disjhshava

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by disjhshava 7y ago
This type of construction is only so profitable because it's usually illegal, and therefore a critically undersupplied segment of the market. Developers are therefore eager to do it every chance they get. If it were legal to build this
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by disjhshava 7y ago
I'm comparing the TCO of a good value gasoline car to the best value electric car available (including used models). If you have a ton of disposable income, buying a Tesla could be a good decision, but very few people are in that posit
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by disjhshava 7y ago
I saw Jello spinning recently at a fetish party at a gay bar. Punk enough for me.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
The math works out a lot better if your society has a strong social safety net, and friendly bankruptcy and limited liability laws.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
Leaving essential information out of the headline is a common clickbaiting tactic.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
Doesn't Harvard own a bunch of prime real estate? Tax free, even. How tall is the average building on that land?
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by disjhshava 7y ago
The academic job market is so tight in most fields that random universities in the middle of nowhere get hundreds of applicants for a single tenure-track job. If you go back 100 years ago you would find that Harvard was a lot less selective
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by disjhshava 7y ago
The US also gives nonprofit status to organizations that do stuff like buy expensive paintings and build megachurches. There's no general requirement that the nonprofits need to be using their money in the highest-utility manner. If su
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by disjhshava 7y ago
Ultimately, there are not enough doctors to meet demand. Raising wages will just move them around. The supply of doctors is inelastic due to limited residency slots.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
In general, people tend to be overconfident in their beliefs and too slow to incorporate new information. There is experimental evidence to back this up (pdf warning: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Baruch_Fischhoff
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by disjhshava 7y ago
I didn't benchmark it and can't give a speed comparison, but I had success solving a pretty big optimization problem with GLOP, which I beleive uses or-tools.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
I ninja-edited my post. Previously the EV for uniform guessing was zero, because the points value for all the answers (1, -.25, -.25, -.25, -.25) summed to 0. Now the EV is positive because they got rid of the -.25 penalty. To make things m
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by disjhshava 7y ago
My story matches yours almost exactly. Didn't take a class, did a bunch of practice tests, got an almost perfect score. I agree that confidence is very important, and aptitude matters too (otherwise everyone who took a class would get
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by disjhshava 7y ago
I would never buy a Bose speaker, I know that the audio quality is nothing special. But I've found among Bluetooth headphones there is nothing that feels as comfortable and works as well as the QC35.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
When I used versions of android with home screen roatation, I remember it would completely jack up most of my widgets. They were designed to be displayed at some aspect ratio and that aspect ratio would change after rotation. Maybe they got
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by disjhshava 7y ago
I'm really skeptical of lower TCO for electric cars. My gasoline-powered car is worth $5k. All electric cars with decent range cost more in depreciation alone than my TCO. I think in a few years a Bolt will have a competitive TCO, and
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by disjhshava 7y ago
Most industries can engage in anticompetitive behaviors with impunity. But I think if Facebook watches which way the political winds are blowing for them, they would be more careful.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
I remember the read-only mode as some presumably cached pre-rendered html, not sure if it ever existed for the app/api. I wonder if the read-only mode didn't mesh well with the single page app they have been pushing - perhaps it w
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by disjhshava 7y ago
>No, they'll say it is your fault because the bad guys had your username and password. This sort of claim requires evidence. Many people have had money fraudulently taken out of their accounts, so there is a wealth of experiences to
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by disjhshava 7y ago
I don't know much about Florida, but it shocks me that there's any need to water a lawn there. Watering a lawn must take up a lot of bottles worth of water! I wonder if they use more water filling the bottles or landscaping around
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by disjhshava 7y ago
This article is missing evidence to support the basic claim in the title. What portion of water usage can be attributed to bottled water?
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by disjhshava 7y ago
Burning Man doesn't provide any of those things for attendees.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
Although iOS Safari does have support for ad-blockers built in, so most iOS users can easily get an ad-free web.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
Yeah, I don't like telling people that they are asking the wrong question. But my experience says that if you are finding you have spare cycles in your job, you could probably be getting a much larger salary at a higher-end job. Depend
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by disjhshava 7y ago
Strong evidence of how amazing the human condition is these days: we're talking about mobs and violence because some somebody knows what your face looks like.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
As a user of a phone with a swappable battery, I keep an extra battery in my bag and swap whenever the battery gets low. The dead battery goes in a charger when I'm home. The swapping functionally is getting used frequently. Also, as a
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by disjhshava 7y ago
In the US, you can currently get a used Chevy Spark for below 10k.
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by disjhshava 7y ago
There's a lot of investor money out there and not a lot of good investment opportunities. You only need to convince a small % of investors to raise billions. Also, shorting this stock is going to be expensive.