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by ed312 4y ago
It seems like that, for most partisans and politicians, is exactly the point.
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by ed312 4y ago
Re the "no meaningful feedback" - this may be laziness or negligence, but in my experience is almost certainly related to liability. "Takes too much time" as a value probably varies widely between engineers. I personally
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by ed312 4y ago
Miata Is Always The Answer. More seriously - I recently cross-shopped the major low/mid-tier brands (Toyota, Subaru, etc.) and the quality of these touch screens vs physical controls is shockingly bad for the sticker price. I, perhaps
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by ed312 4y ago
Smiles per dollar is highest with a manual transmission "slow" car. A manual Mazda Miata is just so engaging and fun (and light!) in a way you can't electronically replicate. IMO, even the vaunted Porsche 911 manual box doesn
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by ed312 4y ago
Not really fair to compare average cars to literally the best car <$100k USD... More seriously, my leased CX-30 has a ton of features and fit&finish improvements over most "mid-range" brands at a very competitive price. I w
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by ed312 4y ago
Natural Selection (2) is close on a round-by-round basis, but isn't an RPG. https://store.steampowered.com/app/4920/Natural_Selection_2/
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by ed312 4y ago
I was hoping for exactly this! Something like the "radar lock" and "missile launch warning" sounds in military aircraft. Maybe its time to dig into the plugin API world ...
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by ed312 4y ago
This is in the same vein as the advice I give to the overachiever junior/mid level engineers I mentor. They're constantly searching for the next big project or optimization. In the same way you need to sleep at night to process th
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by ed312 4y ago
I wanted to buy one. I technically could squeeze it out. I talked to a few folks who owned them (ok, 2 people that I sort of knew). They universally told me to hold off, that it was really expensive, that I should have my finances in order
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by ed312 5y ago
You're dangerously close to wrongthink. You must express hatred for cars, love living in high-density cities, and disdain for anyone who dares to want the option to live differently. (/s, hopefully obvious) I too love cars and dri
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by ed312 5y ago
That's incredibly helpful, thanks! I assumed the deaths were skewed somewhat to elderly but not to such an extreme. I wonder how this impacts calculations of e.g. social security payments and wealth transfers in the US.
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by ed312 5y ago
I rarely see any mention of how just so many people dying + becoming disabled impacts the job market. Historically big drops in available labor lead to improved labor negotiation (e.g. working conditions, wages). The "great resignation
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by ed312 5y ago
For strictly technical communication you make a great point - we probably should try to work with a "standardized" or "international" English. That said, something about your comment struck me as deeply sad: the "fu
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by ed312 5y ago
American households are intended/designed to purchase property. If you don't, you're perpetually at the whims of the housing market. You may agree or disagree with this as a way to structure society, but renting long-term is
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by ed312 5y ago
University students are emphatically not kids. The students who are US citizens are legal adults expected to vote an participate in democracy. At what age do you expect them to suddenly "grow up" and be responsible for their actio
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by ed312 5y ago
Usually in threads about DDG a common refrain is "but the results are worse!" - generally to mean less specific. I always thought that was the feature -- they don't compile a history on you, track your location, etc. As a r
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by ed312 5y ago
This strongly reminds me of The Glass Bead Game (Das Glasperlenspiel) by Herman Hesse[1]. The idea of simplifying and restricting the creative space into a grid, but then assigning abstract value to the grid (e.g. game of life, minesweeper)
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by ed312 5y ago
If you’re not getting a cost of living raise each year, you’re effectively being paid less … as you become more experienced.
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by ed312 5y ago
This is still my favorite reddit mode! It does seem to hide posts if you click the link, which is super annoying.
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by ed312 5y ago
Bonus and/or equity grants via review feedback are a blunt but effective tool. You could probably reduce this to "My team is not highly engaged/motivated, and I think it would better meet my company's needs if they were.
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by ed312 5y ago
Would you mind sharing what this "resource point controlling game" was? (Any chance it was called "Natural Selection"?)
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by ed312 5y ago
That's true through an upper middle class level, then you get into always traveling business class (aka humanely-sized seats, better food). The bump from business/first -> private is not that much better.
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by ed312 5y ago
Frequently if the bid is say 40.10 and the ask is 40.09, the mark is shown as 40.095. Not sure if that's why they have hundredths, or just to support those legacy cases of odd fractions.
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by ed312 5y ago
It would be interesting to see a breakdown of the composition of an annual raise for a civil servant. How much (and from what factors) is the raise in pay related to CoL, and how much is it related to productivity? How is that labor actuall
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by ed312 5y ago
What do you hold as baseline? Baked in to your reply is a theme of prices go up over time (inflation). To take a concrete example: has a person employed to stock shelves at a store meaningfully increased their productivity in the last 25 ye
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by ed312 5y ago
The reality is basic unskilled labor is worth about as much as it has been. At the same time, multiple new industries have sprung up and computer/ai-aided workers are vastly more productive than ever. I think a higher minimum wage coul
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by ed312 5y ago
Looks fantastic. I entered some close to real numbers and found the flow fairly easy. I specifically like the edge-case prompts ("you didn't enter mortgage/rent, are you sure?"). In that case I just entered an average mo
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by ed312 5y ago
Personally I think threads ruin conversation flow. If you want to have an in-depth conversation about a topic limited to a few people, you should either open up another channel or do a DM. Just my opinion, but I hate Slack threads and love
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by ed312 5y ago
Cost of living has gone absolutely through the roof, and shows no signs of stopping. That's, least in the northeast, the main reason $400k sounds rich but for a family of 4, with a $5k/mo mortgage, child care, etc. it really isn&
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by ed312 6y ago
This is how a phd friend of mine answered "how do you actually read so many research papers". He developed a really tuned skimming mode - I'm not sure I could apply the same technique to blogs/website due to less consist

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