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by faster 9y ago
My understanding is that a state sales tax can't be less than about 3.5% because that is the cost of operating the sales tax collection bureaucracy. The article's suggestion that the federal gov collect a uniform tax and redistrib
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by faster 9y ago
The Santana Row developers thought pedestrian areas were cool, but for whatever reason they built roads right through the middle of their faux-pedestrian zones. Because you can't make people to get out of their cars at the edge and act
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by faster 9y ago
On Linux I have recently switched to KeePassxc because it is screaming fast, doesn't require hundreds of megabytes of mono libs, and it is maintained. https://github.com/magkopian/keepassxc-debian
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by faster 9y ago
Net Neutrality prevents abuses; the FTC can step in after a violation reaches critical proportions. It's like the difference between parking in a locked garage in a bad neighborhood, and having a car alarm to let you know when your win
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by faster 9y ago
Best case, this will make the media even more mediocre, as demonstrated by Clear Channel when the FCC killed the radio station ownership cap. The worst case is more likely, unfortunately. Echo chambers will get louder and influence their b
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by faster 9y ago
I aks for three of each, because the first one in each category is predictable and therefore not useful.
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by faster 9y ago
When I returned to the US after living in Western Europe, the hardest thing to adapt to was the quality of food in the supermarkets. I left the first two grocery stores empty-handed because nothing looked like food to me. It was all cardboa
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by faster 9y ago
Also https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0010SKSTO/ , "What Every Body is Saying".
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by faster 9y ago
I did it in 2013, with a C&T visa and a very weak grasp of the language. It took about 40 hours (mostly standing in various lines) to get my residence card. Some bureaucrats fucked with me because they could, and some were helpful but s
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by faster 9y ago
Soil moisture measurements can be scientific if you have enough money. Look up Time Domain Reflectometry and Soil Moisture Tension. I don't understand TDR well enough to explain it, so I will let you search for your own info. The cheap
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by faster 9y ago
Regarding Tipper Gore, this (PMRC) hearing discussing labeling contains some of Zappa's best work, a lot of it directed at her. I have usually found Zappa to be both entertaining and insighful. https://www.youtube.com/w
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by faster 10y ago
Non-cognitive skills like those are very important. I've seen a few papers lately that show that it's more valuable to long-term earning to learn non-cognitive skills than cognitive skills in a child's early years. http:&#x2
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by faster 10y ago
Their primary error was arrogance, assuming that they were smarter than anyone challenging them even in the face of evidence to the contrary. I don't think there is a cure for that, short of US Marshals at your door with a warrant and
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by faster 10y ago
I taught a class of 10-year-olds an hour a day for two weeks a while back. We used scratch for programming, but the first day, we made paper airplanes. First, two kids sat together while one made a paper airplane and the other wrote down th
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by faster 10y ago
Speed is one factor, difference in speed is a more useful measure of the risk of harm. If you're going 15mph on a road marked 35, you are in danger BECAUSE you are slower than the rest of the traffic on that road. Other vehicles expect
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by faster 10y ago
Popehat has had the best commentary on the Prenda debacle. They don't have this part yet, but stay tuned, they will and it will be hilarious. Well, as hilarious as a law blog can be. https://popehat.com/?s=prenda
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by faster 10y ago
An audiologist once told me that hearing is sort of mechanical; does the vibration in the air stimulate the nerves that send a signal to the brain? Processing is where we make meaning of the signal. They are distinct functions. I hear just
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by faster 10y ago
In 1985 I bought PVCS for my personal projects. It was the second software package I paid for; BRIEF (editor) was the first. One of my CS profs bought a copy of PVCS shortly after I showed him my workflow, and everyone else thought I was cr
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by faster 10y ago
I use screen on old servers and have tried to craft a tmux config that works several times, and failed. Ubuntu repos include a nice package called byobu[1] that is a layer on top of tmux (or screen) that mostly makes copy/paste work li
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by faster 10y ago
Since this is the internet, I am free to reply with anecdata. I get 7.5 hours of sleep just about every night, and I fall asleep in less than 15 minutes more than 90% of the time. I am a coffee addict, but I keep it to 2-3 cups per day (usu
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by faster 10y ago
I just finished a book[1] that explains this pretty clearly. Dissonance between reality and a person's self-image (i.e. "I am difficult to fool") is often 'resolved' in favor of the more important factor, which is t
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by faster 11y ago
Sometimes you don't even have to pay more. When we lived in France, we paid less than 3.50€ per day for my daughter's 5-course lunch. A few years earlier in a much smaller town, we had a teacher tell us that if we couldn't pa
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by faster 11y ago
There is a distributed systems Slack group. Sign up here: https://dist-sys-slack.herokuapp.com/ There is a channel for links to papers.
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by faster 11y ago
What about retired people? A friend's single mom paid off her house 35 years ago in a relatively poor neighborhood in southern California. She worked as many jobs as she could to do that, all would be considered menial today; laundry,
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by faster 11y ago
My daughter responded to "be yourself" with "how can I be myself if I don't know who I am?". Kids are still becoming themselves, so that advice is not actionable. I agree with the rest of your comment. I would say t
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by faster 11y ago
It prevents elected representatives from making changes to an international treaty that most have not seen before the final version is handed to them. So yes, it's undemocratic. It was not crafted by (or arguably for) the people or by
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by faster 11y ago
> A former teacher, Waterfall likened the idea of taking Tor away to prevent the criminal activity of a few to a new teacher punishing the entire class for one student’s bad behavior. It's more like punishing the class because one s
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by faster 11y ago
It's fairly clear in the article that the parolees were not working on the grow side. "One investigator said Mondella’s employees were likely unaware of the doings in that stealth basement. These employees include parolees that Mo
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by faster 11y ago
Same in Lyon, France; I saw scooters over 100€ in the stores (because adults weigh more and want a smoother ride, I guess), and dozens of adults on scooters during commute hours. It was a big surprise to me because it's very rare to se
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Reality does not exist if you are not looking at it(sciencedaily.com)
8 points by faster 11y ago|3 comments

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