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by galdosdi 5y ago
Yeah but the real root cause (of that awful "I am wasting my time and life right now" feeling) is that modern office work often involves getting M hrs (M < 8) of real work done and having to stretch it to fit an 8hr shift. WFH
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by galdosdi 5y ago
This comment speaks to me SO HARD. I'm on my fifth antibiotic and this one is making me feel like I'm on LSD. Really. And both Dr. Google and my real doctor agree this is somewhat normal or okay, but it's still deeply disturb
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Glad you brought that up, since the concentration of ownership of stations is an entirely separate, but even more serious source of bias. Station ownership is way less obvious to consumers than network affiliation. For example, Sinclair als
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Funnily enough, one of those dozens of examples hits close to home here: A main source of the original fortune that funded the creation of YC and thus Hacker News was the $49m sale to Yahoo! of Viaweb, a SaaS website builder (focused on eco
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by galdosdi 5y ago
Fox45 and Fox News are essentially totally unrelated. You are the unwitting victim of misunderstanding the somewhat complex and historical way TV stations are named in the US (out of curiosity, what is your approximate age and region you ar
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by galdosdi 5y ago
If people around you are happy and things get done when they need to and others don't get blocked, it sounds like you are doing a great job and are merely baffled at how effecient you've gotten! If you have any interest, consider
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by galdosdi 5y ago
That is really cool! I'm excited because I did similar and figured it was unusual. Would be very curious to hear more. Myself after burning out from software, I spent a while working for Door dash and Uber, as well as a brief stint dri
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by galdosdi 7y ago
As per the OP, you are supposed to state whether remote/onsite is acceptable. You didn't do that, and I'm looking for remote work, and your description sounded exciting, so I applied anyway, even though I'm stuck as remo
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by galdosdi 8y ago
You did CS at Hendrix College? I did too ('11) and can't help mentioning it even though I have little to say... because hey, small school, tiny department, it's not often you run into another Hendrix CS alum, even virtually.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Your chemistry is scarily bad, are you trolling? When elements combine into molecules the result often behaves very differently from the components. > Basically if someone says they are allergic to MSG, but not allergic to all of the oth
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Have YOU been to manhattan lately? How much have you driven there? > The number of of avenues and major east-west thoroughfares is small compared to the number of one lane one way street. Uh, you're begging the question. Each of tho
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Manhattan is not a disaster, it's a miracle: 1. except for midtown core, pm rush hour amd near NJ tunnel ramps, during the day cars travel almost as fast as any other mode, despite taking up so much more space than the effecient modes
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Yeah ive been to manhattan, I live drive and bike there. I'm a licensed yellow taxi driver too, though I don't start work till next week. Latency is bad but thoroighput is amazingly good. With the high level of wealth theres no ph
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by galdosdi 9y ago
> For city planners, there's a natural hierarchy of roads: limited-access freeways, arterials, collectors, and residential streets No it is not natural. it was invented half a century ago and maybe that hierarchy is a mistake. It cr
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by galdosdi 9y ago
That's because waymo is playing chess while uber plays checkers. For waymo, these corner cases probably matter. Uber is not actually pursuing self driving tech, they are pretending to do so to defraud investors. Their troubles aren&#x2
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by galdosdi 9y ago
At what speeds? I'm in NYC, similar dense road systems. At a reasonable speed, snapping still works because it knows where you came from. In stop stop stop go traffic combined with lane weaving and ramp merging I've found it is no
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by galdosdi 9y ago
WHOA. Outstanding comment, thank you. This was not obvious to me. I had no idea pilots got paid rest. Taxi drivers are required to rest too, but at their own expense.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Yes, they still would in places like Manhattan and Tokyo, but you're right that they wouldn't be necessary in many other high but still not super high density places. Even assuming 4 people to a sedan, the space needed for the eng
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Yes, very well put.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I've seen subcultures in NYC that are like that, but the majority subcultures are not IMHO. Try hanging out with more diverse typical immigrant and native lower middle class to middle class new yorkers, not just other several-generatio
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I wouldn't be so sure (though I have not looked into it) Google already has to comply with European right to be forgotten laws, and my recollection from formerly working there was there was a pretty advanced system to make it very easy
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Because sexual response is controlled by the brain. If I imagine myself in a calming forest, I can feel calmer and my heart rate may go down. Does that mean I magically transported my soul to a forest or some other such superstition?
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Yeah, there's something to be said for the bonding value of fake/play aggression. It reinforces feelings like "We must be close because we can call each other an asshole without actually damaging the relationship" and &q
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by galdosdi 9y ago
You're probably right, though I'm sad about that. For a lot of people FB use seems almost like cigarettes. I mean, not that order of magnitude, but same idea. Doesn't really matter what bad news comes out because it's so
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by galdosdi 9y ago
They'll "Alphabetize" and become more of a holding company, but that doesn't mean the core product is immortal. Berkshire Hathaway is strong as a company, but they haven't produced clothing fabric in a very long tim
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I guess I have worked with different types of sysadmins. A good sysadmin has, or at least expresses traits of in their work, pessimism and realism. We have to constantly viscerally feel and know that any component can fail at any time. Reme
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by galdosdi 9y ago
They can't operate in NYS at all, at least not without safety drivers. They also can't operate a driverless taxi service at all without the city or state government passing laws. NYC/NYS is not the kind of place whose politic
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Why not get all the people, poor, middle, rich, all at once? Why leave any money on the table if you don't have to? That's business.
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Because the target market is luxury customers who are not price sensitive and are willing to pay a bunch for what they perceive as the cool feeling of being in a cool car? Listen, I don't understand why Gatorade comes in flavors other
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by galdosdi 9y ago
Nah forget rain. Rain is easy peasy. You compute the limits of how much force to apply and stay below them. The only real challenge is dealing with other drivers, but in a rainy climate, that's not bad either since they are used to it.

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