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811.
by galdosdi 9y ago
I wish I'd realized that I wouldn't enjoy it anymore and be bored of it after 15 years, and that I invested in a skill that despite paying well does also put me in the line of fire of cardiovascular disease, carpal tunnel, feeling
812.
by galdosdi 9y ago
The chicken tax used to tick me off. Then I figured out the trick around it: get a /heavy/ truck instead. The heavy truck market is way better than the light truck market. It's kind of insane and unfortunately yet another way
813.
by galdosdi 9y ago
Past a certain point (like, not being able to maintain highway speed limit up a modest grade), I am not sure this extra horsepower is such a good thing. The thing I really notice when driving lower usable power-to-weight vehicles like a hea
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by galdosdi 9y ago
I dunno, I can get tomatos in season for like a buck a pound, and while I haven't bought boneless chicken breast in a couple years, it was findable for like $2 or $3 a pound. Milk is like $3 to $4 a gallon, and eggs can be had for $1 t
815.
by galdosdi 9y ago
So what? There's no merit badge for making hydroponics work for all the plants. Like, if you can make it work for just one plant that there's a sizable market for, like say, tomatos, that alone is enough to sustain a huge industry
816.
by galdosdi 9y ago
Eh, it depends. Odds are you're right IMHO, but it's quite possible exclusiv is honest and really does run a shop that has an unusually good work-life balance. OTOH my experience is that pay and hours expectations are orthogonal i
817.
by galdosdi 9y ago
You might be right, but I'll devil's advocate a bit, with a few possible predictions (none of which I believe in all THAT strongly, just speculation) - If there's a period where new self driving cars are popular but aftermark
818.
by galdosdi 9y ago
You're mistakenly legitimitizing the idea that there is some tangible "luxury" available from a truly new car (as opposed to a late model one, a year or two old, in impeccable condition and perhaps some aftermarket accessorie
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by galdosdi 9y ago
> But fertile soil is a massive input cost that you can't really get around for most full sized plants. If you had read the article, you'd know this is a hydroponic system. No soil. Yields are substantially higher and less wate
820.
by galdosdi 9y ago
You missed an even bigger input: labor! Cities have tons of people, with a wide variety of skills. The boonies have few, and there's a chicken/egg problem (thinner market) that makes it harder to change jobs since there's few
821.
by galdosdi 9y ago
I call bullshit. How much dollar (retail) value of goods do you think the average heavy truck rolling around NYC carries? And how much cost do you think is added due to the current freight network versus your ideal world? > Commercial t
822.
by galdosdi 9y ago
Password resets are not as bad because the reset code is only useful very briefly, and then becomes useless. Don't use this startup's products, not now, not ever. They've already revealed their true colors as obviously not ju
823.
by galdosdi 9y ago
Many of these same safety "improvements" have also made safety worse for users of other, less expensive vehicles, for cyclists, and for pedestrians, by mandating much higher vehicle weights and larger A pillars that make it harder
824.
by galdosdi 9y ago
Uhh, maybe you should go inspect the spark plugs on your car right now. Spark plugs are very cheap and not worth economizing on.
825.
by galdosdi 9y ago
> If there were a car brand with affordable cars that didn't play these games, I'd buy from them happily. No you wouldn't. You've already lost the affordable game by insisting on new cars. New car dealerships get away
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by galdosdi 10y ago
> Why do we leave material out of classes and then fail students who can’t figure out that material for themselves? Why do we make the first couple years of an engineering major some kind of hazing ritual, instead of simply teaching peop
827.
by galdosdi 10y ago
The more egregious thing schools don't teach is working in large existing codebases, i.e., the skill of reading and figuring out code. Instead they focus on /writing/ code. In the process of writing code, at least some incide
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Agree in principle. Another way of putting it is, debugging is another word for applying the "scientific method." E.g., experimental vs control group is a useful concept in debugging
829.
by galdosdi 10y ago
But the downside to making it public is you'll galvanize the victim nation to start taking computer security more seriously, and your window of opportunity will start to close. It would make sense to try to "boil the frog" an
830.
by galdosdi 10y ago
Note to self: The right thing to do, if you find a serious vulnerability, apparently, is consult an attorney. Geez, what a world.
831.
by galdosdi 10y ago
> That seems like a lot of work In my experience, it's an extra 5 minutes of work. Do you consider that to be "a lot"?
832.
by galdosdi 10y ago
Motorists (and many pedestrians) just hate cyclists and look for any excuse to marginalize them. If they go too slow, they're slowing down traffic, if they go too fast they're a menace. If they're spandex clad, they're h
833.
by galdosdi 10y ago
I propose "is someone other than the laboring prisoners profitting from this labor?" as a good litmus test
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Wrong. If parking is already the limiting factor and is already used to capacity, even assuming no other transportation mediums, tolling parking until it's just below capacity obviously won't reduce the number of visitors who actu
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Natural commodities like cabbage, potatoes, beans, peppers, etc are barely advertised. Generally, if it's something anyone can make and there's no good way to differentiate it, there's not much point doing much marketing. Can
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Holy !@#$%! Yeah, exactly. Very nice visualization of how space-inefficient car transport is.
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Yes, that IS an absurd amount of room to insist on. No wonder we have a housing crisis. 600 square feet is enough for about TEN rooms of size 6x10 each. Think about that. Maybe it's arranged very poorly. Typical arrangements make it ea
838.
by galdosdi 10y ago
That's unfairly using a different standard of congestion for pedestrians as for motorists. The kind of congestion midtown manhattan experiences for pedestrians is comparable to stop-and-go-but-moving car traffic. A bit unpleasant but t
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by galdosdi 10y ago
Your rhetorical question has an obvious answer, which I'll illustrate with evidence: I live in Manhattan, the USA's most crowded place in terms of bikes and pedestrians. Yet, we are not anywhere near capacity for bikes and pedestr
840.
by galdosdi 10y ago
Don't be ridiculous. Very little of your 90 minute suburb commute is attributable to bike lanes and narrower lanes downtown. That probably adds 3 minutes. NYCDOT has done many studies, and sometimes it even speeds traffic up because th

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