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by galdosdi 4y ago
Well, it's Texas. One of the reasons I fled the midsouth to return to my native northeast was the shockingly pervasive culture of marginalizing walking (or biking or anything but a car) as a way of getting around. The assumption was no
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I'm sad I missed the office-with-door era. I started working in 2011, and my first company still had some real offices, but you had to be pretty senior. I made it to that level right around the time they got rid of them :-( and no othe
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I'm so sad that Python3 basically killed Jython. It was wonderful while it lasted. Not only could you interoperate Python inside a JVM, but you even got some performance benefits - no GIL! Far better concurrency and GC than CPython. I
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by galdosdi 4y ago
The rural places you lived in probably genuinely didn't have as much extreme poverty. I'm familiar with some of the types of places you probably mean. I was thinking of the rural South, where maintaining some degree of radical pov
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by galdosdi 4y ago
The destitute are merely more visible in "big dense blue cities" but statistically there are more of them in rural red places like Mississippi and Oklahoma. After all, in OK or MS you need a car, which is a $2000+ asset, just to e
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by galdosdi 4y ago
A lot of the "socialization" you learn in school is very dissimilar to "real life" though. I don't know many workplaces that are organized into teams of 25 employees all the exact same age with just one single super
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by galdosdi 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Dv3yX
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by galdosdi 4y ago
https://archive.ph/Dv3yX
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Isn't that really just the EPA superfund program?
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Keep in mind that both Kroger and Albertsons each already own several other large grocery store brands, so some of that abundance of choice is an illusion.
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> living in America, thinking that a massive neighbor could be coup'd by their military, or could practically be a military dictatorship, is intimidating The situation in Mexico is depressing for many Mexicans but, the idea that it
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Yes, month over month is the raw source data[1] the BLS reports once a month. The news articles I am referring to are the ones that come out once a month the day or day after the BLS statistics come out. [1] https://www.bls.gov&#
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I bought a Chipotle burrito for about $9 or $10 just a couple months ago. I live in a major east coast city. What do you do, ask for every damn topping, triple avocado, etc? BTW, fast food prices have inflated much faster than grocery store
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I'm quoting numbers from the BLS, no need to point me at the BLS. The last two months of CPI were 0.2 and 0.4 respectively. (0.2 + 0.4) * 6 = 3.6, not 7. You accidentally put a factor of 2. (yes I know multiplying by 12 to go from mont
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Ask HN: Why does the media say inflation is up every month?
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Ironically, the actual system that exists and existed pre-Uber in NYC (TLC) is about as close to a real decentralized system as you're going to get. Like most good decentralized systems, it relies on a small centralized core (the gover
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> There’s loads of work that ad agencies will just hire an AI prompt guy to generate for ads. I am really skeptical of the idea that soon, working with image AI will involve purely prompt writing. I bet it will involve some prompt writin
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Hey, I did that too in high school and college! I think I must have been one of the very last ones (late aughts). What a cool and fascinating piece of machinery the "modern" (now obsolete) three platter tree and "brain"
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by galdosdi 4y ago
So what if "everywhere else" disagrees? They're wrong and they made a mistake. Thing is, while inferior, Celsius isn't that much worse than Fahrenheit for everyday weather purposes, and it had the metric halo, so people
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Here's the actual story of why calculus is required. It is required because it really was very useful in the jobs of many high school graduates at the time the curriculum was formed[1]. Unfortunately times change but school curriculums
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Also, pretty much every fancy formula you learn in Stats 100/ AP stats that looks weird but is very useful, can be derived and proved using calculus. Without calculus you just have to take it on faith, and may not have as intuitive an
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Have you actually studied calculus based probability/stayistics though? Your comment seems characteristic of my own former thinking from when I had only taken an algebra based intro stats course (AP statistics) and hadn't yet lear
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Sometimes, yes. Selling something for below cost with the intent to drive your competitors out of business is called "dumping" and has been illegal since the 1800s. Because selling a product below cost is fundamentally unsustainab
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by galdosdi 4y ago
As a born and raised (dyed in the wool? :P) US American, I am equally amazed it took me so long in life to discover the joy of good wool. I think it's because Americans are conditioned to just stay in their house/car/public b
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by galdosdi 4y ago
I could not agree more. These companies who use algorithms to choose what user content to display should be held to the same standard as a publisher where a human chooses what letters to the editor to print in the newspaper. Fools think of
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by galdosdi 4y ago
> Naively, if our EROI halves, then we should be at worst half as rich, Interesting question. Not if energy is used to build things that then build things, which it is. Depending on how long that "chain" is on average, the effi
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Oh god, that's the scariest one. Sure to be full of mold!
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by galdosdi 4y ago
Oh, I guess to be honest I thought your example was so stupid I didn't feel the need to respond. Now that you reply this way, I admit maybe I am just totally confused as to what you mean. Why would there be any conflict between "I
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by galdosdi 4y ago
(1) It's a little optimistic to expect the rates to come back down "in the next 2-3 years" (2) A refinance is a big enough transaction for both parties that it'd be silly to not do more than 5 seconds of due diligence. E
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by galdosdi 4y ago
You're not quite wrong nor quite right.... I've lived in the USA all my life, in perhaps 20 or so different houses or apartments over the years, in half a dozen states through both the northeast and midsouth and in my experience..

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