines which major you can study
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by degrews 8y ago
I'm very excited to see the results of this study [1], testing the effects of a one-time dose of psilocybin (magic mushrooms) on a sample size of 400+ suffering from treatment-resistant depression. The podcast episode referenced in the
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by degrews 8y ago
I'm from Spain and all city streets and plazas have at least some lighting at night (enough that one can comfortably walk through the city at any hour of the night) and even the least lit areas are popular for people to hang out in. I

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